Beedster

Yes, and have done. I'm not sure to be honest whether I walked on principle or because I immediately disliked them when I noticed the racism. Both I hope

No, I’m building them 👍

Nicely done 👍

1. I've rarely used pedals, and when I have I've usually lost interest very quickly 2. I know a lot of other players who should try the same experiment (always funny when a guitarist playing around with their 24-unit board finally finds a combination that s/he as well as the rest of the band prefer only to realise they just hit bypass)

Thanks @skej21, funny how what on paper look like marginal differences make a difference, but they do. I had two Warmoth necks, one of which I feel really home on, the other I didn't, and the difference was probably in the 2mm difference in depth, not dissimilar to the above (I'd almost certainly prefer the AVRI of the two). Guess it's why - especially if you're intent on spending a lot of cash - you need to play first. I wonder how many of us have let a basses go because they didn't work but without ever really knowing why (2mm neck depth difference for example), only to repeat the mistake?

intrigued, how do the AVRIs and the Am Originals differ?

So I was right 😂

IIRC the board was levered and could be raised a few mm to make a fretless and lowered the same amount to allow the frets to engage. I may have got that wrong though

Wow, a promo video that turned me off a bass I'd always wanted

Impressed that you built your own 👍 Like you I've sold most of my gear, and it's been a refreshing and cleansing process; very very few boxes coming into the house these days, a lot going out

That's a very nice bass and the seller's inviting offers so given the rarity I'd go in with a cheeky £1800 if I was in the race for one of these 👍

The AVRI '63s do have a very good reputation and by comparison with the other 20,000 varieties of Fender Precision, you're right, they are rare birds

So a long term swap for a bass you won't play....? Get rid of the bloody thing and move on, If not I worry that soon you'll be staying awake at night ruminating and checking this thread in case there's been a shift in public opinion 🤣

...that's me out then

Start a band and talk to people about it(people know people and some of those people play music). It's kinda what I did in my early 40's, and on a drunken night out in 2005 I found out that two of my then colleagues were actually very good musicians (and one a talented songwriter). We recruited a drummer and ended up in a band that lasted close to 10-years and which still occasionally gets together to play despite a couple of geographical challenges 👍

Nicely put, my problem - and to be honest it was a problem - was that as a kid I had zero money as was largely the case with my family. Even my early 80's Satellite Bass was a stretch for my family, so I 'd look through gear mags and daydream about owning one of two basses, a MM Stingray or a Hagstrom Swede (I SO wanted a Hagstrom Swede....._ ..and that 'life will be better if.....' thing takes hold in the same way as s many other habits of thought or action take hold. And then in my 40's when for the first time in my life my incomings exceeded my outgoings, that thing came back and tugged at my consciousness. Took me close to 15 years to get on top of it. A great if expensive journey, but one from which I'm glad to have got to my destination 👍

The BC Vetting Committee might want to take a look at your suitability for continued membership 🤔

I really f***ing wish someone had said it to me the day I joined BC 🤣

Bought a neck from Will, and a bloody lovely neck at that. Easy process made even better by super-quick delivery, extremely good packaging, and strong after-sales support. Highly recommended BCer 👍

It's a bass, sell it and move on, if only because you will feel better for doing so. That hope that our lives will somehow be better if only we had the bass/amp/pedal that's just been listed on BC, or that fear that our lives will be worse if we let go of bass/amp/pedal to which we have a sentimental attachment but never use, is best dealt with surgically and with as little deliberation as possible

Even if it were true a few million thrown by Rod at good causes ain’t anything like enough to compensate the world for his Glastonbury show 😆

Might be worth mentioning that I had a similar issue with a PJB Briefcase, sent it back, got a replacement, issue solved (and Phil himself was really helpful). Perhaps worth a try?