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The tuners are adjustable and it's possible yours just need a little tighten. Although quite rare to come by there is a little 'c' spanner that fits in the hole in the tuner shaft to nip them up. I would imagine there's non Yamaha tools that would also do the job.

Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper

Start Choppin' - Dinosaur Jr

Off topic, sorry 😁. Have you seen there's going to be a film based on/inspired by the album 'And Out Come The Wolves'. I have no idea what it'll be like but probably worth a look if you're into the album, which is a masterpiece BTW 😉.

It depends if you want an actual Precision, or a bass with Precision pickups. The right image is important to wanting to pick it up and play it for a youngster. Personally if I had £300 for bass with Precision pickups I'd be getting a used Yamaha BB424x. Fantastic build quality, playability and tone.

Count me in. There's nothing I want or need so I can't see any reason I could possibly fail. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow! A BBC3PO 😁 Looks cool though 😎👌

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The quoting makes it look like they're mine, they're not. That's all @gobasserk's reverse P loveliness. I had to take drastic action to get my first reverse P in my life. As the old saying goes, "If the reverse P doesn't fit in the bass, the bass must be made to fit the reverse P." Whadyamean that's not a saying? Well it should be then.

Just to add to the chrome pickup rings and dots or oval inlay comments, my BB1100S has none of these but is absolutely wonderful. 😉 OK ok, it's just an excuse to post some BB porn 😁

Sorry, embarrassingly no progress. Caring for family and other matters have taken priority over a serious amount of my spare time. Hopefully things will settle down a little in a couple of months and I can put some time to my various unfinished projects.

All with the 'correct' P pickup orientation. Superb!

See Her Pee - NOFX

I'm actually going to make a proper effort next year, I've lost the GAS recently and can't think of anything I really want.

What if I considered buying a certain bass before NYE, and then bought that bass later next year? Pushing the rules a bit? 😁

They're still not particularly light. Not heavy but not super light either. Along the lines of the Fender A/E there's the Yamaha BEX4. IMO they're absolutely wonderful basses, a soapbar pickup (and piezo) but in the P position so very P like tone. There's one on eBay at the mo for a good price but again they're not light.

Danelectro longhorn, or whichever Dano suits your needs. A Longhorn is stupidly light, sounds fantastic, shortscale but weirdly doesn't feel small. Strap button placement isn't the best but being so light it's not neck heavy. Did I mention how light they are? 😁

Because it's got two jazz pickups. Dirty, filthy thing! 😁

Wow 😲. Is that what they are now? They were around the £750 mark not long ago for the black or coffee.

Looks like the red is the same as the BBPH. If it is then it's far nicer in real life than photos, real nice depth to it.

I haven't used ROS but it surely can be used in other ways than two amps. I use a Line 6 X3 which has two completely separate signal paths through the effects. You could put one pickup through the preamp, eq, compressor and the other through distortion or overdrive and get a huge sound but with a very clear bottom end, or any other other variation. Or to an amp with two channels. Could the EBS Billy Sheehan drive pedals be used as the Yammy Attitude has two outputs? Probably all sorts could be done without having to lug loads of gear around.

Is there a high risk of accidently buying a bass with all the clicking on adverts? Say there is, say there is, say there is 🤞😑

I have @AndyTravis's Marathon bass now. It really is a fantastic instrument, the punch from that pickup is something else, back the tone off and it'll do old skool Precision, but up full it's just a powerhouse. Every time I use it I do wonder how they weren't more popular, admittedly I don't know how they compared price wise to a top end Fender Precision, but I feel build wise it's equal and tone wise it's superior, although that is obviously subjective. I would love to see a reissued Marathon but can see why they're trying something new. Personally, I'd like to have seen a few nods to their heritage incorporated in the new designs, but there you go.

I suspect most of us had a go faster knob when we were younger. 😁

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