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Not yet. We'll see how this goes. It's a possibility but I'm not buying a new Spector quite yet.

There’s a thread already

That neck was actually the one on the Ebay listing. So that won't be the neck I receive. However, they were kind enough to send me pictures of the neck I will receive. This is it before they packaged to send.

I've had a couple of these, especially in the 90s when I was importing direct from Japan, mainly lawsuit era basses and the Bass Collection basses were really very good. I think they're why I like Ibanez SRs so much nowadays. One thing I have noted though, is the PUs seemed moved bridgeward compared to classic F positions. This is most noticeable on the P.

That's fascinating ... interesting to see the single neck bolt too. My plan is two bolts - to my mind it makes it easier to shim the pocket securely if there is a need at a later date. I quite like that circular access panel - it looks way better than the square ones I've seen - and the neodymium button closing magnets are easy - I always have hundreds of those lying about the workshop - bears thinking about.

Have you got any way of powering the QMX from a 9V battery? Just wondering if the power supply might be the problem.

OTOH, I bought my first Warwick after splitting up with my first wife. I subsequently had a number of girlfriends and two further wives (mostly consecutively) and so I would conclude that owning a Warwick (or two, or three) made me more attractive to the opposite sex (no experiments were performed to find out if I was more attractive to the same sex).

I had a fretless. Really nice to play, the reason I moved it on was that it was incredibly light and I was coming from a succession of basses that started with a Hayman 40/40, then a couple of Ps, then a Warwick Thumb, and it just felt so insubstantial. I'd like to try a fretless 5 sometime.

… and tonight’s build (whilst listening to The Tanifesto by the Tanhai Collective, and Meta-Music by The Funky Knuckles) is this Nano build. Similar to my last one, tuner-comp-preamp-DI, but with daisy chain power and no HPF: … and I’ve got a couple more to be done over the coming few days, below is a mock up of a Fretless board on a Nano +, hopefully a 5 way daisy chain will work well to power this one.

Bought Waynesworld's Doug Wilkes off him at the weekend. Sound, feel and playability are top notch. Been taking it to rehearsals and the Sadowsky Metroline stayed in its bag the whole time. Bodywork is tulipwood/poplar and the 24 fret neck is birdseye maple. I think the pickups are Bartolini MMC and the preamp is a Bartolini NTMB+F.

Last one before Friday’s prog extravaganza. I made a load of silly mistakes so hopefully they’re out of my system. As it’s prog I took the kitchen sink: - two basses (Wal and FrankenJazz) - pedalboard - acoustic guitar and stand up player stand - BB2 and power amp that was going to be for the bass pedals but in the end was an expensive, but rather nice sounding monitor for the acoustic through a TwoNotes Opus - Alesis Strikepad loaded with two kits for the drummer, one with rototoms and a pad for the clocks at the beginning of time, and a second with two pairs of timpani, one tuned for Fanfare for the Common Man and the other for Life on Mars - I had the McMillen 12Step and bits to connect to soft synths on my iPad for bass pedals, but that was the straw that broke the camel’s back and I shan’t use those. I can get by with the Source Audio C4 on the pedalboard. Friday we have a non proggy support who I don’t know (our guitarist does and I found a couple of videos) but have been asked to share kit and amps. I was going to take both BB2’s to run separate rigs for bass and basspedals/acoustic and I always carry a spare amp so I’ll probably just run up both rigs and he can tweak the spare then I’ll swap it out for the power amp. Had a bizarre “cheese dream” about it last night where we soundchecked in a wooden shack scout hut then I went out to sort out sharing my gear only to come back and find the drums and bass gear stripped from the stage, taken outside and unceremoniously dumped in a deep crater. I woke up as my WTAF rant started 😳 I’m sure it’ll be fine 🤣 Used the FrankenJazz that’s my current main squeeze most of the night, but swapped to the Wal at the end of the first set and first couple of the second. Both sounded great and I’d have used the Wal more but didn’t have my Duo strap and my shoulder started complaining. I love the Wal dearly, it was my only bass for a good 20 years but damn she’s a heavy old girl.

Why Squier hasn't come out with a Sonic Jazz bass is beyond me. I'm betting they'd sell even more than the P bass.

It's not just Gotoh. I've had the same with quite expensive Kluson tuners too. The screws are made of Chinesium and shear at the slightest resistance, despite pilot holes and wax lubrication. Quite annoying when you're trying to install a set of them in a couple of neat butt-joined lines

In two gauges: https://www.ernieball.com/guitar-strings/bass-strings/pino-palladino-smoothie-flats-electric-bass-strings

Take it Caerphilly...

If you ever come to the UK I'm sure I could get you a gig or two. Not big money though

I cut two tuners up. 🔝

https://support.fender.com/en-us/knowledgebase/article/KA-01903

I don’t cut them.