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The PBXN is an animal at a very good price. I have one in a P and a pair in a J. I've never really clicked with J basses but a pair of JBXNs with a series switch and that J is a brute now.

As long as it's not a nitro finish, I've used good old 3M double sided tape, the foam type that's about a mil thick, not the 'glue on a roll' really thin one, with good results. The wooden makeshift one stayed on my 4005 for six months of gigging before I made a clear acrylic one. Left no residue or damage. The surface area of the thumbrest that is in contact with the tape, the better it'll work. So possibly the hollow plastic type thumbrest won't stay put as long. No harm in trying though.

You'll still need to lightly key the surface to spray another (matt or satin) finish. If you're keying the surface then just leave it it once keyed.

Not being able to see it in person I couldn't say but if the sunburst finish is lacquered over then scotching (or wirewool, light sandpaper or whatever you want to use) will just take the gloss off the lacquer and not touch the sunburst underneath. If, like a lot of doublebasses, the coloured varnish just ends at the top and bottom of the neck then scotching will remove some of the coloured finish, leaving a sharper transition between paint and natural. My bet would be that it's completely lacquered in but I wouldn't want to say without seeing it.

I'll just copy in what I posted in the 'notable deaths' thread. I just sadly heard of Kennys passing and although I'm no fan of the genre at all, he had a voice that I always found strangely comforting. Even if the subject matter was very dark (Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town) his voice would put me in a warm place. Rest in peace Mr. Rogers.

As well as a broken bass neck, wait 'til you find your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle gone!

You must've missed my post 😆 Seventy quid for my go to electric and acoustic combined. I've even just taken a photo of the exotic beauties. 🙂

I love doing Nite Club, it's such a fun song to play, especially the middle 8 (16, 20 or whatever it is 🤔) where there's those little fills right up around the 19th fret and all the octave runs. Hard to believe really that Horace pretty much learnt to play in that band. Still not sure if he was a natural genius or just had no real idea what notes to play 😁 Sorry, getting a bit fanboi now.

I wish 😁 I reckon I'm about 80-90% there in playing it as JE does on the original. We're a Mod/Ska/Northern Soul band and we have a decent following who know the songs inside out so I need to be on the money. For songs like The Real Me it's a pain cos they know when I'm busking it (and my pride makes me try to get it right) but it's great cos for most of our set the bass is leading the way and our crowds do notice it. 🙂

If it's writing or practicing at home then the first bass I always pick up is, bizarrely, my Aria P that cost £40. It's got a Quarter Pounder pickup and Chromes on it and it just sounds and feels lovely. If I can't be bothered to plug in then it'll be the £30 Harley Benton 'deko' acoustic. I don't own any megabucks basses but I do have lots of far more expensive 'better' basses but they're either in cases or at our rehearsal room so the cheapo sisters get used every time.

In our acoustic (but amped up) band I have to play Rio on doublebass, and I'm sure we do it even faster than it's supposed to be. At a gig I'll glance at the setlist, see it's next and just think 'oh fook, here we go'. 😁

Try humming the theme tune to Last Of The Summer Wine in your head while your guitarist starts the intro, that should completely ruin any chance of getting it right. In a band a long time ago I used to play Last Of The Summer Wine instead of the proper bassline to wind up the singer/guitarist.

The toughest one we do has to be The Real Me by The Who, not too bad if I busk it a bit but nail the important runs in the verses, but a lot of people in our audiences expect it to be bang on all the way through as they've seen the opening scene to Quadrophenia so many times they know every bit. But I'm not sure Entwistle ever played it the same twice. That said, the one that I've balls'd up with the most frequency is the bass breakdown in Special Brew by Bad Manners. It's not difficult at all and in rehearsal, or at any other time, I can just play it without thinking, but for some reason my mind goes blank whenever we gig it. I think it's because we do it at the end of a medley starting with Chasing Cars (of all things) which starts slow but gets skanked up, flows into Lip Up Fatty and then into Special Brew, and I have the whole medley to start thinking, 'oh shite, I can't remember that bass part', and we all know what happens when you start thinking.

I have an Arbor Series fretless P. Same neck plate and highmass bridge as yours and made of ply, but it's one of my favourite basses, it sounds great a plays great. I've owned it for about twenty years and it's a 'never selling' bass.

With every new development another excuse for bad playing gets taken away from me!

We've got nothing for the next few weeks now due to cancellations, our next gig is now Looe Scooter Weekender on 16th May but I really don't know how we'll stand as far as rallies and festivals go in the nearish future.

What the.......... but it's............ how the fu......... so you've.............. Eh? 🤔🤣

I do kind of agree with you, I'm not snobby about what I play but it does baffle me that average punters will happily watch different bands, week after week, playing virtually the same set. I firmly believe that are so many great songs from the last century that we really don't need to all play the same stuff to please a crowd. Luckily one of my bands plays to a certain genre so we only play songs that fit with that, and the other band where I play doublebass has it's own style, so we take songs from all genres and change the arrangements to suit us. Both bands are popular so we can steer away from the above songs for our own sanity. As the first band is a Mod band we do All Or Nothing and Town Called Malice (I quite often sing "a man called Gladys" 🙂 ) and we occasionally do Get Lucky in the other band, on doublebass it's fun, but that's it from the list. But in the right band I'll happily play anything as long it makes people happy.

No need, just shoot me now! To be fair I could get a decent set from that lot but jeebus there's some some old toot in there.

I like how the inside face has got all scratched up, the neck screws must've been left a little loose to get that sort of movement. 😆

I like it. But I am at this moment restoring a 70s Kay bass. 😆

That looks superb. Fantastic job. 👍

Why is my 🐓 so small? That is a very small Cockerell, you have to agree.

Count me in on this one. I usually only buy one bass a year on average and I've already bought two this year already, so how can I fail?