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I don't even notice the fingerboard when I'm playing and I don't think I'm particularly delicate when I'm pushing down on strings. Ignorance is bliss, I guess. It's a purely aesthetic choice for me, and it sounds like I'm fortunate, because agonising over what a thin strip of wood is made of sure seems to torture and torment a few folk out there.

I never was on board with the gold knobs...

Is the bass in question fretted?

76 cents for 1.5 litres of Coke Zero? How old is this picture?

If you can find one - a G&L Tribute LB-100 or SB-2

Looks like that's the plug pulled on the website

Might not sit nicely on a carved top though...

Or, in meme terms

Your main trouble is the nature of the electronics in a JC. The pickup is low impedance, it uses a transformer tapped at various points to make the signal up to the levels required (that's what the rotary switch is controlling) and the pots are weird values like 2.5k - you can't just stick any old pickup in there because it won't work, or at least won't work properly. Coupled with the fact that mounting pickups in a hollow body bass is a lot trickier than a solid body or even a seml-hollow bass (because you are limited to pickups which can be suspended from a pickup ring) and you will perhaps understand why you don't see a lot of JCs out there with added pickups. I'm not saying it can't be done, but you're either going to have to source a second JC pickup (good luck with that) or some other low impedance pickup, or have completely separate electronics for the second pickup from pickup to jack, or you'd have to gut the whole bass and start from scratch. To that end, Mama pickups in Italy make a drop in replacement pickup for the JC, a traditional high impedance pickup which could be a starting point for a complete, ground up rewiring and at least mean you don't have to worry about finding something to fit the existing hole. Good luck whatever you decide to do, but for most people, changing the bridge or tuners on a JC is as brave as they're willing to go.

Busy month! Back to Wilsons in Aberdeen with Nine Lives for another round of classic rock, indie, even some rocked up pop, on Saturday 14th June. Be there or be... a rhombus.

Done, hope it works out ok in the end

That's a good shout, hadn't thought of that angle.

Things are deffo happening behind the scenes - my outstanding order has been subtly edited. I ordered two things as a bundle. Last time I looked at the order, the bundle had been zeroed (but was still visible on the order) and the two items spun out as individual items (honouring the bundle pricing). Today I had a look and there is now no mention of the bundle at all, just the two items in question. Don't worry, I'm not getting my hopes up, but I am quietly watching developments.

Unsure how to react to this with a single emoji, so yay for great gig, and boo for health issues - hope you're on the mend soon!

Years before I got into playing bass, I do remember one of my friends at Uni owning a cream coloured Encore P bass. I think I only had it in my hands once, unplugged so couldn't really tell you very much about it. I do remember thinking it was a nice looking bass though.

It is very purple... 07_thunderbird 64 purple moving.mp4

What a cracking gig last night with Nine Lives at the Balaclava in Fraserburgh. What can I say, it was busy and loud, with an audience who were bang up for a dance and a sing along. Can't really ask for much more than that. Genuine goosebumps moment when enough folk were singing The Cranberries "Zombie" back at us such that we could hear it over ourselves. You know you've had a great gig when packing up doesn't tire you out. Can't really say much more than that. Probably pay for this with a paid rehearsal next week - karma's a b!tch Gear was the Sire Z7 then the Epiphone T-bird into the ISO standard bass rig. Shout out to the Thunderbird, it was sounding epic last night, and I felt godly playing it. Oh and I got called "the coolest MF" by a punter last night after we finished. My ego happily accepts your compliment, sir! And have a bit of bonus video...

Back then, could have passed for white socks - no biggie

Thanks Rob, might well take you up on that. Clapham, or some grotty services somewhere - no contest, innit?

Yes, because I'm quite, quite mad. But in the good way. When you live in the sticks, you gotta go where the fun is - you'll die waiting for the fun to come to you...

If only my life was that interesting! Tonight I'm playing a gig in... Fraserburgh. "The Broch". Biggest shellfish port in Scotland, I'll have you know...

You rang?

Don't know if it's a mistake or not, but it seems the online doors have opened up again at Bax Music - the "it is not possible to place an order" banner is gone from the top and you can add stuff to baskets.

Enough with the flucking metric/imperial debate! This is "How was your gig last night?" FFS! It's bad enough when people start using it as "Basschatters upcoming gigs" but I've come to peace with that. But this irrelevant bickering can GTF - it's making the relevant stuff disappear with undue haste. Take it to bloody Off Topic where it belongs!

LOL, correction fail