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Cool - that’ll be interesting to see. I have a Mat too.

Yep - that’s one of their things.

There can't be anybody who believes that is a Fender.

Yep - that's where I saw them.

My T-shirt says '81. I saw them there on the Permanent Waves tour.

I saw Rush at Bingley too.

It looks like we've lost Neil Peart.

No need for gas - you could just burn it as-is.

A note/plea to the exhibitors: don't forget to take some spare parts to sell, for example: Warwick: I need a Just-a-nut 5-string; UK shops don't want to know and buying one direct (from Germany) includes silly money postage fees. CIOKS: I'm missing a screw, want some Flex cables. Rotosound: Don't forget to take some bass strings to sell! No kidding: I've been to one show where the bass strings were forgotten and another where there was only one gauge. If there's a Rickenbacker dealer, one of the new bass bridges would be interesting. I also like rummaging through junk and spare parts...

Well, the description is quite comprehensive...

For some reason it had me thinking about sea shanties.

I've bought a few new guitars/basses in my time my first bass, a Columbus Jazz (which I replaced with a Rickenbacker), some time later an Aria Pro SB700 (nice bass but big), a Hohner Jack, black with a red strap, which matched our band's outfits for the middle set, a Washburn Status headless (which I replaced with a real Status Graphite). Otherwise everything else has been used. Dunno about death of the high street, as buying from someone presumably frees up funds for them to buy another...

I tend to buy used instruments, on the basis that anything which is going to go awry with them will have by the time I come along. On the occasions I do try a new one in a shop (maybe when I'm looking at a pedal or amp, not just for the instrument itself) I've never been able to play it as I would my own. I've often thought that if I were to go to a shop to buy new I would also take along my tool kit and offer to do a free setup for them...

You may find that one of your pedals has a Dry output, in which case you can split it there.

More like Shtick?

What's your connection?

I wonder if they do the fanned tuners option...

Hand made, as in made from scratch, or assembled from parts?

Sure - it's great to have folks around who will spot them.

Depending on the paint type, you might be able to buff it off, but getting into all the nooks and crannies could be a challenge. An alternative could be a complete strip and refin (maybe even by Status?). A plan-B could be to sell that bass and get another...

Badass bridges are really good; here's a couple of basses of min with them. I've also got a Fender Hi-Mass one on another bass. The original Badass was quite tall and sometimes needed a cutout to be routed to fit it; the Badass II was a straight replacement for a stock Fender bridge. Badass bridges were made by Leo Quan, but the company is defunct; Hipshot (Kickass), Allparts (Omega), and Fender (the aforementioned Hi-Mass) are equivalent/copies. The Fender ones are stupidly cheap (under £30)!