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Proud of you for reaching your bass nirvana, but be prepared for a lot of tutting and eye contact avoidance at the pearly gates!

Vote for no. I don't believe there is such a thing. I keep changing, not the basses. Right now I'm going through a "death to bridge pickups" phase. I'd like to think that I'm more evolution than revolution so maybe some time when my fingers are too arthritic to play I'll have defined what my "perfect" bass is. And if everything else comes true, much like my appetite for finding new music has all but dried up like I swore blind it never would, it'll be a P bass, the bass of choice in heaven/hell's waiting room.

There's only a tuner and an overdrive pedal at most, so even when I'm having to Bill Wyman it every 5 minutes because I've ended up on the route to the bog again, I still manage to have the pedals on the floor in front of me.

Scotland has a long and distinguished history of not knowing what's good for it. The M-2000 is a fine bass with a lovely neck profile, slightly dialed back MFD pickups for those who find regular MFDs a bit too rorty and those 18V electronics will give active boffins that headroom that they keep banging on about that's so damn important I would, but I'm going through a no actives, no bridge pickups type phase, or whatever I'm telling myself this week to keep my participation in this year's gear abstinence thread alive...

Well, if you're going to bow out, do it with some style and panache

Lol at "riled bee"

Seek and ye shall find (in the third place you look ) That do you, @Jonesy?

The Gibson three point bridge. Some people replace 'em, some people hide 'em I'll have a look and see if I have one. I can't remember if the Ripper I sold a few years ago went out the door with it attached or the buyer didn't want to bother with it.

I'm in two bands with the same drummer. I think it helps that one of them is an originals band and the other is a covers band so they operate in different spheres, different venues and occupy different spaces in my head. Also the covers band gigs more frequently than the originals band. You have to be upfront about it, I think that's the only way it'll work. If not then a clash will occur at some point. Everyone's aware of the situation. The covers band even let the originals band borrow the PA for the odd occasions that they're not playing a venue with house PA/backline. Everything is open and honest. As far as the logistics go, both bands have google calendars and I cross post between both calendars when either band has a gig so availability is clear.

For me, the sounds of 2022 will probably be the start of The Inevitable Teaspoons taking another 6 years to release something

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While we decide upon that, here's my Tribute LB-100 next to my CLF L-1000...

Is that going to be released as a retail product, or is it a custom shop, one-off special?

If you like the feel of wenge and the aesthetics of maple then go for it. Surely it's been done the other way around in the past - wenge board on maple so there shouldn't be any technical reasons why not (say maple and wenge not glueing together well or something)? Sound? I'm not diving into that can of worms. Someone will be along shortly to give their unscientific opinion on that

In this case, isn't the monitor effectively a funny shaped cab with a more complicated signal path?

I'm sorry I made you feel that way. The smiley at the end was insufficient to communicate my lack of malice and that's on me. I suspect that I'm more cynical than you.

Of course it will be. They'll be buying sets of strings in the thousands each year. G&L are probably dealing with D'addario direct so they're cutting out at least 2 levels of BS/intermediaries compared to you and I buying them from a retailer. Also business to business direct trade probably sidesteps some taxes. D'addario will still make money on the strings they sell in bulk to G&L, they're not a charity

No silks, colour coded ball ends, definitely D'addario XL. Makes sense for G&L to use them across the board - maximise economy of scale. Also shows a degree of care put into their Tribute range - they're not prepared to cheap out on strings in order to shave a bob or two off the production costs at a cost to the user experience. I appreciate that. Good on you, G&L.

I don't think it counts - direct replacement of missing/defective item. Followed by replacement of whoever neglected to return your volume pedal. Hopefully when you communicate to them the pressing need for its return they'll do the right thing.

So glad to get in before the lock. I might actually be tempted to sell something. Not that I'm trying to knock any of you out of the running, your willpower is your own concern

It's want, not need you have to concern yourself with in this game

What an unusual finish - in natural light it's a lot closer to the stock images - less green, more blue:

More of a hope than a prediction but a continued improvement in quality and value at the cheaper end of the scale resulting in manufacturers making more expensive instruments to up their game and go the extra mile to demonstrate why their more expensive instruments are worth it. As the lower tiers improve, they can't afford to rely on trading on their name or the eroding presence of odious geographical prejudices to see them through.

If you're going to leave, just leave. I bogged off for a while, no announcement, no dummy spitting and commensurate with the quality of my contributions, not missed in the slightest until someone PMed me to ask if I could advise someone with something Gibson-y. I knew I'd prove useful eventually!

I'd say 42mm at the nut with the tape under the strings and 55mm at the 12th fret. I don't know what any of these named neck profiles mean and never could be bothered to find out so I can't help you there, sorry. FWIW it seems a bit shallower than the Tribute L-2000 - my benchmark and high water mark for chonkiest 4 string necks, but it feels good to me. Yeah, I'll probably keep the tort - combination of laziness and slight fascination as despite the -ahem- above average number of basses I have owned this may be the first one ever with a tort guard.