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Happy to share a bill with you - there's only 2-3 duplicates on your set list vs. ours

Also - hello!

https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/83-bassists-wanted/ - is the correct forum for this kind of thing - this one's just for saying hello

I should clarify - they sold out of the thing I wanted when I ordered it. Getting new batches of instruments can take months to get manufactured, not super bothered about it. I'm impressed that the idea that pre-bankruptcy orders would be honoured by the newco has even been floated - had written it off in all honesty. But it might still all come to nothing - that's what I mean by the wait and see.

Tell you when/if they fulfil my order from September last year...

The shelf! I had an Explorer bass, am well acquainted with the shelf. It's surprisingly comfortable.

Or they could have been replaced?

I say bring your most mental one. Vive la difference!

They've been using the H-expander truss rod since their original Swedish days... http://hagstrom.org.uk/expander_stretcher.htm

I see what you did there...

Mate, I'm coming down from Aberdeen - there aren't any regional eligibility rules, the only rule as far as I'm aware is "don't be a d!ck" - actually, they bend that one for me a little

Also, the notion that a gear list from March would stay current until October was frankly laughable. In my defence, I was attempting to do gear abstinence, but a white whale appeared which I had been chasing on and off for 12 years put paid to that but I've gone on a bit of a bender since. To balance things out, 2 off that initial list have been sold, got another one up for sale. TL:DR I'll let you know what's coming about a week before the bash - I think I can make it a week without buying or selling a bass...

Current plan is to stay over Sat night, location TBC.

Ach, book the Monday off - I will be. Let's scheme this out. I can feel a plan forming. I'll be in touch...

Ahh, mine's 2015 (if it wasn't obvious from the serial number). So, they mess with the programme whenever they feel like it, I guess - including changing which tuners they use.

That's the thing I don't get - those Wilkinsons were a straight swap for the tuners in my Epiphone Les Paul Standard which were a straight swap for the tuners which replaced the Gotoh GB7 in my Burny (serious downgrade - dunno what the previous person was thinking). 1mm is enough to cause you bother. Perhaps the tuners vary from year to year. TL:DR - drop in replacement is never guaranteed. Have or learn the skills to recover the situation.

Wilkinson WJB750, and no, not a straight swap - had to fill and redrill the screwholes.

Told you I wasn't digging the black tuners... So, that's it all in matching chrome RE: hardware. Took the opportunity to give the fretboard a drink of lemon oil and restrung with a fresh set of D'addario XL nickel rounds. Think I'm done here.

Ah, fair dos - if you've got no existing drill holes then fit what pleases you most! The advantage of the Hipshot is that all three string are quick release, at the expense of taking up a little more real estate. The Sire one is more compact, but the middle string is captive. Pick your poison...

This guy - https://northwestguitars.co.uk/products/hipshot-style-string-retainer-for-bass-guitars (odd that they refer to it as "Hipshot style" when it's nothing like a Hipshot string retainer, but let's gloss over that). Just thought I'd throw this in there in case you had pre-existing screw holes - this should drop right in...

Can I interject here? You can buy the exact string retainer which Sire use from a UK retailer. I'm about to head to work but will post a link when I get to the office.

"Better" is such a nebulous term. I'm happy with "different" - as in whatever coming in brings something new to the table. Then my experience will be enriched - even if it doesn't work out, I will have a better understanding of what doesn't work for me.

Sorry for the lack of TE relevance, but I would like to add weight to the argument that watts is just a number beyond a certain point. I use a modular system (Markbass Mini CMD121P IV + Markbass New York 121 cab) and I have a backup head - a TC Electronic BH250. All of the following combinations (in order of wattage) are loud enough to be heard fine with a full band IMO. Markbass full rig - 500W into 4ohm 2x1x12" Markbass combo on its own - 250W into a single 8 ohm 12" TC Electronic BH250 into a crappy rehearsal room Behringer 4ohm 4x10" (250W) TC Electronic BH250 into 4ohm 2x1x12" (250W) TC Electronic BH250 into single 8 ohm 12" cab (so providing a nebulous amount of watts less than 250W - TC shy with this info but I guess it will be less than 200) At its most powerful (500W), I don't need the master up on my rig more than about a third in general when playing in the same room as a drummer, guitarist and singer or a drummer, singer, backup singer, keys, sax, trombone. Even with the lesser powered stuff, it doesn't need to be cranked to be heard. TL:DR - try the Elf with your 2x15" in the full band setting (and play with EQ) before you even think about buying anything.