LukeFRC

Made me think of that 1975ish Cimar jazz I found for £30 and you helped me out with a tuner brushing for - honestly one of the most fun basses I’ve ever played. I picked it up for a mate who needed his first bass. It still gets played regularly by him. I should have kept it!!

To be fair you don’t really need to limit it to 80s - any Japanese fender …

have you just agreed with yourself?

£80ish I think , sound about right?

So mine works - but there’s a gremlin where if you bypass the preamp the active pickups seem to pick up noise from the preamp still - so really it needs passive pickups… but I can’t decide if I’m going to keep the bass, would I be better to sell it on now, or find a cheap set of passive PJ pickups and then maybe sell it on… or get some decent pickups for more money and then maybe sell it on (or keep)

Ooh I saw that when it was for sale - good buy

If it were me I wouldn't go new. Buy wisely secondhand and like WoT says you are less likely to loose money on it.

As you’ve obviously carefully chosen the parts what made you choose Electrolytic over tantalum like the early rays used?

Agree totally - I find too many options and switches takes the joy away for me. Ild rather a bass does one good thing well than 20 meh things. I also find that having too many basses leaves me parallelised with choice too much

won't tape fade/yellow over time? I've used waterslide paper in the past, just print directly on... https://www.musikding.de/Decal-for-laser-printers-108x139cm

I realised I didn’t say a massive thank you!

Life’s too short, let it go. or alternatively if life isn’t too short the world is crying out for more of your opinions on barefaced gear again.

pretty much 60% of YouTube adverts I get served are Scott Devine. I did find it annoying till I considered what the alternative adverts would be... he's alright - plus he lives next village to me!

oooohhh I read about something like that in Terry Pratchett books with Lord Vetinari .... Thats an obscure reference I'm hoping at least one person gets! People get very uptight sometimes, If you treat it like a pub where there's always going to be a handful of absolute total onanists somewhere... but you just ignore them. Live and let live, there's enough issues in the world with people I know in real life before I start worrying about a load of bass players in internet land. I've met a few folk off here at Bass bashes and doing trades- It's been lovely pretty much every time. He's around on Facebook, I remember he got ill and some people got annoyed - but since then he made me a scratch plate for my Sadowsky and seemed sound.

And by problem I mean “it’s kinda been working for the last 3 years”

Dear agony aunt (aka @EBS_freak) church IEM use gets some distortion through my UE 900s … chat on our WhatsApp group “oh some headphones will blow” - turns out we are using a Behringer powerplay 8 - which from what I can work out is looking for a minimum 100ohm per channel. my UE 900s are 30ohm this is going to be a problem isn’t it?!

Here’s the neck angle my one took without shims or anything, I would say something is wrong but it sets up perfectly so…

Would get you properly lynched in someplace where tort is the religion. (Like talkbass)

Matching headstock to the body, then with one of your bird inlays …

My 5 string has the same spacing at neck and bridge as my 4 string… just one extra string obv

There’s a whole forum for Harley Benton!!!

In fact- Self Adhesive Clear Sticky Back Plastic Film Grid Cover Exercise Books 33cm x 3 Meter https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B9G7V3P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_RMCCQYJRQ38B279MJJFE?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1