Yup. I've been sliced by the steel enclosures as well.Quality enclosures that can slice your fingers before a gig.
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Yup. I've been sliced by the steel enclosures as well.Quality enclosures that can slice your fingers before a gig.
Yup. I've been sliced by the steel enclosures as well.
Oh, I've bled for my art:We should all feel lucky to bleed for our art.
Oh, I've bled for my art:
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This is what happens when you spend a season doing archaeology in a remote region and have a gig with your band the day after you return. No calluses.
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Cutting yourself on that 3Leaf edge is part of the brand.
That’s a Tort liability! Sue!!!!Yup. I've been sliced by the steel enclosures as well.
It actually sounds like they enjoy and encourage it.Bleeders in shambles!
It actually sounds like they enjoy and encourage it.
lol yeah, that's what happens when you play bass for hours after having spent months on a rugged Aegean island with no bass guitar access and a goat to people ratio of 33:1. (Human population is ~3,000... so 100,000 goats!)Dude… those are flats. What the …?
Would it be so hard to just chamfer the edges of the enclosures ??
That season I was on Samothraki, Greece. I do Greek and Roman stuff. Paleontology makes my material look downright modern!Where? My 10 year old is way into, somewhat related, paleontology. Sorry, off topic.
Doesn’t sound like the kind of place to fear losing one’s fingertip calluses.after having spent months on a rugged Aegean island

What can I say? Trowel and surveying calluses are different than bass guitar callusesDoesn’t sound like the kind of place to fear losing one’s fingertip calluses.
Unless, of course, you spent it on the beach.![]()
What can I say? Trowel and surveying calluses are different than bass guitar calluses![]()
What can I say? Trowel and surveying calluses are different than bass guitar calluses![]()
I'm tempted to take a metal file and de-edge those corners a little, but then they wouldn't be on-brand original.
5sg.