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Pity about the change to the 'Wanted' ads. I've boxes upon boxes of spares so checked in there regularly to see if anyone needed a particular part to complete a build or get a failing bass back on track. Always made me feel like I was playing a small part in the BC community. Sad state of affairs 🙁

Answered Dave's wanted ad for a Behringer P1. Deal was done with the first message. Even took the trouble to send me a follow up message after his parcel was delivered, a nice touch and much appreciated. He's a Top Man.

I got these cheap, weighing 158lbs each so 'cheap' meant free 🤣

Had the BP 1510. It was a heavy swine despite just having 2 x 10" + 1 x15", that 610 will be much heavier. Was glad to get £60 for the 1510 😀

Congratulations on your NBD Mine's is a tale of woe and regret, for not buying one from Doug years ago.

My mate Iain rocked up one day sporting a Martinez Goochi hammer 😁 £417.50 for the basic hammer, another £100 for the colour coordinated handle + face plate cover 😮 Funny thing, in all the years I've known 'The Purv' I don't recall seeing him use a hammer, he leaves that stuff to us mere mortals swinging the same Estwing we've had since laddies 🤣 The Martinez only made one appearance, just so folk knew he'd bought it. Tool theft is pretty bad on sites hence the reason nobody is dropping big bucks for their kit.

Much as I love this bass. It lives in it's case as these two are better playing and sounding basses.

Met up with Chris earlier this evening, he now has most of a Peavey Zodiac DE. Great fella to do business with. Cheers Davie

PCB terminal connectors. Come in various sizes. I glue them to the back of the pots, bend the solder lugs towards the pins then solder them together; also ground 1 pin to the body of the pot 👍

Have the same myself, bought in anticipation for the 8" cab build 😀 Cab build hit the skids when I grabbed a 2 x 8" cab from eBay for £40 😮 Ply is free to uplift should anyone in Central Scotland need some for their build 👍

I would say go ahead with the surgery, just expect problems if you decide to sell. Last I looked there was no shortage of unaltered bass guitars for sale so little reason for folks to buy one with hidden wood butchery.

Had that same problem and I only owned 72 basses 😀 My advice is get another 3 basses, any will do, just to hit that magic 100. Goal reached, start selling the guitars and replace each one with a bass 👍

Do you own or have access to a drill ? Get a sanding drum, insert it into the pickup cavity and mark where it clears the body. Take a sharp knife and trim away the sandpaper above that mark. Fit the mounting rings and start sanding away at the cavities. The mounting rings will keep you within the working area while the exposed drum won't damage the chrome when you move along it . Wear a mask

I mind that one in Aberdeen, bought for £300 then listed next day for £1300 🤣

I agree on both counts 🙂

Owned one of the early models with the 42mm P-bass neck. Selling mine was a mistake and the regrets soon stacked up. 1) I still miss it. 2) Sunderland Trading had a wee problem with the factory and all the later models got jazz bass necks. Little chance getting another 🤬 3) Sold it too cheap and the buyer turned out to be a complete tosser, the RPBXN was a great bass; far better than he deserved.

We've both been on the go the same length of time, give or take a few months. Sadly, I've more wrinkles 😀

Might not be a great idea to post this but here's my pal Rick with his YOB bass 🤣

Has to be 🙂

He has plenty of books out but that is the only one I've read, in two minds about the title of this one 😄

With good reason.

I'll echo what folk are saying about David and his basses; it's all true he really is a gent and the basses are great 😀 My first Retrovibes were a white Evo and a red Zygote, that was in 2014. A 5 string Vantage soon followed then it was an RV-4, next a Super - P came my way. All came nicely set up , looked great and were fun to play. As to the man himself, he's a gem 🙂 When I was hunting for certain Vintage bass, David spotted one and passed on the link. Once a Retrovibe beanie turned up unannounced, simply because David had ordered a batch/ knew I'm bald as a coot and that Scottish weather is 'changeable' 😄 The Super-P arrived with a series/parallel/tap mini switch, those weren't spec but our man knew I played T-40's and thought I'd appreciate the option 😎

Know exactly what you mean. Baby bass with a Warman Drivetrain. If your green quad coil is the one from Amazon, 17.8K DCR and 8.25H, the Drivetrain is near 2X; 28k DCR with alleged 20 H. One thing though; should you be looking for 'Mudbucker', neither will get you there 😒 Stick it up by the neck , you'd have mud 😎 Sadly not in roughly the P-bass position, I learned that after installing a 29.9k hum cancelling 51 footprint in my slab body.

It's a Peavey neck, T-40 to be precise 🙂 Been broken then repaired but seeing as it was drilled to accept the Schaller tuning pegs, it's a sound repair 👍 Timely talk of Schaller tuning pegs, was hunting through boxes over the weekend and found 3 complete sets 😄 If you decide to skip plugging holes and drilling new ones, drop me a line.

Then the matter is closed 🙂