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I've seen this one on That Ebay before and really fancied it but it was rather out of my price range. (More photos at [url="http://www.stradi.pl/foben_eng.html"]http://www.stradi.pl/foben_eng.html[/url] )

I've got Schaller or Schaller clones on all my basses and guitars. Never had a problem. They're all positioned so that the strap buttons sit in the cups, so the retaining button has no stress on it, it just keeps the button in the load-bearing cup. The only thing I have to do every now and again is a little nut tightening, though most of the clone straplocks have two nuts on each straplock, so the second one locks the first one.

[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1408754808' post='2533309'] Keep an eye on the Peavey eBay account. I got an American-made Millennium from them for £220... [/quote] What's the name to look for?

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1408642880' post='2532188'] When I saw the (admittedly not very clear) front of the bod,y and the headstock (which I kind of like) I was thinking "What's so bad about this?" Then I saw the back... Then the neck!!!!! [/quote] It doesn't look like playability was a priority when creating it. Nor aesthetics, come to that.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1408360749' post='2529287'] I think that what is a big problem of selling on here is exactly that. 'Buyers' on here seem to think that when a bass is listed the price is just a starter and that it will go down and down until it sells. [/quote] I did once suggest to someone that they keep putting the price up, then anyone who wanted it would have to get in as soon as possible...

This looks like a quick technique (the second one in this video): [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEd7ru24Vx0"]http://www.youtube....d&v=pEd7ru24Vx0[/url]

[quote name='Skinnyman' timestamp='1408299988' post='2528801'] Is this a common thing? Bass players supplying the PA And doing the sound? I have exactly the same role in our band, the unspoken attitude being that I only play one note for very thousand that the guitarists play so I must have time on my hands to sort out their monitor mix, adjust the balance, make sure nothings peaking, etc, etc. oh, and change the lighting presets on cue as well. [/quote] Me too. I then have to go round picking up the odd thing that didn't go back into the right place (Saturday night no-one had put the lights footswitch cable away in the lights case, or put the kick drum stand in the case with the mics). And when setting up with one of the bands, the guitarist keeps on whittering on at me when I'm trying to get the PA set up with advice that I can well do without (because I know moderately well what I'm doing and what all the gear does). I do the elbow wrap thing too, followed by a velcro tie. I really ought to do it better, but, let's face it, I bought all the bloody leads too. It's generally not too bad doing it that way.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1408290504' post='2528662'] Yes but you don't have to start it at a low price or list for 10 days. There are various methods of listing an item included a fixed price or auction with a reserve. [/quote] I realise that, but if you want to be guaranteed of selling it, you can do it on That Ebay by not having a reserve and not having a high start price or fixed price (and I said "ten days (or less)" precisely because you can list it for less than 10 days). You can do it on here too, but you have to have an auction in the opposite direction, keep on dropping the price until someone bites.

Get a Zoom MS-60B and have a choice of loads of choruses...

The thing about That Ebay is that if you're willing to take a risk and put on a low start price (and aren't terribly bothered by losing a bit of money), you know it'll sell in ten days (or less), so for the cheaper end of the market it's not a bad thing.

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1408175625' post='2527761'] It's just fashion. Much the same as the current trend to relic everything. Don't be surprised if in a few decades time people will be asking on forums 'why did they feel the need to relic everything in the 2010s'. [/quote] ITYF people are asking that now.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1408107477' post='2527186'] For £85 I'd expect to get a whole Gary Moore. [/quote] He'd be a little smelly by now, even by alcoholic guitarist standards.

A secondhand Grind 6 would set you back £125. Well, the one I sold went for that anyway <small sob>. Wouldn't have sold it if I actually had a use for a six.

[quote name='razze06' timestamp='1407755390' post='2523561'] Fair enough, I agree with you. I realize that I'm not that interested in the low B after all, so I'm not really prepared to go to the troubles of revising my gear and my technique on the off chance that I might use a low note in one of our covers... [/quote] I very rarely go below bottom E but I choose 5-string as it's not about the extra low notes, it's about being able to play more across than up and down, and having a bigger tonal selection.

Some years ago, I bought some Warwick necks in PMT - one was a short-scale, which I think would have been a direct swap for any bolt-on model. As I completely ran out of tuits, I sold them on.

Nice low action.

I was surprised at the price until I looked on the Warwick shop and saw the price of the two-piece bridge and tailpiece. Coming on for four times as much as the Schaller 3D (which I personally think is the nicer bridge). Eeek!

My Grind 6 went for £125 so they're rather less well rated than they deserve. That 4-string fetched £165 so not too bad.

I had a Hartke Kickback combo a little while back - the 12" speaker version. I bought it with a knackered speaker and put in a replacement reasonably good quality driver, and it turned out well. I think I used it on a couple of club gigs (with a low B 5-string) and it coped well.

I'd agree with that, and rather predictably I'd suggest the Zoom B3 - unlike other multifx where you're rather circumscribed as to your options (there'll be a compressor/limiter, preamp, modulation, reverb, amp sim) , the B3 gives you three stompboxes in a row which you can do what you like with.

You might want to change those URLs in the links, they point to Oxfordshire council's webmail system...

Listing now amended. There is one considerable omission he's made in the title and description. It's rather obvious when you look at the pictures (except for the very last one, of course) that it's a headless. However, if you do a search for "headless" in titles and descriptions, as I do every few days, it doesn't appear. It's not the only time I've seen this - don't sellers realise that people do text searches for terms like "fretless" or "headless"?

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1407583577' post='2521997'] To be fair, it is a ridiculous looking thing! Though it could be argued it's all a bass player really needs [/quote] Depends what genre you're playing. For country and for disco, you'd need a two-string - for country tuned to root and 5th, and for disco tuned in octaves.