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#11,042
Camaro69 said:
I must apologize.

I wandered into general population earlier, and caused issues again.
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Is it humorous fun? I do occasionally enjoy honking off the 7ender boys in their white hats :roflmao:
 
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#11,048
Larry V said:
So here's the bottom line on the Laguna Ocean, I'm fairly well convinced the guy is a scammer and he got over on me because I just don't want to be bothered with a return and even though there's a prominent scratch on the front of this "pristine" bass I've decided to settle for a partial refund. The scratches on the back are way worse than the one long scratch on the front and I accepted a 30% refund(already PayPal'ed) to put this to rest. He still claims that the scratches happened during shipment which is impossible but that's his story and he's sticking to it. This is only the second time I've ever been scammed in my 14 years on eBay so that's not too bad. The 30% off still puts this bass about $100 more than I'd have paid in person but I do like the way it plays and the bass isn't a total disaster.

So, does anyone know how to raise the scratches on a natural finish bass so they can be leveled? Youtube here I come!
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Damage during shipping isn't impossible if it went via UPS. Certain sorting facilities have been known to have employees who get their jollies by stealing or intentionally damaging items. Fontana in SCal is notoriously bad. Just sayin'
 
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#11,049
Camaro69 said:
I narrowly missed a chance to come out to Seattle for work. My company needed a few helpers out there for 2 weeks, I was going to come visit you
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There's a bunch of us out here. It must be the water. Bear Wizz beer - it's in the water. That's why it's yellow...

I hate it when the sense of humor leaks out.

And now with the bridge cover on. I mismeasured, so I had to curve it a little to fit on over the raised center part on the body properly. I need to curve it just a little more to relieve tension, but I like the way it sits curved, actually. That black pickup really looks out of place now. Gotta do something about it! On the other hand, the chrome pickups with trim rings look so good I might take the covers off when that all gets sorted out.

You can really see the pick scuffs on the upper bout in this picture, even though it's a grainy cell phone photo. This bass is a player through and through.

Never mind the 7ender behind the 'Bird. It's a Squier, it's a mongrel, and it's got six little strings, so I figure it's OK.;)
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#11,052
Gaolee said:
There's a bunch of us out here. It must be the water. Bear Wizz beer - it's in the water. That's why it's yellow...

I hate it when the sense of humor leaks out.

And now with the bridge cover on. I mismeasured, so I had to curve it a little to fit on over the raised center part on the body properly. I need to curve it just a little more to relieve tension, but I like the way it sits curved, actually. That black pickup really looks out of place now. Gotta do something about it! On the other hand, the chrome pickups with trim rings look so good I might take the covers off when that all gets sorted out.

You can really see the pick scuffs on the upper bout in this picture, even though it's a grainy cell phone photo. This bass is a player through and through.

Never mind the 7ender behind the 'Bird. It's a Squier, it's a mongrel, and it's got six little strings, so I figure it's OK.;)View attachment 742633
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The odd ball sense of humor in here is awesome.

Paint the word "Hershey" on the bridge pup and see who notices
 
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#11,056
George_Mirror said:
Guys I finaly got the pro iv in trans black tomorrow i going to post Some pics
All my straps have dunlop straplocks installed and my other bass too is there a problem with this straplocks and the tbird? OR I can install it (I ask cause is the first bass I had with the button in the rear body)
Thanks!
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I have Schallers on mine, so I can't see there should be any problem fitting Dunlops instead...
 
#11,057
Dial soap. It's a soapbar pickup. It kinda looks like a Hershey bar, too.

The Epi has Dunlops. The Gibson has Schallers. Both work just fine. You put the part that attaches the strap the revers of what you would do if you were using the straplocks on a 7ender, but other than that, it's exactly the same.
 
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#11,058
MCF said:
Damage during shipping isn't impossible if it went via UPS. Certain sorting facilities have been known to have employees who get their jollies by stealing or intentionally damaging items. Fontana in SCal is notoriously bad. Just sayin'
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That would really suck and I sure hope that's not what happened because then we both got screwed. Him out of some money he was due and me out of a "pristine" discontinued bass. I'm not sure if you've seen the pics of the damage but they don't look fresh at all especially the dents to the lower horn.

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