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The licenced ones are slightly heavier than the USA ones. The main difference is that the licenced ones are not reversible, unlike the USA ones. So if you're confident you won't ever need this feature, then crack on and save some money (and still lots of grams off your headstock) and go for the licenced tuners, they're still top notch.

Eh, bunch of YouTube edgelords and blowhards just saying "controversial" things for clicks and views. I wouldn't pay it much mind. In your little bass microcosm, you're always right and the subject matter expert when it comes to how basses feel and stuff like preferences. I could play all three you mention above and come to a completely different conclusion, and that would also be fine.

P bass == promised land. Again. Welcome to the retirement home - aren't you a little young?

I'll get the kettle on. Oh, wait, double fail...

I have owned several Squiers - early on I found out that I don't like Jazz basses by owning a Squier J. I had a Squier bitsa P to which I added a humorous decal, an SD Quarter Pound and a Badass II bridge. I wonder where it is now? I also had a Squier Bronco which I modded quite extensively - full size tuners, BWB pickguard, thumbrest, lipstick pickup, Squier Vista Series Musicmaster bridge (4 saddle) and modded the bridge to accept top loading the string, then modded the bass to be strung through the body. I wonder where it is too! And here is my current Squier squeeze - a modded Squier Jaguar H with an Ibanez CAP double humbucker from an ATK810, a parallel/single/series switch, a BWB pickguard, a Guyker high mass bridge with brass, part threaded saddles, and block "inlay" stickers which I'm still in two minds about - they look OK from a distance but up close it's pretty obvious that they're stickers and I'm the one who's always seeing it up close... So it seems that any Squier which comes in the door here is unlikely to remain in stock configuration...

Damn, that purple Kramer D1 in the marketplace is testing me. It's damn fine, isn't it? Come on, I made it to May last year, I'm here to progress, not regress. Nope, I must stay strong. My withdrawl symptoms relief bass is slated to arrive in the next few weeks (ordered and paid for in September 2024, before you ask). There will be other sparkly basses in 2026... because if you think I'm tolerating this nonsense for two years in a row, you're sorely mistaken!

I saw this up on Facebook Marketplace for £300. Which is still about £100 too much considering the state it's in, IMO. Also hard disagree with the "£350 when intact ones are about £250?" - this is a Thunderbird 64, not the bolt on IV. They're around £750 new. I would expect a second hand price of around £500. I get that some people don't like Thunderbirds, but try not to throw nonsense around.

That's a bit disappointing - hopefully they're just busy making pickups. Leave it a few more days then follow up? TBF at least they're honest about it on the website - "If we fail to reply to your email requests, please do not take it personal there are times we are too busy to answer all email coming in."

I'd noise up Curtis Novak directly and ask - better just go to the source than hope that one of us chancers has the answers you're looking for?

Sorry, I could only see the Hipshots or Albridge if you want a direct fit. But that Gotoh mentioned above is probably about as cheap as I've seen a solution for your problem. Don't think you'll beat that. Great spot, @LeftyJ. If you're not going to reuse the old strings, you could just cut them - then they'll slip right out of there.

I've already begun to try to be "under par" for the year - got a taker for a spare cab I'm giving away and have a preamp pedal up for sale.

Oops, didn't mean to derail the NBD thread with a completely unrelated bass. So, how about that silver sparkle JB, eh?

Lace Aluma P? Looks different to your regular split P, sounds bloody great AND no raised mounting lugs.

You rang?

Can it nae wait? What's wrong with the bridge on it at the moment?

I think you're on shaky ground here - it's gear, it's being plugged into a bass, it's very much in your signal path. This is like arguing that you're still in because you bought a "guitar" pedal or something which was not specifically designed for bass. Last year I bowed out because I bought a pitch shifter - it is not bass specific but it's definitely gear. If I hadn't got that, then the wireless system I bought after it would definitely have had me bowing out. Two separate wireless systems seems like an indulgence/convenience to me, as much as you describe it as a wear and tear saving exercise, you didn't have to do it that way - you could have left the bass you use least during the show wired up with a cable, for instance. Or just accepted that jack sockets fail, repaired it and carried on as you were.

All I can say is "oi oi, Triad gang represent!"

I wouldn't mind knowing what sets these apart from the Squiers being made in the same place, save for a change of decal.

Finally a five string version of the Reverend Triad. The (stock) pickup switching is identical to a Strat, yes - N, N+M, M, M+B, B.

There's no way that's factory fitted.

I think this will make quite a few folk happy. I'm sure I've seen people lament the lack of a fiver whenever I mention my 4 string Triad.