ossyrocks

Thanks for the input chaps. Having slept on it, I think I'm going to leave it. Here's the bass I was looking at. '76 Jazz at BassBros at a price you just cannot argue with. Someone will get a bargain and love it to bits. Rob

I do like a lighter bass. Mine are all a bit under or just slightly over 9lbs/4kg. However, I haven't actually tried to play a heavier bass, I've just avoided them having had surgery on my lower back 8 years ago. A bass has come up that i really fancy, and the price is right, however it's 10lbs 7oz/4.8kg, and it's too far away for me to go and try it. Who plays a heavier bass? How do you deal with it? Do you even notice/care? Is there that much difference between 4kg and 4.8kg? Thanks, Rob

I used to use EVRI quite a lot, until recently. I sold a Voodoo Labs Pedal Power on here late last year, it vanished into thin air after being tracked to one of their hubs. Getting a refund was a very painful and time consuming process, and I even had to provide my original purchase receipt from years ago to prove the value. I ended up refunding the buyer here long before I ever saw any money back from EVRI. It probably took 4 weeks to resolve, beginning to end, with me contacting them almost every other day via email & chatbot. I spoke to a real person ONCE. I will never use them again. Rob

A couple of months ago I was asked if I would like to join a newly forming blues band. I was quite flattered to be asked to be honest, as some of you might know I haven't been playing bass for very long (just over two years) having been a guitarist for the last 40 years. The guy forming the band is quite well known around here, having been in two rather famous and successful bands in the 80's, touring the world and doing TV. The other musicians are not slouches either, one moved to Chicago for five years to immerse himself in the blues, and the drummer has played the Royal Albert Hall, twice! Rehearsals are low key but diligent affairs, well run, well planned, briefed in advance on what to learn. Three new ones each week, and by the end of rehearsal they are recorded as a reminder of form and structure. All rehearsals are at the band leaders house, in his cellar, which is well kitted out and comfortable, and we often retire to the pub around 9.30 for a bit of reflection. The thing I hadn't anticipated, was being asked to try out a few of the numbers on lead vocal. Which I did for the first time on Wednesday, and it seems they have stuck and are now my tunes. More will be coming my way in due course. It's the one thing I thought I would never do again, sing lead vocal. This time last year, I would never have managed it, as playing bass and singing is a whole other level of difficult than playing guitar and singing, but here I am. Onwards. Rob

My '73 Precision.

Fair enough!

Do you want to give me a clue? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about!

It's why I have no desire for a 60's Precision Bass. Thank the Lord !

£2.5k would have bought you one maybe two or three years ago. My '73 was £2.6k exactly two years ago. I do think this is a nice bass for a decent price right now. It should be a B neck, mine is, at 41mm. Rob

No, never. It does make me twitch a bit.

Andy bought my Babicz bridge. Paid promptly and then was patient to wait over Christmas for delivery. Nice guy to deal with. Rob

So, given mine does the same, maybe to a lesser extent, I don't know. My first thought was to investigate whether the socket is wired directly to the board or if it is chassis mounted then wired to the board by flying leads. Looking at some pics available on the internet, it's the latter, in which case the lateral movement should have no effect on the connections inside. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/internal-photos-of-trace-elliot-elf.1306639/ Rob

I just got mine out, confident that mine didn't do that, but in fact it does. It does move side to side a bit. I've never noticed it before. Rob

I think the decision whether or not to take a spare depends quite a bit on the basses that you have/use. Mine are vintage 70’s for the most part, and very recently I had a pickup spontaneously expire. If I had been on a gig, with no backup, it could have been awkward. It was a Jazz bass however, so I could have got away with just using the other pickup for the rest of the gig. In the case of a Precision pickup failure, it’s game over. Since the pickup failure happened, I have bought a double gig bag, and always carry two basses. The chap who rewound my Jazz pickup (Ash from Oil City Pickups) told me that pickup failures in 70’s Fenders are becoming much more common as they hit that 50 year milestone. Rob

Alegree pickups do some good ones, I’ve got them in a couple of basses. https://www.alegree.co.uk/products/precision-bass-height-foam Rob

I've not tried their bass pickups, but I have a set of his Cirrostratus Tele pickups in a partscaster Tele and they look, feel and sound decent quality.

Why didn't you just say that before ! It all makes sense now !