Paul S

I missed off my smiley. I'll do it now.

No way. I wasn't allowed a bit of gentle bass laundering, so upgrading on that scale is certainly off limits.

🌵 Found it! never knew there was a cactus emoji, so thank you. I may use it from time to time.

If you look for metric screws for Japanese Fender bridges you'll get a choice of lengths depending upon how low you want the action. I don't know how that translates into the thread diameter but this sort of thing would be fine - I've bought several before in order to prevent shredding my hand on the pokey out bit. saddles screws on eBay

Perhaps like some modern art. Look at a painting by, say, Rothko, and it is, say, an orange square. But Mrs S assures me that because there is a back story to the orange square and that it was painted by Rothko it is art and not just an orange square. Having said that I don't understand scales, modes et al any more than I do modern art.

Bought some stings - good price, dispatched promptly, nice padded envelope. Good comms. Top easy deal!

I routinely sit on my Supercompact during tedious rehearsal bits. I weigh 100kg +/- and a lot of that weight is going to be on the cab. I wouldn't hesitate to stick a 25/30kg head on top. The voice would change quite dramatically if you changed the 110 for a second Compact, you would lose the punchiness and upper definition. My Barefaced 'journey' (!) started with a Compact. I added a Midget a shortish while later and when used together that changed the sound quite a bit - added the tightness that the Compact alone missed. If you like the sound of the 15/10, the Supercompact sounds exactly like Compact plus Midget, btw.

Not being a fan of Jaco or scat I haven't listened to any of it. But perhaps the lady in question is pulling faces because of her sunburn? Looks a bit sore in that pic - maybe some Aloe vera gel or something.

Someone who is potentially going to book the band, for one. That was very good indeed, enjoyed it much.

I actually have a couple of 7lb 5ers, Pete. A Fender MB-5 and a Yamaha BX-5. Both are serious instruments, too. But, of course the 4 string variant of each would be even lighter. But yes, overwhelmingly, 5ers tend to be heavier - almost by definition because of the extra stuff the additional string generates. When I was on the lookout for a lightweight 5 String Precision I simply couldn't find one - had to have one made.

I went through a short scale phase and really enjoyed playing them. I had a Fender Musicmaster, Squier VM Mustang, Squier Vista Series Musicmaster, Epiphone EB0, Danelectro Longhorn. If I were to choose which I would re-buy it would actually be the Squier VM Mustang, which to me sounded and felt like the one MIJ Mustang I once tried. It sounded and played like a bass far above its price point. The one I wouldn't bother with again would be the EB0, didn't enjoy that for many reasons.

Hi Matt - I am just up the road in Benfleet but was brought up Chalkwell/Westcliff. Lots of us Sarfeest essex geezers on here.

I am kind of scared this would happen to be by chopping and changing so I stick with 5 strings now*. I've got quite used to hopping around frets 5-7. Something I've just thought of - it is almost like playing a short scale, which I always enjoyed. *Except my EUB and new acoustic. Damn.

Adrian stuck one in the case when he sent my bass to me - nice gesture. Lovely strap, too.

I'm pretty upbeat about it myself. If I ever damage a new or pristine bass it is purely by accident. Stuff happens. Part of the instrument's history. For me it isn't anything to get precious over. The only time I had a refin done was one time when I bought a bass cheap and it was a colour I couldn't live with. I tried to refin myself, made it look even worse, ended up with Andyjr1515 bailing me out

I would throw Danelectro into the ring. Longhorn and the 56. Seriously good fun if you like the look, which granted is absolutely NOT Fenderish, and vibe. Lighter than a feather, too.

I've just joined a new blues power trio and have started to really listen properly to stuff I have been familiar with all my life. I believe I am becoming obsessed with Stevie Ray Vaughan - always been a fan but never REALLY listened to him and dissected it. My current ear worm is this one:

Neither do I, Warren, frankly.

I'm in a similar position - although it wasn't a great deal of money by many people's standards the bass I have paid the most for is the one I like the most. It is my Maruszczyk Jake 5. I need a very light bass (8lb/3.6kg ideally) because of my back. I need 5 strings and prefer narrow string spacing. Just a combination of those three things filter out the overwhelming majority of basses on the market. Add to that I wanted a passive Precision basses both in terms of sound and aesthetics. As far as I could find there was nothing off the shelf that ticked all these boxes. Using the Public Peace custom shop website I was able to make choices that mattered the whole way through and have the exact bass I have been looking for. Got change out of £1500 including a hard case and shipping. I've played and own/owned other lightweight 5 string basses, some very cheap, but there has always been a compromise somewhere along the line. The Jake is exactly what I want.

I suppose if he was including a hard case I might be interested, just to see how the heck he managed to get one to fit!

That's us in the naughty corner then. may as well hit the Thomann website ...

We had one yesterday (not possible tonight) - really like the taste of the veggie one. Not keen on the idea of that the real one contains, tbh!

What about those Vox teardrop jobs?