LukeFRC

you know there's a range of nominal things I've seen people focus on in bass gear - the nominal name given to the colour is a new one. If it helps you spend your £3600 you could call it Glitter finish close to Pantone 7737c?

there's a Freedom custom guitar research one for sale right now that's an Active 5 string P .... Freedom are super high end Japanese luthier

Well it is a 50s reissue!!

it's about finding a pigment rather than a dye based ink/stain... I enjoyed the fact that with art stuff it was actually tested for lightfastness by the makers... This was my body... it went darker than I wanted the grain was only as apparent in bright sunlight and you can see the spots I rubbed through.

If values are the same a new loom won’t change the sound, just make the knobs nicer to twiddle

I ended up working out a similar thing when I did my build - but used my fine art background and ended up looking at pigment based watercolours (not dye based) - as for art there’s obvious needs to create light fast colours - these are fantastic and super concentrated - not crazy expensive either https://www.docmartins.com/collections/hydrus-fine-art-watercolor-bottles I wiped on with a sponge in thin layers (like you would watercolours) and did a dark blue to black blue burst finish - topped with chestnuts wipe on laquer tbh writing this makes me want to make something again in a brighter colour!!

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Sometimes the things that are important to one person isn’t to another. For some folk weight or nut width is super important, for others it makes less difference…. History of what you’ve learned on, technique, style of music and all that all that go into it even between people of the same competence… also a major thing… how many basses do you own… I get the impression Lozz has a few basses … if you only have two or three basses you’ll sweat the small stuff - other folk will just have 50 instruments…

That was a small Stonehenge

Well more like not sticking to it and then realising! he even had a jazz bass phase a few months back!

crikey, that will be hard to play

hold up, there's a sunny bit of Yorkshire?!

Out of interest do you have the equivalent of band leaders

Personally, Ild probably be part of a different church soon after

If you look up Japanese catalogs on a computer you can then use google translate with the camera on your phone to translate … it’s not amazing but can get the gist of it

I tried an Excess once so I know a wee bit about that one!

Last two churchs used too, always in the the week before you were playing. Current one not so much, but we're currently only 2-3 band members cos of covid. I've always been blessed to be in situations where embracing the craziness and learning as a musician was possible vs getting jaded and demotivated by it. I started learning bass as my first ever instrument at 18 when I went to Uni.... within 6 months I had been conviced to play on a Sunday. There's was quite a learning curve- but you know what folk put up with me as a complete beginner who didn't know what they were doing so I can put up with others in that situation.

school me (in something I really shouldn't be having an Interest in... ) The middle one is the fretless series one Arpage .... so pickups further apart... Passion are left and right, pickups closer together... is the left hand one a series 2 (carbon neck?) and the right hand one a series 3

I imagine you want something amber tinted for that

We have a rota with the forthcoming year sketched out with the series, breaks and Easter, Christmas planned in and who’s preaching and what they are preaching on….

Btw I think there is a massive difference between chasing tone or ‘the one’ - and working out what kinda pickups you like. I like P basses. I like the look, idea of jazz basses. I really like hearing other people play them - but for me it never works out - and I have tried! I also don’t mind musicman type - for years I played Warwick’s where the PJ set up essential covers the MM sweet spot. So that’s what I like. My main bass is a freak of a Sadowsky metro that doesn’t sound like a jazz bass in the low mids for some reason - so that gets the love, and I’ve a Lakland 55-94 which is essentially a jazz with the ability to have a MM style pickup at thr bridge… but the pickups are fat and warm with pleantly of low mids … so more precision like … so that stays! where do you like your pickups @Supernaut? Work that out and except for freaks like my metro, you can narrow down from randomly chasing ‘tone’ to knowing more or less what you’re looking for… and know when a whole bass just isn’t you vs a set of pickups isn’t you… @Clarky has two very very nice basses for sale at present - I know for a fact that the beautiful blue one I would like to like I wouldn’t get on with, but the other one I would if I could justify two Ps!

Or 38mm, 41mm 44mm in metric

If you think it’s a P sound you are after look for a used BB414 or 424 or 434 - for £300 or less you can test out if that’s what you are after