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There may well be no (noticeable) bugs but there's potentially more effects.

That was my main reason for replacing bridges on my Mex Fenders.

I have an M6 5 string sitting next to me waiting to be shipped back. I got a B stock model and appears the neck isn't in great shape. Sounds nice, loads of tones, but QC doesn't seem great. Replaced it with a Spector Icon that just feels so much higher quality and sounds huge. If you can find something Spector used for that price I'd do that. P.S. ignore me - string spacing would be too small for you.

Mr G is a dead ringer for Bowie... extraordinary.

Belated happy birthday. A fine present.

The colour still isn't right on the photo, it is redder than this, no amount of photogra-faffing on my phone seems to adjust it right. And it will look different on your phone anyway. It is light. It's roughly 22.5x5x15.5cm, so about 1,743cm³. Weight is 999.5g. So density is 1/1.743 g/cm³ which is 0.57g/cm³ or 570kg/m³. Which I think favours the red eucalyptus, as cherry is denser and walnut would be more brown?

It’s got the Shape function on it as well, a feature I find very useful

16.5mm apart from the Broadneck 5s. I have really low action on both my Broadnecks.

Don’t discount the TC BH250. It sounds really great, with effective and simple EQ. It’s very, very compact. It has aux, headphone out (and usb) for home use. A built in, useable visual tuner and a mute. And, it has one Toneprint which is very good. (I’ve basically set it to a compressor and leave it…And, it’s only £175 new. I love the Ashdown sound though so I’m keen to try one of these Ants.

Still loving mine, it's a very versatile and easy playing bass, one thing I have to to watch is the jack socket on mine is quite tight and has a sort of two stage action so I have to be sure the jack plug is fully home or I get the same thing as BassApprentice had distorsion and intermittant signal, not a fault but it's quite easy to do if you are not used to it. This one is a bit of a gateway for shortscale gas for me, I have just bought a Sandberg Florence which is superb, the cort was less than 1/5 of the cost of the Sandberg and really holds it's own in fit & finish

Lovely piece of work.

I think it's new wood. The skip was outside a carpenters I was parked by. They were refitting and in the course of that were also clearing up. I got talking and had a couple of large bits of quite decent ply that had been shelving and this random lump that looked quite nice. I should have asked! I thought I might route it out for deep pen tray type thing. Or give it to someone who can make use of it. Dunno really!

That'll be 5 minutes of my Friday evening accounted for then...

Great thinking @LukeFRC! I wonder if an analog delay would do the job. Setting the feedback quite high and increasing delay time might get you most of the way there. I don't remember a note being repeated at the end when messing around with this in the past.

Look at this old Warwick with a cherry body:

It was going so well

Maybe. One Fender copy is much like another...

This is exactly what record labels used to do to showcase new artists' material. Why not a person? The advert isn't great and I think probably clumsily worded, maybe they are a Russian Oliogarc's son/daughter. I too, very recently, have been involved in a vanity project, however it wasn't clearly advertised as such and I was writing my own basslines and paying a share for rehearsal rooms. It was fun as I didn't expect it to go anywhere and the music was reasonable, but I got bored in the end of endless tinkering and changes to songs that were already written and ready to gig as far as I was concerned.

Except firewood, it looks like cherry to me. Check my Le Fay which has a crazy cherry (as called by the Dobbratz brothers) top and regular cherry for the body itself.

Or on video?

Thanks for everyone’s feedback on this. I’m leaning towards some D’addario chromes i think. But, like with everything bass related (or life related) I won’t really know until i try myself. I think my plan is to see if i can pick up some used short flats off this very forum when they appear and give them a whirl to decide if i like them on that bass before i chuck a sizeable chunk at some new ones! (I’m being a StringCheapSkate, i know. But the prices are ludicrous for a smaller string) Up until very recently I’d come to terms with just not being able to get on with flats but since putting some cheap ones on my Jaguar, it’s transformed the bass so I’m wondering if its just a case of finding the right strings for the right instrument… go figure 😅

There's been a few. A detail-perfect reissue of the passive SB Elite 1 B&G that Cliff's best known for, and as well as that a sort of Elite/SB1000 mashup that had the SB active electronics, with the Elite/SB-R inlays & conventional neck proportions. Got an idea there was a more modest spec budget version as well at some point, a bit like the current SB-One. But yes - this current thing does look like it's the current SB1000, only painted black. Nice to see that that it has the period-correct bridge & knobs, even if the neck shape's all wrong!