Beedster

I dated a '64 for a few years, she dumped me

Agreed

Thanks guys, and many thanks for several PMs also. Think I know where I’m going to go. Cheers Chris

Folks I think I'm going to hang onto the bass below and finish the body with some rather lovely oil I have here. First things first however, I need to get rid of the pen marks next to the battery cover, which were made with biro so pressed a little into the wood also. Can anyone suggest a method that doesn't involve removing any wood (would wood bleach work or would it make things worse)? Worst comes to the worst I will simply sand the whole back a little, but thought I'd ask here first. Cheers Chris

I'm lucky enough to have a pair of near perfect Warmoth Precision bass fretless necks, oiled neck with ebony boards, and they're both near enough identical in dimensions and the perfect profile and width for me to make me want to get one of them fretted (I had another neck from Warmoth that was the same on paper but felt quite different in the hand, so I don' t want to go down the road of ordering a new one only to find the same problem, and this neck really does fit me perfectly). So, I want to get this done by someone bloody good who I can trust not to cause any issue. My main problem is that I don't want to travel due to time constraints, so need to post the neck to whoever is going to do the work. Any recommendations based on previous experience? Also, what total should I be expecting? Cheers Chris

I'm not sure if it's a standard approach, but they've just fixed an amp FOC for me, great customer service

Just wanted to say that Ashdown have been outstanding with a beautiful Hayden guitar combo that has caused me a few problems (problems mostly of my own making I should add). We've had some challenges with couriers, guitarists who've used the wrong fuses etc, but Ashdown's comms and customer service are second to none; I love the 'why don't you pop in, have a cuppa, and we can take a look' approach (which I wish I'd done as it would have taken the courier out of the equation). Anyway, shout out to Guy and Dave for great comms and a really helpful attitude. And when I look at this thread I started, and then at my collection of Mesa and Ampeg gear, I have to wonder why I don't have more Ashdown bass gear

Exactly, feedback is a poor metric. The problem with +ve only feedback leading to a degree of trust is that you're not sure of the exact degree. There are probably sellers out there routinely having -ve feedback removed, and then there are people (as in your case), who are not even leaving it in the first place. So, theoretically a buyer might see 100% +ve when the truth could be half that. Would you buy a guitar with a 50:50 chance of it being as described, I wouldn't

I left a negative feedback on ebay a few months ago following a frankly shocking experience in which eBay had to intervene to get my money back from an entirely fraudulent seller, and the feedback was gone within 48 hours. These days, only an idiot lets a negative feedback stay, so eBay feedback is a con, a ruse to make you think that you can trust the system when you can't.

Played many Peavey combos and never owned one, played one Ashdown combo at our local rehearsal studio and would kill for it