Shaggy

Stew bought my custom Thunderbird bass; absolute pleasure to deal with, great communications, and a meet up smoothly planned and carried out. Hopefully this will inspire him back into spandex leggings and big hair. 😉 One of BC’s good guys for sure, I’d be happy to deal with again anytime. 👍

Russ bought my Warwick FNA bass - a smooth and easy deal, great communications and prompt payment up front. We met up this afternoon in a scrotum-shrivellingly cold 🥶car park of a Swansea hotel for me to hand the beastie over (Mrs Shaggy gave me a long and dubious look when I told her I was meeting a strange man in a hotel after work......🤔) As the above posts apply prove, he is definitely one of the good guys on BC - thanks fella! 🙂

This may be no help at all, but a few years ago I had a similar issue with my MB Walkabout (also M-pulse). After much fiddling as tried above which didn’t seem to help, it seemed to work fine if I switched power on with the preamp gain and master volume set at zero, and active tone controls turned all the way down. Leave it to warm up for around a minute, before turning up controls to working levels. No idea why it worked, but it’s what I’ve done ever since. Good luck, and if unable to sort I’d certainly take it to a decent amp tech before trying Mesa.

Great score cetera 👍 looks lovely. Out of interest, were import duties / VAT comparable to shipping from the US? (ie around 20% on top). Every vintage instrument on t’bay I fancy seems to be in Japan.

They’re excellent pickups - the same units were fitted in their early-mid ‘80’s Explorer bass, and I absolutely loved mine. I don’t know who would make an exact replica, but they’re single coil so something like the Nordstrand Big Single ought to sound similar.

What truly bizarre note to find! That’s certainly a really old phone no...... I think Flateric on here knows more than most about Peter Cook

I’m rather ashamed to admit that my first bitsa (1980’s) - a Sting-esque natural P with fretless maple board, had a F*cker logo. Fooled everyone on first glance, but the guy I sold it to played in a gospel band and very nicely asked me to change it.

This; likewise with me (see custom Thunderbird currently FS). I think the problems arise further down the ownership line, when sellers don't make it clear. It’s been done since Adam was a lad - most violins made in the 19th and early 20th century were mass-produced in Germany and Bohemia, and the great majority of them have labels purporting the instrument to be made by an Italian master; Stradivarius, Amiti, Guarneri etc, or often more cunningly lesser known Italian and French makers. They weren't necessarily aiming to be fakes (though many certainly were, that’s when relicing became a fine art too......), it was more of a tribute to the makers design that they were copying, and to give the copy more kudos.

That’s a good price if it really is a Bicentennial T’bird - I’ve never seen one in Pelham blue (original????) Yup, that’s the most bodged headstock repair I’ve ever seen, but should be pretty straightforward for a pro to put right. Seller should have been straight about it though.....

What a grumpy lot we are...... Really only one absolute turn-off for me - Black block fret markers. Ugh 😑

I can remember the OP question first being asked circa 1977 when the first synth drums cane in....... Personally all of my experiences with electronic drum kits have been positive for the excellent reasons given above; where all members of the band are fully electric it makes mixing at any sound level so much easier. After a solid 46 years of gigging with mainly acoustic kits I’m sure my hearing has suffered. 🙁