Maude

I paid £1500 for my car five years ago. It does everything I want it to do. Some people spend £150,000 on cars and they're badly built, barely driveable, and they crash them. Horses for courses. If you want and you can, you do.

Clevor Trevor - Ian Dury

Where Did Our Love Go - Soft Cell (less obvious 😉)

Signed 🙂👍

I don't know the answer to your problem but WOW! £81 from Bax at the mo for the Hot Rod P. What a price and what a looker. 😎👍

@ash, that is fantastic. Very jealous. In other news, I've just seen this on the facebook bass vi group (from talkbass) which is interesting. An Ibanez Talman TMB35 converted to six string. The string spacing looks much better than the majority of factory bass vi's, and the pickups will sound like a bass. A bass players bass vi rather than a guitar players. Oh yeah forget the link 🙄😁 https://www.talkbass.com/threads/ibanez-talman-bass-vi-reduced.1599861/

I realise this doesn't answer your question but it might be an alternative, or suitable for others. I've recently bought a Nux Mighty Plug and it is now my go to practice tool as it's just so convenient. Plug it into my bass, short headphone lead plugged into it and I'm completely untethered. You can bluetooth your music source to it and there's an app to set up presets containing amp, cab and effects sims. USB rechargeable and lasts a good amount of time. As I said, not the answer to your question but possibly a cheap alternative. This it, bass, Nux, headphones. Can't wait for summer garden noodling. 🙂👍

Mint Car - The Cure

Those straps always make me fearful of popping a nut out mid gig.

Stranglehold - UK Subs

Seems to me like the perfect place to mount the pair of aerials for a theramin.

Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange

Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper

See Her Pee - NOFX What better way to spend 32 seconds?

Strict Machine - Goldfrapp

I now want a double reverse P BB.

Uh oh! 😁

Diane - Husker Du

My Name Is - Eminem

[Strained tone] Must resist. 😁

There's actually some good demos on YouTube showing what it can do, and it's limitations, rather than fancy demos by the manufacturer. I found one using the preloaded strings section and was impressed. I like the way you can slide your finger around the pad to change vibrato, intensity and the tone of the strings, the cutoff just emphasises the top end of the strings giving them a nice swell, and it transitions nicely between chords when you change pad.

I've got to be honest, it looks/sounds really good in that demo. But my fear is always that once in my hands I'll make it sound like a bad Bontempi demo.

Spanish Stroll - Mink Deville

What ever happened to settling scores by simply going round and giving them a nuggie?

I'd only ever had 34" or 30" before, actually I've got 32" acoustic bass but the body is huge so hard to compare. I picked a used Warwick Rockbass Starbass on here within your price range. 32" scale and I really like it. Big enough to feel like a 'proper' bass (I'm six foot) but compact enough to not feel unwieldy if using it sat on someone's sofa. Hollow but with a centreblock so no feedback issues, sounds great, feels great, looks great.