Bigwan

Your mate drums for Tesseract doesn't he? From about 15 or 16 minutes in with the rather awesome Amos....

Cool! I owned one of these briefly - the heavily modded one that did the rounds here a number of years back with the funky Villex pickup and tone controls. Wasn't for me at the time. EDIT: GAS has struck... bloody hell, that's P GAS twice this week!!! First the Fender American Original 50's, now this!

You'll regret selling the combo. Mine is one of the only pieces of gear I've ever owned that I would NEVER sell.

Ocean turquoise with matching headstock... Parchment pickguard...

I like the thunderbird pickup idea! It's one I've been thinking about myself for some time. Need no excuse to post this pic again! If it were me I'd put the pickups in the classic T-bird locations though (as per Pino's T-bird/Fender for The Who that @rubis mentioned).

Nice! What's the nut width on these Si? I owned the 5 string version for a while and it was lovely...

Been tempted by a double 'bucker P myself, although more along the lines demonstrated by this fine looking Lull:

As mentioned before, meths. I just half fill a suitably sized plastic sweety tub (mine is an old Haribo box - 2 liter ice cream tub would probably work), coil the strings up and drop them in. Leave them overnight, hang them up until dry and refit.

One of the best scenes in all of comedy!

My Kala as it came from the factory had an issue with the pickup not picking up the E string. The piezo pickup is glued (actually looks like black epoxy) to the bottom of the saddle instead of lying on the bottom of the saddle channel. Kala's "fix" was to loosen the strings and tilt the bridge saddle towards the tail of the bass, which made the already shitty intonation even shittier. To actually play this thing anywhere near in tune I've had to experiment with changing strings - 4th set were best, the ones that came off the HB Uke. Other than sharp fret ends (it's an HB Deko after all) the HB was perfect out of the box. Adding Pyramid tape wounds was the icing on the cake.

There can't be much money in it or somebody would have done it by now...

Economy of scale has to play a part I would imagine... You can get a 5w all valve guitar amp for under a ton because guitarists are, as we all know, ten a penny... Something I'd like to explore beyond the initial 5 minutes I've given it, is my Harley Benton 5 watt combo (the one that looks suspiciously like the Epiphone Valve Jr). I bet it'd sound better than OK into a bass extension cab like my barefaced Two10 with the combo's internal speaker bypassed. It's a sweet sounding little amp for guitar, especially with a nice strat.

Ah yes. So it was. Don't remember Decimax at all then!

Decimax... Think they were related to Carlsbro some way weren't they? Definitely Guitarist vintage. I remember the ad with the chap with the 6 string Overwater strapped up high and beige turtleneck tucked into his jeans...

I'd love one! BUT, and this goes for most of the available low power options, they're quite pricey. I think that puts folk off the whole low power valve amp thing. Most are not REALLY giggable in every situation without PA support so how much use are they really when a lot of producers nowadays just want a decent DI signal to fiddle with "in the box"...

They are identical amps, yes. I preferred the look of the LB30 myself... I never gigged mine without PA support - rehearsal volumes told the tale well enough! The CTM100 is on my bucket list (if I ever get back gigging again!)

You mean like this: http://www.arkhamsound.com/abyss.html

+1 to the LB30/CTM30. Great amps. I've owned both guises, and the matching, extremely rare LB212. Probably my favourite rig I've owned, but not really giggable in the bands I was in with no PA support. Not sold on the CTM15 yet. As you turn up the gain it cuts a LOT of bass so there's a few mods I'd like to make to mine which I'll report back on. It's not a full valve amp (despite what Ashdown may have said about it in advertising/interview), but a solid state front end and valve power amp, no DI. With gain all the way down it sounds very nice...

The SVT3 is a different beast - a "lead sled" that is much more serviceable. The SVT7 is a class D and your repairer is quite right... repair folks are scared of them and won't touch them with a barge pole! Tempted by this myself...

File the Wilkinsons did we sir?

Nice find!

I've heard this excuse a few times. It usually means I can't be bothered. I'd try somebody else...

I'd be tempted to try a Quilter Bass Block with a Tonehammer DI in front of it...