Owen

Do what you feel. I have owned one and realised that I REALLY like doing a side to side vibrato. This does not work well with roundwounds and fanned frets. Adapting to the fanned frets was easy peasy.

This has enabled me to look at my collection of bass guitars in a new light!

Yeah, we will be needing more pictures. I owned one of those once. I probably should still own it. Ho hum.

Wow. That is quite the box if you buy it for peanuts and load full fat NAM captures in there!

He is not playing, he is just trying to maintain balance.

I must admit, I am all for an elbow that is up when playing standing. I could show you lots of pictures of me being too lazy to do it, but if I am doing any kind of "proper" playing requiring dexterity, then a dropped elbow (for me) puts all sorts of strain on my wrist and forearm. I know you are experiencing pain elsewhere but bodies are funny things and will telegraph pain from different places while they try and compensate. Keeping things in balance is imperative (maaan!). I would reccomend standing in a room with an experienced teacher. It is entirely possible that you have zero interest in playing the Bach unaccompanied 'cello suites at pitch so do not need to be paying top whack for years to come. One or maybe two lessons will give you the physical pointers you need.

Are you sitting or standing to play?

I cannot believe I am only the second person to buy something from Michael, but here we are. It is all good

BAN THIS SICK FILTH!!!!!!!!

Is the Smith pre a Haz Labs as well?

I have one complete Shuker, one Shuker body with a Firecreek neck and one Shuker body with a Goodfellow neck. They are all sorts of right. I am waiting to find a date that he is doing a set up course that I can go to.

Stripped back to bare wood is very pleasing.