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There is good cause for the bridge (& strings) being earthed. However, strap buttons are standalone and so don't need it. A downside of the bridge (and strings) being earthed is that if anything live touches you whilst playing, you're the route to Gnd. That happened to me on stage once - the singer's mic was live, he put his arm around me, there was a bang, and the venue's lights went out! (I spent the next band practice checking & rewiring all of the extension leads: some had loose connections and there was even one with a plug at each end which plugged live into a socket on another piece of kit.) I suppose if the bridge hadn't been earthed then nothing would've happened.

Was it the guy with the Shafty Ric copy fo sale too?

Yep - that vintage pedal which didn't sound the greatest back in the day is now a treasured collector's piece.

Cor - I haven't logged in to eBay for a while. Weird choice of pictures.

I would like a Rail - nearly picked one up at an event a few years back, but I hesitated and when I went back it was gone. Re. Earthing: as noted, the jack is on the moving bit; I'd guess that the knurled locking screw at the top of the pickup assembly transfers the connection down the rail and to the bridge? (I'd assume that both rails are grounded.)

"Offline!"

As an aside, I watched Mortimer & Whitehouse; they were discussing some random topic and Bob Mortimer came up with the comment "water isn't sentient".

Googling "Starfire by EKS" suggests that EKS is a guitar company based in Nagoya, Japan. https://www.guitar-list.com/brands/eks-technology However, I see instruments MIJ and MIC, so it's entirely possible they offshored production. Prices seem to be <£100 (eg. https://richtonemusic.co.uk/eks-starfire-performer-j-style-bass-black-2nd-hand/?srsltid=AfmBOopeMAmOgr7sfGvDeYgYiXp4nJvRh2jH9eNtrvzpY05OgnP2AvtA).

It says (C) Nagoya, as opposed to made in Nagoya.

It's just I've never wanted an Ibanez. Nor a Sire (or any other Fender-a-like).

Keep the cases in case...

But you have to enjoy it too, or it's just a job.

Copycat!

My answer is neither - you can get a used Ric for £1500.

Try one of these? https://slingerstraps.com/products/harness-strap-guitar-strap

Looked - nothing for me there, but others might find things of interest.

As a follow-up, our appeal against the TfL fine has been upheld; in their representation TfL produced 4 pages of falsehoods and concocted rules (they spliced together partial rules to form new wordings) which the adjudicators describe as "verbiage" and which our representation took apart line-by-line. The adjudicators finding includes the following statement: Back to the topic of this thread - the risk is that (i) appointed upholders of the law can and will overstep the mark in attempting to implement an action, and (ii) it can take a lot of time and effort to ensure that an unjust charge is overturned.

Sure - I just find it ironic.

The pictures form part of the description and the logo says "this is a Fender bass"; you can't sell a fake Fender by saying "this is not a Fender" or just not mentioning it at all. So, it was neither a Limelight nor a Fender, but had branding for both. (Another group goes so far as to say they won't even allow sale of parts instruments with genuine Fender necks on them.)

I guess you got the right person to look at it; I’ve stepped away from eBay. Did you report it as a counterfeit Limelight or a counterfeit of a counterfeit of a Fender?

eBay don't care about counterfeits - they wouldn't take my word that something which had "Made in USA" on it and the seller described it as "Made in Japan" was really a counterfeit made in China!

It had a brief moment in the limelight. 🙂

He would've only needed 4.