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Anyone know if Status sell separate 32" necks?

It's more the cheapest way to convert the currency and the agency by which you send it that I'm interested in (rather than the shipping aspect)/ Perhaps the PO have a exchange system?

Can anyone recommend the best deal (with the least charge) regarding ordering and paying for a bass in dollars from America and the conversion rate for pounds/dollars? I'm interested in the cheapest way to convert my pounds into dollars - whether it's debit/credit card, bank or other agencies then trasferring the money. How would you do it?

[quote name='Shockwave' post='769438' date='Mar 9 2010, 05:03 PM']Maybe parts i ordered have arrived![/quote] Not spray cans, I hope...

[quote name='Toasted' post='767760' date='Mar 8 2010, 11:45 AM']Do a professional re-finish. Seriously![/quote] Absolutely. [b]STOP[/b] right now and get a professional re-finish.

Roundabout by Yes. I remember thinking "what is that incredible sound???". I was 14 at the time I couldn't afford a bass till I was 17. Kids nowadays get handed an Alembic from Dad at age 14...

Invisible drone music from 1997

[quote name='JordanRLS' post='762121' date='Mar 2 2010, 07:24 PM']I've been racking my brains for a while, and i can't think of any advantages other than personal preference on the aesthetics, or the feel of the neck. are there any actual physical advantages? or is it just because of these preferences? opinions?[/quote] Advantages? It's a different instrument.

I got these from Stringstar: I wanted a sort of plunking Serge Gainsborg sound with my Dano for some songs. First time I've really tried them and I've gotta say I'm not that impressed - they were expensive (£40), they're dull and boring - and I will be going back to rounds ASAP. Plus they said they'd fit shortscale but they don't - they're far too long.

[quote name='The Burpster' post='761042' date='Mar 1 2010, 06:46 PM']I agree to some extent but then its a bit like buying a Bentley or Rolls Royce........ If you have to ask how much it is - you cant afford it....![/quote] er, right.

Sorry to ressurect this thread about the Gus guitar but I just got a copy of Bassplayer and read the article (it arrives about a month late in london) and the devil can be in the detail. I must say that what struck me as most surprising was the expense of the additional features; the extra pickup (£100), the maple fingerboard and heastock veneer(£250), the scratchplate and control cavity covers(£350) and carbon fibre inlays(£150) all coming to an [i]additional[/i] [b]£850! [/b] Seems [i]incredibly[/i] expensive on top of the £4500! Yes, I can understand paying extra for fairy lights... but I would have thought for that price you certainly should [i]not[/i] pay extra for a maple fingerboard and headstock veneer, (for instance) ....I mean, that [i]really[/i] should be included in the price - you'd expect that as it's hardly an 'addition' by luthier standards. In fact, for £4500 perhaps it should have all been included, IMO. Bizarre.

That Basslab thing is quite a fresh concept because it's a lot like a double necked bass - two sets of identical tunings rather than one of these things that sounds like a guitar. I'd really like to play it!

[quote name='purpleblob' post='758096' date='Feb 26 2010, 12:21 PM']Too many regrets to mention [/quote] Ditto. But selling basses is not one of them.

They really are very special looking instruments - especially that red one. I'd like to try one some day. As for the money, well, a lot of people here must regularly spend £5000 + on cars and computers every few years or so - items that inevitably retain almost zero value a few, short years later. Those Gus basses on the other hand look immortal - like some kind of pervy instruments of destiny or something. If I really wanted one I'd save up till I was ready to do glorious battle with it - jabbing those silver horns into the enemy (the Vintage Fender bores, that is).

Not too keen on letting non-bass players have a go on the fretless (they always do that guitar vibrato thing dragging the roundwounds across the neck). However, anyone can play the fretted.

[quote name='Delberthot' post='753141' date='Feb 21 2010, 07:38 PM']In my opinion Rickenbackers are overpriced - terrible bridges that are fiddly at best to adjust, bridge surrounds that lacerate your fingers, 2 truss rods that work differently to nearly every other bass in existence and that most people are scared to touch, uncomfortable slab body, the midnight blue ones a couple of years ago had a finish that ran underneath the top varnish onto the binding. That and they sound nothing like they do on the records.[/quote] Agreed about Ricks. The Rickenbackers I've seen recently looked like they'd been made as part of a school project - crude slabs of wood covered in thick varnish. Strange... Never played a Fodera, however.

...Where is BigRedX, anyway?

[quote name='Clarky72' post='751023' date='Feb 19 2010, 03:47 PM']Hey Clarky, Check this clip. There's a part where you see Bernard's technique of thumb & forefinger clearly... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14kXaX5D6Ng"]The Man[/url] Cheers Clarky [/quote] I notice that's a Rock track. Did he use the same technique for Funk?

I love the look of those GUS basses and did actually enquire about the price before the article came out. I was really [i]shocked [/i]at how expensive they were - so no, I wouldn't spend that on a bass.