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

The only way I can see that any fretted/fretless combo board can work satisfactorily is to have the tops of the frets and the fretless board at the same height. If you simply remove the frets, from say the 6th fret upwards to create a fretted low end, fretless high end board, then the fretless part would have far too high an action to be useful. Therefore, the simplest way I see to create a fretted low/fretless high board is to use an already fretless neck, then use a radius jig and router to lower the board from which fret you choose, saw and install frets in that routed down section and then level and crown those new frets to be the same height as the fretless section. Bother sections should then play as normal. This should be possible to do with as many fretted or fretless sections as you wish as long as the tops of the frets and the fretless boards are all level.

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 👍

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I've played that bass. It helps that Ian has a phenomenal technique, but the tone is the best I've heard. I keep up with Overwater basses, I even went to an Overwater event they held in London a few years ago, but every bass I've played has been way too heavy for my back!

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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

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I got my (trans red, maple, beaten up, 4h) Ray for £450. Mental innit? Told you you should keep it, now you know.

Has anyone got an idea what the going rate for a decent condition AVRI 63 P bass (2014) from a private seller should be?

That would work.

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Ahh! Happy Days! I had a G18 C. 100w Green Back in a home built cabinet. I gave it away to a fellow Basschatter. It sat in my den for over 30 years and was rarely used. I bought it from Tottenham Court Road, probably from Lasky's. Around about 1966/67, I carried it home by hand (in it's big box) on the underground, bus and pavement to Hornchurch. Even after all this time my arms have never regained their original length! That circular wood plate or a piece of 4 x 4 was the stabdard way to brace the loudspeaker and the rear panel. Check out the "Recommended Amp Techs" part of the forum under the "Repairs and Technical" sub-forum. Best of Luck.

You could get a Zoom MB60+ and have a larger choice of everything.

From a former South Londoner.

I think I’m going to get a tc spark and a compressor suggested. If the spark doesn’t tickle my fancy I’ll look into others like the beta and genzler.

Ok so I demoed one of these at a friends business - he owns a backline company and was lent one to try out to see if he wanted to add it to his stock. He had a 700w version and the matching Ampeg 2x10 cab. Construction - all seemed pretty good, nice and solid. Wouldn't transport it around without a bag but as good as any others I've seen of the same type. The low and high switches weren't amazing but functional and easy to use, I would have used a metal switch but apparently they are copying the SVT Classic style which makes sense. Was pretty easy to figure out how to use it, and I ran it pretty much flat with the super low switch on the mid position and the super high on. Sounded really nice and powerful, no obvious issues, I was really taken with it to be honest, made my P sound great! The overdrive was really nice too, no loss of bass and sounded quite natural to me. I had the idea of trying it against some other Ampeg amps in his warehouse to compare it. Ampeg SVT 4 pro into a 8x10 - sounded brittle and sharp and just unpleasant compared to the Venture. Not used one them before so it might be user error but when you try it flat and it sounds awful that's not a great start is it? The a SVT Classic full 300w all valve goodness into the 8x10. Oh. My. God. I WANT ONE. As we all know they sound amazing BUT what I thought was the Venture did a good job tonally against the SVT - no it would never have the velvety smooth sledgehammer power of the SVT Classic but the character was very similar to my ears. Hope that helps - I was never a huge Ampeg amp fan but I've been looking at maybe getting a Venture in the future. Or an SVT if I can afford a roadie as well.

The Trickfish mini 500 does indeed have a fan, only the Bullhead series is fanless.

UPDATE: This has focused my mind a bit. I had to call into the nice people at Bass Direct today to sort out an issue with the Dingwall (it's a minor problem but it had Mark properly stumped). While I was there I showed them my Stingray and asked how much they'd put it on for and how much comission to sell it. They said £1500 and 20%. No criticism of the team in Bass Direc, but I don't think it'd be worth my selling if £1,200 is all I'd get for it.

I think you're probably right, but I think it would have been a more tricky excercise with the BB3. For all that that are nominally flat, they do in practice seem to have a lovely hump in the bottom octave.