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That would get right up my nose.

You'd think he'd say which multi-platinum album.

Pricey, they're £899 new from Bass Direct (currently out of stock though).

Synth was a plus for me too, as I can play either a little bit of keys or something with a 12-step (single notes with something like a Taurus or chords on strings or organ). I'm just starting with experimenting with it.

My Seis (an Original and a Flamboyant) both fit into a Thomann E-guitar gigbag - https://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_premium_gigbag_eguitar_br.htm (not at the same time). The only issue is that it has reinforcement where a single strap button would normally be, so the dual strap buttons have worn through. Loads of pocket size for straps, Zoom MS-60B plus wallwart, cables, notes, etc. It depends on what you're protecting the bass from - this stops the rain getting on them and protects against scratches and light impacts, and the bass always goes on top of everything else. There's also a Rockbag for cricket bat basses - https://www.thomann.de/gb/rockbag_rb_20601b_steinberger_bass_bag.htm. I haven't got any experience of that as I just use the original bag with my Hohner.

My experience has been buy cheap, buy once.

Cheap - Lekato 5GHz Mid-range - Smoothhound, Line 6, Boss Expensive - Shure I've got experience of the Lekato, Smoothhound, and Line 6 G50, and they're all good.

That's the ones I've got for home practice and rehearsals, and also used for some gigs. No problems at all.

You can find out from their tutorial videos. https://www.evertune.com/resources/animated_video_tutorials.php The first one tells you what's going on. Basically, wobbly bridge saddles located by balancing string tension with spring tension for each saddle, so the increased tension from plucking a string (which sharpens the pitch slightly in the initial attack) is smoothed out. Clever, but I'm not sure that it's really a problem that needs solving. And they don't do a headless version.

I consider myself to be what you neofascists refer to as "woke", ie. I have some humanity and empathy, and I don't consider raunchy music to be offensive.

Use of "woke" in a pejorative sense = neo-fascist.

For the books, or for changing it from blue? It's nice in green, I thought the blue was more striking though.

Looking forward to this with interest.

You could search for tailors or invisible menders, they'd probably know what to do. In fact, Timpson say they can do zips - https://www.timpson.co.uk/repairs/clothing

PM'd.

I have an 87 and a 2000 hanging on the wall opposite me. Identical bodies - the neck on the 2000 was much thicker than that on the 87, and the rear of the headstock on the 87 is carved to thin it either side of a central spine, unlike the 2000, so the neck on the 2000 was heavier relative to the body than that on the 87 (I had the neck on the 2000 reprofiled to the same dimensions as the 87).

I thought my Status Series 2 was rather nice.

TBH, I've always associated him with Gibson basses, due to that being the only bass I'd seen him with in photos from the first few albums.

From the headstock and the shape of the horns, it looks like a Hohner and a Peavey have got together and had a baby. Doesn't quite tickle my GAS but a nice looker.

Everybody should have a hobby.

That depends on what sort of neck you like. The late 80s and (I think) early 90s had lovely slim shallow necks that had me spending five times what I'd ever spent before on a JD Thumb. Later ones had great thick club-like necks (my 2000 one was like that before I had it reprofiled to be the same as the JD). I think Warwick later went back to a thinner neck profile.

It's a long time ago, but IIRC I brought one of my 4-string Thumbs to a previous bash in Derby so you could compare proportions to your Thumb unclone and make sure you'd got it right.

Ibanez EHB - 1265MS, 1505, 1505MS. Then you're not lumbered with a poxy headstock with all the additional weight and lack of balance that that implies.

Natural wood is lovely. Paint is hideous.

I've fallen foul of that - I've got an assortment of original Schallers, three different Boston Schaller-compatibles, and Schaller S-locks. My S-lock straps go on everything, my old Schaller strap goes on my S-Lock basses, my Boston straps (all three) go on my original Schallers but not on the S-locks. The strap buttons of the S-locks are 0.1mm greater in diameter and 0.1mm further from the top to the channel that the straplock slots into, and that's enough for the Bostons to jam short of engaging. I shall just have to ensure that the straps that I take out are compatible with the bass - at least I have very few S-lock equipped basses.