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I'd say flats should be good for at least five years gigging 2-3 nights per week if cleaned after each.

How long before the coveted Ricks will only be the ones with the 'original' pickup covers. The musician-consumer is a strange beast. 😁

Excellent! Well done you and @bertbass. Peace breaks out at last! 😃

Hello to you

Thanks @Steve Browning for posting. I am genuinely in shock here.

G&L all the way.

I'm sure big Arnie said that in one of the Terminator films?

Not necessarily, sometimes you'll only hear the rattle if you hit the neck lightly along its length.

I went to school with Derek (Fish). We went sledging together and he broke my sledge - you won't find that in any book. 😉

My guess is your trussrod is loose. Sometimes a firm dunt with the heel of your hand to the neck around the 12th fret is enough to sort the problem. Don't hit the neck so hard you break it though!

That looks great. You pay a fortune from the Fender Custom Shop to achieve that finish on a neck. I'd leave it; it's part of its history. Good luck if you do decide to go ahead. This reply will bump your post back up the line again, allowing more folk to read it.

The last time my truss-rod cover broke - looked just like yours - I sent the busted one off to Overwater by post and they sent a brand new one back within three working days. I'd give them another go.

Thank you for your response Lefty. That's another option for me to chase. This BC Team are ace. 👍👏🏻👏🏻

Cheers for this one Reggae. I'll see if I can find out the brand and any outlet. 👍

This bass is not exactly an Alembic, but it is my son's very first one he got as a sprog. It used to sound not too bad for what it is, but then the strings gave out. It's currently strung with some short-scale brand (forgotten which), but the E string sounds really awful - dead and lifeless. The strings it originally had from the factory all sounded fine and I wonder if any of you chaps and chapesses out there have any thoughts on what might work? As you can see, it's a 27" length from ball-end to nut (oo-er!), and no doubt, lighter strings might help solve the 'dead' E string problem. Any suggestions gratefully received. Obs, this is purely for sentimental reasons. 🥹 Images for scale length and comparison to a normal sized Jazz (I know the wee one is a P.) Thanks in advance.

Sorry to hear that Nige. Both the guitarist and the drummer in my old band have this condition. Good luck and keep a close eye on it.

It plays really well though. Using in in my Mrs Mills tribute band and it looks the part as well.

Bump to push back up the line so more folks can see this.

As I recall, we have a member here called John Luke Pickguard?

A very fine bass indeed and I bet that neck just glides like Torvill and Dean? Enjoy for a very, very long time. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

95% of our current set. 🤣

Don't know if both outputs can be activated at the same time; they might be? I normally use XLR for studio and jack for live