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My drummer has two estate cars.

Hardly, it's a shallow route plus a swimming pool in the body (CNC machine can take care of that) and one extra piece of plastic that the pickup is attached to which slides underneath the pickguard. That's it. (pic lifted from flyguitars.com)

Mind you, I'm not sure about the logic of using 250k pots with a humbucker. I think I'll just get the pickup on its own and do my own thing with 500k pots and their excellent wiring diagram. I'm not paying them €21 for two pots and a cap - where do you think I'm from? How was copper wire invented? Two Aberdonians fighting over a penny!

Aye, they had actually started to leave, but it took them the length of your set to make it to the door...

Would watch, but not allowed to

Oh, not you too! Why not just enjoy the best T-bird Gibson never made for what it is? I am 100% with you about the Grabber pickguard though - whoever passed that as OK needs an eye test, or had it described to them down the phone!

Just thought I'd dredge this up to say that I'm giving some serious consideration to getting one of these pickups in my Jack Casady. It's not well, feeding back at the slightest provocation and I'm out of warranty so Epiphone/Gibson have kicked me into the long grass to fend for myself. I like the idea of using the rotary as a series/single/parallel switch - gives the switch something to do because I'd rather that than have it there as a DFA switch, or remove it and have a rubber grommet or something in there.

Have you wandered in here unattended again? Where is your carer?

Now now, dinna be flippant, we are actually trying to help here...

I asked someone to read over my email before I sent it and the verdict was (and I quote) - "sassy, but not unfair"

Why is this even relevant in this thread anyway? I'm in Aberdeen, and have been sent a bass which has got bashed in the post. How is visiting a guitar shop in Wales, in person, gonna help me right now? I've already got the replacement, it's utterly moot. I just ignored it when Stub mentioned it - honestly I thought he had wandered into the wrong thread by mistake But now that it's been referenced again I would just like to say I don't want to get into a discussion about the merits (and downsides - something usually forgotten about by cheerleaders of the "buy in person" brigade) of going to guitar shops in person vs. buying at distance. It's not relevant to this thread or this situation. Thank you for reading, and I hope I don't come off rude here but it's my thread about a specific issue/saga that I'm having and I'd rather it wasn't derailed by this irrelevance.

Aw damn, my bluff's been called! 'Spose I had better turn up then...

Has anyone asked what kind of strap is being used? You know, before the rush to mod this, and mod that...

No worries! And I agree - I highly doubt they'll pay much attention to it, but I just wanted to make the point to them.

They've already sent me a label for that. I'm not being charged for return postage - I'm talking about my time, fuel and packing materials that it will take to make this return happen. Basically, I'm being an officious d!ck, but it's to make a point.

You know something, this has effed me off to the point where I've dashed off another email to tell them I will be invoicing them for my time, mileage and cost of packing materials. Their packing advice - https://www.thomann.co.uk/faq_question_how_do_i_pack_my_return_consignment.html - has the nerve to lecture me about using bubble wrap etc, yet they employed not one shred of the stuff when they sent it to me! Coupled with the line in their returns email "we will not accept liability for damages due to insufficient packaging" - excuse me? You expect me to place it back in the hands of the very folk who damaged it in the first place, but I'm screwed if something goes wrong? RIght then. It's hypocritical BS, and it's left a sour taste in my mouth. I'm sure they won't pay the invoice (I worked it out, it'll be around £30 all told), but it's symbolic and I'm making the point that they are leaning on the goodwill of their customers when stuff goes wrong. I think it's kinda their fault in the first place - if they had packaged the bass to the same standards as they're expecting me to, it would have probably arrived safely. None of this would have happened and we could have had a lovely, ordinary NBD thread.

FYI I have blocked off the weekend of 11th/12th October 2025 in the band calendars in anticpation of next year's bash being hopefully around the same time next year. Gutted I missed it this year, so am doing all I can to ensure I will be available.

Save the (approximate) date for next year!

FFS, I just bought a set last week.

Show's over. They've offered me £25 off to keep it and apparently that's a maximum. That is unacceptable to me and I can't be arsed arguing with them any more, so I'll just be returning it. Enjoy your paperwork, guys.

Don't worry, we're extracting the michael out of them, not you.

You feckin savage!

Aye, rub it in why don't you?

I think any which way you want to do it, be it rail humbucker or split side by side single coils will be fine.

Damn hasn't been a swear word since I was at school!