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Hmmm, that looks lovely. Trace-ish.

Never! I have an open marriage with Harley Benton. We're allowed to see other people

I completely understand those of us who see the bass as a tool - precisely as @TheLowDown articulates it. After all I'm the same with cars. Do not care how it looks, neither shape nor colour matter one bit to me. I can't imagine ever wanting to own more than one vehicle unless the 2nd one had a specific purpose not fulfilled by the 1st. Like a camper van for example. All that matters is I can get my gear in, it goes and is as cheap as possible to maintain, tax, insure and put fuel into. Other people adore cars, would own a stable if them if they could afford to, and wouldn't touch my battered kia with a barge pole. None of us is all one thing, we all share sone traits they just get expressed differently. A bass is a poetic tool to me. A thing of aesthetic potential used to create art with others. I take pleasure looking at it. A different pleasure setting the action and a particular thrill just holding it, before I even play a note. Having one television seems crazy to me. Having one in each room beggars belief. But I have no objection to anyone else having them in all shapes and sizes anywhere they like.

Yes!

I didn't originally because I was a kid and only had one guitar. But the first time I was left high and dry at a gig by faulty gear was the last time.

Ah, thank you - I didn't realise. I tend towards a wider neck, but I have to be honest I don't really mind.

All I'm doing is carving a headstock - but I will happily share my cack handeness...

Good to see you again WB. I too came back after a long lay off. At the time I had about 3 basses. Now I could open a shop - beware the Basschat marketplace!

I know a guy, and this will stretch if not beggar belief, who not only goes to gigs with his solitary instrument (no back up bass, no spare amp or cables) but actually sold his bass at the start of lockdown because he wouldn't need it for a while..

Now I just need the weather to improve so I can get out and get cutting.

Wow, thank you all! That's brilliant.

Ooh, sorry, I missed this. Thank you.

Absolutely - no rush!

That would be great, thank you, pm will work

Mmmmm nice

I do not understand the title of this thread.

Superb. I think technically speaking mine is a Detroit. But is that the same thing? Anywho, I have two from the Bass Collection range and both are keepers, no question.

As do I on any instrument. The thing is, because I'm not really turned on by the noise of a slapped bass, there is less incentive to learn the technique. Consequently I tend only to learn the bits of slap I'm called on to learn for a particular song. Not many of my bands insist on it. One guy did (that little run in Car Wash) so I learned it and can still get away with it. Otherwise I confess I don't really try.

Being a fan of all things Harley B, I am outraged at this sacrilegious defilement of a sacred relic. But seriously folks.... a great resurrection of an others defunct instrument. As others have said don't play down your achievements here, the work is well beyond what most of us would even attempt. And I know for a fact that these are very good basses, so you ought to get years of pleasure from it.

It's definitely happy!

Anyone able to help with a template for the thin wibbly headstock shape found at the ends of those oldie worldie P basses?

A long period of marketplace inactivity came crashing down this week. I've saved up, and I've sold so I can replace my aging pc and get myself a backbeat. Useful items both, especially with online rehearsal perhaps become a regular thing even after lockdown. Then some unavoidably irresistible stringed things appeared and my resolve collapsed like a soufflé in a sink. One of these impulse buys brings to two the Cort corner of my collection. This beautiful jazz joins the C4, also purchased here fairly recently. I make no secret, I bought both on the looks / price tag method of instrument selection. I'd only heard the Cort name mentioned here, and then not often. But always the remarks were favourable, always suggesting underrated, quality basses. My test is simple: if all other basses had to go would I be happy to be left gigging with this one? A resounding yes for both of these beauties. So playable, well balanced and comfortable. Underrated? Not here, not any more.

That's great advice, thank you. And for the scales. Don't tell anyone but I actually enjoy scales!