neepheid

The magic smoke has been let out, sad times

Velbon (tripods) - Faultless. I have a decades old Sherpa tripod and the quick release lever broke. They sent me a replacement FOC. Schaller - faultless. While I was restoring the Gibson Victory it had a broken tuner (screw broke inside the capstan). Turns out the tuners were Gibson branded M4S units. I emailed them asking for a replacement capstan and screw, asking for a price of course. They sent me FOC 4x the parts I was looking for, a sticker and a bunch of picks. Was emailing back and forth with the MD most of the time too. They had absolutely zero obligation to do anything. Respect. AMD (computer processors) - bit of a funny one this. I was looking to buy a K6-III processor to replace my K6-2 and couldn't find one anywhere. So I guessed the email address of someone fairly high up in the company who was quoted in an article online and had a good moan about availability and asking where I could find one. I guessed correctly and to my amazement, she replied. Not to tell me to naff off - quite the opposite. My brass neck must have impressed because she offered to send me one FOC and asked if that would make the situation better! Hell yeah! She wasn't joking and a few days later I received a 450MHz K6-III. It was a good 'un too, overclocked to 500MHz no bother. Still dumbfounded to this day.

Just checking I was right. I nearly spat my tea out when I saw Gibson mentioned in this context of companies that do things right

This is sarcasm, right?

Irrelevant, seeing as you seem to own all of them

Not everyone lives on here, you know...

I've only ever left a couple of bands. One time it was very boring, I just felt like I had too much going on and I quit the one I had been with the least time and hadn't written any songs for. The other time, it was personal.

Geez, still a lot of outdated thinking out there then. I'm of the opinion that no bass is tied to a particular genre of music and the people who care about that sort of thing are listening with their eyes.

What people? Most folk at gigs I've played wouldn't care/notice if I used a rubber band stretched over a saucepan as long as it sounded good. You must have quite the geeky/discerning audience.

I'm bloody glad of "sleeper" brands like Yamaha and G&L. I get to play great instruments and feel like I'm part of a wee, exclusive club, the membership of which swim in a slightly different direction to the mainstream - my kind of people.

Or any old P bass and put G&L MFD split in there for an SB-1 wannabe with an acceptable headstock?

The G&L Tribute L-2000 I owned had the chunkiest neck I've ever played on a 4 string, and I like chunky necks. Jazz necks can get in the bin as far as I'm concerned

Assume nothing - put up a pic of the back of the headstock so we can better advise.

Really, swear filter? A$$ is an animal. Weird-a$$ is a colloquial adjective. It doesn't necessarily mean "bum".

I like the G&L headstock. Bloody moaners complaining about a wee pointy bit. You're wrong. Fight me

Eh, it doesn't bother me either way. Got all the main types No pickguard - Epiphone Les Paul Standard bass Traditional, screwed down pickguard - G&L Tribute LB-100 Weird-a$$ pickguard attached with a bracket - Epiphone Jack Casady No pickguard but has control plate - G&L CLF L-1000, Reverend Triad They are what they are. The only "disadvantage" I can see of not having a pickguard is for the manufacturer, who has to rout the body front and back now instead of just in the front.

Have faith - my 13 year old s#itbox sailed through its last MOT with only a few advisories, it does happen

At least it's proof that some people use the search function

Ach, you caught me using one to pry it open

This is a desperate ploy

And with that, Pandora's box lid flew open

Does it have to be a Fender?

Quote source needed

Humans make a mistake, film at 11.

I think I should have been clearer with my rather truncated statement which now that I read it does make me look like a bit of a douche. It has been sometimes true though - in times of trouble I've had to focus on my own situation and be less concerned with the difficulties of others. I don't think I need to apologise for that - I'm not a saint. But I do need to apologise for being a grump, so, sorry for being a grump. Gen Xers can be grumpy too, boomers - in fact, we'll out grump you, you old timers! FWIW I try to help people with their physiological needs by helping run and contributing to a community food larder, and it bothers me that it needs to exist at all.