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Thanks. It's not a true slab body , there's both forearm and belly cuts 👍

Bloody hell where does the time go !! Cheers , nobody ever uses my middle name 😃

Nearly 2 years passed without buying a bass yet the last 7 weeks has saw me buy 3 😮 Dipped a toe in the multi scale pond with a RedSub 5'er , ticked the Epiphone Embassy off my list today 🙂 This brings me to this one , bit of a dilemma here. I've a thing for slab body P-basses and planned on building another 3 this year. One of those would steal the ESP Horizon single coil look 😃 I loathe doing binding so was pleasantly surprised to spot this , G4M LA Select Denim burst. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/LA-Select-Bass-Guitar-by-Gear4music-Denim-Burst/3L4K Note, whoever wrote the sales blurb needs a good hiding ; the world can do without their BS. Did a pre-order last week and after a few days shipment delay it was dropped off on Wednesday🙂 First impressions are it's nicely done and nicely set up 👍Strings need changed , not a fan of roundwounds. £160 well spent 😃 Lighter band is a reflection of the wall units 🙄

Do they normally have CTS pots ? If they do then the CTS factory in Taiwan must have had supply issues, mine has a volume pot from Jin Sung in Korea and a Korean Alpha tone pot.

As of 12:35 today I am now an Epiphone Embassy owner 🙂 Sadly shifts spent clambering up and down scaffolding leave me a bit knackered these days so all you folks will get is a photo. Well a photo and a promise , those bloody roundwound strings are coming off ASAP 😄

I wouldn't go as far as "awful" but definitely lacking 🙂 Might be a change of supplier but when I A/B'd a mate's standard PB-20 against the stealth black PB-20 ,the standard was a much livelier louder bass 👍 Great idea , surprisingly affordable option too 👍

For me ; it better not be the early stages of getting another in gold , only 1 hour passed since I pressed buy it now 🤣

Wanderlust Green 👍

In stock at GAK. @Stub Mandrel I am now down £335 , hope you're proud of yourself 😉

Not the 5 string but the 4 string model. I'm going back 7 years so there may have been changes. Don't recall any major issues, bridge was easy to intonate the strings / tuners held / fairly light / no fret problems. Finish was nice 🙂 Scratchplate is horrible but the "tort" was just a film , underneath it is white. Stock strings were not that great , no biggie as you'll no doubt change them right away 👍 Pickups , though not spectacular, do the job. The jazz bass VVT set up gives the usual volume drop when both volumes are up full , not a fault with the bass ; it's just the way jazz basses work. I would let any of that concern you , not with Thomann's return policy 🙂

You are a very bad man 😛

That be the Sarzo s/n , 0407 dates to late 1989. C-4 and C-5 didn't go on sale until 1999.

It's scratchplate mounted. Thread 2 screws through the face of the scratchplate, springs go on the screws which in turn thread through the pickup holes.

Answered a "wanted" ad of Paul's regarding a Renegade bass. Sent a couple of photos , answered a couple of questions and the deal was done 🙂 Everything the folk above are saying is true , Paul is great guy and a pleasure to do business with 👍

Thanks @Paul S , much appreciated 🙂

Had a great start to 2022 and it's all thanks to Steve . He was having a clear out , one of the things to go was a PB-50 project. Knowing I have a thing for PB-50s he got in touch asking if I was interested 🙂 Too right I was interested 😃 Asking for only the postage cost the worthy gent boxed it up and sent it to Scotland 😎 I'll be naming this build "Jonesy" 👍

All depend if you think a Chinese pickup ( Tonerider) will be better than a Korean pickup (Roswell). Tonerider are a relative newcomer , 18 years in business , Roswell close to 30 With regard to specs there's not a lot between them , IMO. Both use alnico 5 slugs and both have braided hook up wire. The wire count between the two differs ; Tonerider quote 7.4k for the neck and 8.2k for the bridge. Roswell say 7.55k for neck and 7.82k for bridge . Does it make a huge difference ? Tonerider only give the Henry reading for the neck , 3.2H . Roswell say nothing but the similar alnico 5 braided wire Donlis quote 3.0H for their 7.2k neck pickup and 3.2H for their 7.6k , expect the neck pickups to be about the same with the Tonerider bridge being slightly louder than the Roswell. Personally. I wouldn't bother. Pots/caps ... If they start to fail ,change them ; same as you would with any bass. I've 8 year old Bentons with the stock pots/cap/jack sockets 👍 I totally understand the " it only cost £138 there must be something dodgy" thinking but Harley Bentons are just decent basses sold at affordable prices , factory makes a modest profit/Thomann makes a modest profit ; big money for both is the massive volume of sales.

With no re-stock until start of May , you are not helping matters 😄

"Offensive Music/Bands" I'm all for it. Writing songs that fans love but offend other folk is great , creates a Them and Us division 🙂 Plenty of those songs won't be my thing ; I'm not offend it's just me being Them 👍

Very true but given the population difference there's likely more dim Americans running around than dim Brits 🙂

Nah , this changes nothing 👍

Aye. Started by the same fella behind the long running TalkBass thread , Sheffield laddie living in Spain. I was a moderator on the forum; thankless task most members are guitar players, lockdown was last straw. Endless stream of Americans bleating " I know my government has suspended air travel from Europe but where is my $100 guitar ?" James , Sheffield laddie , sensibly jumped ship a year before lockdown 🤣 Though the "hole under the scratchplate" post was mine but don't know if it still holds true . Hole appeared after Thomann changed the factory making PB-50's and not all were affected, some left hand versions were unscathed. The factory change heralded a change of scratchplate and I've heard this has changed again , not sure if this means another factory or parts dept supplier. A factory change might impact your neck swap @hooky_lowdown , say the PB-20 production moved to Indonesia but PB-50 remained in China ; then it's possible there's a slight difference. Won't be a big difference , just don't expect the neck swap will be a straight drop-in . Official £600 Fender replacement necks carry a "this may require work to fit " warning , also carry a "may require fret work" warning too. View the Harley Benton swap with the same proviso and you're good to go 👍

It's a humbucker, 4 poles per coil. 4 adjustable poles on top, taking the slotted screws out underneath removes the 4 hidden poles from the equation.

Maybe based the price on the "Vintage & Rare" site. https://www.vintageandrare.com/product/Fender-Telecaster-Bass-1974-Blonde-85688 Trouble is the V&R example is in Switzerland , most expensive country in the Big Mac Index 😀 https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/

Wrap it. Get yourself on eBay and buy a roll of self-adhesive vinyl. £7 for 1M x 610mm , that's enough to cover your bass. Tools required. Sponge,spreader (credit card type thing will do), scissors/ craftknife & hairdryer.