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Some lovely Shuker's on this thread...

Ooh lovely! Nice colour too.

But all 20 frets?

Oh! Jon sets up my Bernie wonderfully. Two great luthiers. The OP's 'P' looks great! Would love to hear it.

The Bass Centre was the manifestation of the 80s being the decade of bass and the explosion in manufacturers, especially in the UK, spurred on by post-Jaco era Mark King, Mick Karn, Pino infiltration of the pop music of the day. Those adds in the free Making Music paper for Status and Trace Elliot were something else.

And multi-scale!

EHBs are now in their fifth year so are reasonably well-established. And as you say, Ibanez are tinkering all the time. The EHBs have had different pick-ups, finishes, scale lengths and fanned frets.

Yep, new for this year although only in a five so far. If they do well, no doubt a four and a six will come along.

Well this is timely given our discussion and the chap demos that lovely pink coral one I posted earlier:

Yes! They caught my eye too - beautiful. Just to point out these ones are built in Japan under licence, not the New York Shop like John Patitucci's. I think Hadrien Feraud endorses these Japanese ones though and if they're good enough for him...

Three new models announced... this my favourite wood top and Fishman pickups. Others are here - scroll down to the basses: https://www.ibanez.com/usa/news/detail/20241119125609.html

Oh man what a truly awful artifact of 80s music education. A chunk of time up front with an unhelpful, overly long gear overview, including a bass from John Buscarino he's never played but, 'he's planning to.' He didn't. Irrelevant guest stars - learn bass from the baddy in Robocop!? Rowdy Roddy Peeper yelling his shtick at you. Oh God... Still Frank Gambale and Vinnie Colaiuta are killing in the intro.

Richard Bona making a beautiful sound here with a Sei in the Bass Gallery. Not sure it's his, probably just stock. (Ignore the Fodera in the thumbnail.)

Depends what you mean by, 'round'? Some people mean even integers, i.e. your 200th post but musically that doesn't work at all!. Both harmonically and rhythmically, music is all about the relationships between 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 12. Not 200. Happy New Year.

Only found out recently that Christopher Guest is a Hereditary Peer! Yes, 'Nigel Tufnel' is actually the 5th Baron Haden-Guest. So there you go!

Macca at the Coop Arena, Manchester... Sorry not snapped with bass. Not bad for 82! Just under a three-hour set and swapping between his Hofner, acoustic, ukulele and piano. Played Beatles, Wings and solo hits. Killer band. Drummer a beast. Great show. Dawning realisation that after listening to 50 years worth of prog rock, the Beatles got there first. Only neg of the night is the venue's unfeasible admission and transport logistics with ~20k people descending on the tram station at 11pm. Plan carefully if you intended to go to this venue.

Wow! More than a lot of Alembics! (Less than an ExFactor.)

That's some design and manufacturing just on the neck...

That's a looker. How does it play? What do all the switches do? Guessing the knobs are vol, pan & a 3-band?

Adding to your list, the Phil Jones Dual Compressor splits a signal by frequency, with dual independent compression and effects loops: https://www.pjbworld.com/cms/x2c/ Also you can do this on the cheap with the new Boss GX 10, again splitting your signal by frequency then applying different amps and effects before recombining.

Nice little nod to notable user, Chris Squire in the video there. Sounds good too.

I have one of the Ibby EHB sixes and I agree with the OP - I'd go back to normal frets or a less severe fan/offset so straight at the 12th fret (rather than around the 7th where it is currently.) Many different ways to fan and each is a compromise - as are straight frets. Up high on the Ibby it's a little more difficult to play than a straight fret instrument.

Lucky Ducky! Fancied that myself but couldn't drag the Mrs. She's not keen on the fusion... On the plus side, I'm seeing Macca next!

Hmmm... I have no idea at what I'm looking. Does it sound good?