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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.

In a similar theme, do same to Walk This Way

It's what "let me google that for you" links were made for

Oh yeah, I forgot about the licorice allsorts

There is probably a smart way, for me, I'm convinced the swearing got me over the line

Wait, when did Rickenbacker start making Commodore 64s?

Ho-lee-sh!t... https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Sterling-By-Music-Man-DarkRay-Bass-Black/60DR NINETEEN HUNDRED QUID?

That's a new one on me, cheers, I love learning new geeky stuff like this

+1 for the bike box, long time bike box user here. Halfords et al always delighted to give away their empty boxes whenever I've asked. Adjust to fit.

Japanese G&L ASATs?

Being an ASAT bass, it can only be MIA, there is no Tribute ASAT bass.

To be honest, I didn't find the pots to be too bad, again, small hands, was able fairly easily and quickly get them in position and push them up from underneath. The jack socket was much more of a hassle, but with some improvised tools and a bit of swearing I got it to go where I needed it to https://schaller.info/en/megaswitches-preamp-pickups/306/megaswitch-rotary

Last night I sorted out my other grumbles with this bass as supplied - the terrible pots and the pointless three way switch. Never rewired a semi-hollow bass before, and with a solid centre block the only access point is the f-hole. No worries! First step - gather supplies - found some pots in my parts bin and ordered a Schaller 3 way rotary Megaswitch - so much easier to wrap one's head around than your typical rotary. Then it's time to take a deep breath and feed the guts out through the f-hole (realising that there's no way back now - even stuffing the innards back in as they are will be a challenge) Desoldered and removed the old pots and the switch, leaving only the bridge wire (taped up so it can't escape inside the bass again!) and the pickup wire. Noting the two hot wires which went to the old switch (white/green) - use multimeter to figure out which grounds go with which hots (white/black, red/green) then wire the Megaswitch using the schematic handily provided by Schaller for this very scenario (single HB, parallel/single/series) Wire up from the switch to the volume and tone pots to the jack socket (remembering to include the bridge earth wire) Test BEFORE beginning to stuff the innards back in the f-hole, then do it in order of (wired) distance from the pickup - jack socket first - easily the worst, fiddliest one - having small hands/fingers I managed to get it in the rough vicinity of the hole then used a large allen key to maneuver it into position and keep it there whilst I got the washer/nut on. Take a breath, then carry on - tone pot, volume pot and finally, three way switch (which went in quite easily - had done some testing beforehand to see what was the easiest way, found an angled approach worked best after first trying other contortions of a more twisting nature which might have stressed the wires) Finally, put the knobs on, and it's done! The chrome knob is temporary - couldn't find a chickenhead in my spares so I've ordered one. Final tests through headphones and amp revealed that it has been a resounding success - real differences between the settings (well, slight difference between single/parallel but the usual big kick going into series). Only wee oopsie (and I'm not fixing it) is that I got my coils mixed up and the single coil is the bridge coil, not the neck one as I had intended. I don't think it makes a lot of difference so I'm going to leave it.

I looked up "bass player" definition and I didn't see "makes logical sense" anywhere, you're all good.

Most supermarkets and chemists. Even Markies have them at the till, at least the one at Union Square, Aberdeen does.

Out of all the main "more affordable" brands, I've been thinking for some time now that SBMM have been taking the mick more than most in these times of inflation and increased prices.

What kind of strap are you using?

My amp for the past 12 years has been a Red Sub BT5110 (G4M's amp brand), the only thing that's gone wrong with it in that time was the headphone socket needed replacing. Make of that what you will, it's just one instance of one product they sold which has worked out fantastically for me. I bought a G4M bass once, unfortunately it had been damaged in transit. I sent it back without issue but didn't get a replacement, I just went off the idea of it in the interim and got a refund. It was pretty cheap feeling, but it was pretty cheap, so can't really complain!

56 basses have entered the building, 48 have left. They left because they weren't being played, less favoured ones were sold to finance new acquisitions, and the occasional fire sale when things got financially grim (like when moving house). In the latter case, I kept the ones which weren't worth that much and sold the ones I'd get the most back from. This unfortunately meant selling some tasty stuff I would rather have kept, but that's less important than keeping a roof over one's head.

Correct

I dunno about long periods of time, but it's always zero music in the car on the way home from playing a gig - I've just spent the best part of 3 hours being part of the music, that's quite enough in one sitting, thanks!

I did go through a wobbly period during COVID lockdowns - I picked up a bass twice in 2 years and did wonder if I would get back into it once the restrictions were eased. Gave some serious thought to quitting both my bands and jacking in playing bass. Glad I didn't though. I'm somewhat worried about motivation though - I haven't written a song in years, and I remain pretty lazy when it comes to learning new stuff. We're having to change our singer in the covers band, so maybe that'll provide some impetus, to not appear incompetent if nothing else.