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Facebook and gumtree. I got at 15” bass cab on gumtree for £10

Ampeg ba108 is superb

I’ll give you a piece of advice from my own store of not-that-naturally-gifted. Put your bass to one side and find a funky drum beat on the net. Make up your own bass line in your head - if you sit there with a bass you might find something by luck and you might not. if you dream the baseline in your head, you’ll know where the notes fit in the pattern when you pick up the bass. Try and find any one of them and play it in the right place, then add more one or two at a time. some people can just riff this kind of thing off instantly. Sadly I’m not one of them and I find this way easier

You see @Mrbigstuff we can do this - thats #2… so what kind of tonewood would work best for that turnaround? I’d recommend ash, probably from the 60s and Leo must have breathed in its general vicinity at least twice (#3) and that kind of turnaround might work in metal if you left out thirds (#4) and I’m sure a MIM made out of that kind of wood would punch its weight well with a US model for less £ (#5) HOUSE

It’s either a prototype or it’s a custom. I’m confused.. if it’s custom, it should be exactly what you asked for, but great quality. if it’s a prototype it’s not custom and whilst it may not be exactly what you wanted but it doesn’t take much effort to tart up those faults.

You’re in the right place

I had the op and it was a game-changer

I just have two sounds set up, and flick between by simply using the active switch - there are basically two sets of tone controls

I think you’ll find about 10000 people who can help you with exactly that . Some are professional luthiers Probably not going to get in-person help given your location though some members are in US (@bluewine is only a couple of hours away by ferry) Welcome

Any decent keyboardist would probably spot it anyway, guitarist not so much

We don’t always talk about that 🤷‍♂️🧐 theres also tonewood, what’s good for metal, are Mex fenders as good as US models, are guitards really as stupid as they seem (for not choosing bass)? the rich tapestry of viable topics in this venerable pantheon of knowledge runs to at least five or so

Watch the John entwhistke vid

I’m hugely impressed that you've actually lost count

At a mere three you are a comparative miser i have three but they are all different (honest) one acoustic, one active four, one five string

Were strads super-special back then? Just another maker of hand-built violins

Both kinds.

This. ^^ Total sense.

Clear nano tape?

I now know someone in Coalville m1 j22 who is ridiculously talented he built his own cello from raw lumber and builds/plays double bass. details on request

You don’t show the back so I don’t know. @tauzero was being a little cryptic but if you show the side and back he could maybe compare

He means that his “photo flame” is different to yours. It would be a lot of trouble in manufacture to make them different so it probably is actual flamed maple I get why you call it wallpaper and it isn’t irrational, but that looks real to me

Make the grade as a campfire starter ? 🤷‍♂️

I had six years forced on me whilst I turned our house into a home. I used the time re-writing other people’s lines that I heard in my head, and thinking about what I was bad at before when I finally got my bass corner, I was objectively better at playing bass

I look at it this way … I used to own an mgb it went wrong more often than you’d expect when the fuel pump went I bought a new & better one. I didn’t seek a rebuild of the exact fuel pump it started life with. It had lasted well, but was frankly a bit rubbish. Theres no use in pretending that every “old” bass was made perfectly with components that were functionally perfect and that the whole thing emitted magic sparkles unless changed, whereupon it became as lifeless as the worst 70s Kay I didn’t add a whale-fin spoiler to it and in the same vein I’d never re-fin an old bass. It is irreversible it still looked like an mgb and if it had optical ignition rather than clunky old points, no one will know. In the same way, it doesn’t matter if a volume pot has been replaced with a modern version of the same thing. Keep the old one for those of the potential buyers who might care, and use something better for you in your time owning it. No one truly gives a toss about original, unmolested solder joints. 🤷 afterthought: those “included original pots and pickups” where replacement has been declared to the buyer. I’d be really interested to know proportionally how many vintage buyers have gone to the trouble of having the original part repaired and replaced in the instrument. I suspect “quite few”… just as I preferred optical ignition and an electronic fuel pump.

It’s like being dad to toddlers