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Having given this a great deal of consideration, I've decided that I will be modding my never-to-exist L-2000 thus: neck – series / inner coil bridge – series / inner coil selector – neck / bridge vol – neck tone – bridge tone No active, no parallel, just one pickup or the other, the volume knob the only thing controlling both pickups

I'm enjoying this bit, very much

Factory solder, very desirable

Are the TIs round core roundwounds, and thus more supple than hexcore strings like Daddario and Rotosound? And are there any roundcores which aren't £££ in the UK? The GHS and DR ones are up near £40 as well.

I notice not the feel but the sound difference between those two sets of gauges and would definitely be doing that swap. In fact, have done that swap with very fresh strings.

Looking at the existing colour options for the L1K, that'll be a basswood body, with Caribbean Rosewood (presuming they won't pair that colour with a maple fretboard)

CLF Research range

I noticed that the white Tribute LB-100s Sweetwater were listing recently had acceptable weights, but the natural finish Tribute LB-100s were all ⚓

USA built or Tribute or both?

Thanks for that. I've just gone to look that up. The nut is 1.615" - a little bit thinner than the standard modern P's 1.625". The profile is called Slim "C" (Based on Mendel's '71 Precision Bass®) What all the slims and moderns mean to Fender, I've no idea. So I went to read a review. Here's one: "a C-shaped neck with notably slim dimensions and nut width...... the neck profile is simply superb: there's plenty of meat in the hand, yet it's beautifully comfortable." I'm so confused 😵

Because I've read too much about Chris Poland this year, this set me off looking up info on the SG1500. I found a blog post which gave the history: "When Yamaha introduced the highly acclaimed SG2000 they also introduced a SG1500. In a 1976 flyer where Yamaha introduces the new SG series the SG 1500 appears as second in line after the SG2000. Including sustain plate, T-cross maple etc. This first SG1500 is very close to the original SG2000, but with a set neck instead of the through neck, chrome hardware instead of gold plated, dot inlays instead of block inlays. This SG1500 can be found in catalogs up to 1979 so let’s call that the 76-79 SG1500. "Then in the Japanese 1982 catalogue a new SG1500 is featured: one with block inlays, gold hardware, triple line binding on the head, and with through neck, no seperate top. This SG1500 one is never mentioned in non Japanese catalogs. I don’t know how long it was made. In the 1985 Japanese catalogue this SG1500 is gone. We should call this the 82-84 SG1500." This made me wonder: does this mean that the only differences between later SG1500 and the SG2000 are cosmetic? But then I read on. "Due to the lack of the seperate top on this guitar the neck through design can be seen from the front. No other neck through SG had that. The neck of most neck through SG’s was made of 3 parts of wood with maple in the middle but the 82-84 SG1500 had a 5 piece neck with two pieces of maple" Since this is a desperately dull, pointless post, here's three minutes of Chris Poland playing an SBG

I forgot to point out that there are Kilotons made from Empress out there. Here's an old advert for one - just 7.2 lbs https://musicstorelive.com/g-l-usa-kiloton-bass-fullerton-red-lightweight-empress-maple-fretboard-1-5-nut-width-7-2-lbs.html

The Reeling Bones

I just imagined Mick, Keith, Macca and Ringo in one band, and it wasn't a happy thought

In the specific instance of the L-2000, the neck of the Tribute has a 1¾" nut. On the Tribute versions of the two models that have traditional alnico pickups rather than G&L's MFD pickups, the JB and LB-100, the pickups are not exactly the same as on the USA versions.

This story is stolen from TB, but it's stolen from a thread I started last autumn, so it's mine right? Funny story about the many wondrous tones of the L-2000. I got mine in 1997, as a b-day/Christmas gift. I still have it. The bass had no manual. I was a high school senior, and had no idea what all the switches did. I knew it was an active bass, so it needed a battery, and that battery needed to be changed periodically. I knew what the volume, bass, and treble knobs did. But that's it. So I plugged the bass in, turned on the amp, and started flipping switches. I found "the" tone on the bass – MY tone. This was December 1997. I literally have not touched the switches since! They have remained at "the" tone – MY tone for 23 years straight. All I have done is to change the battery out every now and then. At some point, maybe 10 or 12 years later, when I got way more into the technical elements of things, I actually looked up what the switches on an L-2000 do. Much to my surprise, I determined that the entire time, the bass had been set to: neck pickup only, series coils, passive. In other words, a classic P Bass ... and no need to have been changing batteries all those years.

I found it interesting that he and someone else in that discussion mentioned using DR Pure Blues on their L-2000s - elsewhere those strings seem to have a reputation for being a bit anemic, but in those clips they sound very strong and vibrant.

"Here are some home made clips for ped"

In your shoes, I would start off with the battery out, and get to know it all just passive. Then I could see just how much / how little tonal variety the active adds. Some people think it simply makes it louder, since the treble and bass controls are cut-only, but there are plenty of half-deaf people opining about basses on the internet.... The guy on TB who supplied those demos of the inner coils – I thought that individually they sounded great, but a bit undercooked when combined. I wonder if your doing the outers will give you something the other way – when soloed, a pair of sounds that are a bit extreme to be useful, but the blended tone being good and characterful?

It's my own fault for having bumped this thread, but since I started it I bought Squier Matt Freeman with a 42mm Modern C neck. I've had it set up just how I want it, and have replaced the pickup, nut and strings, and so have £600 of P-bed I'm getting on with lying in. Which means this news of a 40mm / 22mm / 25mm Squier P is simultaneously delightful and something I need to ignore, at least for the time being. So thank you very much, but no thank you for the offer *tries not to sulk*

The standard nut for the SB-2 and Kiloton is the 1½" / 38mm, and the Tributes follow suit The standard nut for the LB-100 and SB-1 is 1⅝" / 41mm, and the Tribute LB-100 follows suit For reasons lost in the mists of time the Tribute L-2000 is 1¾" / 44.5mm tho on the US version it too has the usual 1⅝" as standard. Off the top of my head I can no longer remember which of the Tributes get the 12" radius. The Kiloton Tribute I think is one. I believe that for a while 12" was standard for the US models. What dates that was, I've no idea. The thicknesses for the standard US necks ('medium C') are 0.820" at the 1st fret and 0.940" at the 12th (except the 1½" nut is only 0.920 at the 12th) The necks of CLF Research L-1000 / L-2000 are 1⅝" nut, 0.800" / 0.900" ('slim C') I've never found any numbers for the Tribute thicknesses, but have read people saying that the LB-100 Tribute is thicker than the US's medium C Is *anyone* still awake? I am sorry Imagine what it's like, having all this rattling around in my head.....

The BB split is not in the standard P position – it's a little closer to the neck. And since this thread I've put a Dimarzio in a Squier Matt Freeman...

Bass Direct have just listed a Squier Mike Dirnt, giving it as 42mm Thick C - I guess they're copying the same info GAK are copying? In their photo, that nut does look a lot more like 40mm than 42mm... It's only 7 lb 1 oz! and only £250!! I'm having great trouble not buying it..... 😅