Doctor J

Well, that shook things up.

It is time to let Morrissey and co describe my effort this month 😕

I was looking for this too and ended up building one from Warmoth bits. Not cheap, but they are very high quality and you can make it exactly as you want it.

Agreed. Reading the spec and understanding what the controls are before starting the video would be a good start. As for the bass, take the uglier side of the Corvette, graft it onto the less attractive side of a Streamer and... meh.

Probably not. For a start, the Tele bass has a flat neck butt, the Precision is curved.

Once the bass is set up correctly then, yes, you should never need to touch the bridge again, all things being equal. The only thing which should change, seasonally, is the relief of the neck which should be sorted with a small truss rod adjustment. The bass needs to be set up properly first, though.

Life is too short to spend in the company of people like that. You already know what you need to do.

You'd need to get the council out to fill the pot holes in the back of the neck.

I can usually, but not always, find someone to come along. I have different friends for accompaniment to different genres, but definitely no-one else who'd go to all the different kinds of stuff I listen to. I don't mind going to gigs, alone, though. It's a little like going to the cinema. I want to concentrate on the band, so solo is ok.

Another vote for Elixir stainless steels. They sound exactly what you're looking for.

Unless you can hear it I wouldn't bother. There are pleny of blade and dual-rail strat-style pickups out there. You are spoiled for choice.

Former 3006E owner here who never had this issue, too. I wonder how close the pickups are to the strings, on the basses having this issue. Could magnetic pull be causing an erroneous string vibration? I experienced this many years ago.

The VTC works in active mode too, it's essential with the Sadowsky pre, IMO.

Ehhh... not quite 😂

The day they give up booze and drugs and find god instead.

Buy Glarry. Feel sorry.

That's a used bass. It looks like the nut has been filed, crudely, and it is a little too low on the E string and someone has put a slip of paper in there to raise it up a bit.

There is a teeny tiny difference between a Stradivarius and a Fender, even one where Leo grew the tree himself using only Holy Water.

A genuinely terrible vehicle by any benchmark.

Is it worth £9000 as an instrument? Of course not. Is it worth the money as an antique? Of course not. Is it worth the money due to the celebrity connection? Of course not. When you combine all these things is it worth the money? Of course not. However, we live in the age where the very worst 70's and early 80's Fenders sell, utterly amazingly, for two grand and above. Old Squiers fetch one and a half grand. Amazing. However, all it takes is one poor soul to believe in it and have the cash in their pocket (or the credit on their card) and there is great profit to be had. These are heady times for opportunists. Make hay, etc. The next old POS will be listed at 10k 🙂

https://www.thomann.de/gb/hercules_stands_gs_415b.htm

This would get my money.

That 9k allows the new owner ride a wave of kudos earned by the original owner. "I bet that bass could tell a story or two." Yeah, but we'll all have to guess what they are because the new owner wasn't there.

Those pics don't show a bass with low action. I would walk away. Lots of jibba-jabba with no actual evidence of any of it.

With the bass plugged into an amp, tap the pickups lightly across the top with a metal screwdriver to identify the architecture and make sure both coils are working in both pickups. You should hear a hearty thump where the magnets are located and the coil is live. Are the bottom of the pickups open or sealed with epoxy. The Aria pickups from this era are well known for coils dying but they're epoxy sealed and un repairable. It's worth having a look and seeing if the problem can be fixed. The original pickups look like they're passive, there is no direct connection to the battery.