Shambo

Allow me to pose a question only for arguments sake. So, you have a wooden guitar body that is heavy. Let’s say a 70’s Fender alder body that wasn't seasoned for long enough before it was wrapped in poly. If you were to strip the body back to the bare wood and place it in a ‘drying chamber’ then wouldn’t the seasoning process resume as the wood slowly loses moisture content and therefore weight? Let’s just ignore shrinkage and glued pieces and anything like that. Could you restart the seasoning process on an old piece of wood? It’s something I’ve wondered about occasionally.

What the hell have I been doing with my life?

I'd be happy if we could just have some new Fender Pro II colours. I'm not doing that Mod Shop if I don't know the weight. They might send me a boat anchor!

All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks actually, it could have been You Really Got Me... sometime in the late 80's.

Gareth sold me some used wall hangers in a swift and painless transaction. Many thanks Gareth.

I used to own a set of Wizard 84's and I thought they were dark sounding.

A lightweight Fender Pro II Jazz in black, with 70's style rosewood, blocks and binding... and extra points for S1 switch. Doesn't seem like a wild ask to me but we're in custom shop territory and it wouldn't be my dream bass if it costs that much.

Having been stalking the For Sale section for a year or so looking for the right Jazz, I feel that only recently there's been an uptick in the amount of J basses for sale, but never any shortage of P basses. IMO.

The £820 I paid for a Pro Precision a few years ago wasn't massively underpriced but it was a good price for the time. Its value for me was massively enhanced though when it turned out that it was a total player; light, resonant, perfect fit & finish and already sporting a few pre-loved blemishes. So good in fact, that I culled the herd in the knowledge that I'd be hard pressed to find another bass I enjoyed playing more. In a roundabout way, it's saved me a fortune. (I still can't help but occasionally pine for a Jazz to go with it)

Ooh la la !

Perhaps this is the sort of thing I'd have liked... if I had the readies. Not too big and attractive enough to grace most rooms. Is it ultimate enough though?

I like both of them, I've been eying the CTM drophead in the classifieds...but they might just be a touch overkill for a living/bed room noodle-along... for me.

'scuse my ignorance, but what is a 'Basschat Micro Bass Cab'?

Dude. That is an impressive pedalboard. No good for my bedroom though... I'd fall over it when I woke up in the night for a piss.

What do you plug your bass into?

Small, vintage'ish looking, wood stain, doubles as a side table... who could object. Love it.

I was wondering what the good peoples of Basschat's ultimate bedroom practice rig would be? Well not bedroom exactly, as bonus points would be given for looking good on display in the living room, but in the sense that it's never expected (or loud enough) to be gigged and doesn't take up too much space. 4x12" need not apply. Personally, I'd be noodling along on a precision with flats to anything that takes my fancy, so perhaps something like an Ampeg PF-20T and a tall skinny unknown type of cab for me. What about you?

That reminds me of possibly the worst service I ever got. I booked a full service & MOT at my local Kwik-Fit. Three months in advance to coincide with a week off I'd booked to do some life laundry. At 10am I parked my Fiesta out front and went in to reception to ask for said service & MOT and the chap behind the counter immediately proclaimed that "we don't do servicing here 'cause we don't have a servicing engineer". OK I thought, that's a bit crap. You took my money and you had plenty of time to warn me. Perhaps they quit recently? I don't know, but I'll still needed an MOT regardless. "Yeah, the thing is, the MOT tester hasn't turned up yet either. You can leave your car and see if they turn up in a bit. I'll give you a ring if they don't". Reluctantly I agreed, left my keys and went to hop on a bus. Half an hour later on said bus, they called to tell me the MOT tester had rang in sick, so I should fetch my car. I got on the next bus back and went back into reception. Chap behind the counter booked another MOT for 10am two days later. I pulled up two days later and the whole building was still locked up. I approached the car out front and inside were two young lads in kwik-fit shirts smoking a joint and giggling. "Yeah mate. The fella with the keys hasn't turned up again" I drove home defeated and rang Kwik-Fit customer services to tell them my whole sorry story. Thing is, they immediately apologised profusely, booked me in for the service and MOT at another Kwik Fit on the other side of the city and gave me a partial refund. The other place did a great job and turned it round in two days (my car failed and needed two new rear suspension springs which they fitted free of charge). That's when I learned that all Kwik-Fit's are not created equally. Some are good and some are beyond bad. They don't make my sh*t list created from my own hubris, but they're on a different list of companies that I can't trust.

Not musically related either but Tesco and Sainsburys. Two-tier pricing? Pay more if I don't sign up to Clubcard/Nectar? No thanks. I'll buy my groceries somewhere else. In fact, I won't sign up for anything with a reward app. Get your tenth coffee free? A free sausage roll? Nah, I'll pass. Also Currys. About twenty years ago I went into a Dixons store to buy a laptop. They asked me at the counter for my name and address. When I declined they insisted I must provide my address, so I told them I'll just spend my money elsewhere... which changed their minds and they sold me the laptop, without extended warranty and me giving them my personal details. The next week I started receiving junk email, special offers and extended warranty offers, addressed to me, from Dixons/Currys/Carphone Warehouse group... they had to have taken my personal details from the debit card I used to buy the laptop and updated their marketing lists regardless. So now, I won't ever buy from them again.

I want the modern updated look alike of my first decent bass, a heavyweight 1975 Jazz bass. A Fender Pro II Jazz in black with a rosewood board, blocks and binding, weighing around 8 1/2 lb.... but I can't pay custom shop money.