Doctor J

To be honest, I'm lost at this stage. If the tonewood thing isn't that a wood has a recogniseable tone though audio alone, then I don't know what it is. But, sure, I'll sleep soundly either way.

Nothing to do with tonal superiority, just addressing the perception that different woods have recognisable tonal characteristics.

Happy to provide audio samples for anyone who wants to call out the wood types in a blind listening test 🙂

I would normally say go with the Moon, for sure, but that one appears to have a neck pocket gap you could fit a cheese sandwich into.

It's pretend flame. It comes off with the current finish. OP, paint it the colour you prefer. I'd say Monaco Yellow but that's not much use if you don't like Monaco Yellow.

Pffff. He could make it sound brighter just by using lighter coloured lego for the body.

Pshaw

Stuart Zender - Forgotten but not gone

The neck has been stripped, hence no black, hence no logo.

Another vote for monaco yellow but it would look much better with a black scratchplate. I made a strat with that combination and it's a great look. The only bit I don't get is putting a Fender decal on something which isn't a Fender.

Or a fretted piano?

I'd design it in such a way that you could take it apart easily to make one 3-string and three 4-string basses out of it.

I'd go for string-tree functionality over adhering to aesthetic tradition any day. On the 54 style I built, there was never a doubt I would use a 3-string tree to have continuity over the break angle across all the strings. The only people who would notice are a moniority of bassists and they're the ones you wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with 😉

The amount of basses not on a settee in this thread... puts the number of apostrophe police arrests to shame.

Do they have a red wire going to each pickup? If so, they're active. It's possible the preamp in the pickup took a shit and died, I've seen it enough times in EMGs. MECs tend to have a gold logo for active and silver logo for passive, or at least they used to. I suspect they're active ones in that bass, so you'll need a like for like replacement. The Warwick serial number decoder is usually very good at giving you the specifics of your instrument and Hans Peter is excellent for replying to questions.

Why not just buy something good and not upgrade anything?

I've a lot of time for Free Peace Sweet, excellent album which still holds up well. The first two were patchy, it must be said.

I wonder did Janek pay to licence the Gran Turismo image.

I'm the only person I know who still buys CDs. If you like having loads of CDs in the boot of your car, go for it. If not, spend the time and money in online promotion of your gigs and streaming links.

I believe it was 1966 when Jaco first recoiled in horror, pointing at his bass -four stringed, naturally - and shouted "BAD VIBES, MAAAAAAAN!" as he struggled with the emotion of tone-sucking shonkiness of his original, rare and future vintage, but not yet, Jazz bass. He tried to kill the crappy bridge with a butter knife, as legend has it, but slipped on a stray banana skin, missed, and inadvertently invented the first electric fretless bass and Jazz Fusion, all on a rainy Wednesday.

What else do you expect Mojo toneworms to survive on?

Randy R Nicklas II is poor shadow of the first and, many would say, greatest of the Randy R Nicklas' to grace the oul three stringer. David Pastorius, of course, only needed two strings.

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Each hole is perfectly sized to attract and provide a habitat for wild Mojos.