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Woodinblack

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  1. Over a £1000, yes. How much is a budget Wal? But some of their instruments are in the £500 bracket. And that is using far east bridges which cost next to nothing. Its quite feasable to get bridges etc made at an engineering shop here, but you need a very large number ot make it viable for the tooling. There is certainly a case of having models that were entirely locally sourced at the high end but I bet most people wouldn't buy them. Obviously it would but you still need a break point where it becomes worth it. ie, you need a big warehouse to be able to import 100 guitars to get you over shipping problems, but you don't need much space to get a shipment of 100 bridges. And frankly all that adds up - people will spend their whole day working out how to get a fiver off something, so price really matters. There was this forum I was on and a thread with people who were talking about a cage on a website and how cheap it was (£110 instead of £125 in other places), I looked and there was an IFrame injection attack on that site, it was compromised on the page you ordered it. People couldn't get to it on firefox as it wouldn't let them go to the page for their protection. The thread had moved on to tell people how to get round firefox blocking them getting to the site so they could order it. I tried telling them the risks, but apparently I was being elitist as I wasn't concerned about the price.
  2. Certainly is. There are no large scale UK manufacturers of guitar hardware that I know of. Sure you can make them. but making them in low quantities means that they are very expensive. As you can see with your list of manufacturers provided, there are no £500 wals or overwaters are there. Maple isn't an indiginous tree to the UK (apart from the field maple), so its not a cheap wood in the UK like it was in the states (where its native and dominant).
  3. Sadly that is the old world. If you are posting between the UK and Europe, the person recieving the item has to pay vat on the combined price of the item plus the shipping, plus the courier fee for doing the paperwork, and then the other amount they add for reasons that only they know.
  4. Ewww - wash your mouth out with that kind of language!
  5. Jackson?? Are you making Nuclear fusion in your bedroom again? I told you to stop that. Can't you go out and play with your friends? And take that stupid hard hat off right now!
  6. I suppose from a shop point of view, who wants to stock strings that last a long time! I still have the stainless steel ones as well that I haven't used. I would love to put them on my shuker, but sadly they won't fit in the narrow slots.
  7. Did a practice last night, and just took my original number 1 bass (the 1605) which has the longevo strings on it. I haven't played that bass for a while, as there were newer and shinier basses to play. I was fairly nocked out by how it sounded, so clear and bright. These strings have been on for quite a while now and I would have expected them to have got fairly dull, but they really haven't. If there is a way of getting these here at a reasonable price, they could well be my goto strings for normal scale basses.
  8. Well, if you want to play it, here is Guy Pratt (the bass player of the group) showing you!
  9. If it is a second hand bass sent from a non vat registered source, such as a private individual, the price is actually £250, but if you are buying from outside the UK you have to pay an additional tax on it that wouldn't exist otherwise (ie, if it was in the uk or pre-brexit). the £250+Vat only applies for a VAT registered business.
  10. For reference, my 1505ms is 7.2lb, which obviously has another ¼ width of a neck and another tuner, so presumably slightly heavier
  11. I have been using Schaller strap locks for many decades and dunlops for about 8 years, haven't had either type fail, although the guitarist in my band had his schaller fail in a rather disasterous way (guitar hit the deck, fretboard split off!). I trust both of them. However, now it means I have basses with one, and basses with the other, and straps with one and the other (and straps with neither), which is a bit of a pain. I think overall I prefer the dunlops in that they still work with an ordinary strap (I know shallers can if you have a new enough strap), but I have some spare shallers to put on something, the new ones with the grub screw (which fixes the only problem they really had).
  12. ok, fair enough if it is another band. Same here - Like I said before, as long as everyone knows where they stand and come to a common agreement then all's fair.
  13. I am sure anything could be argued, but i wouldn't understand anyone thinking it was civilised. I guess it comes down to whether you would be happy if you had a problem, you told it to your band mates and they all said it wasn't a problem, don't worry, and then some mate contacts you and says "Oh I saw your band gigging, so you left then?". Personally I would think they were a bunch of organs that can't be mentioned on basschat. I would be sympathetic but if the agreement was we would continue without him, I would like to think I would have the globes to tell him to his face. You are right, life is too short, but you can choose to try and make it as good as it can be for people
  14. So pretend to be sympathetic and supportive of the drummer to his face and then form another band behind his back. I believe it is quite common. Not something I would do.
  15. No, because the bluetooth latency is too high. Plus my bluetooth headphones are little earbud things, where my wired headphones are nice large ones. Yes, I do have wireless in ears for gigging, but not bluetooth and I don't tend to use them in the house.
  16. Well, enjoy anyway, I got the CV mustang and really enjoyed that - this should be even better, especially in that colour
  17. Although as mentioned above, I have a Smoothhound which I am happy with, I got some of those cheap 2.4ghz dongle type wireless things as an 'around the house' thing a few years ago, used them at a few practices too. Range not as good but pretty reliable, and it meant I didn't have to take my pedalboard. Then they went missing, so later I wanted some more and as I had had trouble with 2.4, I went for some 5GHz ones. They are bigger (no heavier though, a couple of grammes!) and they work fine. Again round the house and practices, but tbh, I would have no problem using them live either, they are very good, and the battery life is good enough for our gigs (3hrs+). The others turned up in the end, in a gig bag of my backup bass that I hadn't taken anywhere since the pandemic!
  18. Had a good gig on Saturday, not doing too many at the moment as not really fully back from the plague and also the band is a bit in flux. However, a place we had done before with an awful building, a skittle alley, aka a long thin tube especially designed to make everything sound bad. As it happened, not sure if it was the decorations or the number of people, but the sound wasn't as terrible as last time. It was well populated as they were also having a haloween party, people had made quite the effort to dress up and were out for a good time, as the first gig in that village. We used to do ghostbusters but dropped it several years ago as we didn't like it and it always messed up. Decided on the thurs practice to resurect if for saturday if we could get it right. Practiced it in the sound check and it still wasn't right but it worked out ok as instead of playing it, we did the rif as a background music when they were doing the fancy dress competion, and it worked well for that. In the end went on well, everyone enjoyed it, usual collection of over drunk girls wanting to sing and talk to us while we were playing, but occupational hazzard. Way more enjoyable than I expected.
  19. I would be at your door now if I lived close enough - good luck with it. If you decide to ship I am happy to have it!
  20. It is perfectly possible to go to a live event and while you are there, watch a streamed event. Don't know why you would, but it is possible!
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