Doctor J

Purely aesthetically, the necks need to be swapped. Black and maple is a winner, as is 3TSB with rosewood. Maple fretboards paired with 3TSB just doesn't work for me.

Great work. Very well done.

Hmmm... it wasn't the best thread I've ever visited on holiday but still worthy of a positive review on Trip Advisor. 3 out of 5 from me, which is a recommendation.

Very nice. I used to have a Mayones BE4 Exotic, which was pretty much the same bass minus the gloss - Schaller hardware and MEC electronics too. A very nice bass and a genuine steal for a little over 200 quid.

Gently tap the top of the pickup with a screwdriver while it's plugged in. When you're tapping over one of the magnet blades, you'll know it. From what I could find, these are the coil setups they use in the 35DC shell.

Ah well.

Don't put the idea in his head, he'd go with a hologram of himself!

Nice. There's something very pleasing about laying your hands on something you've been interested in for a very long time. Those horns have a touch of old Ibanez RB about them. It's a tasteful design, I hope you enjoy it.

I understand phone anxiety very well, but the answer really is just a quick and good-natured phone call. Status aren't known for letting down customers, I'm sure, whatever the delay is, they'll sort it for you.

Thank you very much @Nicko, very kind of you to say 🙂

Thanks all, great show from everyone 👍🏻

I used to have a 1980 RS924 which shared the body and neck shape with this. Negatives: heavy and no forearm contours Positives: Immeasurably better build quality than the 70's Fender I had, great tone, intelligent design, high quality hardware, sounded great, set up and played really well too. I sold it for €650. As an instrument, excluding all the jibba jabba we get caught up in when talking about instruments, I felt it was worth more than that. They weren't playing games in Japan in this era. These are properly excellent basses. If you can get this one, even though it has been modded, for £200, do it today.

Nice. I have one of the short lived Iommi signature models, based on the Vienna made in 94. I got to visit the factory in 96. Lovely guitars.

I had the opportunity to play a Tribute L2K at a rehearsal one time when the battery in my SS1 died and the nearest shops were closed. The drummer's other band left their gear there and he offered me the Tribute to play for what was left of the evening. Though it sounded basically the same as my US L2000 (bit of a mongrel, a mid 90's L2K body with an early 80's SB2 neck), the Tribute neck felt very different, to be honest, and the tuners were not the same, they felt cheap and had that brighter chrome finish characteristic of low cost Chinese hardware. There's potentially a really lovely bass in them but, for me, there's a lot of fettling and finishing required to make them feel the same as a US one. I'd definitely look to replace the tuners. edit-> lovely looking bass, Ped, I hope it meets your expectations. I'd love a pickup blend pot, rather than a 3-way switch but, other than that, it's hard to fault them. I have one of the switches to do the K mod on mine but the thought of that soldering job is quite intimidating so I have put it off for years 😂

I think the best way to set up amps is to stand directly across the room from them, rather than right in front of them. We tend to stand so close to them and miss most of the projection from the cab. If the guitarist is getting 100W of Marshall aimed right at his skull, he might turn down a bit. Similarly, if your head is above your cab, rather than in front of it, you're depending on the (usually not acoustically treated) room to reflect the sound back to you which isn't guaranteed to happen, then complain we're not loud enough despite the amp glowing hot. Always start a rehearsal by having the bass and drums play together, set the level of bass to work with the drums, then bring enough guitar in for it to all work together, but always be facing what you want to hear instead of standing right beside it with your ears several feet above it.

Lovely. What year is it?

Top job as always, everyone.

Thanks. There's probably bear of some sort 😁

I'm in. I'm not sure this is really what I was aiming for when I started but... ehhh... there you go. I saw this as a doorway to the darker side of restaurant eating, where items not fit for any printed menu wait within for the more adventurous gastronaut. You takes your unlabelled grey meat and go where it takes you, with more than just the taste of regret in your mouth. The technical stuff - my lovely new Yamaha kit into the cheapest Thomann and Behringer mics and preamps. Bass is a Yamaha BB1100s into an Avid Eleven. Guitar is a Bacchus strat for the twang and a Tokai 335 for the bop, also into the Eleven. All recorded into Protools with additional noises from Reason.

Plywood? Looks like pine. I'd say it's passive, 2 vols, 2 tones and a switch like a Les Paul. It reminds me of some Ekos from that era. Nice catch.

If you're the same person you were as an 18 year old, there's something fundamentally flawed with you. Embrace change, it's part of being alive and life stays interesting by having different perspectives to the ones you had as a kid who thought he knew everything 🙂

Do you hook it onto the vegan or how does it attach?

Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us Massively overlooked, in my opinion. It's no Traced In Air, no, but still quite wonderful. It's horrible to think two of the three of them are dead now, such rarely gifted musicians.

It annoyed me because it's not great at all, but I'll probably end up buying the CD 😂

Very sad to hear this