Rich

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='274383' date='Sep 1 2008, 12:17 PM']Silverfoxnik - what have you started here. It's like a [b]runaway[/b] steamroller. [/quote]Surely, given the speed (or otherwise) of yer average steamroller, it's more of a 'walkaway'...

Sorry, I just had to edit the topic title... it would have bugged the hell out of me otherwise...

[quote name='BassManKev' post='274311' date='Sep 1 2008, 10:49 AM']1x15 cabs/combos when used on their own, meh[/quote][quote name='alexclaber' post='274353' date='Sep 1 2008, 11:54 AM']You need to hear a good 15" cab.[/quote]+1. All I need now is for someone to have a pop at Status, Focusrite and Crown and I'll have the full set too! C'mon Kev (or Josh), you know you want to.

[quote name='bassman100' post='267223' date='Aug 21 2008, 05:33 PM']We would like to invite everyone who has posted a comment here to a real conversation regarding the issues they have raised. Our opening hours are 10am - 7pm monday to saturday and 11am - 5pm on sunday. We will be happy to dicuss these matters with you all and explain in detail the reasoning behind each of our policies. We are sorry to see a small proportion of our 200,000 plus customers each year feel they have received bad customer service, we welcome all feedback both negative and positive. Yours sincerely, The Bass Cellar.[/quote]Nearly two weeks on and the silence has become deafening. No follow-up at all. I suspect they reckon that if only 2 or 3 out of their 200,000 customers (590+ a day, yeah right) actually come into the shop to bitch, it means that only 2 or 3 people are actually dissatisfied. Unfortunately I am not remotely surprised. Saddened, but not surprised.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='274091' date='Aug 31 2008, 10:31 PM']I still have a few things left that haven't been insulted I am enjoying it too.[/quote]Well my 'coffee-table bass' Shuke has received quite a few direct hits so far... you can borrow a couple of those broadsides if it'll give you a complete set? [quote name='Josh' post='274173' date='Sep 1 2008, 12:20 AM']Long walks on the beach in the early hours, a nice relaxed bubble bath with roses and chocolates scattered about the place, and a good romantic novel whilst sipping a tall thin glass of Shampaggin . Ironically, your Shuker is actually THEE only Shuker I've been in impressed by, fancy a trip to Bridgy prove me wrong about Wal's and Shuker's mayyte??[/quote]Cool idea, although I'm not overkeen on champers and the chocs are very fattening.

Good god Josh, is there anything you [i]do[/i] like..? [quote name='waynepunkdude' post='274068' date='Aug 31 2008, 09:55 PM']No they is horrid init[/quote]Rrrrrrright... and again in English please..?

Absolutely stunning

I had a bash on P-T-P's white DJ5... it looks the business and sounds even better. An absolute belter, I mean really [i]really [/i]good. The only better-sounding Jazzalike I've played is CK's Celinder, and there wasn't much in it. Suffice it to say, that DJ5 is one of the few basses I have GAS for.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='273617' date='Aug 31 2008, 11:45 AM']Here's my top 3: 1. Sei Jazz 5; too many of these being sold here lately, guess they look great but are too clean and polite sounding unless you play in a jazz-fusion trio? 2. Ashdown amps & cabs; wooly sound, pointless retro design, not easy to get a decent sound out of and definitely a case of 'style over substance'. 4. Bartolini pick-ups; bland, polite & sterile. Definitely massively over-used and over-rated! Nothing too serious remember - just a bit of silly Sunday fun. Nik[/quote]I'm with you on 2 and 3... never tried an Ashdown I liked, and believe me I have tried [i]really[/i] hard to like them. And there were Barto pups in the, ahem, Sei that I used to own (a Flamboyant, not a Jazz)... if I'd kept the bass, I'd have changed them very quickly for something else. Anything else. They were ugh. Can't agree with you on 1 though Nik. Seis are utterly gorgeous, mind you I like a 'clean & polite' tone and I love fusion so that might explain it... For my third choice, I'm with our 6string colleague above... Stingrays. Well not so much the bass itself, they're quite nice, but that price tag... how ludicrous??

Ped, you could always 'pop a hat in his bottom', as I believe those chaps 27 Pence or Scoopy Dogdog would say.

Oh god, the Wood Store... it's like a gateway into another world, only a much nicer one

Well it's great news anyway. It would have been truly tragic if this once-world-beating name had gone for good.

Does he apologise for the truly appalling production on his last album?

+1 for the Boss

Cool! I wonder if I can get some original control knobs for my Pro IIE..?

I used to have a GP12SMX preamp and I've still got one of the dual comp pedals, can I join in too? I used to love that preamp. I sometimes wonder quite why I got rid of it actually.

The traffic reports on the radio, telling me that the M4 is still shut and that my journey to work is therefore nightmare-ridden. Time to "work at home" I think.

Good tone and nice use of FX too.

[quote name='Steve_K' post='269904' date='Aug 25 2008, 11:38 PM']Rich, if [b]you are the original owner [/b][/quote] Not so, unfortunately.

Very pleasant. Loved the reply that said "[i]this guys good but without les [claypool] this guy wouldnt be anything[/i]"... yeah that's right, slap and chords and high register stuff were invented by Les weren't they? Twerp

Thanks for all the responses and advice guys... I think a luthier is deffo the best course. I would take it to Rob, but with him in Essex and me in Brizzle it's a rather long trip... but there are several more local guys I can approach. As for warranty, well the bass is an original S1 and well over 10 years old, so I reckon there's a slight chance it could be just out of warranty by now..! But it is interesting that mine is not the first to suffer.

Jesus christ... absolutely stunned. I remember WFG of old.

My S1 [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26247&pid=268870&st=0&#entry268870"]is not well[/url]

Picked my Status up for a bit of a play the other evening, and to my horror I noticed a hideous crack in the headstock! The photos will explain it better than I can, but it seems to start at the E string tuner hole, runs through the screw hole for the tuner across to the B tuner hole, through its screw hole and exits at the edge of the heastock. From what I can see, the crack only runs about 3/4 of the way through the thickness of the headstock, which is probably the only reason it hasn't snapped off completely yet. Needless to say this is alarming in the extreme and I need to fix it pronto. Not sure of the best way to go about it though... should I try to force some glue into the crack somehow? Or take a surgeon's approach and actually break the whole section off and then glue it back on again (not keen on this)? Or should I be sensible, and just give it to a luthier who knows what he's doing? [attachment=12599:DSC02781.JPG] [attachment=12600:DSC02782.JPG]