Maude

Great find for a tenner! Well worth doing up a bit, they're actually very nice basses, especially the necks. I've got an STB J and P, paid £40 each. The P I gigged solidly for the best part of a year I liked it that much. I did put a Quarter Pound pickup in it but the original was fine really. The J has a pair of the Entwistle PBXNs wired with a series switch. Proper J tones with either pickup and a lovely full fat tone when in series, almost P sounding. In fact I used it for rehearsal last week, it holds it's own against some expensive 'real' basses. Both have had black pickguards and bridge covers added. Arty farty (bad grainy) shot 🙈 Forgot to say that the Jazz was sent to me by courier in a single black bin liner taped shut around the neck with the headstock sticking out. Amazingly No damage, crazy!.

I'm really enjoying this album. I'm only in as far as 'Infectious' but already there's so many influences from the bands I love but without sounding like a clone of any. Great stuff, well done. 😎

Ha, bloody audience on their phones. I once bought a car on eBay between songs at a gig I was playing. 😂 I was keeping an eye on a car for my wife that ended that evening, I forgot to bid before we started and suddenly remembered during the gig. My phone was on my amp which is usually kind of beside me when I play doublebass, I quickly opened ebay at the end of a song and saw the auction ended in a couple of minutes. Shouted at the guitarist to do a double length intro to the next song while I stuck a bid in. Checked ebay in the break to find my wife now owned a new convertible. 😁

Whiskey in the Jar - Thin Lizzy

Cubik - 808 State

Movin' On Up - Primal Scream

Bulls on Parade - RATM

Will You? - Hazel O'Hazelnuts

Nice Legs Shame About Her Face - The Monks

Technically you are not using your car for work, you are commuting to a place of work. If you were using your car for business deliveries, or taxiing people around for money, trading as a mobile mechanic etc, then fair enough, you are using your car for work. But just driving your gear to a gig is surely commuting. While you are working (gigging) you are not using your car. Also, and this is never easily accepted, but insurance companies don't find a get out anywhere near as much as people would like you to believe. In my 35 of being in the insurance repair trade I can't even think of a handful of times when they weaseled out. Usually you simply pay the extra that the relevent cover would've been before we're allowed to repair/release your car.

Sorry I don't. I found it worked really well. I'm not a huge subby bottom end kind of guy but I certainly didn't find it lacking in bass. I never A/Bd it with the bass version but from memory it seemed pretty much the same just with a mid control instead of a drive control. I used it with an Ashdown LoMenzo drive pedal so that didn't matter.

After looking at the pictures again I think I'm going to take it to rehearsal this week. 😎♥️

It was in this thread a couple of years back, starting on page 280. Here's a picture of it finished. I really lucked out with the neck (IMO), the fretboard wood is lovely, the headstock is quite aged and the two skunk stripes aren't as prominent as some, so not as jarring. Just how I like it. Pickguard up close and personal.

There was either a kind of build thread, or I documented the conversion in this thread. I'll see if I can find some.

But not as much as a 734a. I have both so obviously had to compare and you can get the full bass/mid/treble tone of the PH with the 734a controls at about three quarters full. It sounds different because it's not reverse P but the amount of bass/mid/treble is greater. But I prefer the PH as it feels more usable, the 734a is almost too extreme. It may be a placebo but the PH just sounds fantastic. Both have factory strings so probably the same. I'm with you on single ply pickguards as well, when I did the reverse P mod on my 424x I had to make a new pickguard, so single ply black it was.

Jump In Sapphire - Metallica

Being a penniless 11/12 year old in '85 it would probably be my favourite songs recorded from the Sunday evening Top 40 show, interspersed with annoying bits a Richard Skinner as I tried, and failed, to press stop at the very last second before he talked over the ending.

No, their cover version didn’t come out until '87.

What an absolutely rediculous bass. Fantastic, well done! 🤘😎👍

I spent exciting afternoon a few months back comparing body measurements (with photos) between my Japanese 1100s and my 374a, to compare new to old. I realised what an absolute nerd I was being and don't think I ever posted the results. There were lots of very slight differences but in all honesty they were remarkably similar.

I didn't know that. 👍

@Raslee I saw that one for sale and very nearly bought it, bargain price. Funnily enough it was the tuners that put me off because, being extremely shallow, I love the look of the originals. I'd say that's a Japenese one as the pickups are the earlier type, but I'll admit I don't know that the pickups changed when the place of manufacture did. A lovely bass wherever it was built.

She's So Modern - Boomtown Rats

Down Down - Quo

Olympia WA - Rancid