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[quote name='chaypup' timestamp='1424548198' post='2697650'] Really? They're certainly not super rare. [/quote] Butbutbut the seller says they're ultra rare. Surely that can't be wrong?

Someone's bought it, so someone was more insane than me.

although I'd go for the parallel neck option

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1424561940' post='2697850'] My main bass and amp is a Variax and an Ashdown, not so sensible now eh? [/quote] My main guitar is a Variax, and I've owned and admired two Ashdown amps, so obviously you're very sensible.

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1424554850' post='2697742'] As for the grammar, are we really that shallow as to say that someone shouldn't get a band together if their grammar isn't spot on? I'm sure we all understood the advert anyway. I thought the Basschat community was better than this. [/quote] I think it's good that they're trying to get a band together. For a novice, the words "enthusiasm more important than ability"[1] are rather less off-putting that for someone with a few years experience. But what's wrong with taking enough care over an advert to get rid of grammar and spelling mistakes? While this is merely an advert to try to add the missing member of the band, at some point they'll want gigs or to increase their following, and social media are now very important. I don't think I'm alone in saying that carelessly written posts to Stalkbook and the like would irritate me rather than make me want to go and see them. A bit of extrapolation, perhaps, but where should one start taking care? [1] No, they're not in this advert. But they are in a lot of similar ones.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1423906838' post='2690185'] This will be the same Stewart Ward that builds and sells transistor-powered Session Amps? He's done pretty well with them, but clearly he does have a vested interest! BTW I am not knocking Session Amps - I used to own one of the guitar combos, and it was very good for a solid state amp. [/quote] After that mention of him, I went googling and found this [url="http://www.award-session.com/pdfs/GEAR_TALK_1.pdf"]http://www.award-session.com/pdfs/GEAR_TALK_1.pdf[/url] which is very interesting and only has a few Session commercials in it.

I thought it might make a reasonable basis for a 5+5 tapper (especially as it has 10 string anchors). But £55 is still not enough for him. What does he want, the moon on a stick?

Wishbasses are designed not to have truss rods. That's different to designing something with a trussrod which then doesn't work.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1424525022' post='2697299'] I couldn't even read it. It's far too poorly written! Also, what's up with all the... When did people start using three full stops to end a sentence? [/quote] Well, it's poorly spelt and shows definite signs of illitrucy, but the ellipsis has been around a long time. Read some Arthur C Clarke if you want to see liberal use of it...

[quote name='gafbass02' timestamp='1424421862' post='2696066'] Drives me nuts, which is why I finally 'relented' and arranged a completely different 'rock' version of the most requested song 'wonderwall' just to shut them up and to date a sense of mischief [/quote] I kept suggesting to my old covers band that we do "Cum on feel the noize" as Oasis covered it (mind you, not the bloody awful Oasis cover version, do a decent cover of the original).

Far too few neck bolts to be a Ritter.

[quote name='Phil Adams' timestamp='1424369803' post='2695639'] Shame, those VM Fretless look really nice to me, for a £300 bass. He's had a go at adding beefy electrics and made the whole thing into firewood. I wouldn't want that at any cost, let alone £250. To me that's more of a Frankenbass than any of the relics Ive seen. I guess he knows he's ruined it, and is trying to get his money back out of it. Good luck. [/quote] Hardly ruined, nor firewood. A couple of minor cosmetic issues on a budget bass is hardly the end of the world, the hole in the front could be put to some use like low battery indicator or DFA switch. I wouldn't want it at any cost either, but I wouldn't have any Squier or Fender at any cost anyway (not unless I could sell them on straight away for a nice profit).

They took "no strings attached" too literally?

Started on guitar, formed a band at university with three other guys, finished up with two guitarists, one guitarist/pianist/vocalist, and a drummer. As the marginally inferior guitarist, I went out and bought the bits for a Hayman 40/40, put it together, and played it. After dropping out, there was a bit of a musical hiatus, then when I moved to Tamworth I started looking for another band as either rhythm guitarist or bassist. Got snapped up to play bass and stuck with it since then (that was 1980). I still play guitar too, but only gig it as 50% of an acoustic duo with Mrs Zero.

Buy it and then make a claim that it's not advertised - title says it's a 5-string but it's only got three. I don't think I've ever seen a 5-string version of that bass before. The 4-string ones don't exactly grow on trees. I had a defretted 4-string which I sold when I got a real Thumb to have defretted, it was not a bad bass at all.

So many albums to choose from, so little time... For me, the band is Focus, and I'll plump for Focus 3.

Possibly in the hope that you won't see the wood for the trees and notice that the action is at least a centimetre at the 12th fret?

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1423775863' post='2689008'] Actually a lot of people class the B string as the top string... I think it sounds so wrong though! [/quote] My former guitarist referred to the "top" and "bottom" of the neck as if it was hanging up by the headstock, so as the notes got higher he'd be heading to the bottom. Doesn't make it right though :-)

"Strung with top four strings from a 5 string bass for a deeper sound" So that'll be the four strings from a 5-string bass that you'd normally find on a 4-string bass then?

[quote name='NoirBass' timestamp='1423081731' post='2680570'] Can you point me in the direction of a simple timer circuit and / or transistor switching? I've not come across either. Many thanks for the reply [/quote] For the timer, look into the 555 timer IC. I think there'll be millions of circuits on the interwebs.

Which bass amp, and is it a mono socket? No stereo headphones are going to work in stereo with a mono socket. And do the headphones work in stereo in (for example) a hifi amp?

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1423529572' post='2686093'] Weren't the Kardashians the nasty aliens in Star trek next generation ? [/quote] No, they were from the original series. Their dad was Kodos the evil murderous dictator, who then changed his name to Kardashian and became an actor.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1423509697' post='2685744'] Like it or not, Kanye West is the biggest rock star on the planet. [/quote] Who's Kanye West?

[quote name='Manton Customs' timestamp='1423433933' post='2684798'] Then the glue is heated in a double boiler. This is a very simple setup of a large pan, a gas hob and the jar containing the glue. Boil the water surrounding the jar until the glue has fully dissolved, but do not boil the glue as this can reduce strength. [url="http://s1067.photobucket.com/user/Manton-Customs/media/1938CromwellbyGibsonG4MantonCustomsRestoration20glue4.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Presumably you loosen the lid of the jar before this stage? Things might get a little explosive if it's on tightly.

"What makes it rare is the fact that all five tuning pegs are on the same side. You'll struggle finding others configured like this!" I don't pay much attention to Fenders, but I do recall, in the brief period that I had a Squier 5-string (4+1 headstock), noticing that the 5-string Jazz that a fellow bassist was playing had a 5+0 headstock. Doing a Google image search for "fender jazz 5-string" shows about a 50-50 split between 4+1 and 5+0.