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It's useful to remember alt-0252 if you want the Nanny Filter to just fück off. 👍

I'd expect so. Never played a Armstrong or Armstrong copy, but I have an acrylic-bodied Precision and it's insanely heavy.

Same bass was on Reverb 4 years ago & didn't sell then, despite a massively less optimistic price tag: https://reverb.com/uk/item/31288796-ibanez-musician-mc-924-limited-edition-bass-guitar-1980-flight-case It does look like a very well-looked after example of a 924 LE, considering the ballpark for standard MC924s is high hundreds these days, the Reverb price doesn't seem too wild. There was an even more fancy MC924LE with extended upper fretboard & big inlays, but this ain't that.

There were a few variations on the different MIJ copies of these - this CSL's a Fujigen model 2364B. The 2x Maxon 'buckers were standard, but the slightly wonky & tarnished brass scratchplate not so much! The original scratchplate should be tasteful wood-effect Formica, to match the head & trc. This is cool but a bit tatty/unoriginal - £800 is probably a little over-the-odds.

I've had one of these for years, one of my favourite basses. Looks awesome, sounds like a Jazz on steroids, great player, pretty lightweight & balances a lot better than you'd think. Only a couple of changes from stock - I'm not a fan of a white scratchplate so I made the red pearl one, & the hi-mass bridge was gathering dust in my spares box, bunged it on for the hell of it. Not sure it makes any difference but looks nice! Got mine aaaages ago from a BC member (can't remember who, sorry!) who went through an odd phase of attempting to collect every model variant (including the ultra-rare Blue Jeans 5-string, if I remember), every colour, and the original 60s/70s SB5s & SB7s etc. Mine was one of several duplicates he ended up with!

Well - this is the sort of thing I had in mind...

Purple metalflake all the way, if you ask me, assuming they're all out of pink. Ages ago I saw one of these modded into a reasonable facsimilie of a Grabber/Ripper, as they have a pretty similar body shape. If it was me I might toy with the idea of a big Grabber-shaped scratchplate. Would cover up a lot of purple metalflake, though.

I thought either DiMarzio Model G or Schaller 232, but they're both different underneath & have more rounded corners. Interesting!

100% this. Eurovision is TV Music Event Of The Year in my house. Genuinely can't remember the last time I saw Hootenanny.

I may have previously mentioned my notional concept band, ABBAration, which would combine the genius of Sweden's two finest musical exports by performing ABBA songs in the style of Opeth, alternating with Opeth songs in the style of ABBA.

Would love to see the full list, if you have it. The Brian Moore looks like an i2000/i4 model which appears to be made in Korea & from the early '00s. Can't quite tell from the pic but yours may have been de-fretted. https://www.iguitar.com/i2000Bass/i2000Bass.asp https://reverb.com/item/490517-brian-moore-i4-i2000-2001-natural-4-string-bass-neck-thru-w-ohsc

Holy necro-post! Quite appropriate for the subject matter I suppose. I almost bought this book for my partner (when we met back in '96 a shared love for The Drab Four was part of our early bonding!) but the general tone of the reviews & the fact it was disowned by Steele's family put me off. @RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE - I saw them 4 or 5 times in the 90s/00s and they were always great live - the bottle of red wine was a stage prop/performance thing, the same as Pete endind a show by ripping the strings off his bass. From the gigs I saw they were never less than professional. Musically their output was always uneven - the peak albums are the aforementioned Bloody Kisses & its follow-up October Rust. Subsequently I got the impression Pete was losing the black irony that had typified their best work & genuinely becoming absorbed by depression & his demons, and some of that stuff's a hard listen. Sadly his death didn't really come as a huge surprise.

That looks to be a remarkable - and desireable - collection of high-end basses you have inherited. You're in the best place to find information about them - what the BassChat hive-mind doesn't know isn't worth knowing.

Hazy Shade Of Winter. Not difficult to make that rock.

Bought a cheapo G4M brand guitar in their Black Friday sale, arrived very slightly bashed up & they were very happy to offer a replacement or a decent discount. They seem generally well-priced & I was very pleased with their customer service.

And, as if by magic, a Guyker clone of the Hipshot bridge appears, courtesy of Google reverse image search. Yours for $75 if you shop around, guv. https://www.ebay.ph/itm/204348946002

Interesting! Got a link for a UK retailer? My other half/musical co-conspirator would be into this - and it's her birthday in March...

Pretty! Reminds me of my old '83-ish SQ Squier. And I do like a lolipop. Matron.

Or just play it - it'll gloss up naturally at the contact points. Just like factory satin finishes do!

The Hipshot system in real life is £400+, so there's no possibility that you'd be paying $72 for a real Hipshot. However I recently discovered that Hipshot's £100 hardtail guitar bridge has a visually-identical Chinese clone for around £13. I'd be erm, interested if it turned out the headless system had a similar proportionally-priced cheap Chinese counterpart.

Use a nylon/plastic scouring pad rather than wire wool. The good thing about thick poly finishes is that if you don't like the result dulling it down, it'll T-Cut back to the original gloss with a bit of elbow grease. Just had a look at the JVX pickups out of curiosity, and it does look like you may be missing a thing or two! https://www.emgpickups.com/jvxset.html

Had to Google that one. Looks like Tagima was founded in '86 so would have been a contemporary of Giannini during production of Brazilian Fenders. They're still around now.

That's properly interesting. Same era as the made in India FMIC-licensed Sunn Mustangs (which were sold as Squier II in some territories), and also when Fender started production in Mexico. Wondered if the factory was Giannini before I read the article - they're well-known (in some quarters!) for their very nice quality Rickenbacker 4001 copies, and also made Fender clones (called 'Stratosonic'!) in the 70s/80s era. It's odd that they used that wonky headstock shape on licensed instruments, but I wonder if that's what they were tooled up to make already?