Rich

Two posts, by the looks... Wooden post? Eee you were lucky. The best we could manage were a couple of scraps of cardboard held together by a bit of mouldy baling twine covered in sheep muck.

Next band name right there.

The Thing - Phil Harris

So do I 👍👍

Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire

Absolutely no idea, sorry. @greenolive, any idea?

Yeah, do it. Hack. Kill. Igor, bring me the jigsaw. Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa.

You must have missed the bit where I said mine was a beaten-up 1-A with no preamp. If it was a through-neck there's no way I'd even contemplate it.

Yup, I've got it. Mine came from out of nowhere, I just woke up last week weak, if you see what I mean. My left elbow is very painful and, whilst I can still play (I managed a gig without problems, although it did hurt... I suffered for my art ), it's damned uncomfortable. I've tried ibuprofen gel and it didn't seem to have too much effect sadly. I might try strapping it and, if I can, resting it. Incidentally, many years ago I had a bout of TE from playing badminton... I went to see my doctor, who diagnosed it, and he told me that in 30+ years of general practice he had never once had a case of TE that was actually caused by tennis

Yours is probably worth a fair bit more than mine though. My T1-A has no original preamp, a body full of big dings, it's been round the block and got beaten up on every street corner, but with its cheapy no-name 2 band eq it sounds like a P bass on steroids and it'd be nice to be able to use it. The weight and neck dive makes it very uncomfortable though.

Will you stop saying that I keep looking at my Thunder 1A thinking the very same thing... it'd cure the neck dive and save a fair bit of weight. The original preamp is deader than Julius Caesar so it's not worth much anyway, except to me.

This is aforementioned Jaydee neck of my current fretless, bought from @greenoliveof this very parish this was a WIP photo from when I was putting it together, you'll be glad to know that that gap twixt neck and scratchplate has been closed as described in the post above, the fingerboard is the 2nd hardest piece of ebony I have ever seen in my life, and whilst it is unlined (the look I prefer) it does have little cheat-lines on the edge of the neck -- you can just make them out in the pic. This combination means that for me, this is the perfect fretless neck. All I need now is a gig where I can actually use it.

Ahem. Speaking as the owner of a similarly cheap and basic crap-sounding nasty Wal Pro of the same era (sounds like yours was a Pro 2, if it was passive), you're right in that the neck isn't for everyone. It's a very pronounced > profile (obviously it doesn't go to a point, but you get the idea) rather than a D like pretty much every other bass I've ever played. When I first tried it back in 1986 it felt properly weird but I soon got used to it (and its crap sound...) and it's stayed with me ever since. It's like a family member now.

Sei Flamboyant 5 string. It was a stunning instrument -- I mean, just look at it -- but I couldn't get the setup right, so in a fit of pique I sold it. What an utter knob. Piezo bridge, Schack eq, Bart pickups (wasn't super-keen on them, but that's an easy fix), blue edge LEDs and a whole forest of stunning walnut. I should have given it to a luthier and got them to do it properly, hell I should have taken it home to Camden -- a decent setup and a set of Delanos and it would have been simply perfect. It was beautifully made, felt great to play (apart from my crap set-up job) and the sound was to die for. I often kick myself, very hard, for letting that one go. Arrrgh. Ouch (just kicked myself again).

Left of Center - Suzanne Vague

It's almost like an advertising slogan... "Wishbass... The Sound Of Marijuana"

Nope, I do... Why have a nasal tone from your fretless when you can have 'dying cow'?

I could happily watch that. As long as nobody shows him where the eject handles are.

Aha, I'd seen the two DIP switches but I didn't realise it was a BTS. More experimentation ahoy!

I'm sure everyone's sick of the sight of my resurrected Q4, but here it is anyway I know nothing about the various Spector preamp types, does anyone know what the standard fitment for the Q4s was? It's V/V/Bass/Treb and seems to work really well; I've toyed with the idea of various mods (maybe V/Bal rather than V/V**) and the addition of a passive tone might be interesting too, but it sounds so good stock I end up thinking "why bother?". I might well try a pickup swap at some point though, in particular I'd really like a P-configuration at the neck (e.g. EMG 35P4) and perhaps a tapped hb at the neck (e.g. EMG TW). In no real hurry though, and see previous statement re: "why bother?" (EDIT: ** I'm going to have to do something even if it's just renewing an existing pot, as the neck volume appears to be the wrong taper or something... absolutely everything happens in the last few degrees of turn)

I'm sure everyone's sick of the sight of it by now Just needs that brass nut now...

Thanks to @cetera... I think we can agree that this looks rather better?

Another +1 for Sire here (slight bias, as I have one ), the V7 is a superb instrument if Jazzes are your thing, although I suspect the P7 (the P-J version) is more versatile (if it had been available at the time I'd have had that instead). Their M7 is good if you like your basses a little more contemporary. I'd also add a +1 for Yamaha, their basses are wonderful things. As has been mentioned, the TRBs especially... personally I would grab something like this with both hands. EDIT: I'd also recommend having a look in the Marketplace here... this, for example, appears to be an absurd bargain.

Oh you star 😲 thank you..! Off to amazon I go