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Geof bought a bridge from me, paid promptly, smooth transaction, good comms, no worries!

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Just received a couple of sets of strings from Si, well packaged and promptly posted. Cheers for a smooth transaction

Anyone who likes a good solid sounding and different looking passive bass would be happy with a G-3. I know I'm happy with mine.

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I must confess that I wasn't impressed with the Burns Bison I picked up, I checked it out after the Gibson G-3 I bought, and I found it rather lacking in output, it seemed far too polite sounding. Perhaps playing it after a Gibson G-3 wasn't the best comparison, but I was playing it through a nice Phil Jones amp (the Six Pack if memory serves) and I was just thoroughly underwhelmed by it on any of its settings. Just my 2p.

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Je ne regret rien, I'm pleased to say. I've only been playing a few years, and it's been all the way up in terms of gear quality so far, so I don't miss any of my sold basses. Except maybe the Takamine acoustic owing to its beautiful front, back and sides in vivid quilted maple, but even then I wouldn't move mountains to get it back because I never found much of a use for an acoustic.

Of course it can be done. Damn near anything can be done on a bass - for a price. I wouldn't imagine it would be cheap though, fingerboard replacement is fairly major surgery. I take it Yamaha do not offer the combination of woods you're looking for?

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Once again a smooth transaction with Shaun, paid promptly, didn't mind waiting a day while I (unsuccessfully) hunted around for a pesky allen key. Deal with confidence.

First gig was October 4th 2008, aged 32, at The Tunnels in Aberdeen. We were performing at a birthday party with a hastily cobbled together ska covers band. There was drums, bass, guitar 1, guitar 2, vocals/trombone/melodica and vocals/alto sax. I was on bass (playing a Squier Bronco - I figured the short scale would make things easier ), Rich (Ou7shined on here) was playing a guitar and my wife was vocals/sax. We had 3 rehearsals together (one of which was the afternoon of the gig) and then just ploughed through it. It was pretty raw, but seeing as we were on last I think the majority of punters were well oiled by then. Plenty of dancing going on. I had some scrawled tab on a music stand hidden off to the side on a music stand behind one of the PA speakers. I was bricking it. We went down pretty well I thought to my amazed self. The whole thing was videoed (by videoed I mean by a digicam perched somewhere on the sound desk - not proper cinematography) for posterity, and we even got paid. Then we got a wee bit tipsy. I got the bug and by January I had joined my first band.

The "system" part of it is only for EMG pickups - the volume/blend pots are the wrong values for passive pickups. What you need is the BTC Control on its own, you take care of volume and blend or pickup selecting yourself and feed the results to the BTC Control. The BTC System is a BTC Control bundled with the volume/blend bit. Don't waste money on a BTC System for passive pickups, just get a BTC Control. BTC Control: [url="http://www.emginc.com/products/index/104/146/4"]http://www.emginc.com/products/index/104/146/4[/url]

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I use a forstner bit in a drill press for this kind of job. The way a forstner bit works you'd probably get away without having to plug the holes if your aim is good with the drill press. I've done this for a couple of Squier basses with the small shaft 'orrible enclosed tuners to fit full size open back types. +1 for having scrap wood underneath to avoid splintering when the bit breaks through the other side.

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