Maude

Surely the best possible outcome, for everyone involved, would now be for Adrian (that seems over familiar but I can't write his surname) to come on and resolve this situation in public. He's been viewing this thread anyway. I don't think things would get nasty as the OP knows and admits his faults in dealing with this situation, and Adrian appears to want to clear this up and not appear the bad guy. Also everyone on this thread so far appears fairly level headed to act as mediators to help cross the language barrier. We are only getting one side of this debate and Adrian asking for this thread to be deleted is not, I feel, the best outcome for his business. Mistakes have been made on both sides which could easily be rectified in public, thus the OP getting a solution and Adrian's company regaining its credibility. Going back and forwards like this isn't helping anyone.

We've just taken a booking for mid October, indoors at a pub. Just before lockdown we got a new drummer and had had two rehearsals with him. He's a great drummer but not familiar at all with our music but he wanted to do it as a challenge to himself to expand into new territories, so will take a while to get up to speed. He has been learning our set from CDs but obviously it's not like playing with us. I emailed everyone this morning to see how we all feel about starting rehearsals but one guitarist doesn't want to to as he has three very vulnerable people living with him, he hasn't actually left his house since March, and that's fair enough, we all have to be happy. We don't really want to get a dep in as, with the new drummer we'd like to get back to being a proper 'band' again, a gang of friends, how it used to be. I'd like to see at least a months worth of serious rehearsals (one a week) before we gig. In all honesty I don't see indoor pub gigs back on the cards before next year anyway, so this booking is probably irrelevant anyway.

You'll need some skyhooks for outdoor gigs at the moment.

I recently fitted an old, but unopened, set of Fender nickel round strings to a bass I've just sold. The B and E were tapered and they were really quite nice. Unfortunately I can't remember what they were.

I'm in. I've had to fit Schaller locks to my gigging straps to fit the Ricky buttons. But I'll wear these over my nipples. 👍

I don't think I'm going to run out 😁. Only one Yamaha now though, but that's my never to be sold Bex4. I love that bass. 😊 Weirdly I've just realised that the only three basses I've ever sold have all been Yamahas, yet I love Yamahas. 🤔

Exactly that. I just don't play fives anymore, even had a quick half an hour play on it and it kept tripping my fingers up not knowing what string I'm on. Muscle memory is a strange thing. That's me done with selling for the decade though. I've let one a decade go for the last thirty years 😁.

I've just my sold my BBG5s, not very interesting I know but I've had it for over twenty years and it feels a bit weird not having it sat there in the rack.

I really like that natural stripe in the side wood, it really goes well with the darker wood in the soundhole rosette. Lovely 👍

My Precision bodied, Jazz necked Stingray (eh?) will be reverse headstock, but it's not finished yet. I just tapped out the nut gently and fitted it back in the other way around, a little filing to get the bottom of the slots sloping the right way and it's fine. In this thread if your interested. 🙂

Bean juice!!! Arghhhhh, it's on my fingers. IT'S ON MY FINGERS!! 😄

I hate baked beans but what can you do? Everyone likes different things.

Obviously not Fender, but shortscale with a Jaguar vibe and dirt cheap. The Ibanez Tmb30 punches well above it's price tag. I got one a couple of months ago to put piccolo strings on but it was great as a regular bass. Clearly not in the same league as American built Fenders but maybe something to test the water and move on with minimal loss if you choose to buy a better bass?

Would something like a little neoprene sleeve do the job? You could buy a pair of surfing gloves and trim the fingers off and cut into a suitable size, you'd also get loads out of all ten fingers. There's these which are cheap and the extra small would probably ensure a snug fit. I don't what they'd do to the sound but these are only 2mm so could work. https://www.sportsdirect.com/gul-water-sport-gloves-888128?google&gclid=Cj0KCQjwu8r4BRCzARIsAA21i_Ayy5_c5oMPcaEmZCAnbkW9MRnPU4L7JTezpmSIrJKz7E6pV15FM3oaAmleEALw_wcB#colcode=88812803&fo_c=3681&fo_k=0b6e024f8b1027751e719cdc40e3722e&fo_s=gplauk

Not if you're reversing a Jag all the way! Or have I misunderstood? 😉 Sorry, I don't know about Fender Jaguars.

I made a new scratchplate for my Hofner Club as I really didn't like the anemic looking white pearl one it came with. When it was off I was very tempted to leave it off. The only problem I had with was that the control panel stood out as even more odd with no scratchplate. The bass was black though it probably would've worked better on sunburst. I've just had a google and you're right, the Verythins do look better without the scratchplate. Get it off! 😁

I can only echo the thoughts of others Stew. Make the most of what you can do and, like you say, try not to worry about what you can't. I've not met you but from your posts on here and your conduct when we we're both trying to buy that Aerodyne P, I can tell you're a stella fella so hopefully karma will give you a break. Wishing you all the best mate. 👍

You've missed out on a PR stunt there, you could have been the 'Flu Fighters'. Yeah yeah I know, Covid19 isn't a flu virus.

I had a wave of sadness wash over me watching that. I was thinking how great it is that Bowie steps back and completely let's GAD own that song, wondering how that feels performing it with someone else after having recorded and performed it with the great Freddie Mercury, who he obviously can't duet with anymore. Then I realised that Bowie is gone as well now. For some reason I can't get used to the fact that Bowie's gone.

I think people are trying too hard to find faults now. The scratchplate screws/holes look to me like the film is still on. Look at the bottom picture in this post and zoom in on the edge of the trussrod access hole and the screw to the right of it.

True, but no new bass whether £100 or £10,000 should have cracks radiating from the neck pocket. If it's happened in transit then surely it's like any other product, it gets returned and replaced with a undamaged one, or a discount is offered.

I have a feeling that some details are getting lost in translation. Could it be when the OP says "fissure" then the builder, and some here, are looking at the gap between the neck and the neck pocket rather the crack radiating outwards from the right angled part of the neck pocket? I can't believe a builder would see that crack and say it's there's nothing wrong with it. It is common to see this crack on older instruments that have had a life as its a high stress point, and being a right angle all the stress is focused on the corner, but not on brand new, whether poly, nitro or any other finish. Surely with nitro being soft never fully curing it should be less likely to crack when fresh. How many others here have bought a brand new, nitro finished instrument that had cracks in the finish from day one that wasn't relic'd, just curious as some seem to be saying it's normal for a brand new, nitro finished instrument to have cracks on delivery. I've only bought poly finished basses so don't know but I've worked with paint for long enough that I wouldn't be expecting it, or be particularly happy about it.

I've found that all semi hollow bodies, with the centre block, can sound very much like a solid body. In the way that sticking a pair of hollow wings on a cricket bat bass won't make it sound like a hollow body. If you plan on gigging it then a fully hollow can bring feedback issues, unlike a semi hollow. But no where near as bad as an acoustic. If it's the fully hollow sound you want but you need to gig it then, as with doublebass, it's a balancing act between the sound you want and resistance to feedback. The more resonant a bass, the more inclined to feedback. If I were in your shoes, from the reviews I seen, read and heard, I'd be going for the JC.

Oh now I want to eat chocolate fingers.