Maude

Down On The Farm - UK Subs

I guessed that was coming. Tomorrow 🙂👍

Yay, it's here and all is good! I had to go out this evening so it was a quick unpackage to check over and that was it. But it's oh so sexy, really nice looking and at first glance appears to be in excellent condition. It's smaller than I expected, but I have been playing a Jack Casady and Ric 4005 mainly and they're both stupidly large. Tomorrow I'll give it a proper try out. But at the mo I'm a very happy chappy! 🙂

She's arrived according to UPS. It's leant against the south facing front door, slowly cooking in the afternoon sun until I get home at six. Opposite the front door is a five metre square gated undercover area. Nevermind 🙄 🤣

Police Car - The Members (cover)

Don't be overly harsh about your badge. I like it!

Don't Leave Me This Way - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

Tracking lies. 🥺

A brown envelope stuffed with used notes when the Basschat heavies come knocking should do it.

Just had a message that mine is being delivered today, I wasn't expecting it until Friday. Excellent news, apart from I'm at work twenty miles away and nobody else is home. Fingers crossed they leave it somewhere as my property is safe/quiet enough, rather than take it back to a depot to be thrown around. 🤞

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes that would work, although not as strong as a pair of magnets. But easier to screw some self tappers in than recess for magnets I suppose.

If the cover is made from wood or plastic then it won't be magnetic.

Two-lane Blacktop - Rob Zombie

There's a Flea signature Jazz in the classifieds. Lovely basses, if that look is your thing.

In all honesty, I don't know, or if I'll even do it. I'll see when I've had a play. I've always fancied a reverse P and this would make a great trial bass, was my thinking. Looking at pictures I think I'd just swap the E/A and D/G around. If the E/A was simply placed below the D/G, it would look nasty as it would be half in half out of the scratchplate. If the other way then the whole pickup would be too close to the neck I think. Looking at the space available, I don't think there's room for a double P in the scratchplate, not without looking cluttered anyway.

Ah yes, I can see now I've zoomed in on a picture. I thought the pickup surround was mounted on top of the scratchplate, now I can see the scratchplate is cut to fit outside of the surround. So the body is actually routed for the surround to sit into it slightly then. That's still no biggy though. My main issue is what the base of the surround looks like as it'll need fitting upside down if the pickup is reversed. All will become apparent when mine arrives.

Reversing the P pickup is quite high up on the possibles to do list when my 424x arrives. It mainly depends on how the pickup ring has been made, and what it looks like flipped over. The routing and a new pickguard are the easy bit. The pickup ring could be left off if the underside isn't pretty, but I really like the look of them. It should be here by the end of the week so we'll see. Or go the whole hog and have double reverse P like Lee Sklars Presicion, albeit with the J still there.

Don't Touch The Bang Bang Fruit - The Meteors

Eating Trifles - The Jam

Unless you need the money, I don't see a problem with owning more basses (or anything else) than you need. A collection of basses is an interesting, beautiful, playable, talking point that brings pleasure. A collection of money is just about the dullest thing I can think of. A collection of money is just a load of vouchers that you can exchange for things later in life if you need to. Basses are exactly the same thing but far more pleasurable to own.

Black/black/maple eh? Is this something you like? You've never mentioned it. 😁

It's collection only so I won't be buying, it just looked intriguing and a bit better than a budget bass with the set neck, binding and contoured top. As I'd saved it they sent me an offer of £220, if anyone else was interested.

There's a Sting lookalike bitsa on ebay at the moment. Not sure on the relicing though, a bit fake looking.

That blue BEX is a bit steep isnt it!? They've seen the ludicrously overpriced ones from Japan on ebay and thought we'll have some of that. Oh yeah, and don't go blaming me for your BEX lust on your for sale thread @AndyTravis 😁.

The BEX is just something really special IMO. The soapbar sounds superb in a band mix and is just so easy to make it sound good. They look lovely too. Stupidly cheap for such a good bass.