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Peavey TVX, if you don't mind the weight these are great cabs and can be picked up relatively cheaply.

Monks Eleigh on the other hand is about 40 minutes up the road. I think from memory Peter charged me about 250 quid to glue the back of my bass back on (it was falling off), replace the soundpost, fit and supply a new bridge (not adjustable) which had to be thinned down quite a bit.

Just wondering: if they're Chromes, would they not have multi-coloured ball ends like other D'Addario? This is what my Ernie Ball Flats look like. Not much variation in colour of silks. I wouldn't read too much into that.

Hi Richard, welcome to Basschat. Looks like a very interesting example. You're right about the controls. You're also right about the pickguard and the reversed P pickup not being original. Neither are the dots in the fingerboard. I'd be a bit worried that the pickguard is covering up some routing holes where the original P pickup would have sat. I can't tell whether the pickups have 'SGC' on them, but if not they may also be replacements. The cavities are more or less the same size. Some of the active basses had little channels routed out to take the battery, but the cover plates are all the same size. Not sure whether the Bass Centre had any input to the design or whether it came from Sexton Guitar Company, sorry.

Ah, I see. Yes, that should work. Looking forward to seeing the results in the Build forum!

Sounds a bit excessive to me, does that include the cost of the bridge too? Might be worth giving Peter at ME Strings in Monks Eleigh a call.

I don't think that's going to work, unless you're building a fretless. The fret spacings will be wrong, and you'd need to re-fret to 30.5" scale length.

Yeah, we get a lot of requests for that, probably because we do have a banjo player. It actually takes a bit of playing once you get past the first few bars. We do now have a banjo player who can probably play it, but as Pogues covers band we don't normally play anything they didn't record.

Not a tribute band, but a great name came up elsewhere in this forum: The Old Country Union, now sadly no more.

Yamaha THR10

Thanks both for pointing that out, I missed it.

As of tonight, it appears that Ebay have changed the way that sold listings work. If you include a link to an item for sale, it works fine until the item is sold. But then Ebay helpfullly redirects the link to something else which hasn't been sold, seemingly at random. See my TRB 4P for an example. The only way now to find the original item is to search for 'Sold Items' , and even then if you find the sold item and copy the actual link, Ebay still redirects when you include it in a web page. I think this is going to mean a lot of frustration and broken links in this forum.

I can't believe this. Even if you go to completed lists, search for yamaha, find the actual listing and copy the link that came up, when I posted it into this message it was STILL being resolved to the Washburn. "This item is sold , so here's something utterly unrecognisably different that we found instead!". Morons. Whichever halfwit at Ebay thinks that substitution is a good idea should be shot Anyhoo, it went for 500 quid, one bid.

Someone got a bargain!

Reckon Ernie Ball is right. I have a set which look identical on my Bass Collection fretless, 40 - 95. Think theyre these: https://ernieball.co.uk/guitar-strings/bass-strings/slinky-flatwound-electric-bass-strings#2815

I can only see the same as SpondonBassed. So can you get the indiividual LEDs to light up in sequence, so you know where to put your fingers?

The value of your submarine can go up as well as down!

These are very rare in 4-string guise, and this one looks to be in great condition with original case and a D-tuner. Someone please buy it so I don't have to! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-TRB-4P-Red-Sunburst-1992/142837173294?hash=item2141c24c2e:g:KbMAAOSwNu9bJ6N3

Superb work, congratulations. The battery holder looks like a very neat solution, where did it come from please?

I'll be playing with Waxies Dargle on the University of Suffolk Bowl Stage, rounding off the action at 7.00pm. Anyone else involved?

The GL 2500 Tribute that I used to own had 16.5mm string spacing. US models might be different.

It's Metal Mickey !! Boogie Boogie .

Some great suggestions here, most of which fail the 'cheap' requirement by some distance. I'd go with Bigwan's suggestion of the MS60B or B1on. There are a couple of OK synth patches, which can be surrounded in the chain with the other bits and pieces to make them work better ie octaver, EQ to help with tracking, chorus and delay to fatten up the sound a bit. Or you can chain together the various fuzz, envelope filter and octave effects. Another option might be the Ibanez SB7 in the Effects For Sale section. Or do the sensible think and buy a cheap keyboard synth.

Ha ha, so apart from the colour, the string spacing, the shape and the humbuckers, what have the Romans ever done for us 🙂 At least we can rule that one out then.

I like the idea - get in touch with your inner Hooky, so to speak. Here's an OLP. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232809502171?ViewItem=&item=232809502171 Mm. I quite like that colour, might buy it myself if I wasn't so busy trying to get my head around my new Weissenborn.