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I think I'd describe the necks as "just started" rather than "unfinished".

I've dropped him a message to ask about pickups, controls, and output socket.

So, take a hundred quid bridge and make it look like shit, and that's an improvement? Oh well, if it makes someone happy I'm sure it's worth it.

There's a headstock.

Have you tried google? https://kalabrand.com/products/road-toad-pahoehoe-u-bass-strings?variant=6031545089

BassChat 112 (300W), or my Plenty cab with a Deltalite (250W), or the BC house jam micro cam (100W), all with a Tecamp Puma 900. The throttle volume control goes both ways.

Then wait ten seconds and click "Newest results first". The waiting is very important.

Logged in over the last six months, say. Browsers get updated more frequently than that, and most people will get updates either to their browsers or their OSes which will cause a logout. I await a vast chorus of people saying that they're still on WinXP and never update Internet Explorer v6.

There's nothing stopping small lightweight rigs having plenty of bass.

Is it a screw?

Except a bass with a headstock.

I know what it reminds me of...

I'm sorry, I don't understand that sentence.

Mine go in the recycling. If they can take tin cans, they can take stainless strings.

She sounds like Linda McCartney crossed with Yoko Ono.

Handcuffs provide a simple solution to keep the left hand close to the right.

Suggest that the drummer plays keys, the keys player plays bass, and you play drums for the track. Or try it at a rehearsal, making sure it's recorded.

I'm not sure that the backbone is carbon fibre. The silvery grey edging to it suggests that it could be a piece of aluminium channel with carbon fibre wrap over it.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/25849399031341667/ I can see some issues. Like it might dig into your leg, and the bridge doesn't have independently adjustable intonation but it's done in pairs (I think Telecasters are like this too). Still, an interesting instrument.

The toggle switches got here. I connected them up as per Bartolini's wiring diagram and (without buttoning everything up, just in case) tested it. Silence. Sticking my finger on the series/parallel switches gave buzzes. Putting a scope across each coil of the pickups showed a signal so I thought I'd check the signal across the output from the switch and realised that I hadn't connected the ground side of the pickups to ground. Well, that explained that. I sorted that out and now I have sound. Obviously I can't now say how the MK1 compares with the BH2s in the Ibanez because the Ibanez has Aguilars replacing the BH2s and the Cort has MK5CBCs replacing the MK1s. However, I will say that the MK1s when I was trying them had a balanced and full sound, not lacking anywhere. Not sure why they have a bad reputation, other than snobbery about made in USA versus made elsewhere.

I did a swap of a pair of Bart BH2s from an Ibanez EHB for a pair of Bart MK5CBCs, which had been permanently wired as parallel. I thought I'd make them switchable so got some 4-core cable and re-rewired them, drilled holes for and connected up the toggle switches, got silence, realised I hadn't connected the pickups on the ground side, sorted that out, and now I have proper sound. Woo hoo.

I did ask in the original survey and in the follow-up whether they'd be looking at headless basses.

When I visited @dub_junkie to check out a Bogart that I ended up not having, I had a play on a Klos 4-string that he had. I was rather impressed by it, but I play 5s and Klos weren't doing a 5. However, the website did say that one was coming at some point, so I put my name down as interested and a couple of days ago they sent me an email saying that their first 5 string sample will be out soon, in about a month. Could be interesting (OTOH, could spell the end of my life if I try and buy another bass). Here's a link: https://klosguitars.com/products/apollo-pro-5-string-bass

One tuner: Zoom MS-60B - works well for me One drive: Zoom MS-60B - works well for me One fuzz/distortion: Don't use them One envelope filter: Don't use them One octave: MXR Bass Octave Deluxe - impressive capability One modulation: MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe - also impressive One preamp (doesn't have to have DI out): Zoom MS-60B - just for EQ One pedal that does reverb or delay (or both): Zoom MS-70CDR for reverb and one wildcard... EHX C9 Organ Machine - who can resist an impressive swelling organ? No compressor though? TC Spectracomp if we should allow that too.