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# It won't work.
It just sits there, glowering at me. And I'm too scared to give it much of a tweak as I'm frightened of killing the entire thing and not being able to afford a new one for a while.
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:50, archived)
# lighter fluid
hendrix the fuck out of it
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:51, archived)
# Hahaha
I endorse the use of "hendrix" as a verb
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:53, archived)
# Are you going to buy me a new one?
If so my bass is a Rickenbacher.

Oh yes.
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:54, archived)
# argos do electric basses now, don't they?
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:12, archived)
# Do they?
They used to.

*cowers* I've played enough bad instruments in my time, please don't buy me another one...
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 11:20, archived)
# Seriously, take the strings off it for a while...
It sounds like the tension in the strings is severely outweighing the tension in the truss rod and causing it to bow badly.

Basses do sometimes do this, you're best off with an aluminium neck :)
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:52, archived)
# I have done!
Left them off for a week, made only the slightest difference.

I think it's just her, she's stubborn.
(, Mon 18 Jun 2007, 10:55, archived)