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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

Chuck us a link Dan, please.

Usually with the Big 'O', you need to plug a quarter inch jack into the standard socket, before the XLR activates. That jack-plug doesn't have to be attached to a cable though.

Looking good. Enjoy.

Steady Spons! Steady!

Just bought a gig bag from BD. Ordered on Thursday and arrived 22hours later with pen and sticker. Excellent service yet again.

Just ordered a set of strings for my Precision from Mark at BD and he couldn't have been more helpful. A pleasure dealing with him.

Ooooh, this is difficult. Probably an Overwater Jazz V - blocks, ebony board, quilted maple or moon ebony top. I'd go for two Barefaced 1x12" Already have my Aggie 751, so would spend on a Fender CS Precision 4. (It must be said, I would nab a CAR Roscoe Beck V if one were to become available, even before the above.)

I think it's a sucker on the wall to prevent neck-dive, and the switch is for the on-stage kettle, should Mr Squire require a Cupasoup between numbers.

Usually 'dummy' coils to negate interference I think?

Sorted.

Interesting projection @LeftyJ. I wonder if things will fall into the pre/post situation we have now (Fender by Leo, Fender after Leo, Fender post CBS, Etc.), and we'll see 'real' Wals as those made by Wal himself and/or Pete the Fish? What will be a 'desirable' Overwater? When Chris retires, will current owners be sitting on gold mines? Oh, for a crystal ball (pre-acrylics of course).

Why mod it? Just don't dime the volume (and adjust bass/mid/treble to taste).

I never turn the volume of my active basses up fully. Try around a third to half volume on the bass, keep the input level low enough to avoid distortion and use your master volume on the amp to provide volume.