LukeFRC

What does “a little tired” mean, what do you look for in a good on board preamp? What (if any) extra control do you want? what preamps have you liked in the past and why?

It’s crying out for the top of the body to be shaped a bit like this ACG and follow the “bite” shape!

Fairfield barbershop on that list too… the SFT is literally a SVT circuit with transistors - I built a clone of one years back and it was very nice.

and matches the berg amp!

Nice! It looks lovely too

Ampeg and Line6 are both part of Yamaha so they probably would say they have more fully featured options in their portfolio

Neon pink LED under lighting?

how common model is it? will somewhere like ishibashi likely get a secondhand model in?

They aren’t made by the same companies these days but that’s another story!

I do a week after putting them on in most cases.

keep digging deeper into Digimart and you will realise that Fender Japan are some of the least interesting basses to come out of Japan...

Do you think it’s oven ready?

the chunky neck will be stiffer than a thinner jazz neck. Stiffness is part of the "wal recipe" funkle was talking about somewhere in the past 26 pages

Chunky= stiff

That looks mint

I love the idea of having a bundle of necks and a bundle of bodies and being able to switch them to work out what sounds good together. Glad you're getting on with the Sims pickups too, I looked at them, and even made a bitsa with similar functionality and got lost in option paralysis - between that and the 8 knobs on the ACG equipped streamer I had there was a definite digression to enjoying the simplicity of a P bass.

There are a lot more frets on show there than I would expect for you sir! like that blue body

Nice balls

My apologies don’t sweat it, if you can afford it and it brings you joy there’s far worse things to spend money on, and better gear can often be sold if you ever did find that it didn’t bring you joy or you needed the money.

Also practicing and theory doesn't generate as much chat as talking about capitalism's endless production of 'stuff'. So it's self selecting, the people on a forum where people talk about bass gear are more likely to be interested in bass gear than others. But I think the OP was trying to make an ethical distinction to suggest their own approach was morally better than anyone else's.

Some people buy the expensive Kellogg’s shreddies rather than the Lidl version we do. never something that has tempted me, but you know what, if I was into my cereal, and I work hard in a good job, so if I wanted to try I think I would be able to justify getting them to try. I don’t really understand the ethical dilemma you’re having. our society isn’t equal, some folk have more money than me, some less, some choose to spend more on things, others less. sometime it might be nice to try the fancy shreddies just to see.

It looks amazing. there is a little be of me that is sad that it just sounds like a P bass when it looks like that. I want it to sound like the future

I never said they were great in practice but bi laminate necks made by a machine was still groundbreaking, also the way they used antimatter in it so it was heavy enough to bend space time