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The "AI" generated text omits the most noticeable feature, which the seller doesn't seem to have thought to add to the description.

Considering the bass I was thinking of is about 5m from me, you'd have thought I would remember. Of course, the Variax doesn't have a conventional pickup so a thumbrest is necessary for the non-floating-thumb types (like me).

It's OK, it's already dead.

I can't think which bass, but there's one I've seen recently which had a long thin thumbrest running above the pickups. Something like that, possibly even with a lower edge like a mountain range to fit onto the pickups and ramp (if fitted) would be a solution - 3D printed perhaps.

At last night's open mic night, the guitarist who owns a bass did his slot solo and performed Changes as a tribute to Ozzy. It was f*cking dreadful. Ozzy will be rotating in his grave like a washing machine on spin cycle. I only knew what it was because I knew the lyrics.

11. Find something a hundred times better than the Precision, sell the Precision and never get another one.

Said they'd remeasure. Website still says the same and I notice that the list page says it's tapered neck. The short scale tapered neck is thickness at nut 24mm and at 12th fret 30mm which sounds massive.

Perhaps it's on the basis that it's not exactly rectangular, but does it say in the T&C that all sides must be parallel? It's not exactly wildly away from being a rectangle.

You might be better off with Grindr then.

Don't know how much it is for the Birmingham one but it's inside the CAZ which affects a couple of us. So we rehearse at one which is 200m outside the CAZ.

I have two hands, I save both.

Saturday night was another dep gig. The Bonnevilles were the first band to play at The Beehive in Curdworth since the new manager came in about four months ago, sorted out by the new drummer. We got a spacious raised area to set up in, which was nice. And I got a couple of songs properly sorted that I'd had slight trouble with (not car crash type trouble, just stumbles). The newly acquired Zoom MS-60B+ made its first appearance. Sei Flamboyant 5 -> Lekato WS-90 -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. As always, Caravelle memory foam trainers.

Is it just me that can't see jery978's first post from 24/7/25? Edit: if it was a similar spam to archie637 above, then I understand why it's no longer there.

To clarify - a couple of my instruments are zero fret. Others which don't have zero frets have nylon nuts. I'm not altering any zero fret instruments. I'm making a brass nut for an instrument which has a badly cut nylon nut and no zero fret. And ideally I'd have zero frets on everything.

I sing one song with the current band, the same song I sang with another band a while back - Make Me Smile (Come up and see me). It's fairly easy, I have to concentrate so much on the lyrics that I have no time to think about the bassline, that just comes automatically (and I still get the words wrong at times). And I sing it because I'm the worst singer in the band and it's the backing vocals that are important to be in tune.

My Warwicks and two Antoniotsais - Just-A-Nut I. I've got a couple of zero fret instruments. Most of them are nylon. I'm about to try to make a brass nut for one.

I had a look at the specs, specifically the neck measurements, and they seemed a bit odd - had to translate the measurements from quaint to proper, but the nut depth is given as 1.8mm (0.072") and the 12th fret depth is 28mm (1.1"). I suspect the decimal point got moved over for the nut depth, the 12th fret depth seems really thick. I've dropped them a message to ask about it.

After owning various headlesses for some time, it's still the Seis that I take out to gigs - the neck profiles on the Cort Space and Ibanez EHB are quite similar, both are D rather than C shaped and to me the most important aspect of a bass is the neck. You can bugger around with the electrics to get the sound you want (within the limitations of pickup placement) but you need to throw money at a luthier to get the neck profile changed. The Bootleggers intrigue me, especially the Ace as I prefer a neck-through to a bolt-on, especially for a 5-string.

The ugliness.

"Not now, Arthur!"

Next step up from a didgeridoo.

I ordered an A-B switch on July 16th, and it arrived on the 23rd in time to use that evening. Which was nice. I've had to return a couple of items, it's great being able to return them to a UK address - the most recent one, I got the refund before the returned item could have got to the return address which was excellent.

Rip it off and start again, as somebody sang a long time ago. Skinning it and applying Tuffcab would improve the looks and probably take a kilo off the weight.