Waddo Soqable

Yes taking paint off is one option, initially tho I'll get the gluey bits off the edge and just tidy it up, and play it for a while before deciding what to do about the neck.. Essentially it's cosmetic, ...always amazes me how people can manage to ding the backs of necks like they do...

As a MM Sub update, I spoke to him on the phone ( using the cunning trick of a different mobile no! ). and as I thought, a one to one conversation was a lot more productive, we had a fairly friendly chat and he seems a nice enough bloke on the phone at least....the upshot being he reckons he'll refund me £50 ..which as I mentioned earlier was an offer I'd have been happy with in the first place, so a reasonable-ish result.. Pity it all occurred in the first place but, hey ho I've been liking the bass when noodling about with it, I'll need to do a bit of setting up etc, and will give back of the neck a buff with t-cut which should improve it I'd think. Hopefully he'll do my refund promptly without having to be continually nagged..!

Get some Servisol spray and have a go at the pots !.. There's youtube tutorials about this if you're not sure.. I have an old Peavey amp that needs exactly this treatment. Opinions wil no doubt differ but this would be my first port of call.

As long as he doesn't claim to "have lots of mojo" I'll let him off..

I wouldn't eat either tbh, especially the latter as guitarists put their fingers in it....

I've made simple versions of that kind of thing from a bit of flat metal bar bent over 90° in a vice

Nooooo.... 😱

"Mojo" should be banned, it's the sawn off shotgun of naff guitar selling gobbledygook.. means precisely nothing but implies ( to me) damaged, fkd, or knackered ...

Cars being referred to "she" has always really irritated me...

Why not.. ? Maybe he'd rather not bother with other people's cr@p !.. best of luck to him 👍

^ that's also a really lovely tune and vid too..👍

Just out of casual interest btw I enquired of a fairly pukka sounding guitar re painting firm, as to how much to refinish a bass neck in black "paint"... To strip it first £90... Then to paint it an additional £230... 😱

Kind of know what you mean but couldn't put a name ! Great tune tho, and cool vid. 👍

Not heard that one before, it's a cracker though !

My mum used it in a jokey way without any malice, in fact a gay mate of mine thought it most amusing !

Well he's admitted in email to me that " it was misleading" his own words, ( claiming it an error!)...i don't think there could be any doubt it's "not as described" ! I will give him a bell to tomorrow from a different mobile number, see if he answers that, I'd think it could be sorted one way or another with a one to one chat, rather than email. As mentioned before I'm not averse to keeping it, in fact I'd prefer to, but think he should offer some recompense.

"Woofters" was a favourite phrase of my old mum... indeed in the 70s..

Ask him if he's a " Woofter"...

Nothing back in response to my last email to Bass Direct, silence!.. I tried to phone him this afternoon, to discuss in person, rang for a fair time then went to voicemail, he knows my number from when I called before so possibly he thought "nah.." and didn't fancy the conversation ! So as it stands, If i want to keep it, I just do nowt and leave it there ( he's clearly never going to offer any recompense)..... or if I want to return it I'd have to plug away to try and get a response... Or start a PayPal dispute. Pretty unsatisfactory all round....

A mate whos always mocking my liking for reggae ( only in a messing about way tho !) sent me this .. ! Haven't actually heard this since the 70s

👍... And a long time since i remember hearing a Guiro ! guy I was in a band with many years ago had loads of different unusual percussion.

Thanks for the intel ! I guess as you say it's all fashion really.. Have to say flatwounds have never appealed to me either

You'd probably be the man to know, what was the score with the passive elec ones? Was it the same Pups just with no pre amp?, I presume they sound like a rather bland version of the usual thing ??

Funnily enough the listing on "my" one is still live if you click it, he still hasn't marked it Sold. maybe he's expecting it to be thrown back a few times!

Tbh i might be better off giving the guy a bell tomorrow and actually speak to him, it's easier to fob people off in email !