Paul S

Jose bought my Sigma electro-acoustic bass in the simplest of deals. Met half way, easy peasy. Hope your son enjoys the bass!

Seamed ok to me

After due consideration I've ordered the Retrovibe one. And while I was there one of the Route '51 bridges fell into the basket, too. Thanks all.

Maybe they decided to charge by the word, like newspaper ads.

I must be insane. I have put someone on 'ignore' but when someone else quotes what the ignored person has written it becomes visble. And it has happened more than once with the same outcome.

This does sound like a plan. I shall ponder over the holidays.

Davie - do you recall, the Fury had some magnets at the back of the pickup, presumably by way of a test I could fish those out, stick them behind the single coil and see what happens?

I have two, possibly three contenders. A Retrovibe Faker and an Epiphone Thunderbird Classic Pro. Both completely different to my beloved precisions but in a good way and have joined the rotation cycle for use at gigs The third is a bitsa '54 Precision that I suspect will usurp many once I have finished fettling.

Fralins are available here, about the same price as the SDs. Davie - I know nothing of neodymium bar magnets - what sort of thing do you mean? Another option, and I have been completely dim here - I've just sold a Retrovibe P-30, which was a short scaled 50s style P bass, and one of the things I really liked about it was the tone - from the Retrovibe own make 'Route '51' pickup. This is a 9K output and the tone is what I had in my mind when compared to the Roswell. they cost £35, so around 1/3 the price of the SD or Fralin.

Lozz, would you say it still retained something of the character on the '51? There's not much online soundwise but I think it might be ahead at the moment. But then there are probably loads I know nothing about.

Sounds good.

Seymour Duncan SCPB-3 reads well. Any experiences? https://www.seymourduncan.com/single-product/quarter-pound-single-coil-p-bass

Having lived with my bitsa 50s P bass for a little while I feel the pickup could maybe do with a swap. It is the Roswell Alnico single coil, which is OK, but I want something maybe a bit heavier in the lower mids and with more aggression. yeah, I know, it is a single coil. Does anyone have any recommendations? ta

Sold my Shergold Marathon to Howard in the easiestof transactions. Met up at Thurrock services, had a bit of a natter in the teeming rain. many thanks, sir, hope you enjoy the bass.

Thatis scarily accurate

Not as bad as finding a bassoon in your Bazooka

I rarely buy new so I get the majority of my basses from the classifieds here or eBay. I bought a Guild B-301 on the Facebook market place but I find FB massively confusing so tend to avoid it. I bought an Antoria short scale EB-3 on Reverb but that is usually too dear. The few new ones I have bought in recent memory are either from the makers - the PB-30 from Retrovibe, a Jake 5 from Public Peace and a PB Shorty from Thomann - or, one time, a Gibson Les Paul Jnr DC from Gear4Music.

I put Grimalkin on ignore. If everyone else does it he will have noone to posture to and, hopefully, disappear back to wherever it was he came from a year ago. I don't recall there ever being such a disruptive presence.