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Root beer, if MusicMan.

Thank you. It works a treat. I feel a bit daft now being rather obvious. You're spot on too. The One Pump Chump is listed as a dependency to the The Zip in the specifications for the standing position. Someone suggested going directly to 'Bass Sniper'. Unbelievable.

Great shout.

Nice piece of mahogany 👍

Lovely colour. The Wherthers Original of Bass Bodies.

Has anyone dealt with them before? I asked them a perfectly reasonable question and got short shrift. Just wondering if I've caught them on an off-day...?

I play mostly in pubs / clubs / wedding venues with a very basic Presonus PA and it was noticeable compared to the direct to mixer via a high quality active DI sound. The sound tightened up and I could here myself better because it pushes the sound forward. Using quality iem / studio headphones / high end hifi it was very noticeable.

A conventional repair would usually involve access from both sides, so a top or back off job, which is either going to be an expensive luthier job or a big DIY one. And it's pretty much in the location where some modern bass makers have put sound ports. The example in the link uses multiple small holes, but one oval just large enough to cover the missing parts would look neat and deliberate. I think I'd want some sort of cross-grain reinforcement on the inside of the hole just for stability and to stop any hairline cracks from spreading https://uptonbass.com/product/arnold-schnitzer-upton-bass-ergo/

I used a soundhole insert from a broken gipsy guitar (so small enough for the side) just as you suggest. Great minds... 😉

Absurd! It's now reduced to £40, I've had to order another one to replace the boring spotlight! https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_bg_fs=1&goods_id=603634750295096&sku_id=61042222696856&_x_sessn_id=uws6uq4cnj&refer_page_name=bgt_order_detail&refer_page_id=10045_1763745067885_qjhig5v54u&refer_page_sn=10045&is_back=1&no_cache_id=5u5we

One that was at a ridiculously cheap price on TEMU (£44!) all the others were significantly more, but it works perfectly and is reasonably bright. Fan cooled. Quiet and a metal case.

It is, I love them, really good at the bridge. On fretless, and like Mo Foster (at least according to an interview I read), I don't use the neck Jazz PUP, to my ear it just muddies things a little too much, so the body came up on eBay and I jumped. I knew I'd seen a similar bass with extended board and single PUP but I may have imagined the latter, either way I think I'm looking for the same out of this as Mr Foster did from his FL Jazz, I love the simplicity, to add to it I'm probably going to run the PUP straight to the jack socket. Have to say iIt has something of a Wishbass look about it in the flesh, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not

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… depends on a few things tbh, quality of PA, taste of FOH Engineer (if there are any), size of the band, venue acoustics. … and unfortunately I tend to find better live sound is directly correlated to spending on decent equipment!

That's achieving new levels of illegibility!

I was moving an acoutsic panel, bass was on the floor on its side and, well, you can guess the rest...... Nice idea but wrong end of the instrument.... Tony, that is genius, made my afternoon, and I think I may look at doing that. I'm wondering if I could use the soundhole insert from an acoustic guitar, as otherwise it could be quite vulnerable to further breaks. What did you use?

Zombie thread revival. I bought an LF800 sub from a member here, ( not attributing any criticism at him). This summer I took it on a few gigs with a bbii to deal with the highs and the LF800 From the low frequency output of my preamp. Then on one gig it was fine at soundcheck but come showtime, nothing out of it at all. Brought it home the audio and mains cables are fine. however when plugged into the mains no light comes on. I hace contacted Bareface by email, got one response to confirm it was the 12" sub not the 18." but nothing else. Emailed today again with no response and the phone number is not working. I'm hoping someone from BF reads this and gets in touch. Basically if the plate amp is shot, i would like to be able to get hold of another, failing that, remove it, seal the hole and convert it to a 12" non powered sub that i can drive from my power amp. Anyone have the ear of Alex?

Although I’m not a fan of the colour combo the roadworn marks look really really good.

It's hard to tell from just pictures but that looks to me like the elecrolyte has leaked out from an electrolytic capacitor. Those are the blue cans you can see on some of the other photos. That's not an uncommon occurence in old amplifiers and outside of mechanical things like switches, potsand connectors probably the most common fault you see. It should be fairly obvious which components are leaking and they are cheap enough to replace usually just a few pence depending upon the sizes. The replacements will probably be smaller than the originals, thinks have moved on. Youd need to really thoroughly clean of the boards and de-solder the offending item(s) and Id be testing nearby components but I've had a pretty good rate of successful repairs by doing no more than replacing faulty caps. No guarantees of course, they may have taken other items with them but worth finding the little so and so's and pricing them up and better than creating more land fill. This all assumes you can solder and know at least enough not to electrocute yourself

That looks amazing. Well done!

Got a small tin of Hammerite Hammered Red. Need to find some oil based primer and will try tomorrow. Too cold now.

Welcome to a wonderful group Tiger!