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There's an outside chance that the Albridge with Sire screw pattern might fit, but I'm clutching at straws here (plus you'll have unused thru-body stringing holes which may irritate you) Hipshot Transtone also has a screw in each corner:

I'd say get whatever bridge takes your fancy that the base plate covers the existing screw holes, fill and redrill.

Goddamn it! I put a lot of effort into that fake amp ad (sorry, Gallien Krueger).

(with thanks to the GIMP and sincerest apologies to Gallien-Krueger...)

Missed my wedding anniversary, good start

We played a gig once where they had forgotten to put the telly behind us off (sound was off though). Was on rolling news and something significant had happened in the Russia/Ukraine war so it was quite ominous to have Putin looking over our shoulders at various intervals...

FWIW, I've bought two basses from Thomann in the last year - the first one was a Sire D5 which DHL "lost" on its way to me. Thomann were actually really cool about it, accepted it was lost pretty quickly and sent another one which got through. Second bass was straight through, no bother. To confirm - no extra hidden charges on the UK side when buying from Thomann - the price you see is the price you pay.

D!ck Heads Limited.

I don't think it matters. I'll take whatever you think "dark" means with regard to sound and disregard it because it is unlikely to tally with what I think it means. Which is fine.

For context, I think nothing of a 6 hour round trip - that's Aberdeen > Glasgow > Aberdeen. My perspective being that you have to go at least as far as Glasgow to get anything but the utter basics when it comes to bass stuff. Your mileage (so to speak) will vary, of course, but it always amazes me how few hours travelling it takes to put some people off doing stuff.

I read it as a a clumsy way of asking if it was supplied like that, or was modified in some way after the fact.

It arrived at an inconveniently quiet time - I've got no gigs scheduled until November, but will likely have some rehearsals next week so I'll give my "war volume" thoughts on it soon.

I read the title of this thread as "Name that rack ear" and I thought to myself "woah, that's some SERIOUS uber-geek level knowledge right there".

As I've already mentioned, in the electromagnetic hell of our rehearsal room it's quieter than some of my other basses which I have felt compelled shield with copper tape. Make of that what you will. But I can't tell visually what the coil configuration of my pickup is - there's tape/ribbon all the way round the coil(s) and I'm not peeling that back, I'm not that curious, sorry. The way I see it, if someone is that bothered about pickups they'll probably want to change the stock pickup regardless of what it is. At least with the D5 you get a lot of other good stuff like roasted neck, rolled fingerboard edges, truss rod access at the neck heel and a standard 5 screw pattern on the bridge, so that's easy to change as well if one is so inclined.

My usual glib answer was probably unhelpful. Allow me to expand (and possibly add to the unhelpfulness). I would only use the "let me google that for you" approach once an appropriate level of banter had been established. I can see why some people might prefer to ask - sometimes it's not as simple as searching, there is an art to sifting out the garbage and frankly incorrect information out there that a search can throw up. It's even worse when it's a situation where there isn't one single right answer and you're looking for the "best" answer, which google et al cannot help you with. Sometimes people are just looking for reassurance. And just because their question is worded tersely, that doesn't mean they haven't searched previously, that is an easy assumption to make. Basically, dinna be a grump. If someone is insistent on being a grump, I'd suggest they go and eff off and be a grump somewhere else (either on their own or have a grumpiness contest with some other grumps) instead of taking it out on some poor noob who had the temerity to ask a question that the grump considers easy to answer.

Is it up on the site? I can't find it - got a link?

Are you bothered about filling old screw holes and making new ones?

Got a pic of what you have now?

You don't need to justify it to me, it's enough to read someone waxing lyrical about their new acquisition to put a smile on my face, regardless of whether or not I'd go for something like it myself.

That is a fine looking interpretation of the T-bird look. Glad you're happy with it, may it give you many hours of enjoyment! I'm OG or GTFO when it comes to T-birds (Epiphone counts, they're in the same family, and I would say are making better T-birds than Gibson are right now), but this one has not got me twitching like some T-bird-a-likes do. It seems relatively faithful to the basic shape and dimensions, just hot-rodded a bit. Not that you need my approval, but I approve.

Never heard of Suede. Brett Anderson'll be fuming!

No, can't say that I had thought about that. I hope it is released - I think the market could really use a well made but inexpensive, long scale semi-hollow bass.

I'm a Gibson man at heart (I slag them off these days because I care and wish they'd do better), so I'm fine with the speed knobs. Tieing in works in several ways - to my eyes, the black pickup cover, knobs and soon to be completed pickup mode selector tie in nicely with the black headstock and the dark fingerboard. So once this poker chip arrives and is fitted, I'll be calling this one done. Well, I might redo a couple of those solder joints on the rotary switch - a couple of them look a bit stingy with the solder. Plus I've never been a big fan of white/cream pickup covers in any bass and have rarely had basses which use them. Chrome, gold or black for me please!

Chickenhead arrived, and I've also been hatching a plan with a producer on etsy who makes custom switch bezels/poker chips (same guy as I used for my Les Paul DO/DO NOT poker chip for the pickup selector). Made a mockup to scale in Inkscape with what I want. Guy was happy to take some custom measurements and didn't charge me any extra for the custom order - nice! So, here's what it's going to look like (except the final poker chip will be black with white lettering) P = parallel 1 (one) = single S = series And yes, I quite like what it spells - I take the P1S every time I play the bass Will post up final pic when the poker chip arrives. It's coming from Canada so it might take a couple of weeks.