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During this time when you can't buy a G&L (USA or Tribute) for love nor money right now, here's a pic of my Tribute LB-100 for no reason other than it was there.

Winning - I'm negative gear for the year - just sold a Tecamp Puma 900. The trouble ahead is that's most of what a Sire Z7 costs... still, stock won't be available for months - plenty of time for the car's MOT to eat those funds instead!

Wrong time in life - I wasn't interested then. I wish I had been, but I wasn't. Brief history: Primary school - sang (until my voice went weird and couldn't do all those solos they used to want me to do) and played recorder. I know they were trying to get us to sight read but I always memorised. That was fine until one time I couldn't figure out the song, so when it came time to play it I stuck my hand up and asked to go to the loo, then took my sweet time about it. Quit recorder group because the second last boy quit and left me as the only boy. Girls were ikky then, so I quit too. Was offered the chance to play cello but I couldn't be arsed with the huge thing. Secondary school - compulsory music for the first two years, wasn't interested, just saw it as a skive period and used it to skive. Didn't take up the bass until my 30s, joined my first band in 2009 at the ripe old age of 34. I grew up late, what can I say? It wasn't school's fault, it's not as if I wasn't presented with opportunities, I just didn't want to take them up then. So I guess I didn't let school help me with my musical life, looking back I marvel at how stupid, wasteful and downright ungrateful I was back then. Oh well, live and (maybe) learn!

Of course it's a personal thing. It's also why sometimes people take it personally, but that's a conflation of two similar but very different things.

I love blocks on any bass. Can't love the snotburst though, sorry.

Yay, snotburst!

I've been that third party in the past and it's happened many times before, not only that but Basschat relays handling the delivery of basses and other items. I don't think it's risky to involve a long standing and well respected member of this community to pick up a bass on your behalf. Fair enough if you don't want to get involved but I think it's a bit rum of you to basically call us all risky. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I'm entitled to disagree also.

Yes, that's right - blade switch is pickup selector, mini toggles are single/series for each pickup. Down/away from the pickups == series. Easy to tell by ear though - series is noticeably louder and thicker sound with a big boost to the low mids. It's a really good bass at twice the price, there's a lot to like - and it's a no-brainer if you're too tight (like me) to get an actual Fender Roscoe Beck

Social media is a social cancer. While the perception remains that it's a consequence-free, free-for-all, it won't get any better.

Depressingly predictable

"Dear seller"... instant fail. Genuine communications use your name. That's not a gimme and certainly shouldn't be the only criteria one uses to maintain online safety, but this one falls at the first hurdle...

Drummer gets to sit down, keyboard player gets to sit down, why not you? I wouldn't give a monkeys if the bass player took a pew. Not wishing to take the mick out of your situation but sometimes I do that (as in get a chair and sit down on "stage") for a bit during Highway to Hell given the vast bassless voids in it.

Black and gold never goes out of fashion...

I hope you're having those at home and not giving those welching cockwombles any more money!

Isn't it though?! I really think the big manufacturers are taking the proverbial these days. They think we're stupid, but all they've done is created the perfect environment for the likes of Sire to pop up and provide no-nonsense, decent quality instruments at sensible prices - something they seem to have abandoned or are now incapable of doing through greed or incompetence (probably a bit of both).

Sounds like you need a @KiOgon...

I find the tone knob does weird things (or naff all) when playing at low levels or with headphone amp on most basses. I thought it was just me.

This is the way...

We have a winner

A faultless YEAR? Your aim is high indeed - I don't think many bands will have a faultless gig, singular!

Problem, identified

If you're doing it for the experience, to say you assembled it yourself, as a springboard to getting better at maintaining your other basses, or as a leap off point to doing more adventurous building/restoring then sure, go for it. It'll be like Lego - which is fun. Will it be cost effective vis-a-vis buying an already assembled HB bass? Time is money, so... no. Will it be as objectively "good"? If this is your first time then, sorry, but probably not. Even cheap basses are assembled by a squad of specialists doing one particular aspect of it repeatedly.