Cuzzie

I get you - what amp is it? People who have it or have used it may be able to help

Hmmmmm - you shouldn’t need a load box like a guitarist to get break up then - if you like the pre amp being pushed you can dime the gain, but have your master very low, or a boost leading into the preamp and keep the vol low

I take it you are using a tube amp BTW

Two Notes do a load box which is very good - there may be other manufacturers.

I thought the response on marketing was actually spot on as well as amps not being genre specific. To me that’s a real shame for DG products, they are more versatile than for what they are marketed for, but it’s the direction they want to take

what these ones? They do a range 😉

Just think how good he could be if he used Dava picks like us

Can’t say I have ever looked to compare HB wood to GB wood but there will be info out there, certainly GB seems OK Tuners you get get from £30 for 5 all in to £300. Have a look and decide what you fancy - it’s just an option

Although with modding yourself, the more expensive the bass the more careful you are perversely as you defo do not want to roger it. It all counts as Patina

Give guitarbuild.co.uk a nudge - you can get a body and neck with routing of choice for a little over the price of the HB. Finish how you want, but rubbing in Tru Oil doesn’t need a Luthier and can be done easily at home, that an a Phillips screw driver you can piece it together. Solderingiron is pittance, but a quick solder job if someone else had to do it and do the rest yourself really keeps the cost down

BT7

BT7 defo for Cali I I would presume Cali II as well

Except that if you fork out £650 for a new Modded HB bass if you want to sell it off it will go for £200-£250. Granted if you sell off the electronics and restore it back to original you may get slightly more - it also depends on whether you need someone else to do the electronics work. Get a used berg for £1-1.2k - your up to £350 spent on modding (you may not change the pre amp) would be offset with up to at least £150 probably back selling off the original pick ups and whatever. If you sell it off, it will still fetch about £1-1.2k Higher capital outlay at the start - but not the fall off. If you build it and never sell - HB makes the most sense to buy and pimp as less overall outlay

Everyone has a price point and a depreciation rate they can afford I think the point someone made earlier was in reference to getting the HB and pimping it, whereas a judicious second hand buy of a sandberg narrows that gap, do you do your own electronics and soldering etc

Did you buy the Sandberg new? If so - of course it will make the biggest loss - it’s the same across the board except for if you bought maybe your 1960’s P bass new in the 60s and sold now. Whats the price differential between a new NNE2 and what you paid for yours? Swapping electronics cost can always be offset by selling the others, although you may struggle to sell HB ones as opposed to whatever is in the Sandberg.

Yes JDI is mint and the Jensen transformer gives a nice vibe to the sound

C’mon that’s too sensible - where is the fun in that? Next you’ll be saying 2 band EQ’s are ok madness

Good man the world of pick welcomes you!

Cloth vs non cloth wire quality of wire Types of solder Ring terminal vs normal grounding normal self tapping wood screws will do

Not just tight,it has groove,that is the most important part

Lacking accuracy........... What a player he is

Furniture wood, ship building wood, some woods are better for chopping boards due to lack of porosity. Very porous wood is terrible for it,unless filled and properly treated as it will lead to bacteria ingress and proliferation. Cedar, some people Minoan about its softer nature and marks on their precious basses, but ships are built with it, so its pretty hardy I neither coined the term or grouped them - it covers a vast array of woods.If it can make a table and a bass it’s a very useful wood indeed

Which makes it a tonewood then does it not?

Tonewood covers a vast spectrum - of interest what do you consider tonewood and what do you consider plain old wood?

And Bobby if you can get past Scott!