Happy Jack

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1478006776' post='3165905'] In the event you do agree to pay towards some work then make it clear you will only pay the repairer directly. [/quote] [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1478006828' post='3165906'] And a copy of the receipt plus the luthier's number to give them a call, then I would tell them to FO anyway [/quote] I would advise very strongly that you do NOT do this, in fact that you do and say absolutely nothing that might imply that you felt any responsibility or liability at all. If this guy really is a scammer (for £230? sounds more like a newbie or an incompetent to me) then he'll know how to parlay your tacit admission into complete liability. Just say, as politely as you think appropriate, that there was nothing wrong with the bass when he bought it, and it sounds as if he's been scammed by a dodgy luthier. Ball --> his court.

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OK, too easy. Time to raise the bar. How do you quote the bits you wish they'd said, rather than the tosh they actually wrote?

It was all good until he got to the bit where he suggested that those pills and potions that promise a larger manhood maybe don't work. Now that's nonsense ... those pills work just fine. No ... wait a minute ...

Funny things, Hondo. Many were so utterly crap that they became known as Horrid Hondo, but some were lovely instruments. Different factories maybe? Or different countries (first Japan, then Korea I believe).

[quote name='Graulges' timestamp='1474884339' post='3141187'] I thought it was this one. [/quote] Hot Damn! If that was a P, I'd be all over it ...

He's been an eBayer for less than a month, and sold a pair of jeans (!) and an angle grinder. Walk away ...

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1477573997' post='3163088'] Well, I guess. I have to hire my tour busses. [/quote] Last I heard, JTUK had a Tourbus Hire firm ...

The real problem lies with the JET (Jargon Enhanced Topic) becoming such an ARE (acronym rich environment) leading to excessive pressure on the RSBT (Repeated Subject Boredom Threshold).

To look for his girlfriend's braces you mean?

Just in time for Hallowe'en too!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1477289357' post='3161064'] *whistles nonchantly* [/quote] ... while looking up how to spell it ...

Why has he chopped a piece out of the headstock?

Erm ... Mick? Mick? It's in Massachusetts with $57.15 for P&P plus VAT and import duty. And it has a US power supply. And the 'Bass' illuminated bit is at least 2" high. Apart from all that, of course, it's quite cool I suppose.

Nope. Just the Jeff Ament. My T5 is anything BUT an oversized body. [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird_zps6wltrwkh.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/Mike%20Lull%20T5%202014%20CURRENT/Thunderbird_zps6wltrwkh.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1477050675' post='3159505'] i bought my Epiphone TS Les Paul from Macari's. Managed to get quite a bit knocked off. [/quote] Well that's Les Paul headstocks for you ...

[quote name='warwickhunt' timestamp='1476816428' post='3157570'] I 'think' you and I may know the seller! [/quote] [quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1476987360' post='3159069'] I quite like Wayne too, had some very friendly dealings with him and it's always a pleasure to chat to him. [/quote] I always thought he hated Precisions? Or was it just Sunburst ones?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1477056117' post='3159566'] The guitarist owns the PA. 2x10" tops. They are physically 30% possibility more, of the size of the same 15" tops and a lot lighter. FACT. [/quote] Fat Spanish waiter, you're just a fat Spanish waiter ...

[quote name='gypsyjazzer' timestamp='1477001133' post='3159254'] The type of gigs I play?--Small venue's / Trio / Quartet. Music style?-mixture of jazz / bluegrass'ey style. [/quote] [quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1476960719' post='3158794'] If you want to go [u]really[/u] light weight, then I'd go for a Barefaced One10 cab (15lbs) paired with an Acoustic Image Doubler (2.3lbs) to give you a 300W rig weighing in at 17.3lbs. [/quote] I'd call that sorted.

There's only so many times a band can play [i]Pick Up The Pieces [/i]at a gig ...

Surely the discount in this case is that they [u][i][b]haven't [/b][/i][/u]marked up their price by 15% to reflect the collapse of the UK£ against the US$. Back in the days when we used to speak in old-fashioned phrases, I'd have described this as "cutting off your nose to spite your face". But no one talks like that any more, do they?

As ever with these questions, it helps to know what you're going to use it for! If you plan to play in cool jazz trios on DB and nothing else at all, then I'd point you in one direction. If you're going to play blues and rockabilly on DB, plus you need to do electric gigs with a covers band using the same rig, then I'd point you somewhere else. And in each case, I'd want an idea of your budget too.

My 'bass ladder' exists in a state of permanent turmoil and churn. The one constant is the Mike Lull T5 which is always my first choice in my main band.

Hell, for $125m I reckon I could do a passable English accent.