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Another vote for the Thumb NT for me. At nearly £40 a fret back in 1987, they had to make it so you could use all of them.

I was watching Fifth Gear earlier, and the bloke with the Hitler moustache on his chin was going on about the rugged good looks of Landrover's concept replacement for the Defender, so I think there's a target market for taste-impaired twats with Hitler goatees. As evidence, I present the concept car in question:

[quote name='simon1964' timestamp='1324207166' post='1471707'] I'm probably being thick, but how can you tell it was ended early? I read it as the winning bid being £67? [/quote] I don't think it would have been £67. It's ended because the item has been sold - so the offer to buy (which would have been for more than £67) was made through That Ebay and accepted through That Ebay. Er, I think. PS. If the auction had gone through to completion, the orange bit would have said "Bidding has ended on this item".

And me.

You'd have thought that he'd have thought to mention the J pickup which has mysteriously materialised, possibly as part of the defretting process (who knows what rituals professional defretifiers go through to achieve their aims?)

That's so annoying, I completely forgot about this - only remembered a few minutes ago, which is a few days too late really.

"For J pegs contact [email protected]" Ah, the curse of fonetik spelling...

Looks like someone who'd once seen a Gordon Smith was drunk in charge of a bandsaw.

A couple of weeks ago, my old club band got in touch to say they'd had a falling out with their bassist, and could I help out? So I said yes, and went along for a couple of rehearsals. They'd recently amalgamated with a female vocalist, so as to speak, who had brought along two further female backing vocalists. Then on Thursday night, two days before the first gig, a keyboard player who had seen an advert they'd put up also turned up for rehearsal - very good he was too, also plays with Steve Gibbons and Trevor Burton and the like. So our first gig was last night (though we were down one backing vocalist as she was otherwise engaged) at a WMC local to me, and it went really well. Some fluffs but the audience didn't seem to notice. It was also the other backing vocalist's first gig and she acquitted herself really well, taking lead vocals on a couple of songs. It's always a good sign when the club secretary comes up to you in the interval and says he'll give you more bookings for next year.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1321626540' post='1441378'] You got a problem with that? [IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/bride-of-frankenstein-boris-karloff-1935.jpg[/IMG] [/quote] There can be issues though, that bass is pretty depressing to look at.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1321276129' post='1437157']Any old Tom, Dick or Barry could turn up and destroy a lifetime's labour in just a few minutes. [/quote] Arson's good for that.

Rather annoyingly, I couldn't make it in the end - some rather urgent work prevented my getting along.

It's something I've brought up in the past, to be met with resounding silence. I suggest that if items went onto That Ebay, they could be advertised in For Sale as long as they also had a specific sale price, but that an auction-type request for bids in For Sale should (as at present) not be allowed.

[quote name='lemmywinks' timestamp='1321227951' post='1436830'] [i]"who claimed he recovered it from the loft of John Entwistle's old home, better know as the Ox. Can't verify that"[/i] Why bloody mention it then? It really gets my goat when a provenance is hinted at with no effort or intention to verify it. As if namedropping a famous deceased player and alluding to a tenuous link between them and the instrument in the listing somehow adds value to it. [/quote] I'm not convinced that John Entwistle's home was known as the Ox. It's a very strange name for a house.

I've bought a variety of things from China and HK - electronic components, Arduino stuff, clothing and jewellery. The only issue I've had is with one of the purportedly B C Rich piezo bridges, which it's impossible to solder wires to in the way that they say (ebay complaint opened).

You could rewire it to 16 ohms, but not to 8.

I bought a seven-string set from [url="http://www.bestbassgear.com/bartolini-pickups-2.htm"]BestBassGear.com[/url] some time back. It was all quite painless.

PS. Seen first in Firefox, then in IE. The little arrows between forum levels visible just below the tabs at the top left of the page have also disappeare[u]d.[/u]

And the icons have disappeared again. Happened just as I was trying to embed a link to a picture in a reply. Is it just me?

I know that this is too late to be of use to you, but others may find it useful - while screw extractors are somewhat dodgy and not the most easily used items, if there's a reasonable bit of bolt sticking out, you can get [url="http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_530659_langId_-1_categoryId_165572"]stud extractors (like this one)[/url] which operate by gripping the sticky-out bit. Other stud extractors are available.Contents may settle in transit. May contain nuts.

[quote name='Grand Wazoo' timestamp='1320343127' post='1425689']Oh not a Dingwall!! They're rubbish! All the frets are wonky and they weigh next to nothing averaging 7-7.5lbs![/quote] There's one on That Ebay at the moment which overcomes the wonky fret problem, as it's fretless.

My JD Thumb. I've had it for 24 years and I'm not likely to let it go any time soon.

I'm booked up - just hope I don't have traffic problems on the way.

An attempt to make the dullest looking bass on the planet a little more exciting. It hasn't worked.