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That headstock is ALL sorts of wrong. Like it was done with tracing paper that moved.

Hey Simon! Welcome aboard

I agree, but I guess it might port pver eventually.

This looks interesting. https://pitchslap.rocks/

This is just the stuff we need! I fancy a white/cream pickup cover for an incoming bass.

Aint that the truth.

Clean wood. Apart from the neck. Body and neck done in two different rooms by different people. Screwed together by a 3rd person. It looks like a year 9 relic project. You would probably mark it as "well done, for a 14 year old" but be glad that you did not own it. I do love a good relic. This is not a good relic. But people buy them - and for a commercial company, that is where it is at, so what do Fender care about my opinion?

Very cool indeed. That is how cool it is. Really subtle. Less is always more.

The one there is not. The chase only there is.

The pedant in me cannot resist pointing out that a 16 hour band practice might be quite draining.

You are still young. There is time.

We have all been in bands down the local pub where not everyone is pulling their weight. Church is no different. It is just people.

People put themselves forward to serve. Not all of them have the correct skillset. Sometimes that can be nipped in the bud and they can be told "yeah, but let us walk through techniques etc for a couple of months before we let you loose on a Sunday morning". Teaching that skillset is time consuming. Time is not what a lot of us have. This means that people slip through the net and as we play we are thinking "is that ok?" and "why would you play that there?". Not every week, but some weeks. The beauty of it is that a lot of it goes over most people's heads. It is SUPER frustrating for those of us who have put the hours in. But I guess it is a mentoring situation - a bit like Brass Banding. The tricky bit is the "you are not doing that right, let me help you" and the finding time. But being in community is costly. I would prefer to have one acoustic played well and one vocal and leave it at that. It is leading, not performing. Sometimes that is a difficult convesation. As long as the congregation have a cue to start singing in the right place, everything else is secondary. If we are relying on a stellar band rocking it out to whip up something, then there is a problem right there. I very certainly do not look to playing in church to get my musical jollies. It is to serve - like stacking the chairs, and no more than that.

Sadly Caerdydd is further from me than many, many English Bass Bashes.

It is one of my own. I give it to you.

I have spent too much on kit. I have had 90% of the lush preamps out there - I know which one I prefered. I have owned what I consider the best backline out there - there is a pleasure in amplification which reaches all the way down there without giving up. I have had a solid 80% of bass guitar options. An instrument which responds equally across the range will always make me smile. I like a 33" scale because the strings are a bit more rubbery. As soon as Drums Rex and The Guitarmageddon kick in, any subtletly just dissapears. And after too much time in loud environments I cannot play without earplugs so even if any of the subtlety is there, I miss it. Does this stop me owning more basses than I need? Nope. But it is cos I like them, not because anyone else, including me, will hear any difference when the chips are down.

Whereabouts in Wales?

That control plate gave me cause for concern until I realised that it was the carpet reflecting!

Cadbury Dairy Milk Bongo 5. A lot to love there.

That video is giving me a migraine. It must have taken days to edit. I am aware that this makes me sound like a miserable old git. I own that.