I'm gonna gitchya bassmonkeee!!!

[Steve Dude Barr]

Ok so, it's a Wednesday night at 11:30 pm and I finally got around to unpacking a trade-in that came in from Jason so I can shoot it in the morning and get it sold off. Mind you this is on an evening where I've discovered my bottle (jug) of Crown Royal empty with no backup in place so I had to settle for the good Captain instead....and we all know what that means....so I look at this huge box (easliy in the OS2 range) and think...hmm why such a big box for a short scale bass? So, I decided I better unpack it...been here like a week now.

I crack it open to find a huge box filled to the brim with a mixture of peanuts and paper shredder fodder. I stick my hand down into it and root around for this little bass down in there somewhere and find it and start to pull it up slowly as to keep as many peanuts and confetti in the box and not all over my floor right?

Uh uh...he's got the gig bag wrapped in the big bubble bubble wrap and the paper shredder fodder mixed with the peanuts is coming right up with the gig bag 1 for 1. No way that this puppy's gonna slide out without fully pulling out all this poop and getting it all over the floor for later cleanup.

I go pour a fresh Captain and ponder the situation and consider my options.

Mind you that these are not the pink non-static peanuts or the edible corn starch ones either. These are the dreaded white "s" shaped peanuts and it's dry as a bone out here in the desert and I'm getting zapped at every turn out here right now anytime I touch anything that even looks like metal...you know what that means right?? About a week of finding peanuts on the back of my pants or other assorted places.


I decide...ok, just gotta do it and get it over with.....

I'm gonna getchya boy!!

 

[maddog]

I'm so ready to move to some place that has humidity. spritz it all down with a hose. Either that or set it all on fire.

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

I just first tried to scoop em up in a plastic dust pan..they get in it just fine but they just cling to it...

 

[maddog]

I just first tried to scoop em up in a plastic dust pan..they get in it just fine but they just cling to it...

When you get them close to the disposal target, spritz 'em with a little bit of water. A light fine mist should work and not cause a mess. Should break the electric bonds.

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

Oh no...I'm saving this stuff and shipping it right back when his new Bongo comes in....

 

[maddog]

It would help to keep the bongo from shifting around in the case...

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

Oh I'm gonna triple box his Bongo with layers of crap even if I gotta pay shipping charges on an OS3 box because he traded in a bass I think I just may have to keep a while....this is why I hate trade-ins.

 

[bassmonkeee]

Heh. Yeah, I knew as it was being packed that I was a dead man.


But, ya gotta use what you got when you got it. It had already taken 2 weeks to find a damn box to begin with.

I was going to make it up to you with a little something "extra" in the box, but I don't like prison.


if you ever make it to Georgia, I'll make it up to ya with one of my girlfriend's famous meatball dinners.

I'll just make sure that I open the Bongo at the same friend's store where I packed the Bongo. Neener!

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

Dude..you let go of this Dark Star Starfire...nuff said...you have no idea really...this thing is the schnitzit with a pick through the fliptop...

 

[bassmonkeee]

Dude..you let go of this Dark Star Starfire...nuff said...you have no idea really...this thing is the schnitzit with a pick through the fliptop...

Heh--that's where you're wrong. I realized exactly what I had. An amazing bass in a scale and shape that I wasn't likely to play often.

Bleeb you me--After this Bongo (thus completing the unholy trinity), I'll be ordering up a certain non-clone hollowbody with two DarkStars.

And, no trade in, either! Promise!

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

I realized exactly what I had. An amazing bass in a scale and shape that I wasn't likely to play often.

Fair enough...it's no Bongo.....I understand. Nice meatballs there.

 

[Aussie Mark]

I've had some very nice short scale basses too, but they don't like my hands. The EB-2D was hard to get rid of.

 

[Steve Dude Barr]

This one's pretty comfortable but needs the glossy finish sanded off the back of the neck...

 

[todd4ta]

Here's what I do in those packing peanut crisis times (when you can't do the "pull up a little at a time so the peanuts fill in underneath" technique).

I find a large box or storage bin and tilt the box over to dump out large amounts of the packing fodder. If you don't think you can keep it in with the top open, tape the flaps closed with one piece of tape then remove when the box is inverted.

Not perfect, but saves the big clean up.

 

[shamus63]

Steve ~ I think the Monkeee just provided you with the perfect packing material:

 

[Freddy-G.]

Ok so, it's a Wednesday night at 11:30 pm and I finally got around to unpacking a trade-in that came in from Jason so I can shoot it in the morning and get it sold off. Mind you this is on an evening where I've discovered my bottle (jug) of Crown Royal empty with no backup in place so I had to settle for the good Captain instead....and we all know what that means....so I look at this huge box (easliy in the OS2 range) and think...hmm why such a big box for a short scale bass? So, I decided I better unpack it...been here like a week now.

I crack it open to find a huge box filled to the brim with a mixture of peanuts and paper shredder fodder. I stick my hand down into it and root around for this little bass down in there somewhere and find it and start to pull it up slowly as to keep as many peanuts and confetti in the box and not all over my floor right?

Uh uh...he's got the gig bag wrapped in the big bubble bubble wrap and the paper shredder fodder mixed with the peanuts is coming right up with the gig bag 1 for 1. No way that this puppy's gonna slide out without fully pulling out all this poop and getting it all over the floor for later cleanup.

I go pour a fresh Captain and ponder the situation and consider my options.

Mind you that these are not the pink non-static peanuts or the edible corn starch ones either. These are the dreaded white "s" shaped peanuts and it's dry as a bone out here in the desert and I'm getting zapped at every turn out here right now anytime I touch anything that even looks like metal...you know what that means right?? About a week of finding peanuts on the back of my pants or other assorted places.

I decide...ok, just gotta do it and get it over with.....

I'm gonna getchya boy!!

That's some funny sh*t right there!

 

[bassmonkeee]

That's some funny sh*t right there!

You're only going to make it worse!

I know--


*clears throat*

Hey, Gary--howsabout we all meet up at your house when I get my single H Bongo 5. I'll even open it there.

 

[Freddy-G.]

Now, that sounds like a good time to me. But, you can go ahead and open it at your place.

 

[fogman]

I'm gonna getchya boy!!

Just forward it to Jon at ebmm! He loves the stuff!!!!

 

[shamus63]

Just forward it to Jon at ebmm! He loves the stuff!!!!

Great advice from the ONE GUY here that isn't counting on Jon to final check his axe!