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24 this year (our first year of gigging, started a bit slowly and gathered momentum). Our ideal is 20-30 gigs per year.

Could at least have cleaned the fretboard.

In the policarbonate shed? A policarbonate shed yesterday.

What you can do for the large ones is find which posts each is in, then resize the photo, edit the post, delete the existing attachment, and substitute the new photo.

There's an awful lot of Americans who think otherwise. They also seem to have some sort of aversion to Hull.

Just the thing for playing in your super shed.

I have a lined fretless bass that I had to have the dots moved to where the fretlines were as I didn't get on with them between the lines (and I don't look at the fingerboard when playing). I also have an SRF705 fretless which has small edge markings for each fret position and dot markers between the edge markings. I get on with that fine. The assistant to the runner of the open mic I go to has a Squier bass which was originally fretless but which he had fretted, so the fret markers are at the frets, like the OP's. I've played it a few times and, like the OP, the dots rather confuse me.

Now @police squad has had the botox and fillers done, it would be a shame to waste it. 😁

Maybe the answer is for Fender to spin off a subsidiary called something else to produce properly innovative designs.

Don't worry about it.

I've owned two. I now have arthritis. So now we know cause and effect - eschew the P, save your joints!

With a dummy headstock.

I think their trouble with the Dimension was the half-heartedness of it. New pickups, change the pickguard, tweak to the body shape, leave the massive headstock which screams "Fender!" unchanged, make the pickup switching clunky.

I want to sound like me.

Fender need to appeal to the non-Fenderheads though, people who are buying Ibanez, Cort, etc and don't have any interest in current or past Fenders.

It would be the musical equivalent of Harley Davidson, except that changing legislation meant that Harley had to move on and eventually abandon its old models. There's nothing to make Ps and Js obsolete in the same way, and they're functional and have plenty of fanbois. It's just annoying to non-fanbois that Fender keep pretending they're doing something different when they're just putting out a different set of colours.

Which one is it? Or what's the best search terms to use?

I would guess at the one covering the 1x12 with tweeter and crossover.

Fuses checked with a meter? Does it have a power switch on the amp, and if so, can you check if power is getting through the switch, and that power is getting through the power connector OK?

Is the socket deep enough to get onto the nut without fouling the bit that sticks up that you put the string in (technical term)? You might need to use an open-ended or ring spanner, or a deep socket.

Is there any point to these basses other than different colours? It's like Ford putting out the Model T for ever with different colour schemes every year.

So, factory bitsas.

Roundwounds on my basses, mostly a few years old, although all my Sei 5s have had new strings this year.

They don't seem to really put their hearts into innovation (not Innovation) though. Manufacturers like Ibanez and Cort show that it's quite possible to have a wide portfolio of instruments - Fender periodically produce something different, make it for a couple of years, then abandon it.

Well, there's always going to be a gallimaufry of opinion on Charles as there's so many aspects to it.