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Pity you didn't buy it start of the month. Complete bass sold for £38 , would have made for a very affordable conversion 👍

Not sure what the shipping would cost but you can buy them split new in India for £46 👍 https://www.devmusical.com/Product/Givson-Challenger-4-String-Electric-Bass-Guitar/P366/130

No can do I'm afraid , you definitely lose something with split singles IMO. Been a bit difficult here to make comparisons as only the Fender wears roundwounds. Two with tapes have standard singles . Common ground would be the three with TI flats , snag there is the standard single is a ceramic Peavey . Much as I'd like to claim my massively over wound Bloodstone custom is the best , in truth it's Jess Loureiro's 51 split. Could be the age of the strings or the pickup height , might just be the arrangement of the scatter wind . Whatever it is , the Loureiro sounds fantastic. Still sounds a bit polite compared to the Fender mind but fantastic all the same 😀 @Bassfinger The Bloodstone at 28mm is 9mm taller than a standard single coil.

Dropped in no problem but that was my pine slab body , pickup rout maybe shallower in a CV. I'll post the overall pickup height later today , well passed this laddie's bedtime 😀

Are we still European ? It'll be hard to beat Martin Herrick in Wales or Dave at Bloodstone. https://www.herrickpickups.com/products/tele-51-bass-humbucker/ If you'd like to hear some audio , discreet did some for this project build. After a couple of years with me , v4.0 now lives with stewblack 🙂

@funkle Dave built it as 2 coils and yes , it's massive. I thought about the Duncan "Stinger" after seeing folk on TalkBass mention them. Thing was ; Duncan's Custom shop wouldn't do business with Europeans , nor Thais 😮 Never been impressed by Duncan pickups in the past so took that as an omen. Dave quoted an extremely attractive price and it was here in 4 days 👍

Annoying ! Might raise a smirk the first time you visit the site , gets old very fast after that. Split singles I have enjoyed. Jess Lourerio. Herrick. Bloodstone. This one's a bit tasty , had Dave build me an 29.9k ohm overwound split like the Duncan Stinger 👍

Tis a marvelous thing 🙂 I'd pre-ordered so it arrived before shop sales went live 😀 Can't believe 7 years has passed. Solid bass , weighs about the same as the JB-75 👍 Mate pestered me for 2 years to sell him it . Now the bugger is playing my Retrovibe Super-P , shall I make enquiries 😁

I don't worry about it either. First job was unloading cement wagons ; no forklifts back then , driver just dropped the hundredweight bag on your shoulder and you were off to trot 🙂

Don't recall any reports of light weight JB-40s , my pal's 40 weighs about the same as his JB-75. It's as Mark said , big bass bodies made from ash tend to be heavier.

I feel pangs of jealousy , what a cracking bass . No wonder you left the Zodiac behind 🙂

Another pain free transaction with Ian , strings this time . The Man's a credit to BC 👍

@Jolltax Cheers pal 👍

@Jolltax If you're going to pass on the Peavey , any chance you can PM me the shop address. Lassie in Cumbria was in touch this morning , she's looking for a Zodiac 👍

It's a BXP and a bargain 🙂 Scorpio DEs had the mirror plate and Duncan QPs. Funny thing ; the Duncans were not Ellefson's idea , he liked the standard Peavey PJs. Tony Pasko , Peavey's marketing man, stepped in saying " No chance Dave , $50 of brand name pickups justify the $300 price hike." ☹️

Multi lingual ? I can barely speak English 🤣

My Neo Limited was stock. Pretty sure the pickups were out the G&B factory , no bad thing. Same time I had the Traben I'd 4 Peavey Cirrus . VFL pickups in the Peaveys also came from the G&B factory.

@Berserker Nice one 👍

Is it a good idea to recommend a beginner buy a used anything ? Does a beginner or the parents have the experience to spot faults on used basses , I'd say probably not. The MB-5 comes with 30 days return policy should any problems arise.

There a fella in the US , Scott Dasson , completely nuts about Tbirds. Few year back he started a thread about the Eric Customs sold by EY Guitars. http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=9864.0 You'd be around £90 for a pair from China, that's with pickup rings and shipping. https://www.eyguitarmusic.com/Thunderbird-Bass-Pickup-Vintage-Style-for-GibsonChromeNickel_p_2287.html Choice of 9.5k or 10k DCR . I've a 9.5k ohm in this slab body.

It'd be nice if the fella did a full band video but with the 4 basses as a blind test. Once you strip away the visual cues most folk are lost.

It's not unfinished , it's a satin finish. I'll take the satin finish on my Harley Benton over the gloss on my Fenders every time . Truth is ; my Paisley Fender is a lovely bass but the HB PB-50's see 95% of the playing. Boy in the video said he played the basses with "out of the box" set ups but tweaked the Squier TR due to excess relief , raising the Squier pickup might have improved the output.

Aye, that'll be 2 the other valid reasons 😃 Personally I don't hold with High Mass bridge = increased sustain . Owned more than a few Peavey T-40s , bridge on those weighs over 1 lb. If any of my T-40/45's sustained longer than any other bass , I certainly didn't notice.

IMO that reason carries more weight than the oft claimed "sustain" 👍

Sounds like they've been assembled back to front , or just not seated properly in the first place. Kmise UK on eBay sold Aklot 22:1 ratio tuners which were drop-ins on HB basses , looks like they've stopped selling those in favour of 26:1. Sadly the 26:1 have a larger mounting plate , think it's the same dimensions as Wilkinson.