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Nice. BTW - the pickup is in the same place as on the big ones... proportionally. It's adjusted for the scale length. It's the same percentage of the total scale length.

I’m hoping they’ve got some left when I’ve been paid again!

I love the look of them but the narrow string spacing at the bridge is too tight for me. 😢

https://www.thomann.de/gb/tech_21_sansamp_psa_2.0_preamp_pedal.htm bit of a bargain is that!

The low weight has been a revelation. I get through a 3 hour session and I'm not sore at all. No neck dive on either of them. Mine are both early ones with cedar bodies. I haven't played a paulownia one. I see Spector are now doing some paulownia body Euro basses. I've always loved that shape but the older ones are really heavy. A paulownia one might have to go on the gas list.

Are the bass tones you've heard on youtube / spotify etc? If you can post links we can have a listen and try and work out what is being used.

Does 'Arry use french chalk?

Put an East preamp in with a Passive / Active switch. Job done.

There will be an option for a black headstock, but you'll have to order it like that and wait a year. They'll do pretty much anything you want.

3+3 would be a guitar and thus a crime!

People like different things. Plenty of comments on social media from people who want to buy one. I want one, but in contrast to that there are people who think tort pickguards are nice and that using them shouldn't carry a punishment of public flogging. Nowt so queer as folk!

It's definitely worse with flats, perhaps counterintuitively. But a flat has more of the surface area in contact with the finger, so depending on the material the flat is made from and the way it is made it can either be really slippy or it can actually grip more. I discovered this when I tried some La Bella Low Tension Flats last summer in the run up to some outdoor gigs in the sun. They were awful. It was like the strings were covered in glue. I was putting Fast Fret on for each tune, and sometimes during a tune if there was a few bars when I wasn't playing. Over the 'board and where I was plucking. I swapped them for Ernie Ball Group iv flats (not the cobalts) and the problem actually went a bit the other way - a bit too slippy. But I'll take a bit slippy over glue any day! I've still got EB's on my 4 string as I love the sound of them, but I've gone back to rounds on my 5 string so I've always got a choice. Easy enough to put some foam under the strings to make them a little more flat like in sound.

My Lionel will look a bit like this pic. Ordered specs: Superlight spec body - Paulownia Superlight spec neck - Norwegian Maple Matt Black Chrome hardware (all the Sandberg new tuners are now the Superlight ones) Rosewood fretboard Abalone dots. The pic is just the generic Matt Black rather than the grain from Paulownia, but it's the closest the configurator can get. I wanted something a little like John Deacon's black P bass but I just couldn't bring myself to get blingy gold hardware! Not a lot of gold left on JD's one anyway! Waiting times for ordering are now 12 months +. I ordered at the end of last April so I'm hoping for delivery this April, but it might be later than that. Sandberg's stock passive P pickups can be a bit bright (IIRC they also use 500K pots) so I am anticipating swapping to a 60s wind Aguilar pickup and 250K pots, but I'll see how it is first before I do that. It's cheaper to do that myself than getting Sandberg to do that. Especially as I already have the pickup in my parts drawer. Fingers crossed for delivery within the next 2 months!

I have 2 Superlights - a TT4 and a TT5 I also have a Lionel on order - and Sandberg will do a Superlight Lionel. In fact they will build any of their basses using the Superlight specs. It just costs a little bit more money. My Lionel will be a Superlight. My TT4 is under 6.5lb and my TT5 is amazing for a 5 string at only 6lb 12oz. The Lionel might be under 6lb when it gets here!

Hope they do a new version! Or maybe the Katana bass is supposed to be the new one? I've still got my old single speaker one the Cube 30. It's heavy by modern standards but it still sounds fantastic. If I was ever in a position that I wasn't going to gig again, I'd be keeping that and selling off the expensive kit.

I asked them on IG - they liked my question but didn't answer it. You are right though. I'm not going to randomly look for crack converters, but if it was in my town then I might make an effort.

I moved over to New Moon a few years ago. Was previously with Allianz. They were fine, and I use their products at work without difficulty, but they got a lot more expensive.

Edited the top post with it.

EDIT - it's been confirmed it was stolen in Australia, near Sydney! It just happened to be in a shipping container that was stolen. https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7CYnQMroU/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet It's an all white Two10ST There is only 1 in existence so if you see it - it is the stolen one. TEXT FOR NON-IG PEOPLE "STOLEN! Please re-share everywhere and comment below with any gear channels that we should share it to, so we can spread the word more widely. This is a totally unique Barefaced Two10ST - if you see a cab like this anywhere it is the stolen cab - we have never made another all-white Two10 of any type."

It's not him - he'd have a long scale!

Those Rotos are really heavy compared to other strings, even other flats. If you normally like 45-105 for everyone else, then the Roto 40-100 will be just right. But even then the tension is high and you'll need to do a set up again.