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Are we reading the same advert? There's a list of new parts plus a very brief description of the playability and condition.

I started a fretless conversion some years ago and am coming towards the end now. Main problem was not filling the lots properly - that's what I am finally getting round to sorting by putting a little epoxy resin in. Whoever did the defret on my recently acquired Squier did an excellent job. It's a maple fretboard, and close up you can see the serrations along the edges of the fret slots (they're filled with a black filler so the fret lines are visible), but there's no tearing and the binding is fine.

My big regret is that I didn't start learning that there were other basses out there until the late 80s when I was 30. I'd thought Fender was the pinnacle, then I encountered Warwick, then it took quite a while before I discovered much else - I think that after buying the JD Thumb I thought that was the ultimate bass (4-string wise, it still is, in my eyes) and didn't explore anything else until deciding to have a proper go at 5-string, which was around 2007. And so the collection began...

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I was wrong about this. I had powered up the Stomp successfully so I assumed it was working, as on previous occasions when it had insufficient power it went into a startup loop, flashing up the splash screen then shutting down and restarting. This time, it went all the way through and responded to button presses, and to HX Edit. However, I hadn't been putting a signal through it. When I did, although it kept showing on the screen and responding to HX Edit, it neither made a noise nor responded on the tuner. Switching to the standard power supply, it did work. I can't find my current sharing lead so I've ordered a 5.5/2.1 to 5.5/2.5 adaptor and I'll use a daisy chain lead to current share, and see if that encourages it into life. Edit: just to emphasise that the Stomp is a massive current drain. Very few pedals will require that sort of power. Don't be discouraged from using this for a "normal" pedalboard.

I think they're Wilkinson M-series pickups, which are licensed - I've bought one myself which I'm going to try in a Ray5. https://wilkinsondirect.com/m-series/

I thought you'd sold all your vintage Fenders.

If buying second hand from a private seller in the EU, you're paying 20% more than you would have paid BB.

It's not at all political to say that things changed between Before Brexit and After Brexit. Whether blue passports outweigh 4% of GDP - that's political.

In the case of the second picture in the OP, they can even merge.

It ain't bad.

I was thinking of doing this to my Cort Space. Finished up putting copper washers in to replace the plastic ones which didn't make a lot of difference but this looks like a good alternative. Tension on a bass string is about 20kg (says D'Addario) which I assume means around 200N, and they're good up to 580N, so should survive.

Couldn't you just move the baffle back a bit?

TC BAM200 is quiet. The original Tecamp Puma 900 doesn't have a fan.

I got a minute in before I started feeling too seasick to continue.

There's just four notes in it: D (5th fret A string), C (3rd fret A string), G, and bottom D. Stays on D in the verse, then D C G in the chorus. You could get away without the bottom D - as Dad says, you'd want a 5-string bass (or 4-string tuned BEAD) or tune the bottom string down to D. If you do want to include the bottom Ds, you need to have a good listen to see where they come in.

If there was a cease and desist, it would have been the other way as the Boss came out first (or at least that's what this article says). And it also says that Fender bought up the entire supply of the required chip, hence the redesign.

I've tried a few times but I just can't stand the vocals. Pinky and Perky do prog.

Charvel are full-on FSO makers. Jackson may be rather too linked with droopy headstocks. Start again without legacy baggage.

Presumably the upper echelons of Fender aren't stupid, so they'll know that all they have to do is keep churning out Ps, Js, Ps with J pickups, active Js, and whatever other parts bin specials they can come up with, and they'll sell. If they bring out something else, it won't sell in such large numbers. So what's the point in bringing something out that you know won't sell in large numbers and then discontinuing it because it didn't sell in large numbers? Why not go the other way to the Squier label and produce non-FSO basses under a different name, creating some lower volume innovative instruments called (for example) Mudguards? They'd have all the CNC machines and the finest Mexican craftsmen in both Mexico and California.

And a dragon on your bass

In the first couple of years, then it went to being live.

I think people did buy them (which is why you can get them second-hand) but because they didn't instantly sell in huge numbers like the extremely established Ps and Js then Fender just ditched them.

What do you see if you view the page source (Ctrl-U seems to be the standard keypress for that)?

What other instruments are in the backing track? And why can't they just remove the bass from the backing track (either remix it or, as @SumOne says, use Moises to remove the bass)? I'd say they're rather lacking in empathy.