LukeFRC

anyone after a Bravewood Jaco-a-like? https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/bravewood-62-j-type-fretless.11320/

is that finish already marked between the pickups?! I would be interested to hear some reviews on these german metro's- For me I'ld love a PJ metro from japan

I'm probably not going to be able to play live for a while for similar reasons to your drummer. Covid sucks, we're all annoyed about how it's affecting our lives - but lets have a bit of grace for people in different situations than us, who are having to make different risk assessments. One of the remarkable aspects of the current situation is how it is affecting everyone differently. At the same time me and my wife were running around working full time and childcare and being exhauted other folk were sat around bored as anything with nothing to do. One of my friends had to get out and get back to work as a tradesperson in peoples homes straight away, my next door neighbour has hardly left his house since march.

I agree with Beedster. Even if you get it sounding similar it sits in the mix differently

@rubis after months I've come back and re read - its still brilliant!

I like the pickguard- was it hard to get the edge corners smooth without taking too much of the annodisation off?

One you posted aug 5th - that the Sadowsky?

can you sing, play guitar and bass? Can you dance to? Are you Manchesters answer to Prince?

to be fair listening to the track you just posted... who needs a singer?

And like in many cases... there might be an off the shelf solution that actually does what you want without having to develop something at all...

out of interest was your Gus a custom build?

55-01 are skylines and have the foreign made Bartolini MK1 with a different embossed corner of the pickup The 55-94 and other US made ones have the full embossed cover. So I agree with you... but possibly with a different model Lakland as an example!

For luthiers (not assemblers), and from observation of bass forums, this seems to be the major difference between a good build and a regretted build.... the ability to trust the luthier and their experience. How many times have we seen someone come up with something and get really pernickety about every small detail and define it to the luthier - they get built exactly what they want but then find out that although the forums all said that Wenge and Iron wood would sound amazing... turns out it was as heavy as the Luthier was trying to tell you. It strikes me the best Luthiers and relationships is where theres a level of trust and understanding of their skill. For instance I'm pretty sure If you like ACGs (I do) you could give Alan a pile of money and a brief about what you like and don't like, and what you are aiming for sound wise --- and then just trust him to do his job. Even worse is when you see someone crowd sourcing a bass forum's opinion on what all the small details should be to dictate to the luthier.

aren't SD pickups quite sharp cornered on the edges, every bart I've ever seen has had a larger radius corner on. That could be another way to tell? Mind you I might be talking out my bottom

Basslines MM pup is the Seymour - Bart is the $50 up charge. Or am i miss understanding you?