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Pretty sure, it will sound meh...

I have a Spector so active with high output pickup. Reverse P bridge pickup at the neck with J in the bridge

Been that way for years. Maple mostly comes from Canada. CTS pots are made in Taiwan. Tuners either come from Schaller in Germany or Ping in China. Roswell in Korea ship pickups and pickup parts to Corona. Hardware like bridges, knobs and strap buttons, all made in Korea. Unlikely, FMIC are a minnow compared to others. Corona puts out 1500 units per week, say 80,000 pa. China's Zheng'an county has 130 factories producing 2.25 million guitars a year 😀 Guangzhou has maybe 20 factories. Then there's Cort, Samick, World Music Instruments, half dozen plants in Japan.

The Protection Racket 7051 and the Fender 1225 are around £80 and excellent. That said, the TGI Extreme you mentioned at £60 is a good option too. Check the ads over here as there are often some excellent models in your price tag.

A few years ago I was in a Tesco supermarket in a fairly typical economically deprived town up north. Near the entrance amongst the fresh produce they had baskets of free fruit for children to help themselves to. Both parents and children were walking past this generous offer, despite looking exactly like the kind of socially disadvantaged stereotypes this gesture was obviously aimed at. I don't think they knew what fruit was, or if they did it definitely wasn't something they contemplate eating except as a flavour of Haribo.

Straight out of the box: If you have a Rickenbacker, yes. If you have a Jazz Bass, no. If you have a P-Bass, it's in between. If you have some high output pickups, it's not that fantastic... Active basses through it sound a bit meh.

It looks like the bass is running away ... from itself.

Not sticking up for Tesco, or any other particular supermarket, but there is a lot of near date food that gets donated by supermarkets to homeless shelters et al. You could say that it would go to waste otherwise, but my experience is that much tastier food gets prepared in the shelters as a consequence.

Possibly because 'front' grain and end grain take common finishes differently, so by hiding the transition, they can use a cheaper finish. David

Bizarre to come across this thread this evening as I am weighing up whether to accept a charity gig in February where they are charging £25/head to come in. When I provisionally said yes I wasn't expecting to be asked to pay £25 myself as the email I got this evening has just requested.... hopefully it was a misunderstanding and they had just added me to the list of their attendees and bulk sent...

Not so sure that we're 'typical', either, or even if that term means much in the French venues we've played.

The pure cremation advert with the bloke in a bath. Why is he in a bath? Why isn't someone holding him under to get him closer to that cremation he wants.

Yeah I did look at the DG212 but £900 put me off when the MB 122 was £600

I think I've probably posted about my 'Bass of Theseus' elsewhere, but I don't think it has graced this 'bitsa' thread. This started out as a fretless that wasn't getting played, so last year I bought a bunch of bits & bobs and rebuilt it. The parts used in this incarnation: Brandoni Japanese body (identical to the MIJ '62 reissue I used to own) AliExpress aged pearl pickguard Fender pickguard screws Fender thumbrest EMJ 'Geezer Butler' P bass pickup & loom Puretone output socket to replace the one that came with the EMG Amazon anti-slug tape Fender P to J conversion neck — The neck came fitted with a nut which was subsequently slotted & shaped to perfection by John at the Gallery Hipshot lollipop HB10 tuners & bushings Fender 'Badass style' HiMass bridge with brass saddles Gotoh nickel plated string tree & strap buttons Callaghan heavy knurled machined knobs Ernie Ball 40-95 Cobalt flatwounds Its almost a shame that I love gigging with my JMJ mustangs so much as this really should be getting some action.

My band mates used to have a grunge covers band but played the interesting, great songs rather than the popular classics. It didn't go well, everyone just wanted Smells Like Teen Spirit, Alive, Black Hole Sun and Man In The Box while they were playing Sweet Young Thing by Mudhoney and Greasebox by Tad and Love Buzz by Nirvana. This is why I won't do covers. I don't want to play the standard classics.

Maybe we’ve been lucky Doug, but we aren’t a typical covers band.

I did, but John East also posted a bit more legit RTA over on Talkbass several years ago. A lot of the graphs I've seen posted in various places with attribution to me were for specialty use cases, i.e. with non-MM pickups, V-V wiring in front of the preamps, my own circuit mods, and so on.