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[quote name='Lo.' post='1279162' date='Jun 22 2011, 10:34 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dRWnJIzgc4&lc=SlXxewHdwmJvwm0-qacFnmZkmaLGNWJQ0x2OJOXjmKY&feature=inbox"]Cheetah ABG[/url] I recommendz 'em. I'd ask them for an endorsement but it would cost me more in phone calls than buying another. £50, new. A pain in the ass to tape the neck up to finish the frets, but worth it. The preamp is (obviously) cheap, so I smooth it out with the Phil Jones Bass Buddy preamp and happy days ensue. Hope it doesn't fall apart when I put heavier gauge flats on it - the fender tapewounds are OK but the rotosound tapewounds or normal flats would be better for me I guess.[/quote] So you had to finish the frets, use a £240 box of tricks to get a decent sound out of it and you hope it doesn't fall apart. Not trying to have a go but that doesn't sound very good

[quote name='lanark' post='1277946' date='Jun 21 2011, 11:42 PM']I thought it was Bill Wyman.[/quote] The seventh Beatle? Now that would be a story Actually Y-fronts are named after Bill Wyman.

William Shears Campbell is the seventh Beatle

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1277587' date='Jun 21 2011, 07:48 PM']yes ...and I invented shoes[/quote] really? I invented the banana Interesting story actually.

So what does a choke actually do? In the old days it was used until the engine heated up enough for it to be put back in

The E of the serial number looks a bit wonky compared to the other numbers but then it is a Fender so its entirely possible The guy said that he had the board laquered And dates to 1988-90 according to [url="http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html"]this[/url]

I've never tried the precision one but I think Wilkinson pickups are very good. I had one in my thunderbird and there's one in the Vintage Stingray copy I'm selling

Thankfully there are less and less bad basses being made these days compared to the olden days. I would recommend [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=142028"]this[/url] obviously cos its mine and I'm selling it or an Epiphone, although the shapes aren't for everyone

The cover will fit over a Gotoh 201. I've put both the closed back precision one and the older open backed ones over those bridges

I only ever go before each set - the trick is to be absolutely bladdered the night before. I've had most of the best gigs of my life the night after a heavy session and no need to go for a pee. Funny that. I always play well but the gig after a heavy session is always a good one, albeit a sweaty one.

[url="http://www.jauqoiii-x.com/"]Prat [/url] Make sense now?

[quote name='ficelles' post='1272566' date='Jun 17 2011, 11:32 AM']Someone once sent me a guitar by Standard Parcels just in bubble wrap in a gig bag. Not only wasn't it protected properly, but because it wasn't in a double-walled cardboard box the insurance was invalid. Luckily there was only minor damage. What would you ship a Hiwatt head in, wrapping paper? If you don't ship in a proper box you aren't insured, and if you sell to someone on fleabay or similar and damage occurs in transit it's [b]you[/b] that's liable. Personally I'd prefer to pay for a proper shipping carton. Thanks for the pointer to the tight-fisted one Incidentally I used to be able to get boxes for free from my local store but since the whole mail order thing took off they aren't chucking them away... ficelles[/quote] I received a 1979 Rickenbacker 4000 a couple of years ago in a gig bag with a burst zip which was only held together with some brown tape. No bubble wrap, no box, no effort. Amazingly it arrived by Parcel Farce entirely unscathed. I've sent a sh*t load of stuff and personally the most important part of the packaging is how you wrap the bass itself. I buy myself 50 or 100m rolls of bubblewrap as and when required to wrap the bass thoroughly, simply because I'm always buying and selling stuff. The size or shape of the box is unimportant. Its nice to have one the right size but the last bass I posted was in a box that I cobbled together from 2 boxes. And no courier will insure a guitar that's not in a hard case so you're boned regardless of whether you pay the extra or not.

After several months of loving flats I'm going to be doing some corporate work with a 60s band so fancy having a go with tapewound strings trouble is that they all seem to be huge gauge requiring the nut to be filed to accomodate the strings and floppy. Does a (more-or-less) regular thickness, non-floppy tapewound string exist? I know how they make them so the answer will probably be no but its worth a try.

I just look for a really good picture of a bass with them installed so that i know where to locate them. Put some masking tape where I will be drilling the holes and then mark the points with black marker and then drill