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The first would have been my first bass, a Hayman 40/40 that I put together from parts. The next was a somewhat tatty Fender Precision - the cheapest one in Musical Exchange but also the best feeling neck. It was a milestone because it was a Fender and that's what you aspired to. The next was a Warwick JD Thumb - absolutely wonderful neck, I had to have it despite the astronomical cost. There was then a hiatus of about 20 years, and I fancied a 5 string. Tried various ones without finding one that was the equivalent of the Thumb in playability, until I happened across an eBay auction for an Antoniotsai (there were always a few back then) and thought I'd chance it, and it really was a lovely bass to play. The one subsequent milestone was my first Sei, a headless fretless 5. Since then, other basses have matched what came before but nothing has been a real milestone, and I'm not sure that there could be another one.

That sounds like it needs the relief either reducing or increasing (I'm not sure which way round you're using "top" and "last frets"), and possibly shimming. If the strings are close to the frets at the headstock end but far off at the body end, there's either too much relief in the neck or the neck is tilted forwards. If the strings are close to the frets at the body end but far off at the headstock end, there's either too little relief in the neck (possibly a backbow) or the neck is tilted back. Either take it to someone who knows what they're doing to see if it can be set up, or learn to do setups yourself (it's not hard). And you can just paste the URL of the image into your post, as long as it starts "https://" and ends ".jpg", ".png", or ".gif"

The important thing is the ratio of one to the other, so 1x12:2x10 is 144:200 or 18:25 when you factor it. But that omits recognition of the fact that speakers are pistons, so it's not just the bore that counts, it's the stroke too.

I think that of the mods to the neck of my second Warwick Thumb that I got Joe the now retired luthier to do, the reprofiling had significantly less effect on the sound than the defret.

Something someone suggested with my JTV59 guitar with a similar issue is to use a capo to hold the strings in place. Putting it on near the nut works well.

Around the turn of the millennium, I was working as a motorcycle courier for TNT. The van and bike couriers were reasonably conscientious (can't answer for the lorry drivers, they were in a different part) but one of our jobs was to do deliveries that Royal Mail's drivers couldn't be arsed to do.

Since assembling my first bass almost 50 years ago from a load of Hayman parts (all, fortuitously, from a 40/40) I've had sufficient confidence to adjust a truss rod, shim a neck, set action, and do intonation. Refretting I've left to an expert, but I'm just about to do my first fret level and hopefully build my first bass from scratch (it'll be a fretless though).

A nice peaceful open mic night at the Shirley British Legion, as per normal Wednesday. It's possibly the penultimate night there, as Shirley Legion might be shutting up shop due to financial difficulties. Played a couple of my songs, accompanied a couple of people on bass doing a few blues songs. The difference between country music and blues music: Blues songs all sound the same, despite the best efforts of the bass player. Country songs all sound different, despite the best efforts of the bass player. Anyroadup, talking to the barmaid, she said she was having to clean up sick and it was making her feel ill. The guilty party was being rather mouthy and towards the end of the evening he got in one elderly woman's face, a situation which bubbled along for a short while before one of the performers punched him in the face. The two participants were separated, at which point the drunken vomity punchee rang the police and very loudly complained, and said it was racially aggravated (it wasn't, he was being a total dick regardless of race). He said he'd been hit by a bald bloke, at which point I may have upset him slightly by saying "I am Spartacus!" (followed by several other bald blokes also saying "I am Spartacus!". I'm not sure what the outcome was, the performer who'd delivered the punch left before the police (one copper) arrived, the copper had a look at the CCTV, and as I was leaving somebody (I'm not sure if it was the drunken punchee, seems fairly likely) was being escorted to the police car. Well, that was an unusually eventful night.

Is this a little luxury you want for yourself and bandmates, or are you being a bit passive-aggressive to your rhythm guitarist?

What state were the contents in? PS: I don't mean New York state (although it looks like it might have done a grand tour of the other 49 first).

Every time I see this topic, I have to resist saying "seems like a reasonable swap if he's house-trained". Oh, did I actually type that?

For several years, after a first festival featuring four or five bands, there was a rock festival in Tamworth which was free entry and which the bands collectively paid for PA, insurance, and a couple of flat-bed trailers for a stage. We also got some money in from food van concessions. I think it was around £5 a member (the bands paid per member rather than per band). http://www.tamworthbands.com/rockfestival/index.htm

While you're speaking to them, there's something that's a bit annoying. It used to be that in the "Basses" section, you had to click on the title of the item rather than on the picture or description in order to go to the page for that item - I notice that's been resolved (for all of the sections). However, I just went into the "Strings" section and when I filtered on brand and selected a single brand, clicking on the picture didn't go to the item but clicking on the title did. However, once I'd clicked on a title and gone to the item, and then used Alt-< to go back to the selected brand, clicking on the picture, title, or description worked. Just experimented a bit more and it applies to the "Basses" section too. Go into "Basses", select one single brand from the Brand drop-down, then try clicking on the picture associated with any of the basses - it does nothing. Then click on the item title - the bass in question will be shown. Use the back arrow or Alt-< to go back to the page showing all the basses for that brand and click any of the pictures, and the selected bass will be shown.

I've had a couple of B-stock items from Thomann with no problems. I've also had at least one Deco instrument which I couldn't find any reason for it not to have been sold as perfect.

I wondered if the DiMarzios started out as tailors. Can't think of anyone else that would put the labels on the inside!

As it's Fender, the shaft might be 1/4" which is slightly more than 6mm (the problem with mixing a proper measuring system with a primitive one).

Looks like they've taken a retrograde step and gone to a two-piece handle - mine is one-piece, which I far prefer.

I've just bought one of these headless bridge kits: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007488329170.html with the intention of building a headless fretless bass before I die. The option I've gone for is described as Color A, and has a headpiece rather than the other option which has individual string clamps. The headpiece has a built-in nut which is adjustable height. Another alternative is a Warwick Just-A-Nut, either a JAN 1 or a JAN 3, not a JAN 2 which is good for nothing except throwing at the cat to stop it scratching your gig bag. Not cheap for the brass version, although the plasticky one isn't too bad.

Thomann premium gigbag - bought a bass-sized one a month or so ago to replace a rather inadequate Rockbass gigbag, after having had a guitar-sized one for quite a few years for a headless bass (as mentioned above, the twin strap buttons eventually wore through it as they were outside the reinforced area). As mentioned above somewhere, there's a big pocket, a little pocket, and a long thin pocket on it. The biggest pocket happily takes A4 sized paper, the little pocket in front of it takes a fabric strap, and the long thin pocket takes a MS-60B and mains power supply, a capo, some allen keys, and there's still room for a small cuddly toy.

Teddy bears flying out of the pram.

Chameleon?

Carly Simon should have called her song "Ironic", then Alanis Morissette would have had to think of a different title for hers, like "Oh bollocks".

That's what I've got - Technics amp and a pair of Wharfedale Diamond 220 speakers for the downstairs PC, Marantz amp and a pair of Kefs for upstairs.

I've had both small combos and head/cab. For your needs you could try a Gallien-Krueger combo, either the MB150 or the 200MB which preceded it. I've used one with a 5-string and it was fine, and double bass players like them.

I don't know, someone may have been wondering what a group of Eric Cantona supporters would be called.