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I seem to remember that the Watkins brand was part of WEM who made some pretty good amps. Then the Wilson brand came along after and I think they were the same guitars made by whoever ( probably an Italian co.) but for a non WEM company when they stopped selling guitars and basses. Times had changed and imports from more exciting places were available

I found the tension on them much too taut. Changed to La Bella Low Tension Flats, much better.👍🏼

I wonder how many other bassists, excepting those on here, are also luthiers of that sort of quality?

Thanks. That’s interesting, I thought I could see an A on the headstock. I love where the jack fits in. So he’s not just a good bass player!!

Can you not get a luthier to “thin” it down a bit. I remember, I think, reading about Dave Pegg’s Precision which he’d had the neck narrowed down to Jazz size.

Anyone any idea what bass Scott Ambush is playing ? There is a very nice sequence on YouTube of the band playing some of their hits from their respective homes.

Depends on your creativity. Formal training didn’t hold Bach back or lack of it get in Jamie Cullum’s.

Saw Duck at the Festival Hall with the Blues Brothers when they promoted the 2000 movie. He and the Colonel just seemed to have a ball playing. In the Otis footage note there’s no sign of any monitors, big Marshall 4x12’sand a brass section, how on earth do they hear anything or just play by instinct!

I can understand some prices for a piece of history, but I cannot understand why any one would pay hundreds for some of the sixties junk like Egmond or a Rosetti Lucky 7; even some of the Hofners are ridiculous over. Who’d pay over a grand for a club 40; I remember selling for a tenner!

A paltry 11; one of the ones I got wrong I even knew 👎

He sang almost all Creams songs. I think Willie Dixon wrote a load but didn’t sing, just thwacked the upright! Kyle Eastwood writes tons of tunes but the main instruments playing are his brass players and pianist, but perhaps jazz doesn’t really count as there’s generally no lyrics!

How will you ever manage with only 4 strings, Bro, I’ll look after your Status fretless 5; I’m sure you’ve no need for it 🤪🤣🥴

I’ve always fancied the Eastwood retro of the Surfcaster, but can’t justify the expense for something I have no purpose for, it would just adorn my room. 🤪

Never seen one before, wish I had. For a short while I had a Bach EB2 copy as well, very much like the Samick but with proper elephant ear tuners. Pretty good but they’ve been stopped selling them by a Gibson. I’m surprised they haven’t caught up with Samick or perhaps they have and that’s why they’re rare. Decent price though. I wonder if they’d courier it to U.K.,, preferably before we end up on WTO rules and paying duty on everything but chlorinated chicken!

If you think the Hofner is a runner and want it more audible acoustically there’s always the Senators and Presidents or even the Verythin which have hollow thin line bodies . The contemporary line has a solid block in the middle to reduce feedback but it kills the audible too. There are a couple of the 90’s retro Epiphone Rivolis on EBay at present but they are getting expensive. High time Epiphone made them again, I’m sure Peerless would oblige, incidentally Peerless make a couple of cracking good semis themselves, if you can find one.

Last time I tried to use super glue I ended stuck to a nut I was trying to fix. A bit of glue’s a good idea but I think I might use something a little less strong than superglue.

I think @Lozz196 has a good point. If anything is compromised in a P/J configuration, especially in a more budget version, it’s the J in my experience. A thinner sounding and weaker in signal in the Squier I had

Nice nod toward Gibson there. Love your Dirty51bird (3rd from right). 👍🏼😁

Is that the James Burton Signature model which is really cool. Apparently when he got his pink paisley tele, Elvis was rather rude about it! Given some of the outfits The King wore one might think pink paisley was quite subdued.

Are but the blue wasn’t Paisley was it? It was flowers, like they wore in their hair in San Francisco at the time 🤣

What on earth can there be to write about to make a whole book? It’s a bass, made in Germany originally as a copy of the Gibson EB1, it’s got 4 strings and 2 pickups, hollow body, short scale and that’s it! Hardly a paragraph.

If I’m reading your requirements correctly you want a P neck with P/J pickup configuration. Be cautious because many of the P/J ‘s come with J necks, particularly in the Squier brand. G&L like that too! I think there is a view among makers that people like the P body and prefer the narrower J neck ( which personally I do). whether this is down to one Donald Duck Dunn who did It once and then Fender and Lakland reproduced it as Signature models or based or more thorough market research, who knows, but there are a lot out there so check the neck before you buy.