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(Un😉)surprisingly @AndyTravis didn't hang on to the Marathon long so it now resides with me, keeping it's younger nephew, the Eastwood, company. These Marathons really are fantastic basses. I've put 55-110 D'Addario NYXLs on and it is sooooo punchy. It really cuts through. 😎 Most of the pictures in this thread have been lost so it would be great to see any members Shergolds, or Haymans again.

I like that, looks great. 😎

Brand New Cadillac - The Clash, or that Alvin Stardust prototype that did the original.

Wow! In at the deep end. Are you going fretless or are you refretting it? Either way, best of luck. I'll look forward to seeing the progress.

Where do I pay? WHERE DO I PAY!?

I have invented a plate to be used to in the conjunction with high mass bridges called a 'tone mirror'. It screws onto the rear of your bass directly in line with the bridge and reflects vibrations back to the bridge, returning 100% of energy back into the string, creating an infinite energy loop so effective that I have to use an Ebow to tame it... ...honest.

In thirty years of gigging I have never played Mustang Sally. I may not be rich and famous but this has to be an achievement.

I bought three of these on ebay a couple of months ago. They're really quite good, not the best but as long as you do everything up tight and don't abuse them they'll be fine I think. I've can't remember if I made an offer or the seller sent me an email offer (stick it in the your watched list and they quite often do) but I paid £50.25, so £16.75 each. An absolute bargain.

Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies

The Night - Frankie Valli

Danelectro Longhorn top button is in the end of the body as per that link and it does make getting a strap on (pack it in) a little difficult. Once there it doesn't want to slip off though, and your bass being heavier would just secure it tighter. I have a couple where the top button is in the heel of the neck, which would bring yours forward another centimeter or two, but they are set neck and the heel is deeper more like an acoustic. Would a button in the neck heel put too much stress on the relatively thin amount of wood?

I didn't realise he was touring at the mo. I've love an Alice Cooper gig.

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - The Smiths

Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode

Too late now but I've seen some people fit a banjo arm rest on hollow bodies to alleviate this problem. It doesn't do anything for looks IMO. Rickenbacker 4005 (single bound) has a nice comfy contour. A banjo arm rest is cheaper though. 😉

Accidentally on Porpoise - Johnny Cash

Jesus Built My Fishing Rod - Ministry

Kick Out the Jams - MC5

Ooh, they look rather GET THE ORANGE ONE nice.

Not even an Ibanez Iceman? 😁

I can do you a mid reverse P conversion pic in the garden from the a couple of years ago. It included a restring. 😁

From the video I saw, there's a reason the band/sound crew were drowning Farrell out.

@W1_Pro, I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner but I recently bought a Hondo II Precision as a bit of a project. I think I just got distracted by comparing yours to my SD Curlee. Anyway I bought this old Hondo bass which the seller claimed had a DiMarzio PU (he was lenient with the truth in other aspects so I wasn't sure). The cover had been pretty crudely glued back on so I've just picked it apart to solve my, and hopefully your, query. The basses are roughly the same era and the pickup looks just like yours (you can see where the glue would've been at the other end) so I'd assume it's the same pickup.

I bought a USA Curlee earlier this year which I still haven't quite decided what to do with. Below are some pictures of the pickups and pots. I'd guess, and it's only a guess, that if your pickups were DiMarzio then the pots would be too, as they are in the USA ones. This is the only pic of the rear of the PUs I've got but you can see they're different. And of course we need the whole bass in it's slightly battered state. As @Bassassinsays, if your PU work give them a go and see what they sound like. I think both pots should be 500k, coupled with the PU being so far back gives them a real aggressive, clanky tone. A bit of distortion and I think they sound fantastic.

A light coat of a vintage amber tint spray would green that blue up a bit, before you put whatever clear on you're using.