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I had the older SRFF 5 string, and the neck was good but for me it was also the pickup, just too dull. I looked into getting some nordstrands for it, but they were £300 as a custom thing, which seemed too much for an instrument at that cost. Those new ones look loads better, but it looks like the same pickup to me. Funnily enough the same problem I had with the dingwall too (except I dind't look into replacing the pickup, which maybe I should). I liked the necks on all of them though, the dingwall had the better neck as although it was stupidly wide, it was very flat, and that seemed to help. I tried the SRFF806 at one point, but the neck was too wide to even go there, which is the problem with most 6 strings

I tried with a 6 but I made too many mistakes with the C string (and didn't find it useful enough for what I was doing). I think that although I always say I am a 5 string player, I do occasionally use a 4 string, and I have a common G string, which gets me confused where it is not there!

Its pretty well customary everywhere, just good manners really. Surprised you have Aldi's there now though!

Yeh, I learned to drive because I couldn't afford public transport any more, either the cost, the implied cost of the fact it took me 1.5 hours longer, or the fact that some of the time, it didn't turn up.

I guess it depends where you are. I am not rich enough to afford public transport so I have to stick to cars. And trains are right out, even if I could afford one I would need to get an expensive (and dangerous) taxi to get to one.

Public transport? hahah - you in london or something?

I will on those songs that it is a one off, but when you get a load of them in a row, it just kills the spark and makes you wonder why you are bothering to be out on a friday night when you could be at home!

You are not being unreasonable from my POV - its up to the seller to get the thing to you or return your money.

I would be more than happy to do white rabbit, it is interesting and involved. There are several songs that we do that I really dislike, but there is something to play. Cocaine on the other hand is the same notes over and over to the end and not even slightly interesting. I have no feelings either way on the song. Obviously I am going to play the best I can, and I did (and I played fine) but our motivations are different, you do it for money and hope you enjoy it, I do it for enjoyment and hope to get paid. If at any point I wasn't enjoying it, then the fact I get paid becomes irrelevant, I would stop doing it. If a set like that became normal, I would be looking around for something else.

Does it matter if it’s legal or not if you can’t get PayPal to refund you? And in answer to the specific question, yes, I have heard of fake money etc, but I have never heard of anyone being scammed by it in real life, wheras I have not only heard of but know people who have been scammed by local paypal pickup. Anyone can do that, the fake money is harder to do. If you are not worried about it happening, you carry on doing it, but I wouldn't do it. Cash on collection or no deal for me.

£900 might be cheap for a ric, but it is a lot for a second hand bass. i would also say that might be pressing hard on the rules of not advertising rics for sale on this forum!

Would rather not take that chance, I never take paypal for local pickup

We did a friday night gig at one of our usual good pubs, but someone had decided as we had played there a few times recently that we should drag some old songs back that we had agreed to not do again. So we started with 4 blues songs in a row. There are a load of bass players who can lay back and play blues all night. I am not one of those people. After 4 blues songs in a row I had basically lost interest in playing, and it took a long time to get into the swing of it. I feel the singer, who is the life and soul was also in the same boat. The rest of the first half seemed ok but lacking in spark or energy. It was also a 1½+ hour first half and so it dragged a lot! The second half was ok though, got a bit of a second wind and it was the first time I had played RHCP version of Higher Ground live, which is something I wanted to do a for a long time. We seemed to gain a few new fans though, and people seemed to enjoy it so maybe it was just how it seemed to me. Always a bit of a double edged sword when someone at half time says 'oh you guys are really good', its nice but not so great when you know that you are not that on form.

I have encountered it before. Its for people who don't want to send it. There are some couriers that turn up and put it in a box for you, I had that with a sale on here. Weird but it worked fine. As for the eBay global shipping program, it is on the shipping page, I almost always opt out of that, just because I don't want additional shipping hassle on a bass.

I am at the top of dorset, bottom of somerset on the A37. I have an Elwood 5 string P/J, effectively an Elwood L24, although not called that, its chambered, ultralight tuners, 3/2 headstock although if you are a fender man you probably wouldn't find it that comfortable as it has an ibanez neck profile and spacing so it would be a very thin narrow neck for you (with tighter string spacing). But you are welcome to try I got mine on Page 57 of this thread, a bit over a year and a half ago, it took 7 weeks at the time, although it has got a bit longer recently according to recent posts

I suspect the real name was 'Worlds oldest solid body bass guitar', as I assume someone stuck a pickup on a double bass way before the 30s

I like chequer too - I have my chequered iceman, although that is painted like that. But the yellow does look nice

But if it is only choking on one fret, fix that and if the twist is so slight you didn't notice without a lot of checking, is it that bad?

That is the problem with any module. Any old module such as a sound canvas or the equivalent korg / Yamaha etc will do a fine piano sound and will get for next to nothing, in fact I have a korg o5r/w I use live for organ sounds on foot-pedals - it is great. But you are still going to have the keys - module - amp wiring, which is a faff, although less faff I would say than the laptop as there is less chance for distraction. I know what the distraction thing is like though, I have loads of sound modules, keys, synths and all the computer stuff that can make amazing sounds, but under all that I have an old yamaha electric piano and if I actually want to play something, i turn on that and just play. It does a piano, nothing more (well, it does have other things, I never touch them), and it is probably the only one that I don't get distracted by all the options, sounds, possibilities etc, it 'just' does piano.

My course was only a one day thing, so nowhere near an expert, just gave me enough confidence to actually touch the thing (which I think was the point). But yes, pretty well exactly what you do. Lots of tape across the neck, my favourite green sharpie across the frets and going over and over until there weren't any frets with green lines on them, and checking with the rocker. Takes ages but pretty satisfying once you have it done.

Yes, I get the neck straight before I start, although it normally straightens itself when you take the strings off! But I also have the other part of that neck kit, which is this: https://crimsonguitars.com/store/notched-straight-edge-for-bass/ but you can get it pretty close with a ruler. The crowning and polishing of frets isn't very hard at all, its just a lot of work because there are so many of the bastards

Ahh - that is the worst, the low fret, I have a slightly low fret on my fireman, but I couldn't be bothered to redo all my frets as it was the 19th fret on the B string, which wasn't somewhere that I normally played, shoddy I know! Are you sure the 9th is low, if you go from the 8th to the 10th is one not high? It is unusual for one to be lower, unless it is worn. Not much you can do about making a low fret high, you have to make all the other frets as low. I have a nice little rocker thing I got from crimson guitars, one of the only thing I knew about bass work was the course I went on through basschat to crimson guitars to set up bass necks, so that I can actually do! Funnily enough I was looking at something like that today https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283014972468

Isn't that almost certainly as that fret is high, but you didn't notice before because of the angle of the neck?

Well, the contents of this thread were nothing like what I expected with that title