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[quote name='mcnach' post='1127454' date='Feb 14 2011, 07:01 PM']ha! True! on mine the back is indeed nicer... the grain is more clearly visible and the back of the neck is much more interesting to look at than the front [/quote] That just means that whoever made it realises that the person paying most attention to it will be the one that it's got its back to. What's the point in wasting pretty wood on an audience that doesn't look at it?

[quote name='apa' post='1125370' date='Feb 12 2011, 08:10 PM']Hmmmm Interesting (Well to me anyway lol) I didnt think they were individually numbered LOL So its probably a batch number.[/quote] It's an IP address. You is all connected to the internetz lolz.

[quote name='BassBod' post='1128952' date='Feb 15 2011, 09:38 PM']The only obviously dodgy bit to me is the photo of the wiring - it shows a standard bridge, but the bass has a Badass??[/quote] The strings are off in the electrics shot, so perhaps he decided to do a bridge swap at that point - could be that to the right people, a bent tin bit of Fender junk is more valuable than a Bad Arse.

[quote name='JMT3781' post='1129110' date='Feb 16 2011, 12:04 AM']i wonder where the neck ended up..[/quote] In the machine heads auction, he says it's not for sale. So expect it to turn up attached to a [s]reloused[/s] reliced Squier body sometime soon.

Here's another really rare one: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110649570324"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=110649570324[/url] Well, it would be really rare if they didn't make so damn many of them.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1125333' date='Feb 12 2011, 07:33 PM']p.s. how does a bass help with the ironing[/quote]

Why is this in Ebay Links?

Why oh why oh why are people advertising their auctions in the Ebay Links subforum when it's not for that? Come on, mods, start moving the posts in the right direction.

I was initially a guitard, then when a bunch of us formed a band at university we had two and a half guitarists (multitalented singer who could also play guitar and keyboard) so I took on the bass role, and after a brief period of doing it by playing on the bottom strings of the guitar, bought the bits of a Hayman 40/40 and put it together.

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='1126350' date='Feb 13 2011, 08:04 PM']If anyone's interested in the history of this problem, I recommend [url="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Temperament-Stuart-Isacoff/dp/0571234461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297627397&sr=8-1"]Stuart Isaacoff, [i]Temperament: How Music Became the Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilisation[/i], Faber , 2002[/url].[/quote] A few minutes ago there were two brand-new copies of this on That Ebay for the princely sum of about three and a half quid delivered. Now there's just one.

[quote name='drewm' post='1128146' date='Feb 15 2011, 11:29 AM']Advantages: no danger of swinging round and [b]accidentally[/b] clouting someone/something with the headstock [/quote] There, I fixed that for you... I've had a couple of headlesses over the years - most recently I bought one (Hohner Jack 5) because the band I was in played on a few microstages and it was, indeed, handy for not sticking the headstock through the singer's head, tempting though that was. I've kept it as a backup bass - it's compact to carry around and doesn't need a stand - perfect. They balance well, the far end is less distant, and tuners are easy to use. If you're not used to one, it seems odd when you're playing down near the nut because you subconsciously think that your hand has fallen off the end of the fretboard and you're trying to play the headstock. I'd like a better one than the Jack. If only I had some money...

[quote name='lettsguitars' post='1124422' date='Feb 11 2011, 09:51 PM']digital is rubbish. lo9ng live vinyl. i decided a while back that any recording i make in the future will be available on tape only. no-one ever wanted the cds anyway, and it's so much cooler to have your demo in fully packaged audio cassette. nice one.[/quote] I don't quite know how to tell you this, but tape isn't vinyl. What you have with recordings on audio cassette is the mediocre audio quality of cassette inherent in its physical properties combined with inaccessibility because fewer people will own something to play cassettes on than CDs.

Dakota. There are some root-note songs that I find enjoyable - She Sells Sanctuary is almost all root but it's full of energy. Rocky Mountain Way is one of those locking in to the drummer songs. But Dakota is just tedious.

[quote name='robocorpse' post='1127887' date='Feb 15 2011, 02:25 AM']your 99p plastic deathtrap "pick holder" that automatically makes you look like a beginner.[/quote] I use one of those for guitar work, stuck on the front of the Variax. I would think that my superb abilities would immediately [s]reinforce[/s] dispel any illusions about me being a beginner. Plus the fact I'm very old, of course. I'm another one who uses the change pocket (as we old ones call them) on my jeans. Could have sworn I took them out the other day, but they turned up in the wash, fortunately not as damaging as the coins and pens which Minus Zero tends to leave in his pockets so Mrs Zero didn't shout at me. I only use plectrum for one song anyway (just can't manage it with fingers). As for the Mono strap, I would point out the words "hidden mini pocket". I don't know about anyone else, but the word "hidden" sets off alarm bells for me.

Had two ceilidhs on successive nights, one a charity gig for endometriosis, the other a 65th birthday. Gave me a chance to play with the newly purchased Behringer power amp (which is replacing the exploded Behringer mixer amp). Loud enough for a big room with the gain set to 1, so I don't think I'll be turning it to 11 any time soon. Plenty of dancers at the charity one, rather less at the 65th party, but everybody had a good time anyway (including us).

[quote name='dan2112' post='1114221' date='Feb 3 2011, 05:53 PM']Anyone else notice the BXP logo on the Peavey Cirrus?[/quote] Sensible move, the BXP neck is nicer than the Peavey USA one.

If you've got The Funk, when are you going to let him go?

[quote name='owen' post='1119641' date='Feb 7 2011, 11:25 PM']5 string J? Please?[/quote] [url="http://www.overwaterbasses.com/index.php?page=Contemporary_J"]http://www.overwaterbasses.com/index.php?page=Contemporary_J[/url] perhaps? Like BassBunny, I had a chat with Chris May at Moffat, and a play on the 5-string Deluxe (though not through an amp). Comfortable neck, easy to play, impressive detailing - very good quality instruments. I don't think it's diluting the brand - while they are high quality, they form a coherent family which is obviously not part of the top end family. In fact, it's a rather different approach to Fender and Warwick who both produced full-fat and budget versions of the same model.

Two of my bands rely on guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. If we had either a bad vocalist or a bad drummer, that would be the most noticable. The third consists of melodeon, appalachian dulcimers, guitar. and bass. Generally speaking, the melodeon is the most important. We can make do with any two of the other three. However, melodeon isn't on the list of choices, which is a serious oversight. I imagine there's bassists for Peruvian nose flute bands looking in vain for "Peruvian nose flute" too, and "pan pipes" is mysteriously absent. As for the duo of myself and Mrs Zero, that's hard - I've done an instrumental bit and she's done an acapella bit.

I really enjoyed it, as did Mrs Zero. We took the rather sensible option of heading back to the hotel and bed after the curry, so we were moderately intact the following morning. Thanks to Alan, Mrs Skelf, and Pirate Perry for the organisation, and Stevie Williams for talking and playing, his identical twin brother Haydn for bringing a selection of nice skinny string instruments, and Chris May for bringing along all those Overwaters. Those Aspiration instruments look the business (and play well too). And, just in the interests of "other instruments are available", I had a play on a few ACGs and the asymmetric neck profile definitely works. A good job I have no money, really, it saves me having to make any decisions.

My '87 JD Thumb is a keeper - bought new back then by trading in the three basses I then had plus getting out a loan. I don't use a 4-string fretted bass at the moment but it's still the instrument closest to my heart and would be the one to save from a burning house. Its fretless counterpart is also a keeper. Reprofiled defretted neck so it's the same as a JD. It hasn't got the one-piece bridge, of course, but you can't have everything. Not unless you've got lots more money than me, anyway. The five-string Antoniotsai bass that I use with one of my bands is also a keeper.

My personal experience of a similar case (er, no pun intended): I sold a bass, case included (although I think I basically just said I'd be shipping it in a hard case). It's some time ago but I'm pretty sure I wrapped the case (which was one of those plywood things) in cardboard. Posted it off, insured. Got a message back from the buyer to say that the bass had arrived OK but that the case had been badly damaged. I offered a partial refund and asked for him to give me enough information for me to make a claim on the insurance, but the buyer wasn't bothered about pursuing it (said his intention was always to get a better case anyway).

As a former CPL person (before it dropped the "League"), I can tell you that homing kittens is easy. Cute little balls of fluff (um, perhaps I should rephrase that). The policy used to be to have adult cats neutered before they went out to new homes, and to ask the new owners of kittens to have them neutered at six months. How much of the time this actually happened, I don't know. And of course, lots of kittens are rehomed through the traditional postcard in the newsagent's window with the consequent embarrassment when it turns out that the clientele for small furry pussy is not the same as that for Michelle's lessons in French.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1115118' date='Feb 4 2011, 12:06 PM']The body made me think of a modified Washburn B20 Stage: In fact I'd bet that's what the design's based on - which is why the identical lower half works, and the top looks like a chopped up mistake. The headstock, on the other hand, is just a complete mess.[/quote] I think it's the total absence of top horn that really messes up the shape on this one. Angular bouts can work - for example the ACG Gallus (although it's asymmetric):