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[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1347037823' post='1796357'] Are Lakland skylines cheap at £1250? [/quote] For f***s sake, it wasn't me who mentioned Laklands! Are you stupid? When I said cheap, or whatever word you personally deem suitable, I was talking about the budget instruments the OP originally mentioned. Is that easy enough for you to understand?

[quote name='Shonks' timestamp='1347015236' post='1795983'] An unplayed bass kept for investment is sacrilegious. [/quote] The large majority of the really rare vintage guitars & basses that are sold aren't bought my musicians, they're bought by rich professionals as investments. A lot of them probably never get played.

I found I started to make more progress when I began to think of my Stick as an instrument in its own right rather than a "bass or guitar with more strings". The hardest part is trying to "unthink" your years of playing bass or guitar as the technique & feel involved with a tapping instrument is very different. The learning curve is pretty steep but I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun. I'm hoping to have another Stick in my possession within the next six weeks or so - can't wait!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1347015250' post='1795984'] though so is Lakland, Squier and Fender built in Cort factories so Cort doesn't necessarily mean cheap [/quote] By "Cheap" I meant "Inexpensive", not "crap quality" * [color=#000000]* PLEASE NOTE I AM NOT REFERRING TO ANY OF THE BASSES THAT LukeRFC HAS MENTIONED IN THE ABOVE QUOTED POST, JUST THE ONES REFERRED TO BY THE OP. [/color]

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1347003078' post='1795771'] I also didn't say the bass wasn't any good. [/quote] The title of your thread is "MY CRAP BASS" - if that's not saying your bass isn't any good then I'd like to know what is. There are lots of people on here genuinely trying to help you out & I've got to say that your attitude towards them stinks. I've given you the benefit of the doubt until now but I honestly think you're just trolling. Please don't bother posting another one of your "I'm terribly hurt & nobody understands me" responses to this - I've read enough of them already.

[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1346955719' post='1795362'] Your away on business and your evenings entertainment local to your hotel is .. A. A bar with a neon sign outside saying "girls" B. A bar with a sign saying Neo nazi night C. A bar with "tribute bands night" advertised Which option do you take, not wanting to degrade yourself? [/quote] Surely Neo Nazis are nothing more than a tribute act?

[quote name='Chambo' timestamp='1347012634' post='1795924'] Just looking at the Tanglewood Canyons that are under £150, and it occurred to me that these look just like the Hudson brand and some Corts too. Are they just the same thing? [/quote] Basically yes. The Tanglewood & Hudson stuff are definitely related (Tanglewood were a brand owned by the guy that owns Cranes in Cardiff & so are Hudson) & I think they (and many other cheap import lines) are built in the Cort factory

Apart from old Fenders & the odd exception like Wal I think you stand to lose a fair bit of money on anything you buy new. There's so much good secondhand gear around these days that I'd never buy new again anyway.

I once turned my old 70s Rick 4001 from plain black to black & white stripes, but I did it with a low tack self adhesive tape so the process was completely reversible (Don't have any photo's unfortunately). Personally I'd think twice about doing anything that would require a lot of work and/or expense to change if & when you got bored with it or decided to sell the bass.

If that finish was on a 70's precision or Jazz many of you would be creaming your pants over it.

Yamaha Sinsonido?

Where the f*** do you keep finding them?

Paul Lairat? http://www.lairat.com/

We heard you the first time.

[quote name='shizznit' timestamp='1346934233' post='1794971'] ...it would be blown on this! [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Skjold_SS_Whale_5.html"]http://www.bassdirec...SS_Whale_5.html[/url] Oh my! [/quote] You might want to consider spending some of that £2799 on an eye test.....

Johnny Sinclair & Brad Barker - The Pursuit of Happiness. (Sinclair played on the first two albums, Barker on the third, fourth & fifth albums)

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1346954958' post='1795346'] Lowering the pickup won't address the volume imbalance as all the strings will be equally farther from the pickup. [/quote] You only lower it on the E string side, not both sides.

+1 for the Allen+Heath Zed range.

They do Hiscox cases with "Cuntz" embossed on the top - I've GOT to get me one of those!

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1346865534' post='1794240'] How about originals in wigs? [/quote] What, like Dokken (or any number of old rockers with suspiciously black & voluminous hair)? When Dokken brought out their "Hell to Pay" album in 2004 it quickly got rechristened "Hell Toupée"

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1346864032' post='1794210'] I wonder what the 'Dagenham Girl Pipers + One Bloke' come under ? [url="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/109/34981977107b27cbeb6a.jpg/"][/url] Garry [/quote] Which one's the bloke?

These were/are really good little amps, from a simpler bygone era when people didn't think it was impossible to play a little pub gig without a minimum of 500 watts blasting away behind them........

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1346850767' post='1794018'] I'm kinda doing the opposite. I have two guitars that hardly get played- so one, and maybe both of them are going to go. Maybe in the future I may regret it but we shall see - I can't see the point in holding onto gear that's flipping awesome- but not played. [/quote] This is exactly what I'm doing. I'm flogging (well, trying to at any rate) a couple of really lovely bits of kit that I never use in order to replace the one instrument I've ever really regretted selling - my Chapman Stick.

[quote name='Zenitram' timestamp='1346849346' post='1793990'] Out of curiosity, what else would a luthier do for intonation other than what you have described above? Or do you mean they'd do it in a more expert way, taking saddle height and the truss rod and all the rest into account at the same time? [/quote] A luthier wouldn't do any more for intonation than you or I would, unless something was seriously amiss & the bridge had to be moved. What a luthier could do that many people wouldn't attempt are things in the overall set up process such as fret dressing.

[quote name='wishface' timestamp='1346846560' post='1793926'] Is it easy to adjust intonation? Maybe it's something I can try myself. [/quote] It's pretty easy to do, more time consuming than anything else. It's also best to do it with a new set of strings.