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+1, don't know Howard personally, had a plate made by him, all the pages of +feedback says it all really.

Vintage or Yamaha under £100 can't go wrong

Sold a pickguard to Gary, he paid instantly and comunicated superbly, recomended guy to deal with.

Sold a pickup to Anth, he paid instantly and comunicated superbly, recomended to deal with.

When I put Status Hotwires on my P, it was fitted with D'addario XL nickel wounds at the time and they went on without having to adjust the truss rod at all, so they must be a similar tension. Cracking strings for the money the Hotwires are.

like that a lot

great band, seen them 4 or 5 times in late 70's early 80's.

totally blown away by your skill and determination, top class job, enjoyed the read, well done bud.

I love em!......I have 2 CV P's a black/ maple with flats and a fiesta red/ rosewood with rounds on.

[quote name='andydye' timestamp='1349510382' post='1827125'] Yep, he's good! [/quote] +1

Would beg to differ on 'cheap bass'....in terms of price yes, but not quality good Vintage (brand) instruments are IMO comparable with the top Squier stuff, a £35 Gotoh 201 would be a good addition to your bass and add a little weight.

I had the reliced sunburst one a couple of years ago, if I remember it weighed about 8.5 lbs, no problem with neck dive as far as I remember. Traded it in for my Matt Freeman Squier and didn't notice any huge difference in weight. IMO, if it plays and sounds nice maybe try to add a little weight in the pickup to pot route under the scratchplate, also maybe a Hi-mass bridge would help. Believe it or not some players seek out light weight P basses, some older Fenders are heavey (10 -12 ibs) but 8 - 9 ibs is about the norm.

Looks similar to a Jap P copy I bought in 79/80, truss rod adjuster was like that, mine was white but if I remember correctly the only colour choice for mine was white or sunburst. Mine had no name on the headstock, but was a quality bass and sounded good, unfortunately the only pic i've got of mine is a bit grainy from a distance, am following this thread with interest. Someone once told me who had a strat from the same series that they were prototype unbranded Jap Fenders but I never found out if there was any truth in it (probably not), or just somebody trying to big up the instruments at the time, 82ish.

I have a Ashdown Tourbus 15 for the very same purpose as you are wanting an amp for. Really glad I bought it, nice tone (for a small amp) well made, light weight and IMO very good value. I paid £70 with a five year warranty.

[quote name='andyonbass' timestamp='1345980904' post='1783720'] [url="http://www.status-graphite.com/status/frames/index_home.html"]Status Hotwires [/url] must be the best value around, [/quote] +1

Or buy a cheap used Squier Precision and Jazz, swap the necks, sell on the Jazz & P neck as a bass, keep the other. If you stick with VM's or CV's you can't go wrong. I've just put a CV neck on a VM body, fit damn near perfect. Total build cost me about £175. Edit; there's an American site called Talkbass.com. on there are sections called 'tricked out Squiers' and 'Squier perfect fit replacement parts' there is a guy who put a VM maple/blocks neck on a fiesta red CV precision body, it looked very nice, do a search you may find it. HTH.