Bigwan

I don't think I'm misunderstanding anything. What you refer to as a reality is an opinion. One I wholeheartedly disagree with based on my own experience of working for multinational corporations. None of them make guitars but that's beside the point. I'm certainly not misunderstanding you calling me stupid because I don't agree with you. We can discuss your emotional maturity at length if you want, but I'm not sure this is quite the right place!

Didn't miss it, but if it was an issue at all wouldn't you have addressed it? Would have "done my napper in" as they say round here!

I think if everybody in the world played a Gus G3 you'd use a Fender just to be different...

Same broken record BRX...

Apologies Alan. I did find the video thought provoking. My first thought was how come Alan doesn't charge more?... I say that fully acknowledging the irony of it considering our recent email conversation!

"for example Fender making "cheap" guitars (branded as Squier) in Japan created jobs and helped to raise the standard of living in Japan to the extent that they moved production to Korea, then to China, then to Indonesia, then to Vietnam, in each case creating a new population of skilled workers earning more than they earned before, and now capable of pushing ahead without further investment from abroad." You wrote that, did you not? What were we to take from that?

So what you're saying is these manufacturers move production from countries like Japan to countries like Indonesia to help the Indonesian economy? And you think the guy in the video is being naive? I'd say he's not the only one. What you describe is a side effect of companies chasing the lowest cost of production. Plain and simple. As soon as it becomes cheaper to produce guitars to certain standards and schedules and in the required quantities elsewhere in the world, a corporation will move production because the bottom line profitability is all that matters to them. It would be nice to think they're moving production from country A to country B just to help out all the B population, but that is rose tinted viewing at best. I've seen it in every company I've ever worked for, current one especially.

I thought you'd gone all TalkBass on us! Edit: @Al KrowRound here, mates don't get on like this. We're far more abusive! Last place I worked an American chap joined the team and spent the first few months thinking everybody hated each other! He went on to coin the phrase "things you'd never hear in an American office!".

He says he will post...

Anywhere else I'd agree. Neck plate is fine as you can swap it.

I went to £35 quid because I'm a tight-wad. It might be a 20p fix, or a £300 fix. Might be good for spares as buying from Mesa is no longer financially viable IMO

Guy local to me is trying to sell a first run Sire for £650 notes because Marcus Miller signed the neck plate. He signed a thousand of them though, so just how collectible is that? Certainly raised a chuckle from me...

My phone has auto-corrected to worse things than that in the past!!!

This topic is not helping my Mustang GAS by the way...

Nothing unreasonable in what you're saying - same thing has annoyed me, on and off, for years. It's a buyers market at the minute, making these folks seem even more "misguided". What some people deem as upgrades or improvements can be quite laughable. The fact is that folk like this have always existed, it just seems like there are more of them because, you know, internet...

Gotcha. Had other pics open in separate tab in chrome and flicking back and forth myself

Haven't seen close up photos but from what I've seen the Mikey Way Mustang seems to have a silver finish with a black fleck. OP's bass certainly isn't that... Edit: reasonably good pics here of the Mikey Way finish: https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/retro-bass-guitars/squier-mikey-way-mustang-bass-rosewood-fretboard-large-flake-silver-sparkle Doesn't look the same to me.

Nice looking bass. Looks like it was originally Olympic White... (possibly black looking on the right edge of the neck pocket) Can't imagine the racing stripes on a Mikey Way would be easily removed to leave a finish like that, and the Mikey Way seems more silver to me than this. EDIT - what's the pickup rout like?

Which is why the strings lost their snap... If you're used to a certain tension why would you expect the strings to perform the same at lower tension?

There are a number of mods that are kind of incremental. I did them all at once so it can be quite a bit brighter than the original (as far as I remember!) with the nature control up full. I'd like to revisit the project and do a lot more playing around with various values and maybe implement the tone control from other BJFE/Bearfoot circuits in addition to the nature control. But, you know, life...

Report back! EDIT: A quick search reveals a few Yamaha THR10 owners here and no bad comments at all...

Yeah that sprung to mind, but we were asked for recommendations. Not tried, or even seen the Yamaha in the flesh so I'm hardly likely to recommend it. I do have my doubts that it'll handle true bass given its size, but I'm open to being proved wrong!