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Whine somewhere about 9810 Hz. Been going on for 7+ years. Wear earplugs folks, tinnitus is 👎

Paul, nothing fancy or hi-tech. Builders use 2 methods to juice up pickups, more wire or stronger magnets. More wire alters tone, the Duncan QP has that happy smiling face as it waves your mids goodbye 🙂 Neodymium are super strong magnets, normal alnico pickups get charged just by passing between a neodymium field. You've saw the Entwistle Neodymiums, well you can do the same with bars from Amazon for £6. I fell quite deep into the 51 single coil rabbit hole. A few things I've took for the experience. Big slugs like the Roswell and Duncan QP give a different initial attack. Stacked/split humbuckers in single coil foot print don't sound like single coils, way too polite. Replacing one for another in the same position will not give you earth shattering changes. Big bucks often = big deal 😒, one of the surprises was an £8 alnico from a Chinese eBay seller 🙂 Your money goes further buying from the UK folk than US brands. Can't promise , FFS don't quote me 😃, but I've an inkling Dave at Bloodstone would do a custom 9.5k overwound single for £50. Retrovibe 51. Another good choice. I was exchanging pleasantries with Mr Konig this very morning 🙂 There's something in the back of my mind regarding the size of them, a wee niggling thought that they're slightly smaller. An email to David would clear that up.

Stick a neodymium bar magnet to the underside of the Roswell , that'll liven things up no end 😃

Have you had a dispatch note or email yet ?

Heart tells me I'd go to £600. Head tells me I'm a lying barstool who wouldn't part with £300 , Head of course is correct 😄 Had a hankering for a Mosrite/Univox quite awhile now, almost bought the Aria version last week, £329. Before hitting the buy button, Head steps in with "Hold on son. You've a cove bit for the German Carve, plenty of timber stacked/stickered under the stairs. Spares drawers are groaning under the weight of tuning pegs/pickups/bridges." Before I knew what hit me the templates were drawn up ready for cutting 🙂

Naw. Had an email from a SBMM manager saying it was preamp related, pretty cool; fella saw my request for advice on Talkbass 😃 London shop it came from were total d**ks. First they said they'd sent a replacement bass, then changed their tune when I thanked them for sending an exact replacement ; even the ID note I'd hidden under the PG came with the the replacement 😄 That had them singing "we just replaced the preamp", b0ll0cks they'd done heehaw bar resend the same bass. Was an Xmas raffle prize so they weren't prepared to ship a 3rd time, told me to pick something else up to B-stock value.

Biggest problem I have with selling is energy. Couple of issues came to light recently where me selling the basses now will save family a whole bunch of hassle later. Trouble is, just the thought of taking photos, weighing the bloody things, answering messages, set ups and packing them is knackering 😃

Disassemble the tuning peg, any stripped material caught between the worm and gear will lead to further damaged. Take them apart, give everything a wee clean and grease the worm gear. Reassemble, making sure the wheel is round the right way and the cogs seat into the worm spiral. Regards your unbalanced E/A strings, had the same issue with a SBMM Sub. Offsetting the pickup height might help.

You can set it for either. Warman comes wired in series, if you want Vol/Vol/Tone just separate the red/white wires. Black would ground on one vol pot with white as hot, Red ground/Green hot for the other pot 👍

No. The White Peaveys are 2nd & 3rd gen Furys, DynaBass, Foundation & 5 string Foundation and finally a MIDIbass; almost out of sight is a white Void PXD. My G-bass is black sparkle, front row at the couch between 2nd gen Fury and 4 string Foundation.

Let me know if you give in to temptation 😃 Sold my 1st generation TL-5 to a lad in Hungary so I'm still got the 2nd gen (right hand one in the photo above). Some was, some wasn't. Owned nearly 60 Peavey basses, here's most of them . There was a lot of penny pinching went on.

Aye, they're braw beasties 🙂 I'd 1st and 2nd gen TL-5s and a 1st gen TL-6.

It's not from Tune Guitar Technology, they were bolt on necks and the TWX, TWB and TWBZ all have a different body shape.

It's a terrifying thought but this was a step up from my first bass 😬

I don't remember them being nice about anything, not that I expected or wanted them. All I wanted was the faulty item replaced with little fuss. Thomann may not be "3 bags full sir" but their CS was a damn sight better than a certain London shop who lied about replacing a bass then lied about doing a repair on it. Give me cold formal yet efficient over smiles every time 👍

Thomann would suggest 'return for refund or replacement. They actually prefer buyers follow that course of action, it allows them to identify dodgy batches/ pull them from the shelves and hold a very large stick over the factory at fault.

I believe there is now a huge amount of free information available online will address any set up issues.

Most of us managed to survive unscathed. Truth be told most beginners give up simply because learning any skill/craft/art requires time and effort.

Massive thread about them on TalkBS 😄 From what I've read most folk, who appreciate they're buying $100 instruments , are happy enough; the basses allow new players to learn without too much hassle and occasional players to dabble. Cheap, cheerful and does the job 👍 Been swithering about the Fazley surf green hot rod, seeing that blue/maple Glarry I think the Fazley is history 😄

Fingers crossed you get a speedy resolution 👍

I knew there was a class action coming. Think FMIC are stuffed, lassie bringing the action has pretty decent credentials. Just hope it doesn't drag on for years.

"and the lazy bugger still hasn't sent me any photos how the back of the chopped headstock looks !!"

Back in the 80's I was shopping for a Fender P. Played a bunch of them then , just for something to gauge against, tried a Tokai HP. Never gave Fender a 2nd thought for the next 30 years 😃 Congratulations on your wise choice.

A pal asked to do that on his sunburst version. No idea if it was an improvement as I never got the chance to play it before the swap. Another 2 jobs I did were wire the Warman in parallel and knock up a Stingray preamp. Nothing wrong with the stock tuners or bridge so left them alone.