Woodinblack

Love the orange ones here - it just works better in orange. If you are going to make a design like that, it kind of has to scream to be looked at!

I have already played it and it is testament to the fact fender could do the right thing if they wanted

Not sure what precision comfort is - the further away from 16 it gets, the worse it gets at finding strings!

I got one like that, but 10x10 as I just have the one pole, and don't know if I am getting others. Seems ok, it has padding but as you said, I wouldn't put anything on it.

Even if I could get past the hideous headstock, the string spacing is a non starter for me.

See I used to think they were hideous, and then one day it just switched. Now I have one and wouldn't be without it.

Not too late you can just turn up on the day - 10am onwards

Well, the prices will go up now, they will have finally achieved desirability

They don't - you can see that much in the pictures of the OP

or the hofner wooden version!

Preferd it in the colour announced last year Unlike how un-niche it was when the first one came out in 1979? Think it looks great, hopefully I can get a several second hand version of the production version at some point!

Are they actually real? I got some from eBay and they looked fine, but when I went to put the number in the players circle thing they turned out to be fakes. Which was odd as they actually played fine, but got refunded anyway.

I tend to avoid remixes like the plague as the remix of Trick of the Tail was so terrible, but as I wasn't that bothered or tied to that album, I should probably give it a listen.

Presumably noone has reported them, or they are too small for fender to have noticed?

The ugliness of them! Its just the complete run out of ideas, we have to look a bit like a fender but can't look too much like a fender, we will just get a child to draw a headstock, two lines, thats fine. Thats why there are scroll bars on the side of the window, so you can scroll past!

.. would you use the structure or any of the notes of the original?

And most people who want a bongo (and I was one), don't really know what a real bongo is like until they have one. This looks the part, and sure its a bit expensive new but will be a lot cheaper second hand, so this gets you a long way there. Indeed, there are plenty of ray like things, including the sires and harley bentons. I have an OLP as well which I play quite a lot.

If anyone has either a fender telepath or XVive A58 wireless that I can test to see if it is noise free I would be pretty interested!

I certainly wouldn't bring 15 basses (well, I only have 12 or so), I just bring 2 or 3 that are different from usual so people can see. I mean people are too busy eating anyway

Hardly, if you want a bongo you don't really want a sire. I mean, I wanted a bongo and wouldn't go near a sire, but if you hang round enough you get what you want at a reasonable price. I presume eventually they will get to a street price of less.

The blue certainly isn't selling it, and never liked the unfinished part behind the neck under the strings.

I really don't get what is bad about the headstock, I never saw it. It itsn't objectively bad like the sire or James Tyler, or bite(?) or even the moderne (which I like as it is so stupid).

Of course you can, they sound different. Put two 63 jazz basses next to each other and they will sound different to each other. Get another newer jazz bass with a pickup made to sound vintage and it will sound different. The difference is whether there is something totally unique to them then you can play 10 basses blindfold and say say 'yes those 5 are vintage, and these 5 arent'. But you can't, I am sure that noone can. Because they love that bass and they can afford it, they are players not collectors, but I think that will tail off with the current prices, the players will start selling off their old basses and just taking cheaper, less nickable instruments on the road, because that makes sense. Many people stopped taking expensive instruments out, as mentioned, david gilmour sold his rare strats for charity and plays new ones, he still sounds exactly the same. Even if you 100% believed that a vintage fender came up with a totally unique sound that nothing else could make, you can't possibly beleive you could hear that when it was gigging when half the time you can't tell if it is a bass or not!

No, your browser auto completed your password for you, the web site certainly didn't, otherwise what would be the point of having a password? So maybe in the time since you last ordered you have either changed your password on some other device, or put it wrong on that computer or they have auto changed their passwords a while back, but either way it sis wrong. But no, no trouble ordering with Gear4music last time I did it which was last month.

Well, I am sure it isn't easy to accidentally release them. I am not a dingwall fan, but they do put effort into their custom hardware, so I would imagine they have thought it through completely. I don't want one anyway, as i have been put of dingwalls, but like to see a bit of innovation where it happens.