Shhh, don't tell the missus, I've just pulled the trigger.

[Maude]

Well after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing I've made the decision and ordered a Gedo hybrid bass with adjustable bridge and strung with Innovation Rockabillys, I went fir an adjustable bridge as I'm not sure what height is 'my height' yet dependant on what tension strings I settle on. I ordered it with Rockabillys but I think I might like the Honeys, I'll get my name on the Innovation string thread after the new bass arrives.
The worst bit now, the wait!

[sarah thomas]

Congratulations! Where are you going to hide it?

[Maude]

I've got five or six days to work on that one :0)
Without meaning to sound rude, you're the person that put doubt in my head about not getting the Rockabillys and going for the Honeys, at least I think it was you that loved them, I spent most of last night crawling the Innovation section. Once I've used this bass for a while I'll put my name down for a trial of the Honeys.

[Maude]

Sorry, double post due to 'chubby thumbed muppet' syndrome.

Edited May 15, 2013 by Maude

[sarah thomas]

Yes, I loved the Honeys and have a set on my laminate bass. It's well worth signing up to a few different sets on Daf's trial so you can find out what strings suit you and your bass. But it's a right faff to keep changing them over. Sooner or later, you'll want another bass too. And a very big wardrobe to hide the extra bass ...

[thisnameistaken]

I think there's very little between honeys and spirocores in terms of sound and they feel pretty similar too, they are really great strings for the price.

If you decide you want a cheap set I've still got some somewhere that I'm not using. I've got a set of silver slaps that might be going soon too depending on how my laminate sounds once I've got the soundpost adjusted.

That bass sounds like a good choice by the way.

[Mr Bassman]

Tell the misses you're just looking after it for me, then when she want's it out of the way I'll come and collect it

[Owencf]

HAHA nice one, my wife did the same it came out along the lines of " You wanted to learn an instrument so you chose the biggest bloody one around" "ofcourse dear".

[stingrayPete1977]

Welcome to the Gedo club!

[alistair Sutcliffe]

Congratulations on the bass! My Gedo laminate's excellent for the money, your solid-top's going to be superb. Good luck hiding it! Maybe put a lampshade on top and stand it in a corner? That sort of thing always works in a panto

[bassace]

You'll probably have a better chance smuggling in a curvaceous eighteen-year-old but good luck anyway. Enjoy your bass. I've never owned a hybrid but somehow it seems a very good idea.

[timmo]

I usually just say "oh that thing, it is been there for months". Never tried it on anything that obvious though.

Edited May 16, 2013 by timmo

[Maude]

Thanks for all the suggestions on 'bass smuggling' :0)
Worst of all I've had to put her parents address down for delivery as we work in the day and I don't want it going back to the couriers. I have this weekend to sort it.
Every electric bass I buy is on the proviso that I sell a couple of the others to fund it, still got a rack full of basses though.
They're just getting bigger that's all,

[iiipopes]

Or that I earn enough money gigging with it to justify its existence.

[stingrayPete1977]

Wait until you see the shipping crate!

[thisnameistaken]

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Wait until you see the shipping crate!
[/quote]

Haha good point, I had to unpack my bass in the hallway I couldn't get it through the first doorway.

[alistair Sutcliffe]

Mine being delivered to work.

Those frames with the mail bags hanging from them are about waist height. They packed it with big blocks of polystyrene at each end so the box is HUGE!

[Owencf]

Whoa...i know a bass is big but i forgot how big it gets when you add packaging.

[thisnameistaken]

Yeah the box was quite a bit bigger than me, probably 7ft.

[Maude]

Holy moly that's a big box, at least it's well packed.
The boss knows about the new bass now, it's amazing you get a such a nice bass for £350 eh ;0)

[thisnameistaken]

Hmm!

[alistair Sutcliffe]

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1368743008' post='2081114']
Holy moly that's a big box, at least it's well packed.
The boss knows about the new bass now, it's amazing you get a such a nice bass for £350 eh ;0)
[/quote]

If she finds out and kicks you out, at least you'll have a big box to sleep in

[Maude]

I didn't actually say it was that cheap, I just showed her the really cheap ones you can get and said it looks like that, she just assumed I'd bought that one, and we all know you must never correct your wife :0)
So now that's sorted it's just a waiting game for the bass, I keep looking at pictures of it in anticipation. We've got a gig booked with the acoustic band in three weeks so I'm hoping I'll be used to it by then so I don't have to use the EUB.

[stingrayPete1977]

Mine was also on a wooden pallet with metal straps over the box!

Next question then, sticky dots or in at the deep end?

[thisnameistaken]

Sticky dots? Basses are too pretty to put sticky dots on.