Woodinblack

They didn't at the time when I had one, sadly.

Yes, but nordstrand would do a pickup to replace the BH2 in the SRFFs if you wanted, but it was an expensive custom order. I would suspect that Ibanez would contact them and ask them for a size that was the same as the BH2, and they would say "yes certainly!". If they do that, they almost certainly would make it a standard model.

Sorry for your loss, that is a good way to remember someone.

To be fair, clay dots will go a bit brown over time, so white is good!

I remember the SRMS being an awkward size, I would have kept mine if I could have got some nords in there. But the difference with these is that while they might not be a standard size, they do a nord pickup to go in in the other range, so it must be more available than it used to be when it was an expensive custom order.

Yeh, it must be hard at the moment for them to find enough places to hide them all!

I wouldn't be able to write what I would respond to that because it wouldn't get through the basschat swear filter. Suffice to say, I wouldn't be getting my 100€!

I bought some fenders last week with the same ball ends as that. They confused me as they write the strings in the wrong order!

Finally, one month and 3 days after I posted it back I got an unsolicited reply: We started an investigation for your parcel. You indicated that you still have not received your order. We contacted Mondial Relay and they unfortunately declared the parcel as lost. According to the notes from my colleague, you'vee requested a second shipment, so I granted this request. Unfortunately the ordered bass isn't in stock at the moment, as we're expecting it real soon from our supplier.

Agreed, not only has the price gone up, dont forget it is in euros, so in 2016 a bass that translates to £2k now would have cost less than £1600

A tail lift like that and it is starting to look like a genuine Ric!

I wouldn't say conjecture. that is true, but that didn't make a love affair, that was just an unknown member posting stuff. I double that any of that would have got anywhere if that had been it, we have had unknown members posting stuff that never got anywhere. I certainly didn't take any notice of that until wateroftyne got one and posted about his. And then there were several hundred pages of other people with theirs. I love my elwood, but no, fender don't make anything like it, so buying a fender wouldn't be an option. I see some people buy something that appears to be almost like the fender specs and I wonder why people bother with that - I mean if it is just a colour, buy a fender and get it coloured, it will still be worth more second hand but if it is fundamenally different from anything fender do, you don't have a choice. Mine for instance has a 16.5mm string spacing, 20mm thick neck which has the tuners arranged in a proper order and is chambered. Agreed the finish I could do afterwards and the humbuckers and ultralight tuners could be an upgrade, but the core couldn't come from fender (or actually, anyone when I looked at that price). And also some of their models aren't even slightly fender like. Agreed. As mentioned, I love mine and I certainly don't regret getting it but there is a cloud over it due to a problem I had that I had to sort out myself. Luckily I have some friends a lot better at woodwork than I, and one day I will pick up a string retainer so I don't have to faff so much when changing strings!

Is that a tuner at the back or is the tuner at the other end, like the P bass kits you get (that in fact, I have)

Indeed it is. He still almost certainly paid more tax than amazon.

It absolutely is. My latest bass is the most expensive I have ever bought, previously something held by my Maruszczyk elwood. The thing that helped me to justify paying that much on the bass is not just that I fell in love with the bass (although I already did in 2017), but also the support I got from the luthier on a completely different bass that I got second hand on here, something that I would have had no issues if he couldn't help me with - he wasn't making anything from it, but he cared because it was one of his. And I know that if I had trouble with that bass, he would help with it. And there aren't any troubles, When you start customising the prices can go up a bit. The difference there is you get a bit more customisation. My Elwood has an Ibanez neck profile. I couldn't get that from an off the shelf jazz bass. However, as the costs go up you start getting closer to the other custom luthiers and then you do get more options. It is optional, mine doesn't have one of those, just a M logo.

For the price difference you could probably get the Nordstrand pickups for it Good colour!

Well, clearly not *everyone* is welcome, just that there are some people we can't stop coming

Are those neck mute strap things any use? I have never used a mute, but there are probably some times where it would be easier than doing it with my hand

I must admit I didn't know what they were until I googled, like Les Claypools bass. They look ok I guess, I don't get on with the curl at the top. Actually looking again, that is the brown ones, but there is a picture of Les Claypool with a black one and that looks very nice. I think they are some of the most beautiful basses going but then maybe thats because I haven't got a background in art and design? Not too keen on the pillowy guitar ones, but the long thin ones, the royas, raptors and jupiters, fantastic. I think though both of the manufacturers have the advantage that at least they are a NAFF* design * Not Another Fender - some words may have been removed.

and of course, as a contrast...

How do you get it to start up in any other mode? Mine always starts up in stomp mode. I assume it just started up how you shut it down My mistake, I was refering to the HX FX, but I assume it is similar

Great, we will get baked peas instead

I love those, and to be more honest, I love that someone is making those. I view it the same as high fashion anyway, like the clothes on a catwalk at a fashion show are not meant for general use, they are there to show ideas and directions as to the way fashions are going, they are there for the purpose of art itself. And Jens basses are the same. Although I would love one, I would look stupid playing it because I don't look good enough to pull it off, I am not the right model for the fashion

Which model was the placenta? I guess they used a different name in production