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I’m not sure that they do commission sales, they’ll have traded or bought that I reckon.

Even worse now that they’re employee owned (or something like that), it’ll be the evil eye from their colleagues for ages.

@JwK94 One of these HBs might suit your girlfriend (you ), given your SS wanted post.

Oops! There should be some red faces in Camden.

How many series of Walking Dead were there? Determined things the undead.

Funnily enough, they was a video on the Lakland website many years ago, where Yes were performing live somewhere and Chris Squire was playing a Lakland P type - sounded just like Chris always did (looked wrong though ).

4003s is the way forward for you, no nasty sharp binding to deal with.

Looks like that was a heavy one

Back Door Man - Willie Dixon

Sold mine because it was a boat anchor and made my shoulder ache, I should’ve bought the walnut version over the maple, as they’re much lighter. Oh yeah, this thread - 🧟‍♂️ resurrection.

You Can Ring My Bell - Anita Ward

Southern Man - Neil Young

Iron Out The Rough Spots - Paul Young

Crawling from the Wreckage - Dave Edmunds

Face to Face - Gary Barlow

I have 2 custom built basses (not EB) that are very, very similar in build materials. One has always needed a bit more attention in the truss rod dept than the other, which needs almost none at all. It’s the nature of natural materials, despite being the same wood, unless they’re from the very same plank of the same tree, they are likely to react differently to changes in climate. That being said, I think the older the instrument, the more stable they tend to be due to being an instrument that much longer, seasoning, whatever. I had a ‘63 P Bass that rock solid whenever, wherever, whatever the weather, I don’t remember adjusting it once in all the time I owned it.

Reviled by many, but I really like it and I don’t think there’s a duff track on it.

TBH a lot of other retailers could learn a lesson from Thomann. Admittedly I ordered a few items, but the bass was in its box, which was packed in a larger box with more paper packing than you can shake a stick at. I had to go digging to find the bass box. You mentioned over in the SS thread about noticing more accentuated tonal differences on your modded Mustang than on an equivalent long scale. This is my first 2 p/up shorty and I must agree that the different tonal differences are certainly more pronounced than on my J type 33” scale with a balance pot.

Especially that type. I made the mistake of wearing a pair of shorts for an outdoor, lockdown, streamed gig. They received as many comments as the actual content of the livestream. I should've known better.

Fitted my favoured EB Cobalt Flats today (a used set, in case it went all horrendously wrong); ooh, that's the stuff! Had to unwind the E string a bit as the locating hole in the Gotoh tuner is very wee and I'm inserting way beyond the silk. Because of the tight radius on the tuners, I was expecting the E to break, but no, it seems fine. Had to tension the truss rod a bit, but nothing dramatic, just a 1/4 turn or so. Something I noticed when taking off the film from the pick guard is that there a sort of bloom at the point where the control plate meets the p/g (the top laminate has lifted a bit). When refitting the p/g the reason for this became clear, it's too big. However, a quick pass or two with a craft knife to shave off a bit (probably less than 0.5mm) makes it a precise fit. There are some areas where the shape of the p/g could be smoother, but this is a cheap instrument and the corners cut seem to be in areas that just don't matter that much and are easily remedied. The performance is still blowing me away given the miserly cost.

Robbie was so the man. However, even the coolest of the cool can't pull off shorts on stage. Just say no.

Small steps maybe, but steps nonetheless. Keep at it and, whilst maybe not back to where you were pre this thread, you’ll look back at these early days with incredulity at your limitations and the body’s ability to heal and adapt. With regard to bass playing, if it still gives you joy, just do it in whatever manner is comfortable for you. As pointed out above AJ has always sat as far as I can tell and is still an absolute monster. Positive vibes from the Highlands.

No need for retooling either I would imagine. We may slag off Fender for the continual reissuing of their most successful, historic guitars and basses, but folk keep on buying them and they’d be daft not to keep feeding the beast what it wants. In short, we are to blame.