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Avoid buying anything made in the USA 🙂 Short scale 40 - 100 flats are £22 inc delivery from Status Graphite, their tapes were great strings so chances are the same applies to their flats. http://www.status-graphite.com/status/frames/index_home.html

That's the truth. Owned a few basses with them fitted. Firmly of the opinion they are mainly used by folks who think it'll buy them status among the brand name-dropping mod crew 😀

Both my Wishbass Lobes have thick necks , think they're almost 1 1/2". Not quite DB thick but comfortable all the same.

@Piers_Williamson Great tune, pretty sure Doctor Doctor was one of the 1st songs I learned 🙂

Close to a very thin 'Tele-phone' Line ?

I've one of those on the 'to do' list , need to shake myself out of idleness first 😃 Plan call for piezo only, if that turns out sounding crap I've plenty of single coils that'll (hopefully) save the day 👍

@Paul S I've still to try the Tone Rider but I'd think it impossible to compare them due to differences in output. PBXN are without doubt the loudest pickups I've heard , to give both a fair hearing either one needs to turned down or the other jacked up.

Swapped many a pickup and can honestly say I've never felt they've been worth £100. The Tone Rider Precision Plus will do the same as the 63 Vintage yet costs just £35.

I'd say real binding judging by the thickness either side of the pocket.

As usual I'm crap at taking photos 😀

Fender Precision. Works for all types of rock and soul, plenty of jazz players use the P-bass. It's great for finger style Funk. As for slap ?

Pretty sure I know a boy down south has one. He was making noises about selling it a few year back. No idea if he did sell, could have a wee word in his ear if you want 👍

I'm always on the lookout for gigbags and Gerry had a top notch Thomann bag listed. Being the thoughtful fella he is Berkeley 2 was his suggestion as the meeting place. Being just off the motorway that works great for me coming from Falkirk 🙂 No idea what our next bit of business will entail but I know it'll be a breeze 👍 Cheers Davie

As some may know I had quite a thing for Peaveys. That started to change after buying a Harley Benton PB-50, wasn't long before single coil P-basses became the new invasive species in my place 😃

Putting aside appearance for a moment, it's complicated; more so depending on the process used. There's 'torrefication' where timber is baked at 250C for 20 hours, heat then gets turned up to 400 degrees. It gets cooled down with a fine mist of water. Another is 'thermally modified'. 4 or 5 methods of this, steam/pressure/nitrogen/oil. Some of these processes take between 3 and 7 days to complete. Finally there's 'roasted', has none of the cellular changes the other methods introduce but the wood is nice and brown 😀

Aye , an the @rs€hol€ still has it listed for sale 🤬 It all went quiet after I asked if all 4 piezos worked, think you dodged a bullet 😃 Congratulations on this other Ibanez 👍

It's a cheap cosmetic process. Nobody apart from real high end boutique are doing actual torrefied. Lightly toasted necks are described as "roasted" , the punters take this latest buzz word and fill in their own blanks. Can't say I'm too surprised, marketing depts knew there wasn't much mileage left in "T*ne W**d" 😃

Gear4Music launched something similar earlier this year, £160 inc an OK gig bag. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/LA-Select-Bass-Guitar-by-Gear4music-Denim-Burst/3L4K Had mine a few months now and it's a decent wee bass, truth be told it's built to a very acceptable standard.

Think this one may have been mine at one time. Fella about 15 mile away is asking £150 for it. If you're interested, I'm happy to do the middle man job 👍

Could still happen Paul 🙂 One of the apprentices is right into his motors , pal of his has started doing resprays. Another does the wraps. Seeing as I've around £100 in this there's plenty for a good finish and still come in under Affinity money 😀

A standard P-bass only bloody loud. Most hot pickups get the increased output from higher wire counts, trouble with that is you start to lose the mids and a P-bass without mids is a no-no. Enwistle have a fairly low wire count but get the higher output by using rare earth magnets 👍

2 x 250k pots + 0.1 cap. Control plate/knobs from Axecaster. Scratchplate from China. 90 minutes well spent 😀