Raslee

The Bass Centre, Birmingham circa 1997. The story: Been learning a few months on a cheap Ibanez, still pretty crap & no amp - practicing through my cheap midi hifi. Amazing talented bass player in my best mates band takes too many psychedelics at the time and takes a trip to jam with Buddah and disappears for many years to come. I have his bass for a few months and get asked to join my best mates band. Little did I know at the time was that this heavy bitch of a bass I borrowed off the first bassist was a Jaydee. Meanwhile Buddha bass get his bass returned to his parents and then loses the Jaydee, or gave it away I believe, on a pilgrimage in India. Anyhow, the bass centre - plans to buy a Squire and used Peavy TNT amp (super heavyweight), saved the money - on budget. Travel from Shropshire to Birmingham with the vocalist in his 76 bay window VW Camper and it sort of turns into a bit of a Cheech & Chong journey…smoke everywhere and not just from the VW. Anyway, arriving somewhat spiraled eyed I end up stoned beyond all comprehension and sign my first ever loan…Stingray & Trace Elliot combo…bloody skint, great times, great shop - long live listening to Funkadelic at the Birmingham Bass Centre 🤩

Well it was more like this afternoon, Cider festival. This right here absolutely sang today 😎🏁

@Kiwi, as you know I am keen for one of these and would quite like the mop inlays too. Are you looking for deposits? If so can you fire me your details - thanks buddy.

As said, British racing green 😎

Fantastic news, Lozz – welcome to the club SL! I have a 4 and a 5, and they’re now my main gigging basses. Interestingly, I put some Nordstrands in my 4 yesterday. They haven’t added much compared to the previous Black Label pickups, which I think are great, but the sound does seem to have a slightly broader spectrum. Speaking of sound, I really like the tone on these. I recall a comment about them being considered “thin-sounding” based on their weight – well, that’s simply untrue in my experience. There’s great tone to be had, perhaps even more so on my 5, which has a John East preamp. It offers a little more variation and perhaps some colouring over the stock Sandberg preamp. My shoulder and back love the weight – and when paired with an Elf amp and a 4-ohm, 10kg Markbass 2x10, what’s not to like?

Absolute legend!

That would be great. I was hoping for something similar to the MM Slo neck which is similar to the jazz width. I think the standard USA Rays were just over 41mm from memory. What is the next steps? Do you need deposits or are you scoping the demand/cost? Its fantastic you're doing this for the community, big credit to you.