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I had a similar Chinese made thing about 10 or so years back.. it collapsed in on itself while waiting to play a gig; I took it for repair with a trusted friend, who told me the construction was crap but she'd do what she could. A few weeks later it collapsed again, so I scrapped it except for the neck which is decent and is now part of my ongoing project EUB. More recently I bought an unashamed doer-upper Stentor DB with quite a few cracks and splits. My friend is now pretty much retired, and a DB would take up her whole workshop, so she taught me the basics of crack repair over the phone plus there's a ton of good stuff on YouTube. I've now played loads of gigs on is, love it, paid for itself times over! Could be worth getting the basic techniques together yourself @Happy Jack!

Great stuff.. bet they looked good under stage lights! 👍

Dunno re models, but I'd go for at least a 10" speaker then pretty much any level of amp section will sound decent for home. For my taste the 8" equipped combos only sound decent if you're spending decent money! Happy to be wrong on this. 👍

That's superb, both comedically in that very skilled performance and so well arranged. It doesn't have to be Jive Bunny! Actually I found JB irritating the first time round; successful formula, mind. Edit.. jings, 35 years ago! 😳

My first dB was a 3/4 Zeller, excellent bit of kit which kept me going for the first few years til it became with upgrading. Enjoy the ride! 👍

Danny Thompson has a brilliant retort to that one: "If I had a mouth as big as yours I'd have no problem!" Probably helps he used to do boxing.

From your post it sounds like the push-pull switches from humbucker to single coil. You can wire it as you wish, eg just humbucker or just single coil, the you're correct it's that alone. The cable from the pickup is probably 4core plus screen, which gives the aforementioned options. No need to replace that cable. Make sure you get the wiring right .

Without reading all 5 pages of this (on break at a dance gig), has anyone mentioned a more powerful pa, ie one with more headroom? Back in the 80s we struggled with 100 or 200W pa heads, no headroom therefore feedback

Thanks for the comment! I'd all but forgotten about that one: The next vid in search was actually by a chap who'd just got a 1950 a couple of days previous, so a really good follow-on for someone coming from electric onto dB: Don't suppose you're on here, Jason?

My first dB was a Zeller, and in shop days I sold quite a few Stentor 1950. I've recently bought a Stentor Student 2 cheap as it needed loads of work Recommend any of those. Budget for your choice of pickup and strings. Longest term, remain open to the idea of bowing.. even physically it's remarkably different on a 'real' dB compared to an EUB.

Ah, hence your distress! We feel for you, you're among friends. 👍

Gonna have to rewrite all the instruction and teaching books ever, there! 😀