Woodinblack

Yes, i have heard people say that. I guess you have to be lucky!

They are not very good at answering emails

Must be that if everything has changed. If it is that there isn't much you can do apart from wait until it gets warmer. The truss rod is your only choice if raising the bridge just makes it uncomfortable. It has to be said, there are advantages to a railboard!

Every time I hear one, I assume I am in the garden.

Perfectly feasible - I had a 5 string (low b) 5 string and it was fine

I wouldn't say that - I would say they are recognised brands that go for that much. I have never played a KS, but I have played both an alembic or a wal that I wouldn't swap my prestige for for quality reasons (I would swap for financial reasons!), but if you want one, that is the price you have to pay.

No, I had a guy contact me about the SR2605 that I have for sale from indonesia, saying that you couldn't get that there and had to import it, even though he was a couple of miles from their factory.

Oh that looks like a fun thing.. might think about one of those

The sugar tax was supposed to be put in by cameron but he backed down as quite a lot of wealthy tory donations come from sugar companies. I don't recal any critisism of sugar tax affecting the poorest members of society, it is them who need more work. I wasn't aware that scotland was socialist - other than they are what our mainstream was a decade ago, but haven't lurched right like us. I would assume the societal issues are related more to employment and the loss of it mostly north in scotland in old heavy industries that were closed down. By a group of many nationalities, like we used to excell at here as we had the european drug agency and other europe wide research. Presumably something we won;t have as much of in the future? I think people are in general happy to give credit where it is due, but maybe not so many people are so laser focused as you on whether something is british or not?

The fact it is made by the top people at Ibanez. Like the custom shop vs the squiers. Obviously not, its not that ugly, but why are you paying that much for a fodera? same reason They weren't investing - they were gambling on the destruction of something, effectively they were a parasite, and sometimes the parasites get washed off.

My gigging money covers the cost of my kit. For the last 4 years or so I only bought things when it is covered by the money I have got gigging, or selling other things. My gigging money drawer is looking a bit poor at the moment!

A bass is always a very poor investment unless it is something incredibly rare or owned by someone famous. There are a lot of actual investment things that will make you orders of magnitude more than any bass.

Harsh? How? It is a clearly measurable and demonstrably true. When comes to deaths per capita head we are the worst of any country. By any comparison you are trying to bat away (yes, we are bigger than NZ etc) there is one that is the opposite (yes, we half the population of Japan and 20 times the deaths, and they are right next to China). every other modern nation (and many of the others) with our skills and our resources managed better. However much flag waving you want to do (and you really seem to want to do a lot), we have been presented with a crisis and we have failed to rise to the challenge. This thread is, but not that part of the thread, that is a change of subject. they are doing a brilliant job now the government have largely got out of their way. I applaud them too and always will. they are doing well for a government entity run by donkeys this much is obvious although again, although once this is over I am sure the government can demonstrate how it shows how great they ran the nhs so they can sell more of it to their mates I am not bothering to look until there is a reason to assume that things are going well by the summer

Wow - that is nice. Really the thing that makes the prestige a prestige is the made in Japan thing.

It would be harder to explain a variable resistor better than that, just the basic principle that if you have a material which is resistive, the more of the material you have, the more resistant it gets, so you can just vary the length of it and change the resistance. Do you mean variable regulators or variable resistors - variable regulators are a lot more complicated.

Yes, ibanez don't seem to have got the hang of those unlike some - the ones on my Maruszczyk are much more useable. They are in a separate section under accessories.

Post has been here for 2 years so no excuse!

Yep, sparkly is good, might have gone for a brighter colour but looks good!

I have an old old ABM in the corner, and a shiney new ABM600 Evo IV, and the knob looks pretty similar to me.

Same here, before I changed it. That was a bad choice, but at least they now have the premium EQ. Hopefully they will swap to the EHB Eq

Suppose it depends how you look at it. I wouldn't think twice about importing (or exporting) to the states, the rules are clear, everyone knows how to do it. Its currently far harder to import / export from europe.

Braver man than I, certainly would risk that at the moment!