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I’ve always preferred them…

Give it a drag round the garden first for a bit of authentic relic work as well!

I heard it from the other room though!!

I don’t have anything that needs recroding tho…

I wasn’t even in the room at the time!

Pah. It’s a recroder, if it was a recorder I’d have snuck a cheeky £9m bid in.

It’ll be like that recent fretless fad.

Honestly if you don’t like them you’ll get a good chunk of that back second hand…

You may scoff, but I reckon the Embassy would look brilliant as a relic. What? What? Why is everyone walking off and not talking to me anymore? Hello?

Buy some. Stick them on your P-bass. Play them for a week or so, and you'll form an opinion. If you like them and prefer them, they will last a good 10 years. If you don't like them, take them off, and sell them on and you'll get a good chunk of your money back. Simples.

(And now I'm tempted to get an Embassy and relic it...) *dramatic music*

I'm also a fussy sod. I've gotten over it by developing a love of relics. At first, I found them abhorrent, but now I really do like a nicely worn bass. My therapy came in the form of building a Telecaster for a friend. They wanted a relic. I spend a good chunk of time painting it (proper nitro spray) so the finish was perfect (or as close as I could get) The relic process started ceremonially by dropping a screwdriver onto it from 6ft up. After that it was all huge fun. Weird thing was I preferred it after the relic process so I did a few basses of my own. Nowadays I actually really like relics, and love the process of creating them.

I wholeheartedly agree. I have the Floor and it gets used pretty much every day - for practise, as an audio interface, for trying new stuff out.. it gets used for rehearsals, gigs, jams, you name it. It plays well in front of an amp and direct out to an FRFR. I would also say it's the most used bit of kit I've ever bought.

Mrs B is very accommodating of my tier system. So much so that she uses it for: - My chores - My jobs in the garden - My cooking duties - My shopping priorities when she's on the mooch for new stuff

Yep - that's a corker. I do like a nice 51P Style bass and that certainly looks the part. For lightweight I went the opposite and did a semi-hollow which came out at about 7.5 lbs

I got my CS Jazz quite recently and certainly didn't pay that sort of amount for it! I reckon if you are savvy and look carefully you could get a really nice CS Precision for half that...

No, no there absolutely isn't at all. However, keeping an eye out for "the one" usually results in the ownership (brief or longer term) of a large quantity of "candidates" My Shuker is the closest I've come to "the one" and that required the neck to catastrophically explode and require 12 months of fixing for it to get elevated to the dizzy heights of "closest to the one I've ever had"

Sometimes you just have to keep an eye out for "the one" I reckon...

I must admit, the neck on my CS Jazz is one of the best I've ever played. Dunno why, dunno how, but it's fabulous. I've played P-basses most of my bass playing but there's something about this Jazz neck. If the neck on that one you linked to is anything like mine then it'd be a keeper!

There's no need for these self flagellation threads, you know... Too many basses might be 1, but it might also be infinite. Sadly, if you are having to contemplate the fact that you might be approaching too many basses, then you've probably already exceeded the number. If you are content and don't see any need to ask the question, then you're well under it. I currently have 4, which sort of rest in two tiers. Tier 1: - 1x Shuker Uberhorn Fretless 4 - 1x Fender CS '62 Jazz These two are the used/gigged/jammed with usuals. I even have two mono bags for them, two mono straps, blah blah. Then, I have a pair of 51 shape Precisions, both home assembled from body and neck blanks. - 1x Surf Green with a really whacky Oil City prototype Single Coil Ricky style 51P shape in it - 1x Natural semi-hollow with an oddball split coil 51P shape in it And I'm about to build a Medium Scale Jazz to add to the "Tier 2 home builds" Certainly no where near enough yet. I might start up a Tier 3 set - which would be cheaper more oddball basses.. and Tier 1 needs an early 70's Precision to finish it off.

I'm debating VBT for my Medium Scale Jazz build. Joking aside, it's a lovely looking bass.

Is that it?? 😃

I think clown vomit would suit you.

Blimey, this thread is a letdown - I was expecting some Epiphone Gold Sparkle porn by now....

Ah, Livorno is a beautiful place. Welcome!