Woodinblack

Oh there are definately times in the set of a wedding that the audience have all buggered off outside, but then they are not there to see you. They come in later and there is cake!

Sadly I missed my chance to get one of those just after brexit when thoman had them for €1350 but didn't know how the whole import tax thing worked, by the time they added it they had none left. I am not sure I wanted a 5 like that anyway. Well, I have a genuine 4004 ric with 5 string and its neck seems fine with the strings on it, I just used lighter than normal ones, 40-125 and it seems happy. It is one of my most played basses, that and the maruschyk but the look of the 4003 was always an appeal. I spoke with HW, he said he put a Shaller 3D bridge on it so I could get the spacing smaller - ironically my 4004 started with one of those but now has a narrower bridge on it otherwise it wouldn't fit on the neck and would go outside the pickups. I keep thinking i could just get a normal ric, but they are such stupid money even tatty these days, and ultimately a 4 string is not really going to be something I end up gigging, and if I don't gig it, what is the point having it?

Harry White

We are not a wedding band either, but we have done a load of weddings and none of them have been bad, the last one was a bit faffy, but most of them have been really good. I guess we have just been lucky, the people who have hired us had seen us before and were happy with what they got.

I saw that one, it looked great. Sure it will be after a bit of work. Uberhorns are great

Hes the one who wrote the Ozzy Osborne albums that are credited to Ozzy.

That is the spirit, but it is hard. Luckily our singer can summon the energy to put the same level of performance on to a single person or a crowded pub. No, its an on/off thing. This friday was like this, heaving on the friday and practically empty on the saturday. Actually I kind of prefered that as I was pretty tired on the saturday and didn't want to have another stage crush But I have done the same venue on two different nights, one when you couldn't move and the other where you couldn't see anyone - depends on what else is on, whether people have been paid, the weather and just wether people feel like coming out or not.

I think that is covered 4 posts up!

So I am thinking that as I enjoy my 4004/5 so much it would be nice to have a 5 string 4003. Obviously they don't make one of those, but there are people who do. So I have contacted the most prominant one and asked him about it. He can do it, they aren't particulary cheap, so they would be about the price of a cheap used real one. Has anyone had one built and what were they like? I thought I could just get a used one (and originally after brexit, thomman were selling the actual 5 string 4003s/5s for that price, but not for long) but the 4003s/5s weren't that cheap, and there arent any 4003 non Ss in 5. Anyone gone this route? Yes, I know that 'tributes' is doing a bit of heavy lifting there!

Love the orange ones here - it just works better in orange. If you are going to make a design like that, it kind of has to scream to be looked at!

I have already played it and it is testament to the fact fender could do the right thing if they wanted

Not sure what precision comfort is - the further away from 16 it gets, the worse it gets at finding strings!

I got one like that, but 10x10 as I just have the one pole, and don't know if I am getting others. Seems ok, it has padding but as you said, I wouldn't put anything on it.

Even if I could get past the hideous headstock, the string spacing is a non starter for me.

See I used to think they were hideous, and then one day it just switched. Now I have one and wouldn't be without it.

Not too late you can just turn up on the day - 10am onwards

Well, the prices will go up now, they will have finally achieved desirability

They don't - you can see that much in the pictures of the OP

or the hofner wooden version!

Preferd it in the colour announced last year Unlike how un-niche it was when the first one came out in 1979? Think it looks great, hopefully I can get a several second hand version of the production version at some point!

Are they actually real? I got some from eBay and they looked fine, but when I went to put the number in the players circle thing they turned out to be fakes. Which was odd as they actually played fine, but got refunded anyway.

I tend to avoid remixes like the plague as the remix of Trick of the Tail was so terrible, but as I wasn't that bothered or tied to that album, I should probably give it a listen.

Presumably noone has reported them, or they are too small for fender to have noticed?

The ugliness of them! Its just the complete run out of ideas, we have to look a bit like a fender but can't look too much like a fender, we will just get a child to draw a headstock, two lines, thats fine. Thats why there are scroll bars on the side of the window, so you can scroll past!

.. would you use the structure or any of the notes of the original?