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Jean Luc Pickguard

Consumerism! We're all suckers for it in varying degress. It's a buzz buying new stuff, but the buzz fades and we start again.

Metal knobs here on P7 and no buzz 🐝 - there’s a lot / most BCers who’ve swapped these out. Once I know where I am with work planning the Burg 5 to help me through lockdown. Would def be tort though - funny how divisive tort (and 3TS) are on here..

This could trump the other gripes. If it is all from 8-10 as it looks, bass goes back, or they front cost for investigative work locally. Feel your pain here - clearly not turning into the NBD you’d looked forward to. Hopefully you’ll get it sorted.

Both sound great. TBH such minor difference in tone, neither 'better', probably as much down to fractionally heavier, brand new flats on the Moollon.

There's one small scratch? I wouldn't take this one case as an example of how they operate. There's 1000's of happy customers.

Yeah that last line isn't great. As we know Adrian can come across quite brusque on email, I always put this down to being lost in translation, plus him being backed up as the sole contact for anything Marus' related. I've never heard of anyone just being dumped by them though - I'm sure he'll work something out if you're absolutely not happy.

@Bilbo is there somewhere other than Amazon to get your Mr PC book? Finally have more time to read on lockdown and be great to give it a go - Amazon just has a used copy for £50

Socially distanced venue attempt. Gosforth Park, Newcastle next month https://www.loudersound.com/news/here-it-is-the-uks-first-dedicated-socially-distanced-music-venue

Interesting question - will rest on what is deemed date of sale? Assuming this is when the product is finished - you’d benefit from the reduction with your second payment fractionally lower. Not a huge saving, £60 on £2K bass but better than nothing.

Great spec choices, what a beauty. Be interested to hear how it stacks up next to your '71..

Sure, makes sense. Is there an accepted way to get ferrules out / back in. Had a go at tapping out from the front side with no success - assume they're glued. Is it just brute force?

Lockdown mania continues, embarking on first attempt at repainting. Surprised there's not a pinned thread here, but found some good resources digging around. Not come across any mentions of how to handle string-thru ferrules. Any BCer tips or hacks here, for removal / reinstall, or masking?

It’s inhuman - what twisted mind puts a white pearl pickguard on 2TS

That's a lot of music. I think you're left with Bewitched, Mantovani and Sandie Shaw, enjoy

Interesting to hear this was a surprise - on recent travels there seems to be at least one or two in every town doing these kerbside pints. Assumed these were commonplace across the country

Norm bought a Gator double bag, rapid payment and communication, easy to recommend. Hope you get to use it gigging sometime soon

Nice basses but what kind of maniac has their rack facing left?

There's no bad basses - it's all just personal preference. Totally appreciate your good intention in asking the BC community, and we / they are a helpful lot, but ultimately this is a 'what colour should I paint my kitchen' thread. If your starting point is as broad as just the manufacturer (and bands who's bassists all play very different basses and sound different), would just buy the bass you like the look of the most, you can always return it if it's not for you. It's as easy as that. (Magnolia btw)

And people have been saying it’s a difficult time to sell used gear..

Thanks Mario. Really well recorded

If you feel you could tolerate that level of ‘relicing’ I’d put it back to Andertons for a second opinion on Monday. Don’t feel they’re chancing it. It’s weekend staff, and they’ll also likely have folk on furlough / WFH. Could be someone junior has made the call and erred on side of caution. When someone experienced sees that specific damage they’ll give a sizeable discount, knowing how they’d have to price in store.

Would assume not insured. Working on scale it's usually much cheaper to find the replacement (wholesale) cost on the rare time something bad happens, than to pay for every instance to be insured. Company cars are often the same - brand new cars on third party only. Crashes are rare enough to make fully comp not worthwhile. Different when it's your own risk and cash though.

Poor old Adrian relegated to rhythm