Downunderwonder

Not just handed a RH guitar upside down. It has the strings 'upside down' ie strung for lefty.

Who is rockin' Rudolf? Someone didn't just photoshop in a RH guitar for their lefty. They gave it to him strung up lefty. How considerate!

It's call Floating Thumb when your thumb sits aside the strings. Nothing wrong about it except yours isn't going too well. My own muting involves a lot of subconscious third finger action.

There is short and then there's uke bass short. Between the flyweight uke body and the low tension rubber strings you should try one if you haven't already.

Feedback was an issue for me so I made a sound hole cover. I don't get all the whining about the rubber strings. Different, but controllable ime. To stabilize tuning quicker you can pick up the string off the nut. The D string tends to stretch out and overflow the peg if you aren't keeping an eye on it. Some numpties have managed to break the tuner when the windings bound up on the body! Take off and restring with minimal windings. With the G string, it doesn't want to tension up and keeps slipping through. By winding first over the tail then continuing under you get some bite on the tail to get tension on.

I don't know BACS from a ham sandwich but the shipping side of things seems entirely remote from you. He is shipping his bass from you to himself in HK. His problem to deal with HK Customs.

I very much doubt there is any mechanism to get duty or tax out of a sender. All you need to worry about is getting paid and not having some dodgy PayPal or similar buyer guarantee scheme rip you.

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Plenty of timber for 2+2.

Parallel, wedge, or partial?

The ones that bug the poopie out of me loop back out of time on repeat.

A Z shelf or even a piece of string stops an amp from sliding off.

I prescribe roughage for that. Leave out broccoli and cabbage. Presume brussels sprouts already off the menu.

I guarantee I could stump you. I am pretty sure your sound isn't wet fart under a blanket. What is your sound?

A rug will damp cab vibrations just the same. The majority of floor excitation comes from the cab moving the air at low frequencies. Low frequencies travel through solid objects way better than high frequency. Hence boom boom boom downstairs. There was a joker on TB insistent that all the science is wrong. He even started selling little iso puck sets on string. Then he actually tested them properly.... he was big enough to come back and tell all.

I seem to be getting more and more compliments on tone just as I feel I have cracked my gear situation. Going straight into an amp is not the same at all.

Since when? I'd lol if it was since Swift's ditty.

Get an agreement that if the same thing happens the next time the tune is played they will drop it and no more will be said.

It's nothing to do with the musical composition. It's all about a few words being in a common order and ignoring the rest.

It's going to be a jury trial. I'd like to think any jury would love to send some hate down on the lawyers trying to cash in here, but I've been disappointed before with 'groove' 'infringement' decisions.

Fretless, and stay away from open strings. For better results periodically lift the string over the nut to equalise tension each side while bringing up to tune. I need to check but pretty sure no truss rod in my Kala.

Read the thread title. AI weapons. Not same thing as AI for military applications. As to autonomous fighting machines, don't want anyone getting them. NZ just kicked off an international treaty aiming to nip that particular arms race in the bud.

I see. Mum's Harp. Build a boat and row it there In my family there's a very old violin, much easier to deal with. Be thankful Mum didn't play a grand piano.

Send them a 'listen to me next time you want to throw something in' text while the memory is fresh. Don't forget the smiley.

Do you have a review process for that sort of thing? If not, you want to start one!