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I always thought you had more stock than Bass Direct Andy….

Lindy Fralin Split Jazz. Silent. Fabulous musical rich sound. Expensive, but worth every penny

I’m waiting on my finishing oil at the moment - have both the Crimson penetrating and high build oil on order. I’ve sanded back quite a bit on the medium scale body, and it’s really very light now - even tempted to get the wire wool on it and give it a final going over. I’ve noticed when wet it’s a lot darker. I wonder if the slight tint to tung oil has darkened yours more..

Yes. This is very true. I've got a Bad Monkey and it can, from time to time, do some phenomenal things with bass - particularly when combined with a clean mix as well

I'm not sure I can take any more of this punishment.

Yeah, they are even paying for him to go on a HTML 3.0 course

Are they popular now then?

Cor. You’s posh you is

There is something satisfyingly superb about everything to do with that bass.

Not me guv'nor. I'm waiting for something quality to come up. Maybe this?

We're not in the Bad Jokes thread now, Toto...

Really? I'd actually quite like a Roadster fretless. Then again, First Law of Bass Acquisition states: "You will never want a bass when it's available, but you'll only want it when it's not"

Ah, in which case I might bid on it anyway, even tho it isn't fretless

If that was fretless I would have bid on it...

I wonder if some embroidery silk might work... hmmmm....

Having said this, I've yet to find a suitable solution for my Shuker fretless - there's just not enough space under the strings by the saddles to get any sort of foam in there.. Suggestions welcome, of course..

I found the soft foam in a graphics card box ideal - it was really soft, and added just enough mute to eek out that extra bit of thump without killing the sound too much

Flats? or Rounds? Or Foam??

I've always thought he spouted a load of (Eric) Claptrap.

Ah, but do you go for a light foam or a really dense foam?

Of the 4 basses I currently own that I would say are "in commission and ready to go", 3 have flats on and 1 has rounds on. I'm not a huge fan of rounds, nor of using a pick, but I do play it, and sometimes with a pick. Why bother? Well, sometimes the music requires it, sometimes I fancy the change, and sometimes I just want to, or can do. So I do.

To be honest it would be better if you could just get whatever you want…

Lets hope their website doesn’t go down down

They might upgrade it to be JavaScript and flash compatible and optimise it for Netscape Navigator…?

You made me go pick up a bass and check my own technique as your description sounded so similar to my default playing style. Assuming you use index and middle finger on your RH, then it is really similar to me - and having just had a quick play I've noticed I do something quite similar to what @Heathy is suggesting by angling my hand a bit more on the D so that my thumb covers the E and A for muting. Didn't even realise I was doing that. Then again, I only recently discovered I was using some of my fingers on my left hand to mute some of the strings from time to time as well...