Jean-Luc Pickguard

I doubt an 80s strat would have a lacquer finish so all of the suggestions so far should be safe on a poly finish. Lighter fluid is great for getting rid of stubborn sticker residue so might also work for marker pen ink.

Not my kind of bass, but I believe these are well regarded. Less than two hours to go with bidding at £122. Pickup only so might be a bargain for someone who appreciates such things. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/283785123186

Here's a bit of cheap tat that someone has gone to a lot of trouble to try to pass off as a Fender neck. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/fender-precision-bass-neck/124093722234?hash=item1ce48fee7a:g:5~EAAOSwkkxeUYKV

Waste of time - The bass doesn't exist.

Definitely a scammer - you'll have no ebay protection when the goods aren't sent. Report him to ebay.

It was a pleasure to meet Gary when he came to buy a bass from me. A good chap to deal with.

Try signing in with a G suite account, ie an account for google/gmail/youtube etc

I always considered transparent red to be the best colour for SG shaped Gibson basses, but having seen this, I've changed my mind.

115mm

Looks like an unneccesarily overengineered and costly solution to a very minor problem.

So do I , but I don't let that stop me My current no 1 is one of these and I love everything about the design

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/funky "Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric"

Noticed a funky looking Wishbass on ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Fretless-4-String-Curly-Ambrosia-Maple-J-B-Wishbass-Kent-Armstrong-J-PU/143531217204?hash=item216b209134:g:ks0AAOSw7UheGOpm and this fugly one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lefty-Bass-Fretless-4-String-Red-Cedar-Fiddle-Shape-Short-Scale-28-Wishbass/133325147860?_trkparms=aid%3D555021%26algo%3DPL.SIMRVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20190711100440%26meid%3Daf81145a6a9f4ca6b4d1f88154fb85a7%26pid%3D100752%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D18%26mehot%3Dpf%26sd%3D143531217204%26itm%3D133325147860%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100752.m1982 Also noticed the verbiage near the bottom of the page: Unfortunately this video exists with Mr Wishnevsky himself demoing one of his basses by using it to make a noise like a dying cow

Yes, I have the mooer bass sweeper now & its fantastic for such an inexpensive pedal. My bassballs was the original 70s USA one. I can't remember when I last saw it, but it would have been many years before basschat existed.

I'm so used to babying my basses that I catch myself taking great care not to put a dink in my JMJ mustang.

There's a 'tribute' series version of the fallout guitar, so I wouldn't be surprised if a more affordable version of the fallout bass is available sometime in the future - maybe even with some nice colours.

I must go & see this before it ends in April. Its good to see that Paul's bass is resting on a nice padded cushion to prevent it from getting damaged.

I quite fancy an ebony one, but I should probably unload one of the sunburst ones before looking as having four could be seen as excessive.

You'd probably need to open it up and mess about with the trimpots to get it sounding this filthy, and of course David J was playing his usual Fretless precsion. The bass sweeper is a pretty good clone of the bass balls and brings the extra controls to the top for a wider variation in sound. I used to own an original 70s bass balls so I recognised the sound on this track as soon as I heard it. I still have the record but I have no idea what happened to the bass balls.

Nice! The fingerboard looks great. Any reason you went for this set rather than the 760FLMUS mustang-specific LaBellas?

Knocking the headstock off a gibson isn't the end of the world - chap I know had his invisibly repaired for £65, and its almost expected for an old one to have a repair in its history. If fitting four pedals is such a pain in the ar$e for the manufacturer, he should probably try fitting them using his hands instead.

Cool story

Love a bit of bass balls (or mooer bass sweeper these days)

Thomastik jazz rounds JR344? https://www.thomastik-infeld.com/en/products/guitar-strings/bass-guitar/jazz-round-wound

I've become adicted to the vintage pro thunderbird basses and currently have three, two sunburst and one white. All have *customised* truss rod covers and two have Gotoh GB640 res-o-lite tuners which are fantastic. I have found that EB colbalt flats 40 - 095 work really well on these basses. I don't find the necks at all chunky, they are pretty much the perfect shape for me - like a skinny jazz neck but needing fewer truss rod tweaks due to temperature and humidity changes.