DarkHeart

I`d be happy to take the body for 40 no problem.

Are these standard Fender neck pocket dimensions?

That is gorgeous!

3 hours ago, mr4stringz said:

I’m planning on a pickup switch out on my 5er and had been looking at a Warman as didn’t want to spend much given the cheapness of the bass. He’s not currently got the 5 string pickup in stock though unfortunately. 

Theres one on ebay from the Warman shop, last one though.

£20 eh? I`ll have it, I`m looking for a new headless project.

Wrap the plate like I did, costs a fiver and is reversible, try a Warman pup in it, I love mine with one in.

1 hour ago, BassBunny said:

Black Carbon Wrap. Job done for about £4.

And reversible, wrapped my tort one on the matt black HB

Copper definitely

Could be tempted to sell my 70`s Vintera at some point, can`t see it ever getting used to be fair!

Nice that, I would leave the bridge though it would match the Hipshot tuners

On 26/12/2020 at 10:26, MoonBassAlpha said:

I'm generally more of a fan of more wood showing and the controls routed from the back, especially on a body with nice generous round over on the front.

I agree with this ^^^

I have to say, having played mine almost exclusively since putting the Warman pup in, my bitsa P with the Warmoth neck (that cost over twice as much as the HB on its own) will be going up for sale, possibly parting it out. They are that damn good!

1 hour ago, JohnDaBass said:

How much of an improvement did the Warman pup make?

Quite a bit, much more aggressive sounding which is more to my taste but not everyone's and they've good balance across the strings.

On 09/12/2020 at 13:16, stewblack said:

I have a sunburst Jazz which is older and a real ⚓. The 2 pickup version of the musicman style bass and that's pretty heavy too.

Maybe the all black ones are from a new run using lighter materials. I don't know but I have the P Bass and MM bass in the Stealth Black and both are a beautiful weight. 

Stew, what is the neck like on the P Bass compared to the MM chunk wise?

2 hours ago, TheLowDown said:

Sunburst. Maybe they're heavier. I've seen the bass quoted as being around 8lbs which is a good kg lighter. I expect there to be some variance in weight between basses, but surely not this much.

I had a the 5 string sunburst and it had a monster neck on it, I`m thinking for the black ones they may have revised the profile of the necks, certainly the 4 string I`ve now got is really comfortable and quite shallow, maybe some extra weight is coming from the chunky neck?

On 07/12/2020 at 16:25, TheLowDown said:

My MB-4 arrived today. It's much heavier(4.5kg) than I expected it to be for a 4 string, and is even heavier than my HB 6 string! The neck is chunky, but playable.

Is it one of the black ones or sunburst?

1 hour ago, dave84 said:

Yes are stock strings

Looks like mine might have just had a dodgy set on, good to know for others.

42 minutes ago, stewblack said:

I guess it's a matter of what you're after - I actually like them so much I buy sets of the Harley benton rounds to replace other strings with!

I think I've got a set of dodgy strings, I've only seen this once before when Chris from Alpher posted a video on facebook about a bass that had very low output, turned out the strings weren't magnetic and I've just tried mine and they're the same. First string is just a random string and it sticks to the pickup, second is the one off the HB all 4 are the same and it doesn't!

7 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

Ive been eyeing those pickups myself, and youve made up my mind for me. I've  already got a set of D'Addario chromes on the way.

Do you have a pic of the rear of the original pickup?

There you go. The Warman has a slightly bigger casing and needs a little filing to make it fit but it`s worth it.

Did another little mod yesterday and found out the bass's weakness, installed the Warman pickup and expected it to instantly have more output and grunt.....but no! Wired it in just as a humbucker and it was a little better than standard but still disappointing compared to other basses I have with the same pup. I noticed a bit of fluffyness to the sound, put a set of strings on that I had lying around and voila it's the monster it was meant to be,  the standard strings are rubbish! Just need now to give it a couple of weeks till I get the Kiogon loom and switch and my mods are done! 

Well after 20 minutes with a Stanley blade and some good old sticky back plastic (get down Shep!) for anyone who wanted to know how it looks in stealth mode, here it is and isn't it sexy!

On 26/11/2020 at 21:00, Basscabman said:

I was going to go for one of these but I read a review on Thomann and It said they had really thick baseball bat necks.

An owner on here said that's not true?

As an owner of the MB4 and former owner of the old P/bass style with baseball bat neck, I can categorically state `this ain`t no baseball bat`! I hate baseball bat type necks with a passion but this is extremely comfortable and very similar in fact to My 4 string Alpher.

1 hour ago, mcnach said:

Well, finally a decision: no, I won't be buying one.

 

 

This is because it seems that my girlfriend is buying the MB-5 for me

That tortoiseshell style pickguard has to go 'though. It's got to be black.

I thought that about the guard but it`s actually growing on me, I might vinyl wrap it black at some point though just to check as there won`t be an off the shelf replacement available.

My mods are starting next week, new Warman pup and kiogon loom with 3 pos toggle.

I had a Retrovibe Tele a few years ago that I traded with someone from this site, was full scale with 2 mm humbuckers and a cracking birdseye maple neck, unfortunately it was slab bodied and killed my arm so I got rid of it, would have been a keeper if it wasnt for the sharp edges.