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Bought some Labella strings from John. Excellent communication and rapid postage. A smooth transaction, deal with confidence.

Reminded me of many hours listening to Bob Newhart when I worked in a lab (we also played indoor cricket in said lab, but that is another story).

Just started using ACS off the shelf plugs as has my drummer. Comfortable over 3hr rehearsals. Seem pretty good to me. An additional benefit is the drums and my bass sound much 'tighter' less 'washy' sound. Both drummer and myself think the plugs have improved our playing. Vocals can be a bit indistinct and I find I need to remove one plug for normal talk, not used to the volume reduction.

An excellent BCer to deal with. Really good communication and rapid postage on a trade we did. First rate, deal with confidence.

The slot is another good idea. I forgot to mention that Stewmac have a tool for this situation. Replacement bullet truss nuts can be found on the well known internet auction site, plenty of choice on size and thread type (probably metric on a recent bass).

Is the truss rod a biflex or single action. If it is single action you may get lucky with a flat head screwdriver that fits across the hex socket. This might involve filing the screwdriver tip to fit. A similar approach may work with the next size up allen key (choose metric or imperial that is closest). The key is to remove the adjuster bullet and replace. If the truss rod is biflex you are probably out of luck for diy fixing. 7string has good advice in this thread [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/71224-truss-rod-problem/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/71224-truss-rod-problem/[/url]

Bought a pickup from Paul. Excellent communication and superfast posting and delivery. Top chap to deal with. Many thanks.

Bought an EB2 style bass from Graham. Excellent communication and really helpful with getting the deed done. A true gentleman[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] to deal with. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Deal with confidence. Many thanks.[/font][/color]

Greg, the reason for selling at the time was a mandolin. Glad that you are enjoying having it back. Now if I can only find the 58 EB2 I p/xd for a precision in 1977........

Returned an old friend back to Shaggy and gained a new friend (bass) in return. Excellent communication and meet up. A great chap to deal with.

Seriously good start. Makes me want to get started on my build again, however rather more pressing matters have appeared

Looking good. There is great satisfaction in recycling unlikely bits of wood into an instrument.

Kramer DMZ4401 aluminium neck bass, TI flats. Hard to explain but the notes almost play themselves off the frets. They 'resonate' with energy, liveliness and a 'rubbery' feel. I have no other bass that does this, even with same TI flats on. The bass just says 'play me and I will make you sound good'.

[quote name='Passinwind' timestamp='1488991489' post='3253564'] Absolutely, it's all about tradeoffs as always. At this point I have less than zero interest in any bass cab that only uses a single driver though, personally. Many people do prefer that format, of course. [/quote] Having the luxury of both types of cab I find it depends on the bass I am using. Both cabs are 3015LF based in the low department.

Marshall are very good at dating and knowing what you have - I gained a very early PA head (free) and they were most helpful, they will also service / fix.

[quote name='mep' timestamp='1488743171' post='3251480'] Bummer. If it was in the cone you could fix it but I'm not sure how easy it is to fix where you have holed it. Good luck [/quote] +1 to the above. Since it is a puncture wound the original surround and suspension fabric / paper will still be attached. I would push it back into place and reform the shape of the surround as best you can. Apply copydex to each side in turn allowing each side to set. You might want to cut a small piece of tissue paper to fit, fold into shape to replicate the folds and copydex it onto the back) A serious case of Sod's law, if only the hole was in the main cone..... I have suggested copydex rather than wood glue due to the flexibility. You have nothing to lose now by attempting a repair.

Someone will get lucky Highly underrated basses.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1488659301' post='3250919'] Surely if an upright bass requires a huge sound board to project and produce a good tone, then it's no wonder that the common choice of a cheap, laminate wood acoustic bass guitar with a (comparatively) tiny body/sound board is going to lack projection and a source for decent tone. I'm yet to play an acoustic bass guitar that A. sounds good unplugged, B. feels nice to play or C. didn't need amplifying to be useful. [/quote] I have managed B, however even an upright needs amplification in many situations so what chance the relatively small body of acoustic basses.

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1488657967' post='3250903'] A double bass would be so much better on every level. [/quote] And so much bigger, size matters