AndyTravis

Done

First run of the final colour is on.

The Yamaha pickguards only come in black. So you’d need a luthier

Look for a BB415OM and find someone who can sell you a BB425x/1025x pickguard 😉

@TRBboy lovely

Oh no - that’s the primer. It will look like this...

None in June although I’m meddling...

I’ve not sold a bass in a month. I know, I know. Pre-tty Im-pressive...

If I had one of them there amps I’d have a rummage around for you. I’m sure Lee or Mark could advise x

Can you not take that panel off and reach from there? Havent got a CTM300 handy, so I’m not sure what’s be in your way...

I’m sure @Ashdown Engineering could advise? if not ask @walshy as he has shares in the company these days 😉

Wilkinson’s have humongous base plates. And I wasn’t bowled over by them - certainly more Squier than Fender quality

By about 2013 we stopped selling Marshall for a while, the range got way too confused

They will have said “don’t advertise this item for less than £399” or whatever. The manner in which they enforce this is to magically become “out of stock” of items to dealers who go against this advice. There was also a period where certain big brands...ahem...said you weren’t allowed to advertise items online if you hadn’t recently bought stock. We’d regularly get calls “how much are you selling this for? Would you do a deal” - We had a flat response of “come in store and we’ll talk”. Which in itself made us look like bad clowns - but also meant we couldn’t be “caught out”. This would’ve been around 2012.

All used gear was once new 😉😂

Gak’s pricing was part of the reason the other retailers complained and unofficial MAP pricing was introduced. There won’t be many other retailers interested in helping them out of this hole.

Used to cost us about £800 a day to run our shop.

Just bought a pickguard from Mark. Arrived in a box big enough for an amp 😂 Absolutely made up with it. Cheers Andy

Ah Rosetti. Now that was a wild organisation. We bought Les Paul standards for about £1160 ex vat one week, £1045 another...we’d jump on low cost prices, and a week later “buy 5 (at £1160) get one free” - absolutely mental. So some places had paid £1160, some had paid £1045, some had paid £967. All for the same guitar. They’d also have back orders in for Rickenbacker stuff, 2 years or so. They’d send them to us “by accident” and say “ah keep it, we’ll knock you 10% off trade” so we’d end up with a random 4003 bass some poor bugger elsewhere had paid for 6 months previous and they remained in the queue. As a point - when Gibson took over their own distribution, all of this nonsense stopped. It was replaced by another brand of nonsense - £50k a month buy in.

No. Really wasn’t. Id say about 2012 was the beginning of the end for bricks and mortar guitar shops. I left in April 2014, I’d done 12 years. oh well. Would love to give a specialist shop a go. But, without a lottery win...no chance. Q: ”what’s the best way to make a small fortune in Musical Instrument retail?” A: “Start with a big one”.