EssentialTension

[quote name='neepheid' post='1123152' date='Feb 10 2011, 08:27 PM']Simple solution - stop saying it! Just state your price, never mind explaining. If the price is right then it will sell.[/quote] I think I only said it when someone commented that I was selling too cheap.

[quote name='bythesea' post='1122983' date='Feb 10 2011, 06:26 PM']I think everything should drop by 10% each time it is sold - I'll wait until it comes around for about the 10th time and get it for about a third of the original price [/quote] Then you can sell it for another 10% less.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1122916' date='Feb 10 2011, 05:31 PM']Could it be you are looking at it from the wrong direction... some folks might say they want back what they paid for it, meaning they got it cheap and don't want to profit from it? Just a thought.[/quote] The one time I used the phrase that's exactly what I meant. It would be rare for the said phrase to mean 'I paid way over the odds for it and now I'm expecting to be recompensed for my foolishness'. If it ever did mean that then the item probably isn't going to sell. Let's have more 'I just want to get back what I paid for it'.

I've only done one trade on BC. It was quite a while ago but IIRC we both posted the basses on the same day but mine took longer to arrive than did his. It's fairly straightforward from feedback threads and from what you've seen before to know if a member here is definitely in good standing. If that's not clear at BC then there's always eBay feedback. But sometimes you have to take a risk.

Ha ha.

[quote name='icastle' post='1122201' date='Feb 10 2011, 12:46 AM']Sorry - I was having a bit of a 'matron moment' there. [/quote] 'Carry on, Matron.'

[quote name='chris_b' post='1122190' date='Feb 10 2011, 12:36 AM']Have you looked at Rick Turner basses? They occasionally come up on Talkbass for a lot less than a Rob Allen and they sound pretty good to me. [/quote] Hmmm .... thanks ... Ed Friedland makes everything sound good.

[quote name='icastle' post='1122195' date='Feb 10 2011, 12:41 AM']You might want to rephrase that. [/quote] Steady on!

Certainly does the trick. Lovely.

Pearl

[quote name='silddx' post='1122116' date='Feb 9 2011, 11:41 PM']... Acoustic hollowbody instruments are more prone to accentuating string and finger noise, it's common, some people like it, I don't mind it for certain things, it adds character ...[/quote] The accentuation of string noise on an electro-acoustic bass is made 'worse' if you have the bronze acoustic bass strings which are commonly fitted as stock. They tend to be louder than nickels or stainless or some kind of flatwounds. But, as silddx says, some people like that.

I think the 70s decals, when they had 'Made in USA' it was very small under 'Precision Bass'

[quote name='norvegicusbass' post='1122159' date='Feb 10 2011, 12:01 AM']Imagine the fights you would have over who uses the hands to play though[/quote] At least I'd get a go on his new Jazz bass.

[quote name='silddx' post='1122151' date='Feb 9 2011, 11:55 PM']We appear to be Siamese twins tonight mate [/quote] I think you'll find that the fashionable terminology is 'conjoined'.

[quote name='silddx' post='1122140' date='Feb 9 2011, 11:50 PM']Just before the fret, as close as you can without being on top of it.[/quote] Nigel, we seem to be following each other around tonight.

[quote name='norvegicusbass' post='1122136' date='Feb 9 2011, 11:49 PM']Ahh it seems from yours and ET's replies that I have been playing with a misunderstanding all these years no wonder my finger tips are hard as nails. I will apply a lighter touch and see if that works. BTW does that mean when you fret a string your finger is directly on top of the fret? I always thought it was placed between the frets[/quote] Not directly on the fret so that half the finger is overlapping past the fret - but directly applying pressure immediately behind the fret. So the leading edge of the finger will line up with the front edge of the fret.

Snap

Pearl

I don't know this bass at all but I don't think you should really be trying to make the string contact the fretboard. The string needs to contact the fret, cleanly and firmly but no need to press the string further down than that. In fact, if the frets are rather high you may put the note out of intonation by trying to press down to the fretboard. When you lift your finger from a note it is likely to make a sound if you're not muting it. There are many ways of muting using left hand and/or right hand and if you go to the [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=31"]Theory and Technique forum[/url] and then search (at the top right of the page) for muting you'll find lots of threads with suggestions about muting. And welcome to Basschat.