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@lemmywinks Think I got £220 though might have been £250. Got really lucky with the 5'er, the 4 string looked a bit plain next to it 🙂

Cracking basses 🙂 Why oh why did I sell them 😢 The 5'er was stunning.

There's a 5 string model up for grabs about 40 minutes from me. Seller wants £350 but they've made a bloody awful job of tugging the frets and a hamfisted effort at taking the gloss off the neck. If you're interested I'd quite happily do the middle man stuff and make an insultingly low offer to reflect the butchery 😀

Rickenbacker did the same to the replacement bezel boy . They didn't sue him ; just copied his product , used the name then told him to F.O.

You're welcome Paul. Owned quite a few Retrovibes but just the one Renegade , none of them have been particularly heavy. Thinner body of the Renegade may account for some weight loss 👍

Hi Paul. Luggage scales are showing just 6lbs for mine 🙂 Afraid I can't comment on replacing the pickups or sounding like a Ric . Bought one of David's cast offs , just an MM at the bridge so nothing like a Ric 😀

December 2019 for me 😃 Until last week that is ☹️ Fancied trying a fan fret for ages , one of those RedSub 5'ers popped up for £150.

All the MM type models are basswood .

Have a stunning Paisley Fender P-bass and a few HB PB-50's. OK , single coil P-basses are simple animals but my HBs hold their own against the Fender 😱 Original Wilkinson was a lovely pickup , later Roswell is no slouch either . I'd imagine plenty folk would find the HBs easier to play , Fender has a right chunky neck. In 8 years I haven't touch a TR nor tightened up tuners. "Harley Benton , cheap or cheerful ?" Well they're certainly inexpensive and still smile every time I play one , reckon they're both 👍

Solid bit of kit these. I know a few folk with the JB-40 . When I've did their set ups , the fingerboards to have been bang on. That's because it is the real thing 😃 "Fotoflame" is one of those snippets folk hear and think it applies across the range ; it's only used on burst basswood bodies , PB-50 , MB-4/5 & MM-84/85 👍

Something beginning with the letter L ?

Did the laddie from The Primitives no play a Spectrum GT ? You're right about Thunders hogging the limelight , quality bits of kit 🙂I was quite partial to the medium scale Concord 👍

How many are too much ? I've something like 68 basses at home. I won't clutter up the thread by posting photos of them all , just take my word for it ; 68 bass guitars is too many.

Please stop right there. Haven't bought a bass for 21 months, would like to make that 24 months 👍

I can relate to that 😀

Seller has form for selling repro military badges as the real deal.

9v power supply. You can run it off a battery , comes with a small battery clip adapter cable , but I prefer using a plug in unit. Also by Caline 😀

@Bassfinger Good point , wonder what the $1832 left over from the $2000 bass is going on ?

Are wages relevant ? The Corona plant employs between 300 to 400 people and produces 350 instruments per day , say 350 staff produce 350 guitars . Shifts are 9 hours with , according to "Payscale.com" , an average of $18 ph ; $162 a day. Cheapest USA guitar is the Telecaster Performer at $1300 retail , labour accounts for 8%. The Zhunyi Shenqu factory in China employs 600 people producing 1650 guitars per day , 2.75 guitars each. Shifts are also 9 hours , paying just $5.30 ph ; $47.7 a day. Zhunyi build for Ibanez and cheapest Ibanez I could find was the Mikro at $150. Total for 2.75 of those is $412.50, labour again accounts for 8% of retail. Two factories with polar opposite prices and wages yet the same labour costs. Thing that interests me is the wages. Living wage calculator for Corona gives $24.72 as minimum rate for each adult in a family of 2 adults and 2 kids , FMIC's $18 average lets those folks down. Living wage for Guizhou Province ( where Zhunyi are located) is given as $3.06 for each adult in a family of 2 adults and 2 kids. On $5.30 the Zhunyi folks are doing better than some of their USA counterparts.

Never tried the Harley Benton EQ but I would vouch for the Caline CP-24 , very handy range of frequency bands. https://spartanmusic.co.uk/products/caline-cp-24-10-band-eq I like this drive pedal of theirs too. https://spartanmusic.co.uk/products/caline-cp-20-crazy-cacti Another vote for the Caline Orange Burst recommended by @Japhet Also no cheap pedal thread should be without the Behringer BDI12 , it's just a great bit of kit to have. Price is the icing on the cake 🙂

This /\/\/\ I always think of Reverb as one of those used car lots seen in American movies , windshield prices are not set in stone only an invitation to trade.

I loaned Brian the plate on my 90s MIJ reissue. If you don't want to buy one ready made just ask him for the PDF.

Very nice @Little Dragon Owned a few Retrovibes myself.

@Pinetop Jackson Answer to your YT question regarding the Milestone IV age. Usual production run for a Peavey model was 3 to 4 years , this one ran 1999 to 2003.