Beedster

Did you age the pickguard?

Lovely @kevin_lindsay 👍

I'm not sure where I got this from (either here or TB I imagine), but when I bought my EBMM US SUB in around 2005 I read that EBMM were using bodies for the SUBs that were considered of insufficient quality for the EBMM 'rays (weight/grain etc), and as the SUB bodies were polar I'd assume the same was true of at least some of the rays. Happy to be corrected, but given that the PP is also poplar it suggests that there's some truth

So it's louder

But rosewood board...... 👍

Exactly, custom, not a regular line 👍

Agree, likewise Fender make fretted Jaco and Tony Franklin versions of their respective sig instruments, it’s a case of offering what is likely to sell I guess 👍

I'm guessing that Pino's original was poplar hence the choice for this signature bass. I've always thought of poplar as an utterly characterless wood visually and tonally, but the species of wood makes far less difference than the characteristics of the piece(s) of wood in the instrument in question

There are few things more guaranteed to really piss me off that having to crawl under my desk to... a) insert/remove/replace a cable b) find out why the insertion/removal/replacement in the previous step hasn't achieved its objective c) undo the collateral damage inflicted on other cables while working on the previous two steps One of the most significant evolutionary design flaws in the human psyche is the elevation in anger associated with tasks that require low levels of anger to be executed successfully

Thomann also offering both, some inflation....?

Like so many 80's bands, the current incarnation feels like a tribute act 🤔

Perhaps it's not an especially good bass? Of all the FL basses I've owned, ranging from Squiers through MM (both pre EB and EBMM), Fender Ps and Js up to the Custom Shop Jaco Relic, Ric, Status, Modulus, and Wals, I'd rate the 'Rays as those I liked the least, the baked-in tone works on fretted for me, but much less so on FL. I might be wrong but given EBMM have pretty much stopped producing factory FLs over the last few years suggests I'm not alone?

So that’s why they’ve not been making FLs for a while 🤔

Nicely done BC, lovely place full of lovely people 🙏

That's a full detention for you Valdemar 🤣

Bass instrument in low register note playing shocker

All true, but….. Ashdown have a sound that is less obvious and less generic, although to my ear still no less powerful and musical than Ampeg. Having both, plus of course a Mesa all-tube head, is the way to go 👍

Still remember the first time I heard War Pigs, what a band

Gigged it again last week in a very different set, much more presence required, and again it was as good an amp as I could have hoped for. I kept it on the edge of break-up most of the time, occasionally pulling back into Motowny thump, but at other times unleashing the full visceral power of the power tubes. Even my Mesa M-Pulse can’t do the latter, it gets very close, but…… 🙂

Interesting, the bass just felt wrong to me, it balanced badly, it didn't resonate in the way I'd expect a bass to, it almost felt like it was built of something other than wood, wonder if the neck design/engineering was a factor?

They're no doubt owned by a business who could

In short, in all the situations in which you're more likely to damage the bass

Same here, I bought one on eBay 10 years back and, IIRC, had to give it away a few weeks later. Although I checked the advertised dimensions I didn't realise just how much bigger than a DB a DB hard case is, and more specifically, how much more challenging it is to move around, for example getting around corners, up stairs, into cars etc