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I've had good success in the past, boiling stainless steel rounds (nickels don't seem to work quite as well, but still ok), with a little washing up liquid and dash of vinegar. Smells foul, but actually almost miraculously rejuvenated old Roto's for me....screws up the silk windings though. These days I tend not to bother and just change strings less often, but I'm tempted to try some Elixirs, just the price of entry is off-putting. Fwiw the string 'snapping' thing works pretty well for me too - I do that fairly regularly. I find it gives a bit of definition back to the tone of faded round wound strings.

I'm finding it a bit tricky to come up with what I think would be a reasonable scenario in which one would even ask to borrow someone else's bass for a gig. I'm afraid it'd be a no from me.

I believe they backed Dr John and Robert Palmer, amongst others. They were all session players AFAIK.

The Meters.

What he said ^

Gotta say, I like the original guard, lifts the body colour and works with the maple board imo. Nice bass, enjoy!

Yep, C# on G string dead spot on my Jazz fretless. Feel a little less annoyed about it now!

Have just received a comprehensive reply from John, suggesting the pot may be bent - which would be logical. I'll try to carefully bend it back, but if not looks like it can be replaced.

Thanks! I believe John has an excellent reputation for responding to stuff like this - I thought he might be away on an Easter break! To be fair, I'm not the original owner either - just hoping for guidance on a remedy from him or the BC hive.

Excuse the weird thread title! The stacked pot for the mid control on my East U-retro pre is binding. It's annoying, because when you want to cut or boost, the frequency shifts with it. It's not seized solid, just feels overly stiff. I've removed the knobs to check it's not them, rather than the pot itself, but it makes no difference, so deffo the pot. I've tried turning both top and bottom portions liberally to see if they'll loosen up, but to no avail. I emailed East last week, but no reply as yet, so wondering if anybody here has experienced and hopefully fixed similar? Pot replacement doesn't look straightforward as it's surface mounted... Thanks in advance!

Weird, but I kinda like it - from that pic at least.

These look truly excellent- enjoy!

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say the California thing started with Californication. Before that the place name drops were way less annoying e.g. Out in L.A., New Orleans (BSSM) etc. I might be wrong though - usually am.

Good luck!

This is great, really good job Huw 👏

Colour coordinates with your cats nicely too.

I believe he's saying he bought it from a shop, not from Overwater. If they had nothing to do with the transaction that sounds good service to me. The retailer perhaps less so! Lovely bass

Great pic and trousers! What's the black rectangular thing on top of the portable tele?

Re. the Jaco comments, I'm guessing he stuck with the Jazz Bass as he had so many thousands of hours of play in it that he was totally dialled in to it. I'm not sure that people were exactly throwing money or endorsements at him, particularly in the latter part of his career, which may have had something to do with it too. I'm sure I heard a story about him turning up to sessions and having to borrow a bass as he didn't have his own (maybe someone more informed can elaborate if this is true). Re. Ownership anxiety and being scared to ding it or play the local Dog n Duck, I can understand this if you're planning to sell the bass on. For me, I'm so sure I'm not going to part with my Fodera and had it long enough that I'm way past caring if it gets dinged, lives on a stand by my desk, gathers a bit of dust etc. The only ownership anxiety I have is around not getting good use of it or replacement if it were stolen(I couldn't ) but that applies to all my basses.

This assumes that enough people in the audience would know the value of your £5k bass and associate knobbery with it? 😉 Surely amongst the general populace ( not the insular and, let's be honest, niche world of basschat) a Fender would be the most identifiable bass? Hmmm I wonder what the audience think of me when I put on my Jazz Bass?! Probably "what a knob", but to be fair I get that whatever I'm playing 😉

Haha, sorry, I should have been arsed to read it properly then 😶

I can't be arsed to read through all this, but I've had a Fodera Monarch for about 14 years now. When I bought it (used) it was the most I'd put into a bass, flipped a Sei and a Modulus plus added some cash in to get it. I guess it owes me about 3 grand, but I reckon it's saved me a fortune as it's the bass that pretty much killed gas for me, and I had a serious churn of high end basses before getting it. Nothing else I've played feels as good, or frankly does such a great range of tones in a band context. I've no idea whether I'm good enough for it, and for all the times I've taken it out to gig (dozens and dozens), only one person ever has spoken to me about it cos they clocked what it was. Could I afford it now, no! And especially not for what they command these days. I'm not sure why they get so much stick for what they cost really, value is so subjective, and there are more than a couple high end makers charging close to Fodera money for what are in essence Fender variants. As I said in a thread a few month's ago, if you're offended that Foderas seem expensive, have you seen the price of bassoons?!!