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You got it yet?

Keep an eye on the Japanese ebay shops and Ishibashi. They seem to have way more 32 scale Fenders than over here.

You could assemble a Warmoth. They now have 32 scale necks. - But it looks like they only do a J body at the moment. Might be worth an email though. [url="http://www.warmoth.com/Bass/ShortScale/"]http://www.warmoth.com/Bass/ShortScale/[/url]

Excellent! That is a lot of bass for the money! I like the white too!

Courtesy of the good people (Molan) at Bass Gear! I had a Mk1 Attitude many years ago and I really missed it. So after the longest ever pleading with the wife I now have a shiny new Attitude 3. I am told by Molan that none other than Dave Swift thought this was a beast of a bass, and he's right. The neck is really big (bigger than the Mk1) but with a comfy profile but by the use of strange magick the neck dive from the Mk1 has been much reduced to almost none. I may still swap the tuners for some super-light Hipshots though. That might save as much as 1/2 pound. Doesn't sound like a lot - but out at the end of the neck that makes a big difference! It's currently strung with Dunlops as Bass Gear don't do my favoured D'Addarios. But I still might commit some sort of crime and put flat Chromes on it! Can you imagine that neck pickup then??? It will get it's first proper appearance at orchestra rehearsal on 21st Sept.

Streamliner 900 here. My cabs are a bit heavy - Berg HD112. When I get more money I'll change them for the CN112 models.

Every instrument I've owned has been gigged. From my very first Hohner Arbor Series MXJ guitar to my Hyperbass. In the current stable I have other Zons, Marleaux, Status, Fender and (wait for it...) a Daisy Rock Butterfly bass! I see no point in having them and not playing them. And as I'm one of the much derided lawyers who are the ones apparently hoovering up high end basses for investments - all I can say is Bollocks. I've never met a colleague who has bought a new instrument as an investment. Ever. HIgh end new instruments are not investments. They are merely luxury goods like Ferrari's and Saville Row suits. It's up to the potential buyer to decide how they want to spend the money they have earned. If a person wants a luxury item and can afford it, then that is a matter for them alone. If they can afford it, but don't like it then not buying it is a matter for them alone. If a person can't afford it but desires to own it there seems to be 2 general reactions - to either make it an aspirational item, worthy of saving up and sacrificing other non-essential spending or they can bitch about how crap the item is, or how crap those who do have the means to buy it are. Most amusingly, an awful lot of the people bitching have never been in the same room with a Fodera / Ritter / whatever. Let alone played one.

Hello! Welcome to the nut house.

Generally I prefer 4 strings, but if it was for a 1 bass fits all - then my Marleaux Consat Custom 5. It's just brilliant. Does the back pickup burp really well, and super deep and clear from the neck. Great low B too - and I like light strings.

There is a superb Mike Lull P bass in the classifieds right now. Buy that.

The Tech 21 VTBass-DI is very good. Got mine last week and its firmly bolted to my board now.

I once had a 5000W rig. Powered by a Yamaha P5000S power amp. The cabs wouldn't have survived if I'd turned it up though.

Full review when you get it please!

Id love the Larry sig! What a great bass!

It depends on the songs. Skynryd had 3 and it worked brilliantly. Wishbone Ash, Iron Maiden etc can't be done with 1. The Police would sound odd with 2. As it happens when I play guitar I prefer to be in a 2 guitar band. It gives many more compositional options. As long as both players know what they are doing and have different but complimentary sounds and styles it works brilliantly.

Bought my first item from Bass Gear today. Great service and a good chat with Barrie too.

It's a great pedal! Very impressed with mine

GHS Pressure wounds. Lovely things.

Brilliant company to deal with. Used them for years. They've had an easy £5000 out of me and always been perfect

[quote name='Gordon Thudmaster May' timestamp='1377900537' post='2193548'] Does Mark criticise your bass playing?? [/quote] Not to me. Has he done to others?

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1377898989' post='2193518'] I've been there a few times and gotten a similar response to some other guys on here. It seemed to me that if you're not buying a Roscoe bass and bergantino rig to play it through then you're wasting his time. I did phone him once asking if he'd got something in the store, he said yes so I drove 30 miles to him, only to find he hadn't, but that could probably happen with other shops too. [/quote] To be fair, the cheap end of gear is not his market. He doesn't do MIM Fenders, or BB series Yamaha etc. he does high end gear with some mid ranking stuff. No shop would put Squires next to a Lull! He's had several thousand out of me and he'll probably get more too.

[quote name='nottswarwick' timestamp='1377808829' post='2192301'] Status? [/quote] The link in my previous post was to an ebay sale for a Status-Graphite jazz neck.

[quote name='nottswarwick' timestamp='1377804832' post='2192204'] So, basic question is suspect, but are jazz and p bass neck pockets the same? Same screw holes etc? I like the bass, so, could be the way forward [/quote] Most are 2.5 inches. The status replacement ones are built for that.