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Maybe. The only bass string I've ever broke was when I was trying to put a 34" scale flatwound on a 30" scale bass - trying to bend the full thickness of the E string round the tuner caused it to ping and fail immediately.

Are the flats the appropriate scale length, or are you trying to fit 34" scale strings to a 32" scale bass?

... 23ish weeks later... Did it ever arrive? Still no sign of it on the Thomann website. Just wondering.

That's where you're going wrong - you do these things instead of going to the gym. Gotta pick your battles...

Precisely the ethos required around here. Today I'm going to bore out two position marker washers I bought last year to 10mm so that they fit on the push pull pots of my Les Paul. Hopefully. I don't have a bigger (suitable) drill bit than 10mm and I don't think I can make them much thinner anyway!

You're gonna get fat eating all that popcorn...

I realise March isn't quite over yet, but it's Easter Sunday and nothing officially happens other than eggs, chocolate eggs, and even if you order something today, nothing's going to get done about it until about Tuesday. So, how are we looking? Pleased to report a further reduction in the attrition rate, only two brave soldiers fell in March, leaving 31 standing. Me personally, the price uptick prevented me from going for one of the new Epiphone Thunderbirds and the new Sire Z series won't be in the shops for months, but currently I'm having a hard time overlooking a very inexpensive but on the face of it well appointed bass which has been brought to my attention. With gig money coming back on stream next month, this pressure will only grow... Stay strong...

In theory, sandpaper could help you out with both problems, but it'd be better for solving the second one. For £150, would you grudge putting some work into it?

I think our definitions of "moving on" differ in at least one crucial detail...

"Authenticity"

Instruments are to be played. Any that aren't getting played get moved on. I don't have a specific timescale for it, I tend to have infrequent purges when I take a long hard look at the collection and recall how often the basses are getting played. In tandem with my participation in gear abstinence this year I've recently done an evaluation and I think there are 3 out of the 10 that could be moved on to A) make room and B) build up funds for a massive splurge next year. But bottom line is I don't want to be a hoarder - it's a sin in my book for instruments to sit around gathering dust when they could go to someone else who'll play them and enjoy them.

How to make friends and influence people...

That looks like a lot of bass for very little money. We are so spoiled nowadays.

I do enjoy my obbm speaker cable. I call it the anaconda

Do you not play loud enough to make talking difficult? That's how we solve it

Could be any manner of things. I've got some Hartke branded strings made by not them, which have black silks.

Ass

They've never been available, so I'm hoping for "placeholder, made visible by accident"...

Nope, if you didn't use their thing where the buyer has to scan a barcode/QR code thing when they collect, I think they'll side with the buyer. Sorry.

I wonder if they're thinking about launching some additional colours, or is this wishful thinking/general error on behalf of the retailer? https://www.musicstore.com/en_OT/EUR/Epiphone-Thunderbird-64-Purple-Sparkle/art-BAS0012594-002 https://www.musicstore.com/en_OT/EUR/Epiphone-Thunderbird-64-Brunswick-Blue-Sparkle/art-BAS0012594-001 A blue and a purple? Sounds awesome, I hope they appear!

I wouldn't normally announce this, but I'm letting you know that this argumentative BS thread outlived its usefulness for me some time ago. Unfollowed and out.

Social media is a cesspool. I have seriously minimised my use of it over the last few years, twitter can do one and I only remain on FarceBook to keep track of peoples' birthdays, band reasons, and sometimes I do sell stuff there. Must say I've dodged the worst of the craziness/nastiness, but I've had plenty of chancers/lowballers/tyre kickers, the occasional overpayment scammer. It's a mess. The process is exactly the same but none of these people would act like this if it was an ad in the paper and we conducted business over the phone in the old days. It's like people change into entirely different people online, it's like a switch. Older types like me who remember a pre-(consumer) Internet world and were there at the dawning of it with hope and awe now look on sadly. This is not how it was supposed to turn out

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Nice one, enjoy! I see someone's replaced the normally black plastic pickup rings with chrome ones. A nice wee change from the norm, I dig it.

That's better