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Not if it's so ugly I never pick it up it won't! 🤔

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Thanks for all the ideas, I'm going with this to see how I like it. Not fitted yet but tomorrow it shall be.

texturing the final tuffcab layer

I wish I had your skills. Excellent work!

Even just a phone propped up in the corner. Doesn't need to be amazing quality, I just learn more effectively from watching others do something rather than interpreting written instructions

I received a PJ Squier in a trade and I believe both parties were content with the exchange. However as time wore on I found I reached for the instrument with decreasing frequency. It looks lovely, balances and plays well, and I really like the neck which is often the most important factor for me. And yet, there was something missing. So I took it out a few times. Eventually I decided it suffered a want of character, a sort flimsy lack of substance. Extremely difficult to put into words but a tangible lack nonetheless. Difficult to describe perhaps, but happily very simple to resolve. £13.99 including delivery for a set of Adagio flatwounds. And now I have a new bass. Seriously. It has been transformed. At rehearsal last night it growled, snarled and thumped where previously it had mewed like a sickly kitten. I appreciate we all have our favourite strings and indeed favourites for different basses. My Bruce Thomas Profile delights in its Stadium Elites for example. I post this less as an endorsement of these strings (although I also use and love their acoustic bronze) but more as a warning to others. Don't burn the house down when all it might need is a coat of paint. I have parted company with other instruments when in hindsight, perhaps they just had incompatible strings.

Any chance of videoing some of the tuff cab process please? Be a huge help. Thank you

When I ran out of money selling basses became the only way to finance gas attacks. Or trading. So I had to learn to let go. I'm happy to report that this is a skill one can learn. The sentimental attachment isn't as strong as one might think. That said I would never sell my Aria, we've been through too much together. And the bass my dad bought me just before he died, well that's more than just wood and wire to me. The others I love or don't based on playability and sound not sentiment.

Carlsboro Cobra 90. It replaced my H&H 100w guitar head when I came over from the dark side back in 82. I think I stuck with the H&H 2 by 15 cab for a while before getting a 410 also carlsboro. Borrowed bass of unknown provenance until I bought my Aria SB600 from The Guitar Workshop up St Michael's Hill in Bristol. in '83. I'd tried an Aria in a music shop on the Isle of Wight and was astonished at the sound. I had a Kay but even back then it was just awful. The Aria is still the one I'd save from the fire.

Although..

This is looking like the winner

Is this heresy?

Hmmm

Heh! Pick a fight in a phone box, me.

They might start hitting on the singer.

Both are lovely, but, but... those horrid anemic fingerboards! Whatever happened to make them turn yellow? 🤢🤮

Not sure the technical name but it's kind of sonic red

What can I say? I have a weakness for red basses. And black basses Quite like sunburst too. And blue. Salmon pink. Gold is a favourite too

I won't be spending a fortune as there's no guarantee the band will go for it. But a decent couple of pedals I could use anyway or move on here will be OK

Yep, I'm after not getting a guitarist. I dream of a band without a bloody guitarist

Wonderful OP. Well done. Some bands I'm in will happily take on any request whether we have a clue or not, we are also quite content to let people sing with us, play drums, or guitar if they fancy it. Others prefer the "we're not a farkin jukebox" approach to public relations. My go to response is "ask the singer, I just play what I'm told" Of course none of this matters if the punter is sufficiently refreshed.

What colour do you prefer with a red p bass? If not white...