Maude

How does a superb condition, tobacco burst, Shergold Modulator 8 string, in original case with the 'case candy' grab ya? It popped up on facebook marketplace within reasonable distance from me and I very nearly had my second crumble. I'd in all reality never use an eight string, but it looks fantastic.

Drain The Blood - The Distillers

I'm going to withhold judgement. I'm in a house constructed from glass with a pocketful of stones.

Who Are You - The Who

Some people like them, some people don't. So what, so what, you boring little c***? 😉

Yes, this is a fantastic idea. Totally outside the ideals of what this thread is about, but means I'm back in. 😄

Caffeine Bomb - The Wildhearts

Oh my, is that the date, it can't be 2022 already can it? Really? It's actually January now? Surely not! I could've sworn it was still December, 2021. Well that does put me in a predicament! 🙈

Everybody's Happy Nowadays - The Buzzcocks

A U - Pink Floyd

I very nearly bought an amp at 2 in the morning on New Year's Day. Thought I'd leave it 'til the morning as it was a want, not a need. Luckily it was sold by the time I got up.

Just thinking out loud here, but if this were allowed to wash, then wouldn't @AndyTravisbe allowed to buy any bass he wants on the grounds that he used to own one? 🤣🤣

That fretless seems a right bargain. I don't know what they're worth but any fretless Yamaha has to be worth that. If it was closer I'd grab that.

This is what I was thinking. It should be far more noticeable unplugged as the string both sides of fretted fret are unamplified. Once plugged in it shouldn't really be audible as the side you want to hear is being amplified and the unwanted side isn't. Although any vibrations in the string will get picked up to a degree. Perhaps try fretting more lightly as the harder you fret a string the more like a 'hammer on' it is, causing a note ring out without plucking the string. Also as you've mentioned the other strings ringing out it could all be to do with muting the strings. Unmuted strings will vibrate in sympathy to fretted strings causing noise to be heard through the pickup/amplifier. I'd say it's all to do with technique rather than a set up issue.

Is this plugged in or acoustically?

Heard It Through The Grapevine - The Slits (and some bloke called Marv)

Regatta de Blanc - The Police

Roses - Outkast

Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy - Mr. Big

I'll take that. 😉👍

Sorted the frets today. Surprisingly they were all pretty level with only three or four needing a tiny bit taken off to level them. A few have got string marks but to completely remove those I'd need to file the whole lot down and then re crown, far too tedious for this old bass. I've just levelled and polished them all. Scraped the board with a razor to clean it up a bit, it still needs an oiling and a buff but I think it'll look alright after that. It looks darker in real life than this picture. Also glued the nut back on. Also made the rear cavity cover, and I've glued the pickup casings. The pickups are resin filled so all I can do is run superglue in the cracks and flat and polish them up.

Whirlwind - NMA

Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden

Shine On - House of Love