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Tee hee

That would be great in theory, but I'm pretty sure no-one but mods and the original author are allowed to edit posts... Happy to keep an eye on it and grass up any sinners to you on your return if that helps?

OK, I'll bite. Why?

Well, that's me crashed out of gear abstinence for this year and it's time for my full confession (although I'm 1 in, 1 out for the year so far, so could be worse). But I have a good excuse - this bass has been living rent-free in my head for nearly 12 years* and I finally snagged one in the finish I wanted. Black and silver ones pop up more often but I've only seen the purpleburst available two or three times in all these dozen years, so seeing as I'm not getting any younger, I decided a bit of carpe diem was in order. It's a three pickup, Les Paul shaped bass. It has three Greco T-bird-a-like pickups and three volume controls. That's it. Hardware is good quality - a Hipshot B style bridge and Gotoh tuners. It's had a life, there are some dings and scuffs in it but it's taken a polish well, the pickups have buffed up nicely and the fretboard enjoyed a drink of lemon oil very much. Lovely, dark rosewood board, yum. S'pose you'll be wanting some pics... It sounds great - I had a blast through my TC Electronic BH250 into headphones and it's got a lot of mid poke about it - might have to boost my mids a bit less when I'm playing this guy! Using the different pickups in different combinations makes noticeable changes to the tone, but it's not quite the same as having a tone knob - I might mod it but I'm not in a hurry. * TWELVE BLOODY YEARS - https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/210350-sorted-greco-3-pickup-les-paul-bass/

Well folks, that's me bowing out. I have just taken delivery of a bass which has been living rent-free in my head for about 12 years. A Greco LGB-700, three pickup. More pics later, but it needs a bloody good clean, new strings and a setup. There will be mucho bass fettling tonight. And in case you're wondering about how I know about the 12 year thing...

Bloody singists, eh? I use one of these for such requests (up 1, down 2 etc.)...

Great gig last night with Nine Lives at the Tolbooth in Ellon, NE Scotland. Small but vocal crowd of folk who were right up for a singalong. Someone even came up to speak to me at half time about my bass, the Reverend having caught their eye - that's a rare occurrence! We put a new (to us) song in the set and played it pretty well, so happy with that too. Got lots of nice comments after the gig, they were a chatty bunch! Dunno if it'll come to anything (because even lovely, polite and enthusiastic drunk people forget stuff), but we did get an enquiry about playing at someone's wedding, they enjoyed the show that much. Gear was the Sire D5 followed by the Reverend Triad into the usual Markbass toan cubes. Footwear by Vans as usual, pink suede this time - sorry, forgot to photograph them!

Buy one. If you don't like it, send it back. Carpe diem! In planetary terms, you're gonna die soon. Convinced?

You really have wandered into the wrong thread, haven't you?

This is savagery of the highest order! Also, I got my hopes up because when I saw the title of the thread, I got excited about a bitsa I made nearly 2 decades ago being back on the open market...

I really think it's sarcasm. Go read it again?

You did miss it - sarcasm is dripping off of it. "Misinformation" in this context means "facts which don't fit my narrative".

Ed bought a pickguard from me recently. All done quickly and efficiently with good comms. Cheers!

No, I got my hopes low level elevated there - been waiting for the surf green one to be back in stock for months - would have gladly swapped to a pink one if it meant I could get it now!

Pink version... of that exact bass (no pickguard, reverse P, single volume)?

After indulging this G&L flavoured sidebar, back on topic - Schecter. A vendor I'm well aware of but not much of their stuff matches up with my taste radar. The FSOs they do seem competent enough, with fancy woods and an extra fret or two. When it comes to their own designs, I always thought the Stilletto was a handsome bass, but always admired from afar. There is one (sadly discontinued) bass of theirs I would love to make the acquaintance of at some point - the 4 string Hellcat... I'm a sucker for a triple pickup bass, can't help it

Your separate personalities don't get a vote each, that's not how it works

Who is "we"? Do you mean "I"? Who put you in charge?

I sold my G&L Tribute LB-100 in 4 days...

I've had this bad boy on back order since September last year... https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/right-handed-bass-guitar/fazley-hot-rod-bass-fmh182sg-surf-green-electric-bass-guitar And my project has £150 budget (rule - no used parts), which puts it slightly below what a Squier Sonic P would cost.

I'm getting on great with mine, thanks. Some YouTubers would have you believe that's not possible... all that stuff about the sitting on the lap thing is utterly irrelevant to me because I play classical style when I'm sitting down (as in legs apart, bass goes in the space resting against my right thigh and the bottom of the body resting on my left leg, not the right). Used it live a few times and it's performed brilliantly. Neck is lovely as per Sire usual, generous roll on the fretboard edges so it feels smooth and very premium. Preamp is fine for me, and yes, I believe the neck pickup is noise cancelling (as in two coils side by side). As I've already mentioned, the only things I've done to mine is change the knobs (because I really disliked how lightweight and cheap the stock ones felt) and had a clear pickguard made for it to let more of that glorious burgundy (mist) colour through! RE: the pickup balance, I get what people are saying, except I don't find it's so pronounced on mine, perhaps pickup height might come into play? However, I've found there's a sweet spot on the pickup blend knob just past the detent favouring the neck pickup which sounds great. One final thing - you might not need extra long strings if you want to string through the body - the strings disappear up quite far into the body so you only need about an extra cm of speaking length on the string to carry it off. I used the stock D'addario XLs which came with the bass and re-strung it through the body and it made it over the nut before the taper kicked in.

Gibson 20/20 bass anyone?

Sorry to hear of your woes but glad to hear that you're recovering. Just thought I'd mention that the new Sire models with the 6 designation (V6, P6, M6) which were unveiled at NAMM are designed specifically to be lightweight - based upon their blurb - "The 6-series models are focused on being lightweight (under 8 lbs. based on a 4-string variant) and playable while retaining the signature qualities of Sire's best-sellers. Based on our 4-string samples, the weights are 7 lbs 14 oz and 6 lbs 15 oz." Read your post and thought it might be relevant and of interest...

Hold my beer...

Something tells me that you're not the target market...