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Having let the new strings/setup settle down, I had another razz on it last night, this time using the TC BH250 into a decent set of headphones. Sounds good to me! One thing I noticed is that with the Glockenklang preamp, passive with the tone all the way up sounds pretty much identical to active with the treble all the way down and bass at neutral. Dunno if that's how it's supposed to be but I found it quite amusing - a sort of "huh" moment of realisation. Still unsure if I like the sound of it better in passive or active - won't know that for sure until I play it with a band. Concerning weight/lightness, I find it odd - I weighed it on the bathroom scales and came back with 3.4kg/7.5lbs. Now normally I'm not keen on how anything below about 8lbs feels (insubstantial/throwaway/toy-like) but this one doesn't feel that way - there's heft or substance there which shouldn't be and it feels both light and serious at the same time. Brains are soft and squishy and very suggestible, dunno what else to tell you.

But look how accurately it follows the shape of the pickguard. That's been put on with attention to detail that has.

As mentioned in the SGC Nanyo thread, I have joined that gang - yesterday I acquired what I think is an SB310 with a Glockenklang preamp. Spent the afternoon restringing it (it came to me strung BEAD - my poor little brain can't handle that!) and giving it the once over - a clean, lemon oil on the fretboard, new strings, full setup, sorted out a little niggle where there was an odd screw in the bridge which stuck out because the head was too big to fit in the hole - found an M3 machine screw in my spares which had a small enough head to fit in the recess. Chrome instead of black, unfortunately, but it's a lot less noticeable than before! Only thing left to do is new knobs - these are press fit knobs but the pots on the Glockenklang are solid shaft so they kinda work but want to keep turning after the end of pot travel. Got some tasteful black flat tops coming in which are set screw fitting. I tried to find period correct ones but it seems the bevel topped ones with the white dot like the ones which SGC Nanyo used back in the day are only available as press fit - boo! I might revisit this though, been looking at ways to convert press fit knobs into set screw... Anyway, enough guff, here are some pics:

P!sh! You'll be back. Enjoy!

Hee hee, I joined the club, and it's all this thread's fault (only kidding, I've been well aware and curious about these beasties for many years) Proper NBD later, but here's a starter for 10. I think it's a 310, it's a 1991 model and it has a Glockenklang preamp in it.

Next year, min!

It's a Gear4Music LA Select in "denim burst" - https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/LA-Select-Bass-Guitar-by-Gear4music-Denim-Burst/3L4K Discussed in depth here -

Whew, that's me home safely back in Aberdeen. Time for a cuppa! Great to see you all, old friends and new. Thanks so much to @rwillett for organising the bash and keeping us full of pizza and tea!

HA! Stand down emergency, if you'll pardon the pun. Plan B came through unexpectedly well. I have all the stands I need now. Massive shout out to my local, friendly, independent guitar shop - Ramjam in Aberdeen who had the exact stands I was looking for - not in their official inventory but bought for their own purposes but not used. Sold them to me especially. Great bunch of lads. See you tomorrow!

Right, it looks like I've been screwed over on the stands front. Despite me paying for first class postage, vendor used RM Tracked 48, a 2-3 day service and I just got the email from RM to tell me they'll deliver them... tomorrow. FFS. Which means I'm 4 stands short. @peterjam - could I please hijack the triple stand you were offering before it goes to its new owner? @rwillett - I know you mentioned spare stands, but I think @ossyrocks already asked for spare stands so maybe you could help him out with yours? Cheers folks, see you tomorrow!

I'll be there early doors - no point otherwise!

I may need to borrow this on Saturday before it goes to its new owner, if that's OK with the new owner. Ordered some stands last week but it is unclear if they will arrive in time

I've got a lot of time for this guy, even if he has a sign in his workshop which says "I DON'T BUILD BASS GUITARS"

It's the online equivalent of trying to get served in pubs when you're underage - been going on since the beginning of rules/controls on the matter. You're never going to stop them trying, bless.

4kg / 8.8lbs - bathroom scales and I couldn't be arsed taking the leather strap off so make of that what you will.

Unremarkable? But just for you, I'll give it a wee weigh when I get home from work. Might be later on - got band tonight ('Spoons).

It's back... same ridiculous ETA as the last time I used this order but they arrived way sooner than that. Anyway, I'm not in a rush, just handy to have some extra spares at a silly price!

It might be catching on the pickguard also...

Ah, don't take it like that. I get paid in my professional life to be paranoid when it comes to these kind of things...

That'll be most of them then, unfortunately...

I did drive about 550 miles in each direction to collect a Markbass cab, but to be fair I was also going down to the SW Bass Bash anyway, so I don't know if it counts as I wasn't going there with the sole purpose of collecting gear...

About 200 miles each way is the most I've gone for the sole purpose of buying a bass.

I see the problem here - you need a bigger sofa, mate

I think I win "most pickups on a single fail"...