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The original hardcase I have for it is in mint condition, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just made of wood and I don't really trust in these. The thunderbird case is made of the same thin wood material.

Hello, I became a proud owner of a beautiful all original Gibson RD Artist from '78. Although it has its own original old hardcase, I'm paranoid with all with my instruments, and I carry them in molded plastic cases (like Gator or skb) or Peli cases. But the RD is wider than any of these cases and it doesn't fit in them. My regular Enki case is also not enough deep. The deeper version would do the work but honestly I don't want to buy another Enki just for this purpose. So my question is, do you know any manufacturer who has a case that it's wide enough for it to fit or I have to have it custom made.

Quick question regarding the neck holder foam insert. Can it be moved up and down? We are thinking about getting only a bass case for us to put my bass and our guitarist's guitar in it for fly in gigs, so we can manage the flights with one case. But obviously, where the foams are on the photos, there would be the normal guitar's head.

I'm about to buy the DG Microtubes 500v2, but I have some concerns regarding its reliability. I read some topics about its overheating problem and other "just a pop and stopped working" stuff. I'd play the head almost always on stage a lot with a miced 810 cab, and as I remember according to the topics, these problems occurred when the di or headphone outs were used. As a paranoid musician, I always have some kind of backup plan, but it is still a bummer in a live situation. I just want to ask any former or current owners of this head if you had any kind of problem with it. I don't really need those extra few perks of the 900 version for the extra money, but if somehow it's more reliable (i don't know if it's possible since the guts of the amp are the same) i'll go for that one. I can also imagine that a more recent firmware update solved these kind of problems. Any advice would help. cheers

My workhorse is a Player series Fender. I bought it because I did not want to commute with the more expensive older basses to rehearsals. I read somewhere back then that these Player series are almost as good as the mid 00's-10's Usa standards. I owned and played quite few from that era so I had a good reference. I can tell you, it's as good as the 2010's usa sandard series. I can highly recommend it if you don't want to bust your bank.

Since it doesn't have any marking on the fretboard I can only rely on my ears despite the side dots. It also deceptive to my eyes (and i think to others as well) visually when I look down. So ears only on this horse.

I'm happy with the natural finish. Who'd stripped it did a great job. It has a satin some kind of wax layer and that's all. Besided I have 2 other sunburst P's. All in all you're right

Good point, although as I said before it's not all original by now. It was sunburst originally and now it has a natural finish. That's how I bought it.

Exactly one of my thoughts. A same era neck itself is almost the price of the bass i bought it for.

Yeah sure but it’s also like when a shrink says I already know the answer and the decision has been made long before I asked the question. I’m more like in the “it’s a tool and it should serve you to do your craft” team.

It’s not that I don’t have a fretted bass. I’m grateful to have 3 other perfectly serving fretted basses. But that P has a totally different sound than the others and it would serve me better with frets in the music I play. But it’s interesting how devisive this topic is.

Yeah I guess that’s why I’m hesitating. It’s an all original neck and I’m hundred percent sure I’d regret it. On the other hand if I have it done, I would not sell it ever. I’m standing on the edge with this.

This the bass that I’ve been playing on mainly for years now. Built like a tank, sounds like machine. Hundreds of hours live gig amd studio time. The most comfortable bass I’ve ever played. It’s a G&L sb1.