rwillett

Fortunately you can always squeeze another double bass in a Hilbert Hotel without evicting any children even if the hotel is full. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel The solution here is to move into the Hilbert Hotel and you never have to worry about storage space again, so you can have an infinite number of basses, even double basses. You give me problems, I give you (philosophical) solutions. I remember doing this years ago when I was heavy into maths and I might have ingested too much of something before reading and it made perfect sense at the time. I've just looked at it again and it doesn't make quite as much sense now. Rob

Didn't know that, thats a big difference and enough to buy a decent Fender Player. Anyway, I'm not going to pay circa £10K for it. Somebody is taking a punt but good luck to them. Rob

Currently at £5,200 +30.2% fees = £6,770 at 9:25 13/10/23 Outside my "take a punt" range

Dear God! What a fantastic collection

<off_topic on> There's more of us here than I thought. The bass in promenade music might well be the most trashed bass they have ever seen. Mild reliccing doesn't come close. It appears to have been used as either shovel or a pick axe on a building site. However it is an ultra short scale and it actiually makes a nice growl, so seeing if they can make it a bit better and sort the neck out. <off_topic off> Anyway, back to the thread. Rob

Whilst that may be accurate and true, your explanation is no fun at all.

Just spent a very pleasant and informative few hours with Andy who very kindly brought a number of guitars for me to try out as I was after a slim neck. An absolute gent and highly knowledgable about music and guitars. A delight to learn from him and to spend a very nice hour with a sandwich and a coffee. Thanks very much Rob

@ossyrocks Ah, I think I have met Gary at Promenade Music. I was gifted a Ibanez Mikro bass which looks like it came off a building site and was used as a shovel. He's looking at it to see if it can be rescued. It makes a good sound so I was keen to keep it. We go to Morecombe every 2-3 months. Its a nice place to walk the dog, even better when they are allowed back on the beaches. Its a 50 min odd drive for us, as we are near Settle, but I like it. I coach a girls team made up of North Ribbs, Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale, Garstang and Vale of Lune, which is on the Morecombe to Lancaster road. We go every 6th or 7th Sunday to do joint training there. I keep saying I'll go watch some bands but never get around to it Rob

Wow. What a great colour. Never thought I’d say that about a yellow guitar. I suspect it’s great if you want to hide in the background playing at a custard factory. love it.

Ah I’ve a bass guitar in Promenade Music in Morecombe. Thought I was the only person here.

Hands up those who had “please don’t tongue test a 9v battery” on their buzz word bingo today ….

I had a play on a 2003 4003 yesterday. What a great bass. Played like a dream, looked in great condition. Black, just looked classy. Thankfully I couldn't afford it, but it was very nice. I can see why people like them, Rob

Thanks for the information. Seems like there is a wide variety of necks on the various Teles.

Every time I see a Rickenbacker , I always think of Lemmy. Fabulous looking bass. Very envious.

Let me have a look and think

Somewhat surprisingly there are metal coloured filaments for 3d printing. Never looked for them before. eSUN Silk Metal PLA Filament 1.75mm, Silky Metallic 3D Printer Filament PLA, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05mm, 1KG Spool (2.2 LBS) 3D Printing Filament for 3D Printers, Silk Silver https://amzn.eu/d/1VDIFWd The design is easy. Need accurate measurements down to 0.5mm and the best guess for the curves in the corners. The filament is PLA which should be easy to print. Let me investigate a bit further. I suspect it will be a dull silver rather than chrome.

I can do a number of colours. Chrome might be difficult but let me check.

Too Far Gone/Metallica/Planet Rock. I never understand why Metallica are so big, but clearly what do I know Rob

Thank you, always good to learn something new.

It's a million to one chance.....

Thats a great way to handle FB, an even better way would be a bot to do everything for you. That bot responds to other bots and you do nothing at all. The only issue is of the bots suddenly become sentient and you've created SkyNet, but I'm fairly sure that won't happen.

Normally when people use two guitars for inspiration, they take the best bits of each guitar and meld them together. They appear to have done exactly the opposite here.... The bloke thinks it's a wonderful player, but that narrow wasted design jars the eye. Also was the three pin output socket common or even used then? Looks very odd to me, why would you do that because youd need expensive and unique cables. Oh well at £640, I'll never get to know the answers to this. Rob

Websites and press releases have a habit of catching up with you. I used to play in a pub rugby team called Old StreetOnions. The team was based around Old Street in London. I played with them as I worked at The Independent which was just down from Old St. The club is still there and far more professional now. We weren't very good to be honest. What we were very good at, was writing press releases to the Highbury and Islington Gazette. For those of you before social media, we used to have local newspapers. Rather quaint in hindsight. Anyway, I'd dutifully write up the game, double space it, double line it on Monday morning and send it to the Gazette and they'd print it verbatim. After a while, I got bored so I'd make stuff up, little white lies, I suspect its a bit like a drug addiction, I thought I could handle it and just make it a bit more interesting. Whatever I write the Gazette kept printing it verbatim. For them, this was 1/4 or 1/8 of a page free words, so they were happy. I was still bored so we started getting more and more outrageous in our 'little white lies'. We looked at lottery funding, we were going to try and get planning permission for our Stadium of Light on Hackney Marshes. We had warm weather training in Lanzarote during winter, one of the team caught maleria during winter training, the treasurer ran off with the funds for the stadium and the police were tracking him down. No lie too outrageous, the Gazette printed it all, every word. We finally came unstuck when we said the captain had made Tai Chi mandatory for all the forwards so they could connect to their inner self. The BBC picked up on this from the Gazette and splashed it across their national news at 08:00 as a "A team in London have taken up Tai Chi to get fit.... " to add some fun. It then took off, Sky picked up on it, all the rugby playing countries around the world picked up on it and we were being chased for interviews and pictures. We were all fat blokes playing rugby for fun. Nowadays we'd say it went viral. We finally came down to earth when the Telegraph really investigated us. We got a half page in national newspaper on a Saturday in the sports pages where they debunked everything but realised it was all done with a cheeky grin. I lost the copy of the article when we moved which was a great disappointment. So the moral of this story is, choose your social media experiment with care, we went global very quickly and just as quick came down to earth. However it was great and I wouldn;t have changed it for anything. Rob

@glassmoon PM me your address and I'll put it in the post. It'll be picked up tomorrow as the last post went some time ago. Rob

Clearly the shy introvert....