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Sure - it's great to have folks around who will spot them.

Depending on the paint type, you might be able to buff it off, but getting into all the nooks and crannies could be a challenge. An alternative could be a complete strip and refin (maybe even by Status?). A plan-B could be to sell that bass and get another...

Badass bridges are really good; here's a couple of basses of min with them. I've also got a Fender Hi-Mass one on another bass. The original Badass was quite tall and sometimes needed a cutout to be routed to fit it; the Badass II was a straight replacement for a stock Fender bridge. Badass bridges were made by Leo Quan, but the company is defunct; Hipshot (Kickass), Allparts (Omega), and Fender (the aforementioned Hi-Mass) are equivalent/copies. The Fender ones are stupidly cheap (under £30)!

On a technicality, Berners-Lee pioneered the World-Wide Web; the Internet was designed under an initiative of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

But it is so easy to put a Fender decal on anything.

The whole Fender used market is a minefield. Ironically this site bans the sale of the easiest brand to spot fakes.

Silly me - I was going by the thread title...

My guess is the original neck failed and this is a replacement. The thing which I don't quite get is "and strings from the base shop london where the base would have been bought" - huh? The pickups don't work, so it's a project.

I saw Heaven and Hell at Hammersmith - they toured as that because Sabbath proper were up for the Hall Of Fame at the same time. (TBH, and they knew it, they were another Dio backing band...)

I don't understand...

Maybe they should do a full clamshell to protect the front as well? I suppose they might make sense in a music shop, to avoid buckle rash on brand new instruments.

Deep Purple only has Ian Paice.

One axis of 3 is neck/both/bridge, with the bridge pickup in series humbucker mode and the other is the same with the bridge pickup in single-coil. There are all sorts of whizzy combination you can do with the switch, but I was limited by needing to keep the Ric's stereo output.

I managed to get one last pedal in yesterday, so I'm ready for a dry January...

I've just had a bit of a play and plugged in the VT Bass pedal; I was able to dial in a pretty good sound on it.

I've got an Aguilar Octamizer which I bought some years ago on Denmark Street; I tired several pedals, including MXR, Boss, and one or two others, but the Octamizer stood out because the octave below had the essential character of the note being played. The downsides of the pedal (and other synth/octave pedals) are that: (a) there's a point where it loses tracking and the sound breaks up, (b) they only go so far down on a bas; if you can get anything meaningful below A (or maybe C) then you're doing well. Aguilar are rather pricey kit. I've also got a Mooer Tender Octaver, which "may be" a clone of a Nano POG; it has pretty good tracking and an octave up as well as down. The issue with it though is that the octave notes are generated and so sound artificial. It is a heck of a lot cheaper than the Aguilar, though. In addition I have a Markbass Super Synth which has an octave function; I've tried it, gone yep, and switched back to the synth section.

They were really Dio's backing band.

At £10k, I think I'll avoid them altogether!

I just plain don't get these models of guitars, plus they're a nuisance on ebay searches!

I have a J (2nd right), though I bought it already made. Unfortunately, the Frankenbass body is a cheapie and I may have knackered it trying to make it fit the neck (which has bolts instead of screws).

I have to say that when I tried one I set all of the controls to 12 o'clock and it was spot-on.

Just treat your friends to a bass player's equivalent of the holidays slideshow...

I know - in retrospect, he could've taken the opportunity to adopt another first name too.... 🙂

Aha! One of my projects is a Frankenstein bass with a Status neck...