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@Tradfusion good stuff! Was going to recommend using a maroon Scotch-Brite pad.

Warwick (4 string) is my favourite, especially the older ones with the more rounded edges. An old Fender headstock feels like home, love them too. Always liked the Tobias headstocks (anybody got a picture?). And the Jaydee on here is just so classy.

Treat yourself and it to getting a luthier to do the job. I did it to my 74 Jazz (owned since 92) and I wished I’d done it earlier. After 3 decades that bass is authentically yours! Get it done.

Avoid the bearded smug-funk for it is not so. Get P-Funk in your earhole. “Those who know, know. And those who don’t, get funked up” - Bootsy Collins.

Billy Cobham - Stratus

by the marvellous Wendy Melvoin. I love Wendy & Lisa and that bassline is a particular favourite. Good call. There’s great bass all over Fruit at the Bottom. Lolly Lolly and Everday are really worth getting in your ear! Lisa put a ❤️ on a comment of mine on Facebook last week. Made my day!

@police squad yup, that’s got p bass written all over it! Great set you lucky fella. No room for “Out of Control”?! Ooh, you playing guitar on 40? 😁

@police squad care to share the set? Might that dictate the bass you use?

Ah but there’s plenty more who think they are just brilliant. I will never stop marvelling at Bad live (even if I’m convinced that Adam’s last lick is an overdub!). 😁

Ace. Well done 👍

And a Badass II by the look of it. Edit: Oh heavens. Triple post!! Must’ve gone through the Edge’s pedalboard!

And a Badass II by the look of it.

And a Badass II by the look of it.

P Bass with a maple Jazz bass neck.

Sir, I do indeed. The newer ones can be a bit clunky but the English speaking world swaps and changes more than we imagine. Have we gotten used to “gotten” (again)? Or have we simply become more accustomed? Yours respectfully, Mr C Arse PS Zender is the business! He sho’ nuff funky. Dig?

“The first known written use of "oops" was in a 1921 Washington Post horse racing column”. You were saying? 😁

Thanks. Yes it’s Bubinga pommele with an ebony fretboard.

@Cliff Edge every cloud… Well now’s the time to put out a full description of it on BC. Someone here might have seen, or be playing it. Maybe Basschat should start a One The Got Away thread where BCers can give a full description of an instrument and where it was last seen. I’d imagine that there’s plenty of us who peruse the internet looking at basses for sale (when we should be practicing!). Might have some success.

Oh man I hope you find it. Keep looking 👍

Thank you. It had been looked after very well. Still, I gave it a polish, fretboard too, and put some DRs on it. It sings and it growls! And it will be played hard 👍

Thanks. I have been so very fortunate.

A late entry and straight in at number one for me is the return of my 2001 Limited Edition Warwick Thumb BO. Traded 12 years ago and bought back last week. The story, and picture, is in the Bass Guitars forum.

I am really pleased. And to add to the bass itself it came in my old Bass Centre Hiscox case with the original manual, documents of authentication (it being a limited edition) and paperwork with my own terrible handwriting on it dated March 2003. Keep looking! I thought this one had disappeared over the horizon a long time ago.

Thanks. Its actually better than I remember, which has surprised me, in fact the whole series of events leading from seeing it online on my phone (4 days ago) to being sat with it here now has left me a little gob smacked!