Geek99

I’m hugely impressed that you've actually lost count

At a mere three you are a comparative miser i have three but they are all different (honest) one acoustic, one active four, one five string

Were strads super-special back then? Just another maker of hand-built violins

Both kinds.

This. ^^ Total sense.

Clear nano tape?

I now know someone in Coalville m1 j22 who is ridiculously talented he built his own cello from raw lumber and builds/plays double bass. details on request

You don’t show the back so I don’t know. @tauzero was being a little cryptic but if you show the side and back he could maybe compare

He means that his “photo flame” is different to yours. It would be a lot of trouble in manufacture to make them different so it probably is actual flamed maple I get why you call it wallpaper and it isn’t irrational, but that looks real to me

Make the grade as a campfire starter ? 🤷‍♂️

I had six years forced on me whilst I turned our house into a home. I used the time re-writing other people’s lines that I heard in my head, and thinking about what I was bad at before when I finally got my bass corner, I was objectively better at playing bass

I look at it this way … I used to own an mgb it went wrong more often than you’d expect when the fuel pump went I bought a new & better one. I didn’t seek a rebuild of the exact fuel pump it started life with. It had lasted well, but was frankly a bit rubbish. Theres no use in pretending that every “old” bass was made perfectly with components that were functionally perfect and that the whole thing emitted magic sparkles unless changed, whereupon it became as lifeless as the worst 70s Kay I didn’t add a whale-fin spoiler to it and in the same vein I’d never re-fin an old bass. It is irreversible it still looked like an mgb and if it had optical ignition rather than clunky old points, no one will know. In the same way, it doesn’t matter if a volume pot has been replaced with a modern version of the same thing. Keep the old one for those of the potential buyers who might care, and use something better for you in your time owning it. No one truly gives a toss about original, unmolested solder joints. 🤷 afterthought: those “included original pots and pickups” where replacement has been declared to the buyer. I’d be really interested to know proportionally how many vintage buyers have gone to the trouble of having the original part repaired and replaced in the instrument. I suspect “quite few”… just as I preferred optical ignition and an electronic fuel pump.

It’s like being dad to toddlers

And laugh at guitards and their weedy sound

Yes an Ibanez 5 string (SBX) it had a fingerboard so wide that you’d need a native guide to get from G to low B and it sounded completely soulless I have large hands but only medium stretch and it was far too uncomfortable to play

I don’t have one yet, however youngest doesn’t want to go to Alton towers with mum and sis so I’m out, sadly I will try for @Richard Rs jolly next year

Holy f***

Youre not listening to the right people 👍

Welcome

They got better …🚑 nothing quite like renouncing the ways of The Dark Side 👍

Just so ridiculously talented.

If I have a job offer, I’ll be there

It was a bit 1982…