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I bet it did! The tension must be pretty brutal. I had no idea he strung his bass like that.

True. Although I think it’s less likely that newer strings will break in a gig. I sold that Thumb bass years ago and I can’t remember the last time a string broke in a live situation since then. I’ve had a couple go as they were initially strung onto basses but they were clearly duff strings. As for taking a spare bass I really only ever have a spare when I touring and rarely does it get used. Always have spare strings (new and old!) and plenty of batteries though. Especially for my Yamaha SLB300 which goes through AA’s like they’re going out of fashion!

Always a good move. Also helps avoid the sound of the one brand new string boinging out over the others. My first really good bass back in the late nineties was a Warwick Thumb NT4 and that had a similar problem where one of the bridge saddles would cut through strings during gigs. Used to have to carry loads of spare G’s. On one gig I went through two and ended up having to tune a spare D string up to a G. My fingers were shredded to pieces by the end…

Bet that sounds amazing. Good price so far too…

I reckon it’s the fact that Ian Martin Allison from SBL has a beloved Antigua Jazz bass that’s pushed the prices up on these. Anything that gets featured on their videos instantly gets an instant price bump on the used market.

Definitely worth checking out the EBS Unichorus. Spent a long time searching for just the right chorus and that one was the favourite. Had mine for years now. There was one up for sale on here last week…

Blimey. Looks like some kind of gardening tool…

@Obrienp The V in Sandberg World refers to the precision-style split coil pickup. T being a jazz pickup and M being a Musicman style humbucker. Hence a VM has one split coil and one humbucker etc… That’s a lovely looking bass @grayn 👌