Woodinblack

Checks youtube. <refresh> <refresh>.. well?

Not only seen it, my wife talked to some suppliers that said it wasn't worth the hassle of shipping to the UK, and that they couldn't get couries to transfer the stuff anyway for the same sort of prices that they used to. Unfortunately budget couriers are paid by the mile, not the hour, so it doesn't make economic sense for them to risk the UK.

Yep, shukers are my favourite Surprised there isn't much love for the fender X12 'flacid' headstock, especially in its new Paranormal incarnation..

String changing is easy but I haven't done the E-C thing so I don't know about that.

Yes, appologies, I didn't want to get into that but constant pushing is going to do that. Its not really an interesting subject any more (if it ever was), but is here now and I am interested in what the new rules are for shipping things between countries. I was asked last week if I could ship my thunderbird to europe, It didn't seem like a good idea

anything I do is on an big external drive if I want to keep it, easy to copy it over if you want to fiddle with it

Are you getting paid by the click Al? Although I am not interested in discussing brexit any more (just the difficulties it has imposed on me), I didn't find it highly recommended reading, or even particularly insightful, and whether it was the economic editor or something else, it was a set of points that have always been not only true but obvious being used to jump to a conclusion the points didn't indicate (in fact the points point the other way). I can't believe there is a person on the planet that says that the way that the EU has run business has been particularly good, and it is understandable a lot of people have a hard time, but a lot of that article just points to the economic issues in the UK and lays them at the feet of the EU, like the EU was something imposed on us from afar. Far from it, we were one of the big drivers of the economic integration, and had a big say at the table. In the last few years our influence has waned as we elected clowns to represent us who weren't interested in doing the job, only taking the money. To blame the EU for things like low wages and the north south divide, while very convenient for our governments is very easy - these were choices our successive governments made, and by extension, we made. No law says we have to pay farmers nothing or care workers, we liked it because it made our taxes less and we didn't care. The current government seems intent now we are unconnected with the EU to turn the UK into a low tax environment, which means less money for the people who need the help, less money for health and social care etc. That article is written from the point of view of an economic editor - ie, someone at the top of their field who is paid well and is interested in the idea of economics, but not from the point of view of someone wanting to get by. There is nothing he says that is wrong from his point of view, there is nothing in brexit that is going to keep food from his table, and the EU was always viewed here as a right wing thing, the hard left has always wanted to disconnect for protectionism. There is not going to be more money for the people at the bottom from this, there is not going to be more money for health or social care or agriculture or anything the left value, because the people in charge (and him to an extent) don't care about that. Just that there needs to be is irrelevant. Just because care homes need more money now, doesn't mean they are going to get it. They were understaffed before, they will be more understaffed now. Just means the government can get rid of protections to save money. Manufacturing isn't magically going to come back any time soon, there isn't anyone to sell our products to. Brexit is an idiological battle, one that both the left and the right share, but they have very different goals in what they want from it.

Oh yes, this is a small vs big thing. If you are a big business it is just an overhead to work out, like so many, just get someone to deal with it. If you are a small business, you just don't have the capacity. In the context of this thread, the Thommans will be ok, it's just the little guy. I am sure it will help Amazon greatly

it can be (note isn't by default) narrower at the bridge - the maths is fine. However, the GWB1 will be probably narrower at the nut. The necks of the normal SRs are narrower than the EHBs

It is - from any logical point of view, Northern Ireland is effectively in the EU and separated from us now, with a caviat that they can say they aren't. Like Gibraltar. Think it was too much for boris and he didn't care about it unlike Theresa!

Yep, there to distract the enemy while the hurricanes went up and won the battle

I went through headstock. Well, thats not so bad. Mine initially wasn't baxes fault (other than they sent me a bass with a cracked headstock), but their return process, unlike all the others I had used where someone turns up and picks it up, involve going to some shop to post it back, which they don't want to do as it is too long, then hermes losing it, then a complete lack of comms and the impossibilty of finding out what is going on. Their initial delivery wasn't too bad (a few days late, but the pandemic had just kicked in big time at that point). That was the problem I had with bax, that even when they offered a replacement, which I said yes to, deliver was in a week, then 3 weeks, then 3 months. So I said I would have a refund and got a repair.

I can't remember what the issue was, but it was a long time ago, as it was the original one which I got in about may. Would love the 6, especially if the spacing is less, just that it is not a cheap bass, and every time I get a 6 I end up not getting on with it. So until I can get a reasonable second hand its probably not worth looking, and considering supply, it might be a while before there are many second hands. In the end they replaced the neck, I know that it was the same bag with the spacing done, but the neck was a different colour (and 4 months older). I did see another one on the net that cracked the same way but I think that may have been the causes for the slow startup. I suspect Ibanez UK fixed the one that bax sent me, as I talked to them and they were actually helpful, unlike bax. But can't complain, it is upstairs, and I really enjoy playing it.

It was in the smallprint. Values of power and control can go up or down.

No, I understand the calcuations, I mean physically I couldn't get it to adjust 1.5mm

Yep - most things are easier when you know. Although I looked at her communication with HMRC on the subject and it seems that maybe that isn't true, because they didn't seem to know much either. And as you said, this is what people wanted, they were always clamouring for more red tape.

I have mine on lowest. Couldn't get it down to quite 17.25 for some reason I don't remember, but better than 18.

Yeh, if they could do the same thing but get the spacing back down to 16.5mm, that would be perfect

The main issue is the timing. OK, this is a terrible deal and was never going to be any better than that, and we were always going to be worse off because of it, but leaving that aside, brexit was forced through 4 years ago, yet we have 2 days to examine the deal. If this deal was voted on a year ago, we would have had a year to get it all ready. ok, so if tomorrow panel beating became illegal and you were no longer allowed to do it, as you couldn't change it you wouldn't worry either?

I told my wife they were not difficult to manage. She almost spat her tea out, and sent me this: Yes, commodity codes. They are on the website but are either not easy (impossible) to navigate or I am missing the instructions to use that site. For example, I make beds for small pets. I looked up, pets. Nothing. The material? OK, polyester. nothing that applies to my product. Pet toys. No. Toys. No. Pet anything turns up nothing. In the end I send an email to HMRC to ask what the code was for my handmade products stating the materials used and their purpose. They replied and asked me for photos of my products. I sent the photos. They gave me a code for my products but said if I use wadding then I would require a different code. So no they are not obvious to me, I run my business on my own, I make products, research other products, purchase, pack orders and ship, book deliveries, unpack deliveries, update my online shop, photograph, do my accounting, develop new products, assist customers, do my own social media. I am a one woman show. So apart from this, now I am going to have to file all customs declarations with the codes which I am chasing up from all my suppliers and many of them have no idea, even the ones she has been chasing for months, and I have (had?) a lot of customers from the EU. So that's all more work for me, and looking up HS codes on the site has become really frustrating as I can't find any of my products there. If you have any tips, please, let me know, I'd gratefully take them on. -- And she showed me the 'not difficult to manage' online code checker and I just tried it. If you can find things on there looks like brexit is going to be very good for your business!

In a way I think it is a bit easier for those businesses. If you are selling a £1000 plus bass, it is worth spending some time getting the paperwork sorted, and it was already expensive, now more so. Its where the items are low value high quantity that there are the issues.

Maybe if you are an import / exporter its not. If your job is sewing and pet medication, I can assure you it is a lot harder.

Because for some of us, it is our livelihood so we do really care. Technically we should have control, but I think that is slipping away these days. As someone once said, Should we shout, should we scream, - "What happened to the post war dream?"

But not to put anyone off, the replacement 1505ms is absolutely lovely. Neck is a bit wider than I would like but thanks to the bridge design I can wind the strings in from their gaping 18mm spacing to something more acceptable. Plays so well, and is so light, also in the one practice I did since the lockdown I took it and other basses, and it was the one I stayed with as it cut through so well. I see what you mean by the knobs, they are a bit pasticy for something of that price, but it does keep weight down, not something that bothers me much. But maybe I will get some knobs like the shuker has (which has a similar preamp). Only thing I don't like is the locking socket - who came up with such a daft idea. I keep meaning to remove the springs from mine. Oh, and the big notch I made in the side binding and top of the horn by accidently dropping a metal hard disk on it, but that one isn't ibanezes fault.

And you don't really want to hear the story of the 3 month return dealing with Bax again.. I have only just calmed down!