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That’s a Peruvian Yucca Flute, water messes with its core tone 👍

Yep but once you’ve bought the book you’ll be doing it for yourself for ever, frankly none of the jobs in question require much skill or even specialist tools, just decent materials and patience 👍

All is good with the World 👍

Yep, although IME most studio owners wouldn't be so daft as to accept that as an excuse for not paying (although having said that, I guess bands can be pretty loose about these things when making arrangements).

We've all been there, even in the most amateur of bands frontmen/women (although more so men in my experience), can be utter prats. I work in sport occasionally and there's a sense among practitioners that many athletes are at their best when their mental health - or at least their ability to rein in extremely narcissistic and egotistical traits - and therefore their ability to function in 'normal' social settings, are at their lowest. I often chuckle and say "You think this lot are bad, you should spend some time in the. music business....."

There's a lot of shitiness in there @ezbass but while he was a cock to you the most shitty is not paying the studio fee. That is 100% unacceptable and I hope he gets taken to court, no matter how small the fee

FWIW I allowed myself to be talked into using a musician who charged for rehearsals as well as gigs a few years back and I would never do it again 👍

A Zen Master at the top of his game 🙏

Buy 'The Book' and do it yourself mate, you'll get lots of help on this forum 👍

So they don't really have another bass player then....

This (for sale on this forum) might be a better bet for you ?

I always enjoy your vids @greyparrot 👍

Yes, happy, another lesson learned though And I will always keep a Precision as my go to bass 👍

It's all water under the bridge now @Kev. I opened opened a partial refund request with Reverb to cover a new circuit having messaged the seller, but the seller refused this so it was simply closed, no investigation or request for details from Reverb. A week or so later I opened a full refund case, again refused, so I opened up a chat with Reverb to try to resolve things, which was clearly a bot. I had to navigate a lot of time-wasting before I was able to talk to a person, who asked for further details and then indicated that the conversation needed to move to email where I would need to provide photographic evidence. It was a busy day so didn't get around to it and received an email the following evening saying the case had been closed but that I could reopen by going through the same process again. Arghh! I did wonder if they have some glitches with their IT, but either way, it seemed chaotic and rushed, and at no point offered me the opportunity to point out that photos of a circuit that doesn't work are not going to be much use if the seller simply refuses to take any responsibility. Either way, it's a rare and unique bass, and if Status are unable to replace the circuit I can probably get something interesting from John East or elsewhere. I think I got a bit hung up on the electrics, when really it's the extraordinary design and engineering of the bass itself, especially the neck which is quite unique and extraordinary, as well as it's lovely origins and history, that are key. So all in all, perhaps Reverb's crapness did me a favour 👍

Having said that I have a pretty decent maple board Mighty Mite Jazz neck albeit with a Fender Precision logo that I might move on. I just don’t get on with Jazz necks and I bought it in error as seller assumed logo and not nut width determine Prevision v Jazz 🤔

My advice….? Be patient and wait, they do come up used on eBay and Reverb quite often, and if Allparts the neck will have been set up 👍

Very good point 👍

This is probably a bit anal, but I should add that I bought a new Allparts Precision neck in 2023 from the UK supplier. It came without a nut, and Allparts had no nuts to fit in stock. I tried sourcing the correct length, width,, depth, and base curvature of nut from other suppliers with no luck, or at least I bought a few and none fitted properly, so it was going to need to go to a luthier to have a custom nut cut, which was a bit crap, but potentially also meant that had there been any issues once the nut was fitted and the neck installed, Allparts could technically have refused to accept it as a return due to the length of time involved and the fact that their T&Cs require it to be returned unmodified. As I say, a bit anal of me to mention it, but it didn't feel like Allparts were really a quality retailer. I get the idea of selling necks without tuners, but selling necks without nuts - and without the option of adding one at point of purchase - seemed quite poor. Their Allparts customer service people were very professional about the return which was all done very quickly, but it did seem bit poor overall.

With Warmoth and Musickraft I’d say everything is perfect off the shelf, but you pay for what you get. Allparts can be a little rough requiring further work to make perfect - in their defence they do say this at point of sale - while this is even more tje case with Mighty Mite. I have owned some terrible necks, some by Fender USA and Mexico (although not Japan who seem more on top of QC). However I’ve never owned or even played a poor quality Warmoth neck, so they are my go to on all my Fender-style basses (I have three). The only better Fender-style necks in terms of quality and stability are Status and Modulus, but good luck finding either at the moment 🤔