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Beedster

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  1. No, but the O/P does says the saddles are as high as they can go, so I doubt he can even think about checking the relief until he's adjusted those down. And if he does so, he might just find the bass plays to his liking?
  2. OP says saddles are as high as they can go but no mention of relief issues, why would anyone start with truss rod in that situation? Might just be that previous owner, like me, mikes saddles high?
  3. Gimme Shelter. Stones
  4. Jeez, given the stuff in most threads being unthreadworthy is bad
  5. A customer service agent at most courier companies could have your box right on front of them on their desk, actually able to see the consignment number, the sender's and recipient's addresses, and all bar codes etc, but if their computer said the box was in Tokyo, they would happily tell you your box is Tokyo. You can't blame the people at either company for this, day in day out the poor sods have to deal with the shite computer system that was probably developed by the same bunch that developed the UK Track & Trace system. I think the days of couriers taking any responsibility ate long gone and I'm now very reluctant to buy or sell anything that requires a courier unless I'm buying from a business who will accept responsibility of something goes wrong.
  6. Yep, looks like a reflection to me mate
  7. Hello mate, frankly, whilst it's not technically correct, I would always adjust the saddles first, simply because a) the action responds immediately (which isn't the case with the neck) and it's therefore easily put back and b) there's less chance of something going catastrophically wrong! There's also no such thing as the perfect relief/height combination, so whilst it might not work for others, you might find the combination that works best for you with relatively little experimentation. I like dead straight neck and quite high action, other people pick up my basses and say "how do you play it like this....?" Horses and courses Good luck
  8. On reflection, selling this bass for £400 is a silly idea, it's worth about three times that, I think I'm going to look into selling an organ or two and keeping this Well used liver anyone?
  9. As per the above, sale only thanks, too many basses, not enough cash
  10. And yes, love the busker and the audience
  11. Looks better than last time I saw him
  12. I love the BC 'Why so many......?" threads, because they identify what is usually a completely random chain of events event and turn it into a accepted phenomenon
  13. Hey mate, hope all's well, there was plenty of everything on tap, I'm not sure that graphite is any colder sounding than wood, just perhaps more able to zing at the top end a bit more.
  14. This is without doubt one of the nicest necks I've ever played
  15. So that’s the 50s and 70s boxes ticked, 60s, 80s and 90s anyone
  16. Strange sense of deja vu
  17. You’re gonna put a whole generation of statisticians out of business
  18. Not the way either the journalists or the government are representing it! All fair points mate, especially in relation to cancelled treatments, but that's the Catch 22 isn't it, if we get back to normal, there's the risk that the cancellation rate will become more serious. I guess going back to the O/P, I still won't be either gigging or drinking in pubs for the foreseeable either way
  19. Thanks for the reply mate. Re deaths, hope those figures are the way things stay. I think what’s confounding them however is that whilst deaths are lower than March, hospital admissions are higher, putting greater strain on the healthcare systems. The people being admitted are perhaps less vulnerable than in March and whilst NHS is apparently saving more of them from COVID, the knock-on effect on the treatment of other conditions is probably greater than March/April. This I think is why transmission has to be stamped on now. EDIT Just noticed the admissions line on the above appears to disagree with the data I saw earlier, which I guess says it all about the data that's out there at present. Not easy to know whose data to trust?
  20. Looks like Terry Jones with a 'tache
  21. That's the thing, I have (by the standards of other people, and I had one of your ex's for quite a while also), I guess that I don't get blown away the same way others do. Perhaps it's a case that for me the majority of them doing the job so well that there is limited headroom in which any greatness can operate?
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