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Fazley Hot Rod from Bax was chosen as the guinea pig, b-stock. Yinfente baritone neck, messed up there. Picture showed 22 frets, spec said 24 frets. This eejit chose to believe the picture 🤬 Here I really messed up, not least because I've lost the photos 😬 Heel was both too wide and wrong shape for pocket. Paddle peghead was too short for my usual 51 template. Fudged the size of the peghead, used files and sanding bobbin to sort the heel. Baritone neck is quite narrow at the heel, 56mm. This meant a narrow 4 string bridge, £8 Ali-Ex 👍

Have a Mosrite Ventures idea been on the backburner for years. While thinking through how I'd do the German carve etc, Thomann released Mosrite style guitars. Could things be as simple as fit a shorty neck to a guitar ? This is the trial run 🙂

Aye, the visa thing was mentioned on FB a few weeks back. Thought about Corby but then they booked shows in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Being just half hour away from both cities it's 2 gigs I won't be seeing 🤬

Pal of mine lives in Kenya. To avoid any return problems he sometimes gets stuff delivered to me, I give it the once over then if it passes forward it on. Boxes contained an Ovation style acoustic bass, somehow it was unscathed 😮

Was looking forward to seeing Messer Chups next month. Surf guitar, trashy movie reels, Betty Page clone on bass even a theremin appearance was possible 🙂 Gig cancelled due to visa problems, they're a Russian band . P!$$ed off hardly describes it, been waiting years to see them 🤬 Double p!$$ed off since their US tour over the summer went ahead with no visa problems nor the current European one.

Bought one of their LA Select P-basses, 2nd hand £20 🙂 Nice wee bass, took about 10 minutes to set up. Followed that with a RedSub fanned fret. Again bought 2nd hand. Another nice bass, perfect way to see if multiscale is your thing. One complaint, would have preferred a wider spacing between the 2 soapbars. Last was yet another LA Select P-bass. Pushed the boat out on this, £160 split new delivered; came with a serviceable gig bag 🙂 Blocks & binding, toasted neck, Peavey shape peghead. Tidy 👍

Looks better than some of their work. Here's a few Reverb photos.

I've 6 51/Telebasses here in the living room, another upstairs. When it comes to pickups for this style of bass it's pretty much choose a brand then nail your colours to it's mast 😄 My pine slab body has had at least 6 different single coils over the last few year, from a 6.7K no-name alnico (£8 Chinese eBay seller) to a 29.9k giant. Single coils, split coils even a quad coil. Magnets ranging from Alnico 2, 5, Neodymium and an alnico/neodymium mix. Can't really say I've noticed much change between any of them 😐

Lovely 🙂

There was a thread on the guitar forum 'seven string. org' about them, 50 odd posts. Not a peep about the weight 🤣

My 4 string was about 12lb. OK, materials have change but that won't shave off a huge amount.

Folk that missed buying them the first time around. The BZ series launched back in August 2014. There was a thread about them though I think only 3 BC members actually owned one; I had the 4 string and a fella from NZ had the 6 . Mind is a bit hazy tonight 😁

Started out with roundwound. Went a few years with those until I picked up a set of Roto TruBass tapes for £5; that was early 80's when most folks were all about the bright and zingy. Tapes stayed on until 1986 when I got lost in a sea of active basses and roundwound strings. 2014, I bought a single coil P-bass; it got tapes (Status Hotwire) then another single coil bass was bought and strung with TI flats. Don't see a return to roundwound happening again.

About par for the course. That boy I work with, harps on about immigrants yet his old man was Polish; doubt he can spell hypocrisy 😄

Back to the Tutmarc. My mate, Rick Wilson, did a full restoration on one when he worked at Gruhn's. Didn't say much about it but marks it down as a cool experience 🙂

Aye. Boy I work with is furious, hoped for mass forced deportation of everyone with African or Indian ancestry who've been here less than 4 decades. Swears he's not racist but I have my doubts 😄

Aye, B-word pretty much killed European sales on used basses for me. Real shame, had 6 German fellas with first dibs on some Peaveys 🙁

That yellow bass is a Retrovibe, David Konig does some design work for Chowny but runs his own business. https://retrovibe.co.uk/product-category/basses/

The notion of some basses being a "one trick pony" is nonsense, get creative instead of constrained. Several years back I sent a couple of bass parts to a Danish guitar player, asking which he preferred. Response was "2nd one with the fresh set of rounds." Thing is there had been no new strings nor a change in settings; both parts had been recorded on a Westone Concord with no Vol or Tone pots. His "new strings" was me shifting my right hand position to nearer the bridge 😃

I've 3 of the older CP-05 units for the exact same reason 😄

Very nice but I think I'll stick with my £160 'inspired by' from G4M.

I doubt many there have a clue dark meranti exists let alone what it looks like. Most revert to default setting, "it's $h*t", when confronted with an East Asian bass from a brand they've never heard of; especially when said bass retailed for less than Squier money.

@mrbacco You've got the right idea regarding swapping the nut, just knock the old one off and replace it with a right hander. Guitars and basses are not that complicated 👍