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I'd have to side with the technique camp here. Individuality is fine, but not using a middle finger makes things much harder than they need to be and will complicate playing to a far greater extent than, for example, not using your little finger or plucking with your index finger only. My 2 cents, anyway....

[quote name='clauster' post='515401' date='Jun 16 2009, 03:50 PM']If funds allowed, I'd be very tempted.[/quote] Ah well I'm no hurry to flog it, so feel free to PM me anytime if it's your kind of thing.

Did you see this for sale, Steve-King? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=51742"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=51742[/url]

[quote name='kevbass' post='517410' date='Jun 18 2009, 02:18 PM']Well the thing is I have a warwick neck already, I was going to buy the rockbass swap out the body and sell the neck on ebay, so saying that I would buy the rockbass for about £275, sell the neck and hopefully get around £50 for it with all hardware so total spend would be about £225[/quote] Is the Warwick neck from the Streamer STD? If so it seems like a lot of trouble to me - you'd likely have to re-dowel the original Warwick neck and re drill to get it to fit. If you aren't knowledgeable about woodworking then it'll cost to have this done. Plus you'd end up with a hybrid homemade instrument that might be hard to sell and a Streamer STD body with no usable neck! Hybrids work well with Fender instruments, but not with Warwicks. You can buy a Corvette Std for £350 secondhand - that's an extra £75, but alot less trouble in the long run.

Buy the Ibby for brand familiarity and reputation - it'll be easier to sell on. Plus it's a great bass for the money.

The neck dimensions could be similar, but the screw holes will most likely not be, so you'd have to dowel and re-drill. As Ben said, you'd be better off just buying a secondhand Warwick Streamer LX! They can be had for around £450.

No need to sell all your gear. I'm mostly a bedroom player at the moment (I occasionally chip in with a band I know) and I have three basses! .They're my chill-out toys! ^_^ My favourite thing to do at the moment is to surf around Spotify (which is awesome) and play along to random tunes.

[quote name='OldGit' post='514878' date='Jun 15 2009, 11:24 PM']Here you go Squier 5 string P-shaped Jazz bass ,.. for good money. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=51808&view=findpost&p=514639"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&sho...st&p=514639[/url][/quote] Heh, thanks for the plug, Oldgit! Was tempted to do it myself!

Get a Thumb BO4 for around £550 and get someone to swap the wenge fretboard for a slice of ebony. The Bass Gallery guys can do this, I believe. Could work a treat!

Just out of interest, what's your budget? You should check the "for sale" section:- £180 gets you a Bass Collection SB320. These were great basses that sold for £500 odd back in the 90's (I bought one). Perfect for a starter - really easy to play. This would be my top recommendation - you can't go wrong with these. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=50147"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=50147[/url] There are also a few old Westone basses from the 80s for sale here that shouldn't cost the earth. These things are built like tanks and have a great tone. An entire generation of Basschatters started on these fellas! [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=49569"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=49569[/url] If you buy secondhand you can make your money go alot further, no need to buy dodgy stuff!

[quote]I have is it's a standard precision so only pots for volume and tone. I've seen a preamp with just the one pot which is stacked, it would look odd though with the different type pot.[/quote] It worked a treat on my old 1 pickup Warwick Streamer STD. I used a Seymour Duncan Basslines STC-2 band 2 pickup circuit and simply took out the pickup blend pot. That left me with one volume and one stacked tone knob. [url="http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/basslines/cutting-edge-1/stc2_stc32_3ban/"]http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/bass...tc2_stc32_3ban/[/url] Didn't look odd at all! Cheers-

Sounds interesting... when do you guys rehearse? Ever heard of a band called Zu? You chould check them out if you haven't....