Mrbigstuff

If you’re practicing to improve it’s not always going to be fun. If it’s a tricky passage then playing it slowly and repeating while speeding up can be tedious. Learning theory and practicing scales up and down the neck isn’t always musical. Sight reading practice can be fun if you get a good tune but to be effective it should be something you wouldn’t listen to or from an exercise book. The point being, practice inherently won’t always be fun if you’re doing it right, but when you get it all together and your performances improve, it is worthwhile.

It got a bit nasty last time they were on here so can see why the OP is so hesitant to name.

These days you can probably put the pics in AI and it will be able to scour the internet and find potential matches

If the OP still wanted the bass and works completed, p*ssing off the “luthier” by making it public wouldn’t be a great start to working things out amicably.

Left hand of a piano is basically bass anyway 😉

Bin off Tenerife and buy a new bass to practice on with the money saved!

Or bills turn up that can’t otherwise be paid and the need is instant. Legal bills as one example that’s hit me hard in the past!

Love the finish

IIRC there was a pawn shop with two foderas a few years ago. Wonder if this is one of those?

I might be wrong but I thought Will at Bassbris had previously worked for bass direct. It’s a convenient mid-point in the country, I’ve stopped by on the way to elsewhere before.

Mostly because it’s involve a trip to Leicester! These victims have suffered enough already…

It’s well known to my browser history too 😅

Plenty of other fantastic basses out there for much less!

Proper investors have an abundance of cash but the everyday player with an interest is having to make adjustments to pay the bills. There seems to be more stock than ever but the crème de La crème still sell fast!