Newfoundfreedom

I'm going with Wipeout!

Unsold, so he's raised the price by £200. Seems sensible. 🤔

Stingray 5's are really growing in me to the point that they're now probably my favourite looking bass. I'm tempted to pick one up, but I have a 4 string HB copy and the neck is way too thick for my liking, and I don't like the feel of the flat fretboard. For those who own 5's, are they real baseball bat necks, and is the fretboard flat? I don't have the opportunity to try one here and those things would be a deal-breaker for me.

It would work well with Ricki's. Everyone would just assume they were paddles.

I did. I left the rat infested plague island in the north sea years ago.

Nice! 👌

I'd go closer to 30%. Paying VAT on second hand goods is aboute bollo#*s! 😡

I'm the exact opposite. I wouldn't even consider going to a gig unless it was seated.

Yup. I've got a couple that are exactly the same. Weird 🤔

I think it's definitely a lost cause. Just cut your losses and get rid of it. I'll PM you my address.

Wow! It's this standard pricing for gigs in the UK now, or is it just big acts taking the wee wee? The last gig I went to in the UK was Guns n Roses and Thin Lizzy at Nottingham arena and the tickets were about forty quid. Granted it was a good few years ago now, but still....... I don't think there's an act on the planet I'd pay more than £100 to see, and I'm probably pushing it at that.

I'll still buy smaller, low value items from the UK, pedals, cables, parts etc, because I have a good forward shipper and very rarely get stung with any extra costs. But I wouldn't buy a bass or any other mid to high value items. Also, sadly the second hand market here is absolute dross and decent music shops are very thin on the ground. Even when anything decent comes up it's always well overpriced. So now I almost always buy new. Thomann now gets pretty much all my business. I often drool at the second hand basses in the for sale section here. There are some absolute bargains, but it's just not worth the risk or hassle for me now.

That's more than I paid for most of my basses. 😆

I like Custard Creams.

Scott's Rock Lessons. Where Scott tries playing a simple 4/4 riff with no plinking and plonking and his head explodes.

Wow that's a fair chunk of change for what is possibly the uglies Rik I've ever seen, and I generally like the looks of a Rik.

Thanks. That's much clearer. 🙄

I'm glad you made that simple. 🤔

Because they run an 18 volt preamp system instead of 9 volt.

This exactly. If I didn't like the look of a bass I simply wouldn't feel motivated to pick it up and play it. Whether anyone else likes it or not isn't even an issue.

Similar to above, I played bass in my teens, then never picked one up again until I was about 44 / 45. I was extremely lucky that a lot of my friends locally just happened to be musicians in a similar situation so forming a band was easy.