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I immediately bypassed the .0047 cap on my old 4001 , and have never had second thoughts.

until now

There were a lot of toilet comments when they first appeared.
Today I look at them and simply see a classic design. They’re wonderful instruments.

1 hour ago, Bunion said:

I’ve been looking at the Simone with GAS 🥹

Simone and an amp will fit in a backpack. 
 

The HiFlier arrived Friday , and I got to use it in a little instrumental project rehearsal. It was well set up but I’ll tweak it a bit in the days to come. Quite light , sounds good , the band loved it. Great shape for a fifty year old cheap Japanese bass. I quite like it! I’ll drag it out to the gig tomorrow night.

I mentioned I had one on the way in a TB thread ,and received a couple of messages from Jule himself! 
He’s quite hilarious. 
I simply hope to find the joy so many Monique owners describe. 
Eventually I may pick up a Demeter Minnie , or something dedicated to Monique , but for the time being I’ll be trying various amps. 
I’m looking forward to spinning the knobs and noodling away!
Easily one of my favourite pastimes. 

I’ve been looking at Monique for some years now , and after hearing people review them , have been watching TB classifieds like a hawk for ages. There’s nothing around locally , I missed one in Ontario last year , and many sellers say continental US only. Sometimes the timings simply been off and they’ve been beyond my budget.

I thought last year was going to be the year I’d take the plunge … nothing.

And last week I found one in the US.

UPS tell me it will arrive Monday.

I’m all ajar with anticipation! 
(image from the internet)

 

The two band is a very practical back up , now you should get something entirely different just to hose things down.

Maybe a shortscale hollow body.

A 500 watt Eden head and a 215.

You’re good to go. That could seriously rattle the woodwork.

Welcome , and enjoy.

They are substantial holes.

This is a replacement bridge for the Gibson 3 point , which has three anchors drilled into the body. It comes with metric and US screws (for Epis and Gibsons). 
They make quite a number of other bridges for other styles.

9 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

Now you can find your inner Ventures!

 I’m doing a mostly instrumental project , Mexican music , if you can imagine a Mexican take on the Ventures … so I’m thinking it might be fun. 

Ordered a UniVox High Flier , this will be short scale #11. 

I’ve been on the fence for a UniVox HighFlier Mosrite copy for over a week now and took the plunge. It’s the Phase 11 model from the early 70’s. Looks to be clean and in good shape. It will be a week or so before it arrives. 
I didn’t buy any basses last year so I’m off to a good start.

I used to be a Pbass guy and had a preference for rosewood , until one day I realized the Pbasses I was playing the most (a fretless 72 and Japanese 51 reissue) both had maple boards.

Now I don’t give fretboard colour much thought , but most are rosewood.

I first picked up an Ashbory , and later , found a cheap uke on kijiji. Couldn’t resist.

serious fun to horse around with

It arrived today ! Faster than I expected. 
To be honest I could not see a blemish. It’s a factory second. I immediately emailed the Outlet let them know it was much faster than expected. I was told it would be delivered before Jan 24.
 

It certainly was. 
I have to say the Hipshot service was wonderful. 
So I think that’s going to be it for bridge swapping. I also have a Rumblekat , but I’m going to leave the 3point on that.

That’s one gorgeous little bass! 

John Hall has been retired for several years now , and is living in the UK. 
The Hall bashing seems pointless to me … he once gave me advice about bypassing the .0047 cap on my 4001. At the time I didn’t realize he owned the company. 

No new basses in , none out , but I did pick up a Gretsch baritone , 2 amps , 3 pedals , 2 leather gig bags , and 3 Hipshot 3point bridges. And two amp repairs. 
And a pile of strings.

Went to L&M this morning , ordered a couple of sets of shortscale flatwound strings and bought a cable.

Pretty good.

Some people are buying two or three Harley Barton’s to save on shipping.

Thomann seem to be selling a lot of instruments from China. I keep wondering if they will be developing more of a presence in North America. They’d be more than competitive with the existing retailers.

There was a Monique preamp in the TalkBass Classifieds last night. First reply was within five minutes of the original post. Sold.

I probably would have gone for it providing the seller would do Canada. Perhaps 23 will be the year for Monique.

3 hours ago, Cato said:

Sqier Bass Vi

 

 

I've barely put it down since it arrived, it's just so much fun.

Bought one just over a year ago , can’t keep my hands off it, in fact I bought a Gretsch baritone because the Squier was so much fun.