Grahambythesea

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.

Having acquired a Violin Bass for a bit of fun noodling earlier this year, I changed the strings immediately from the short scale round sounds someone had put on it where the tapers didn’t even make it through the nut. I thought Flats are the way to go, but knowing you need medium scale, there weren’t many around so I puT on a Hofner Contemporary, knowing they’d fit. They were a bit disappointing to my ear, particularly the E string which was more dull thud than I like. (Some people like that so if you want a second hand almost new set give me a shout). So I set about some homework, it’s lockdown what else was there to do. I read GHS had started making their short scale strings longer to accommodate basses with tailpieces. Flat brites (otherwise ground wounds) seemed like a compromise. And so they have proved, a good balanced resonance across all strings and short scale fit the violin bass, BUT they have far too much silk winding which needed cutting back to avoid sitting in the nut. Now of course it’s going fluffy as it continues to unravel. Why do we need silks at all! 👎 At first they felt sharp, slightly sticky to the touch, not what I expected, but a quick rub over with fine emery and a polish or two with Fast Fret and they’re fine. Sound good, feel good, fit well.👍🏼 No more need to hunt for rare medium scale strings, but please GHS be meaner with the silk if you must have it at all!

Not my lump of lumber.

Nice one on EBay

I play a 12 string guitar from time to time, but just don’t see the point of an 8 string bass.

I think you’ll find Japan did A deal with EU last year and therefore are no import duties, but there should still be VAT. I believe even though we’ve left the EU we are still operating under their rules.

Go 5!

I think this is a problem of the neck width. Did you specify a width like a Jazz? P pickups are generally designed to fit wider Precision type necks. If you look at the Moollon in the next thread, the strings are perfectly central to the poles.

Who’s Adam Clayton ?

Kind of Mustang meets Stingray. Perhaps rename Stingstang. 😄

As a regular Reverb viewer, but never a purchaser, it always seems to me that prices are much higher on Reverb than elsewhere.

Walnut oil out of your kitchen, the stuff you might slosh on a posh salad!

That’s one of the best looking Fodera’s I have ever seen, and I’m not even a fan of Jazz basses!

I’m afraid these are marmite basses to me and I’ve gone off marmite 😖

And someone had nicked the strings and knobs, dastardly I say 😆

Agreed better in black.

I think you got the weight wrong, these weigh in at a mere 3.5kg as does the previous incarnation the 2013/14 model.