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Good idea! But… gogo ducks?

I agree with a lighter gauge string being used for a better B string tone. To my ears the heavier the string the less well-defined it sounds.

They look okay. The only improvement I'd make to that might be to use flush fitting bolts complete with ferrules similar to neck bolts but with machine threads. You'd need ferrules with a 90 degree countersink to match the bolts. It looks like it could be made to work from the light skim reading I did with the help of a pair of gogo ducks.

How dare he impersonate me ? It should have come to my house, you tea leaf ! nice bass, well done

I suspect (with no evidence whatsoever 😁) that as bass players, we might find a moderately high level of consensus as to what constitutes an interesting bassline, whilst disagreeing wildly on the merits of the resulting music. For example, whilst I think that Mark King is a talented and inventive bass player, you couldn't pay me to listen to Level 42 - I'd much rather listen to Dee Dee Ramone go 'dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum'! 😆 Though by horrible misfortune, I did once see Level 42 on two successive nights, and only one of them was because I was getting paid...! But I did get a large collection of discarded and largely unused bass strings at the end of the night, as all his basses were being restrung nightly, and the removed strings, used or otherwise, thrown on the floor of the hall. I didn't have to buy any strings for several years, so thanks Mark 🙂

Sensational!

Genie In A Bottle - Christina Aguilera

I Wish - Stevie Wonder

Not sure 'Top-10' was mentioned in the OP I was replying to, it was 'modern music' as below, but like I said, it's still all opinion, so not really a testable hypothesis, more my opinion differs to the O/Ps, and as you say, you don't even have one So here's a counter hypothesis: our musical preferences (style, genre, complexity) determine how we draw conclusions about relative merits of style, genre, and complexity

When I'm Sixty-Four - Beatles

Help The Aged - Pulp

Having come up with his proposition, Stub has tested it by comparing today's top 10 against that of 50 years ago. It's a smallish sample size, but it's a fairly reasonable approximation of a random sampling, and not subject to the bias you suggest. It could be improved by testing a few other randomly selected past/current weeks against each other, but I don't think anyone's aiming for a publishable research paper here. 😆 It is of course restricted to 'top 10'-style music, but that's the point of Stub's proposition. Personally I wouldn't care to venture an opinion one way or the other (not least because I haven't the faintest clue what's in today's charts), but it's a reasonable and (subjectively!) testable hypothesis.

I still think it's a matter of opinion mate, two of those are standout basslines to me, I could probably find the same % in contemporary chart music, alongside a whole load of boring basslines as there certainly were in the 50-years ago list 👍

I think that’s tres elegant!!!

After a lot of measuring, lining up, measuring again etc, the cage nuts are now installed in the chassis and it bolts neatly into the headshell. The M6 bolts are some that I had in stock and I may end up changing them for something prettier.

I played the exact same today. I’m surprised how much I liked it as it’s active. Truly an enjoyable bass to play.

Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

Thank you. Well by the time it got to me for 49 quid some joker had knocked the scroll/pegbox off so I couldn't say how awful it was prior to me replacing the neck ... but I think it would have been pretty dreadful. If you factor in the lack of 'coupling' of a neck joint not fully pushed home when glued (are you listening to me Gibson) then I think it probably sounded as bad as it played! Really the whole idea here was to take an entirely written off bass ... and make it giggable. When I strung it up the other week ... I could have put my Rockabilly Pro preamp and pickups on and gigged it ... it would have looked horrible ... and the neck was like a cricket bat (wide end) but I could have done it. So yes ... the net double bassage of the world has gone up by one 😁 I'm ridiculously sentimental about musical instruments - especially as I spend much of my working life making old pickups live again - and I wasn't about to see this old girl turned into a 'sign' as the owner suggested or a wall cupboard. It needed to make music again - and it will.