Owen

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.

If getting the right size is an issue then you could look at using the present ones rewound using the physical cases. No routing, no mess. New magnets, new wire. Job done. https://www.catswhiskerpickups.co.uk/ has done some great work for me, and it will be significantly cheaper than any of the "big names". Pickups do not have magic in them. Right magnets, right wire, job done.

All the strings you crave, just not in the right order.

Thanks. Not a bad price for sparkly goodness!

Yummy! My MTD Kingston has the most comfortable neck I have played. I am old and have played a lot of basses.

Asymetric neck carve?

Excellent news!

Out of interest, because I REALLY NEED a 4 string bass, what do they go for in the shiny finish?

That was Silver Sparkle and it has been painted red? What is wrong with people?

I cannot deny, I am proper gutted. In my mind's eye you were 6'5" and probably wearing some sort of platforms on stage becasue of your screen name.

He had a thing, I fancied it. I paid, it came. He is a professional packer!

YES! Right there!

There is a lot of it about. https://reverb.com/uk/item/52022127-fodera-wal-emperor-2003-crotch-walnut

Excellent news. I do not actually like them, but I am in a minority of 1 in my close and broader family. The rest live for them. I get the process and the way the flavours morph from one to the next, but coriander is not for me.

I am a bass tart and will go with any bass.

Bass Police are coming for you.

70cm and not tight together shoulder straps.

I hope not, I am waiting for the first new bass I have ever bought in my life.