Isn't "hankering" a great word?

[Happy Jack]

Conveys the interest and the desire, but without making any real commitment.

I have a hankering to try DB (see Clarky's many threads for the source).
I have lots of electric basses (see the photo-link from my sig).
I have very little spare cash (see the letter from my bank).
Probably because I have lots of electric basses (see above).

I could look out for a cheapie DB to have a try on; [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_kontrabass_111.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_kontrabass_111.htm[/url] is always available, and there are similar DB's available in the UK.

Before I drift that way, an alternative would be to offer a swop. Anyone here with a decent (but not great - t'would be wasted on me) DB that they're looking to swop for an electric bass? Or two.

Light-hearted post, but serious suggestion. This is WLTM but not (yet) a proposal.

[Mykesbass]

I'll see your hanker and raise it with a ponder - Aria SWB EUB (the one with the piezo and magnetic p/up), missing the funny little piece that is supposed to support it against your body but never made much sense to me when I played it. I just can't get on with anything without a low B, but as I say, it's very much a ponder at the moment!

[Happy Jack]

Are you looking for one, offering to swop one, or merely pondering?

[Mykesbass]

Pondering offering one

[Happy Jack]

In that case, before you ponder too far, it really is a DB I want to try - the real thing.

[Mykesbass]

Fair enough - worth a ponder, but I think I'm with you, the real thing is out there on my ultimate wish list (somewhere just after a new house with room for it to go in)!

[waynepunkdude]

I rent mine £30 a month no minimum term

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1017389' date='Nov 9 2010, 12:22 PM']I rent mine £30 a month no minimum term[/quote]

That's not a bad thought, Wayne.

What sort of DB is it? (Thomann / Stentor / Anton Whatsit / Other).

How playable was it when it arrived?

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1017582' date='Nov 9 2010, 02:25 PM']That's not a bad thought, Wayne.

What sort of DB is it? (Thomann / Stentor / Anton Whatsit / Other).

How playable was it when it arrived?[/quote]


No idea on what type but it was fully set up when I picked it up and you get free servicing too.

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1017591' date='Nov 9 2010, 02:30 PM']No idea on what type but it was fully set up when I picked it up and you get free servicing too.[/quote]

You mean they put a grease-gun to your nipples?

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1017720' date='Nov 9 2010, 03:50 PM']You mean they put a grease-gun to your nipples?[/quote]


I wouldn't have it any other way.

[Clarky]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1017744' date='Nov 9 2010, 04:11 PM']I wouldn't have it any other way.[/quote]
Honestly! The DB forum is usually a bastion of decorum and probity and then along come Jack and WPD and suddenly its nipples and grease-guns. Pass me the smelling salts, Violet!