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I was surprised to find a lack of a dedicated Epiphone gear thread in this forum so here it is! Makes sense for me as at the moment I'm all Epiphone in the fleet just now. Here they are: 2007 Jack Casady Signature 20th Anniversary: 2020 Embassy Pro And the daddy of them all - 2004 Les Paul (not so) Standard My first bass was an Epiphone EB-3, have also had a Thunderbird and 2 other JC Signatures (a gold one and a blue royale one). Time for you to show off your Epiphones now

Were you holding it the right way round? Only kidding - each to their own!

What, and Gibson make people happy? Are you new?

Not keen on plain boards, just looks unfinished to me. Dots at the minimum, crown inlays if I'm feeling fancy.

I think it's shocking that Epiphone don't include a gig bag with what is their flagship instrument. They managed to do it for the 20th Anniversary model after all. I have had good results with Warwick's Rockbags for semi hollow bass. I think they're intended for their Star bass but fit the JC well.

My wife is supportive of my musical endeavours - she has attended gigs, puts up with late dinners twice a week due to rehearsals and when it comes to gear acquisition she has been known to utter the phrase in the guitar shop "if you like it then you should get it". It makes me sad when I hear of people with unsupportive partners, tales of hiding new basses from them, suspicions of cheating just because they're out playing a gig and other stuff. It's vital to me to have a supportive partner because frankly I'm a weak, passive person who would probably quit playing to keep the peace.

Varying amounts of treble.

I would save a lot of time and get an Epiphone Jack Casady Amp would be tricky - I am very happy with my amp which is no longer available.

Badass II?

Do you particularly want to go semi-hollow? Seems like a big change all at once in addition to the change of scale. If you want things to stay familiar as a P bass player, then I'd say the obvious place to look would be a Mustang. The Player Series Mustang has a 38mm nut width (the rest seem to have 41.3) : https://www.fender.com/en-GB/electric-basses/mustang-bass/player-mustang-bass-pj/0144052547.html

What kind of bass is it from?

Please stop making a new thread for each stumbling block you find, just add to one you've already made. If you looked in one of those, you'd have found this:

My first bass was an Epiphone EB-3. I added a Hipshot Supertone bridge to it. Sold it a long time ago and not bothered about finding it again - unlike my Epiphone Les Paul Standard which I did sell, regretted and thankfully managed to track down and buy back from the guy I sold it to

You can hear it a bit better than a solid bass if you're just picking it up for a quick noodle and you CBA getting the amp out. Beyond that though, I concur with the assessment above.

Are you trolling now?

This is the relevant page from the big document I linked you in another thread: With thanks to Cadfael. In both schematic and wiring diagram form, it can't be made any simpler than this in my opinion. Also, why are you using 250k pots and expecting the same results? You have fundamentally changed something about the circuit by using 250k pots instead of 2.5k. I'm not surprised it's on/off - the zero point is fine but you hit 2.5k very quickly on the sweep of the 250k pot and anything beyond 2.5k will result in no change to the output of the circuit. That's why you're experiencing on/off type results. Once the pot hits 2.5k resistance, the other 247.5k of resistance isn't going to block the signal harder, after 2.5k it's just blocked from going to ground/through the tone circuit. Only a hundredth of the pot's total sweep is going to have any effect. That's why it's on/off.

Excellent Chinese made instruments exist.

There's no such thing as an "idiots schematic", it's just the schematic. That's like asking me to write something in idiots alphabet. I already linked you a pdf chock full of both schematics and wiring diagrams in which the JC is featured. Even told you which page it is on. I can't make it any easier. If you don't understand schematics and you don't know how to troubleshoot electronics then as I said in another of your threads about this, it's maybe time to take it to a tech.

Gibson Victory Gibson Q80/Q90 Gibson 20/20 Gibson IV/V Each less successful than the one before. I'm on my phone, so if you want pics, look 'em up.

It's maybe time to take it to a tech.

No-one said these were inherently bad because they're not MIA. Seems like defending them before they needed to be defended. I think they look good. My beef with the price is that it'll drop off a cliff in the second hand market, because it's not a Fender. It doesn't matter where it's from. It could be the best P bass Fender never made - that won't matter a jot to a predimonantly ill-informed marketplace. Because of this, and because I can't be trusted not to get bored/distracted and sell basses on, I would never consider buying this bass. But I hope that they work out for you, that you never sell them and enjoy playing them for a long time.

Bit of a trek for us, hope you find something!

It seems you are not alone (just search the forum for DV247):

Got a link to this article you refer to? Can't really comment on it if I haven't read it...

I'd snap one up if I saw it for £50, that's for damn sure!