Jean-Luc Pickguard

There is a simple explanation. The demon living inside the keyboard was expressing his displeasure at being in a church.

The ad says it is MiM not MiJ

I like anything that isn't a tweeter.

sticky backed plastic was fablon https://www.homebase.co.uk/brands/fablon.list not the clear stuff for school books

I’d be very tempted at this price if I wasn’t so shallow that the weird pickguard puts me off. If it had something like a les paul jnr pickguard with the pots mounted from the back it would look so much cooler.

I was six so my taste in music was abysmal in 1970

Can't go wrong with an 'aged' white pearl pickguard.

Nice!

They could have spent a couple of minutes cleaning the dust and gunk of it before taking the pics.

There's a chap whi sells on ebay who can add something he calls 'braille dots'

This thread has sparked a memory of other bass forums from back in the day The dudepit which if I recall correctly ceased shortly after to some drama relating to hookers and crack in Vegas bunnybass which featured some really nice photos of basses as one of the owners was a bass playing photographer A dutch one - was it basslink.nl? Fender UK had a forum with a bass section I'm sure there were others

It looks a bit like a status streamline

It is usually described as a wet fart under a blanket.

I'm pretty sure I can get my sound out of any bass & amp, although I'd be a lot happier if the bass is passive and wearing a set of flatwounds.

In August I bought a pair of tickets for the Residents at the Union Chapel in February next year, assuming that things would be near back to normal by then. I received the tickets in the post on Friday, and before having much chance to worry about what restrictions would or wouldn't be in place in February 2022, an email appeared in my inbox announcing that the tour has been postponed and the gig will now take place on January 31st 2023.

Very 80s - I used to have an MFI bookcase with a similar black woodgrain finish

Nah - I used a block of lemon lard

This kind of reminds me of the lemon oil thread. Some of my basses have shims because I prefer how they play with them. If I was to attack the bridge saddles with a file instead of using a shim there probably wouldn’t then be enough of a gap between the string and the body for my playing style.

Perhaps Geddy bought it

I wonder whether it inspired the shape of Gibson's EB bass from a few years ago?

I don't have any experience of their bass tuners, but their ultra-lightweight plastic planetary ukulele tuners are superb.

I would suggest that everyone in the band should have the same luxury of being allowed to play 'by feel' adding or removing bars (or half bars) at will, and then play a few songs to see how well it goes.

The bidding is already higher than it would have originally cost in Woolworths

As you have a u-bass what are you hoping for a mini (but bigger than a u-bass) acoustic bass to achieve? I have a Kala u-bass and was getting a little frustrated at the Pahoehoe strings not staying in tune well, and I'd had similar results with silicone and thundergut strings when I owned a pair of Ashborys. I bought a set of Kala flatwounds by Galli strings https://kalabrand.com/products/ka-bass-4fw from Mike Upton at the LBGS a few years ago and had the nut adjusted by Martin at the Gallery and since then the u-bass now does exactly what I'd hope for an acoustic bass to do whilst staying in tune. In fact it did it so well I ended up selling my rather lovely tanglewood rosewood reserve acoustic bass. The Kala/galli flats have a nylon core with chrome/steel wrap. I really like their feel and the warm & thumpy tone which is more focussed than other u-bass strings.

Nice! I have a similar CIJ mustang in vintage white as well as a JMJ. Both great basses. The JMJ is probably the one I favour most of the time but but the slim neck on the CIJ practically plays itself.