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Both were basses. Best was a Sei Jazz 5, the Basschat Bike - I think I'm the 10th owner. Worst (and this is most definitely a relative term) was a Cort GB5 Custom - I'd had a GB4 Custom which had a neck comparably as slender as an early Warwick Thumb, but the GB5 has a slightly thicker neck. Great bass, looks good, sounds good, balances well, but I wanted a slimmer neck, and so it got PXed for the Sei.

For open mic nights & rehearsals, a small fishing tackle bag which holds Lekato wireless, A-B box, Zoom MS-60B, spare batteries, Allen keys, capo, screwdriver with swappable ends, short jack-jack leads. For gigs, PA leads (XLR & IEC & mains extensions) in a suitcase with wheels and tablets, tablet holder, microphone, towel, spare T-shirt, USB charger in a Spada messenger bag.

Not that I'm in the market for one anyway, but Fender appear to have ignored 5-string players.

Ibanez EHB, Cort Space?

If I were ever to hit my head and find myself wanting a P, the amount of fakes would completely put me off as I wouldn't be confident of spotting a fake. However, in this case, wouldn't one expect to see a serial number somewhere if it was genuine - neckplate or headstock?

I've bought a couple of these, but to use in Variaxes which take 6xAA batteries when on open mic nights, so high consumption but short duration. I haven't yet assessed how long they last for. It would be a bit tricky adding a charging cable when there's a separate battery compartment as there wouldn't be room for the plug in the battery compartment, or for the socket in the lid, and generally the hole between control cavity and battery compartment would be too small to pass the plug through so that solution is also precluded. Single compartments (eg later Warwicks) would be more feasible. But if the battery lasts a few months, it's not exactly onerous to take it out for a recharge now and again.

24 this year (our first year of gigging, started a bit slowly and gathered momentum). Our ideal is 20-30 gigs per year.

Could at least have cleaned the fretboard.

In the policarbonate shed? A policarbonate shed yesterday.

What you can do for the large ones is find which posts each is in, then resize the photo, edit the post, delete the existing attachment, and substitute the new photo.

There's an awful lot of Americans who think otherwise. They also seem to have some sort of aversion to Hull.

Just the thing for playing in your super shed.

I have a lined fretless bass that I had to have the dots moved to where the fretlines were as I didn't get on with them between the lines (and I don't look at the fingerboard when playing). I also have an SRF705 fretless which has small edge markings for each fret position and dot markers between the edge markings. I get on with that fine. The assistant to the runner of the open mic I go to has a Squier bass which was originally fretless but which he had fretted, so the fret markers are at the frets, like the OP's. I've played it a few times and, like the OP, the dots rather confuse me.

Now @police squad has had the botox and fillers done, it would be a shame to waste it. 😁

Maybe the answer is for Fender to spin off a subsidiary called something else to produce properly innovative designs.

Don't worry about it.

I've owned two. I now have arthritis. So now we know cause and effect - eschew the P, save your joints!

With a dummy headstock.

I think their trouble with the Dimension was the half-heartedness of it. New pickups, change the pickguard, tweak to the body shape, leave the massive headstock which screams "Fender!" unchanged, make the pickup switching clunky.

I want to sound like me.

Fender need to appeal to the non-Fenderheads though, people who are buying Ibanez, Cort, etc and don't have any interest in current or past Fenders.

It would be the musical equivalent of Harley Davidson, except that changing legislation meant that Harley had to move on and eventually abandon its old models. There's nothing to make Ps and Js obsolete in the same way, and they're functional and have plenty of fanbois. It's just annoying to non-fanbois that Fender keep pretending they're doing something different when they're just putting out a different set of colours.

Which one is it? Or what's the best search terms to use?

I would guess at the one covering the 1x12 with tweeter and crossover.