Gnermo

Lovely! I am wondering if shipping is out of the question ,or if that is at all possible.
And what kind of trades are you looking for?

Does anyone know what years the BB-12000 non-export models are from? I acquired a natural one but Yamaha serials always confuse me

I own a fretless Hamer, not sure which model

Does anyone know what the windings at the end look like on these strings?
I know the nickelwounds are specifically catered to Fender style 4-in-a-row headstocks with the way the silk wrappings extend.

Is it the same for these strings?

Put .100 GHS Boomers on the BB, stepped down from .110 flatwounds.

1 hour ago, Chris2112 said:

It looked as though it had been well used. Enough, I'd say, that the original owner would be justified in going back to F Bass to buy another if he were going to get the same use from one again. 

 

What had gone wrong with the neck? Had it twisted over time? 

The truss rod had been tightened too much and was digging a hole in the wood, almost to the point of coming out the other side.
Something to do with the truss rod channel only reaching up to the third fret, and not all the way up iirc.
 

On 11/04/2023 at 20:55, mjscholten said:

Hey man, do you still have this bass? I am confident that there is a chance I actually played this bass when it was from the previous owner during an audition! If you ever consider selling it, please hit me up, I would be very interested!

I've returned it to the original owner, the neck was beyond repair.
Shame, because it is one of the best basses i've ever played.

https://www.manne.com/en/gallery/multi-bass-6-satin-special/

Found this too, a 31" Manne bass.

A very beautiful bass, i'd love to have a 4 string Xotic P next to my 5 string XJ.

A Maruscyczk Cazpar is in your price range, and can be configured as a 6 string shortscale.

Wrong as I may be, I did answer the question correctly.

Looks like there's a lot of reference pictures of fake pickups floating around then, with wires like this.

Thanks for your passive agressive snarky comments, really lightening up the mood here.
(atleast i'm not the one suggesting there's more then a positive and a ground coming off the battery)

20 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

Well done on realising that, I’ll make this obvious-

 

one big difference is that active pickups are active, so need power.
so you run a power cable into the pickup cavity.

if the pickups are passive they don’t need power… so don’t need a power cable.

see the difference? 

 

Next question- see the red power cables in the picture? Coming out the battery, split three ways, one to the preamp and two to the pickup cavities… now can you think of any logical deduction we could make about power cables going into a pickup cavity when we are asking the question “are these active or passive”? 

Those aren't coming from the battery, but from the output jack.
Here's a picture of a MEC 3 band preamp like in the Corvette above:

Colors are different, but thats a moot point. MEC active pickups only have two cables, a + and a - .

On 12/11/2022 at 18:20, LukeFRC said:

Is there a power cable going from the battery to the pickup cavity….

You can have an active preamp with passive pickups, so this comment holds no ground.

Ontopic:

Gold logo MEC pickups = Active.
Silver logo MEC Pickups = Passive
MEC Dynamic Correction = Passive

The MEC Single coils in the starbass and such are an exception to the rule, but those are passive aswell.

Changed from 0.95 Optima Gold strings to .110 Rotosound flats.
Completely new bass;

"Vintage caramelized canadian hard rock maple"

Fake roasted maple, lovely!

A few pics of a few of my Warwick's

On 14/10/2022 at 22:28, briansbrew said:

Would you like mine

 

Dreaming of a red and gold BB2000....

In my experience all BB424's are like that, great basses.

The J pickup on my BB100S with flatwound strings sounds like a dream

Oh yeah, it's all natural I think.
The big green patch in the back is where tape used to be, to protect it from buckle rash. Clearly didnt work

Anyone notice the hole in the pickup yet?
 

Picked up a reasonably used F-bass today, the previous owner played in a lot of bands and used the bass extensively...

Plays and sounds like a dream still, even with the pickup covers completely worn down

The previous owner sent me a picture of what it used to look like in 2006, crazy how it was completely green all the way through.

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This is a 2019-ish group photo.

Ibanez CTB-3NT - SR1000 - EDA905 - 2365B -RS824 - SR1200 - RB808.
I've since sold the CTB, EDA , but i've added the SR1306 and a lovely SB900.

The RB808 has a broken switch, and only produces sound in one position...