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It strikes me that the Fender Jazz and Precision headstocks could be made about 3" shorter and also save weight (and reducing weight at the furthest point away is the best place to reduce weight and prevent neck dive). I guess they are the shape they are for looks and for the Fender logo rather than necessity. At the very high risk of this ruining a budget neck/headstock (not the one in the picture) does it look like this could work in theory ?

Nice!

Thanks, yes actually I can now just about see that they do have a hole drilled in the corner of the pickup cavity.

Has anyone here had good or bad experiences from G&B bass bodies? Specifically, I'm considering a 4 piece Korina body as it's 1.9kg , or perhaps the 3 piece Alder 2.1kg (vs 3kg for Ash), both £148 and unpainted. I know 'tonewood' is a contentious subject for non-acoustic instruments but any thoughts on advantage/disadvantage to those woods? (For what it's worth I've owned a couple of 3.3kg Basses that use basswood and they sounded just as good as much heavier Ash Basses I've owned, that wasn't comparing like for like though). Another option is northwest guitars 2 piece Alder at 2.6kg (painted) for £175. Also, as these don't have the cutout between the pickups and the control cavity how are the cables ran between them?

For what is worth, I had never owned a P Bass but got the itch for one a while ago. I considered a lot of P Basses and ended up with a 'Crafted in Japan' from 2006. It seemed the best mix of quality and value: 3.9kg, well balanced, everything feels as good quality as most of the USA versions I tried while being a bit lighter and cheaper than most of them.

I don't think £500 RRP is that bad seeing as they sell for less than RRP. They are already discounted to £395 at GAK (and can be bought with £11 per month repayments), and I expect ex-demo/B stock could be got for less than £350, or second hand for £250. That's reasonably affordable for a musical instrument that can be sold on again without much loss and I guess Fender don't want to quite be the cheapest on the market but it's still cheaper than things like an average drum kit, brass instrument, or a decent synth (or a Playstation 5 or new Smartphone or electric scooter, all of which somehow seem to be affordable for most teenagers).

I'm sold on the P Bass erganomics and tone. And I like the sunburst/tort/rosewood look, it has a 'sitting by a fireplace with a whisky' kind of look to it. Got to say though, on looks alone I do think one of these is my end-game, funky and punky:

I think it's a cliche for a reason - it is a classic Bass that is well designed and does its job well without any unnecessary complication, and the sunburst/tort/rosewood just kind of looks like a traditional Bass like this should (although I am also keen on White precision with Black Pickguard and white pickups).

Cheers, it came with rounds but I think I might eventually change them for Tapewounds.

.....tried it, I can see why no-one does it anymore!

Ah, nice one. I wonder why no-one ever uses that position any more, I'm gonna give it a go.

As most people on this forum probably have, I've been on a bit of a Bass owning journey to try and figure out exactly what I want in a Bass. 9 Basses in I've finally followed the crowd and gone for my first Precision - not only that, I've gone for probably the most cliche looking one (I figured that if I'm going to be un-original and 'classic/traditional' then I might as well fully embrace it!) It's a 'Crafted in Japan' 2006. Relatively lightweight at 3.9kg. My early impression is that I like it. Good tones, no unwanted hum or rattles or cracking pots, fairly low action, comfortable, looks good - the colours kind of look like what I imagine the Bass sound to look like, and it has some nice natural aging which seems to fit well this type of Bass. Compared to other Precisions: I tried a lot of Squier/Player and US Precisions over the last few weeks and I'd say that they do generally fit with their price-points: Squier can be fine but you can tell certain things are done on the cheap, Player/MIM are good - particularly the new ones, but Japanese Precisions are better as things like the neck seems nicer wood and the fretboard wood is more consistent and everything feels like it is a bit more solid and fixed in place better and little things like the strings being in better alignment with the fretboard markers, US ones - some second hand ones haven't been very good at all (heavy, crackly pots, loose pickips, pickguard not fitting perfectly) but a US AVRI was the best of all the Precisions I tried (although cost about £700 more than this CIJ I got). A couple of issues with Precisions in general: Not to argue with Lord Leo's choices but going from my previous headless Bass to a Precision the headstock now seems ridiculously large/heavy for something that is at the furthest point from the pivot point - it's exactly where you want to keep things as light as possible but there seems to be no effort in the Precision headstock design to do so (I'll probably get some lightweight tuners, but that big lump of headstock wood is still going to annoy me! i.e. if the G tuner was moved to face downwards from where the 'Fender' logo is couldn't about 3" of the end of the headstock be removed?). And the old Precision bridge isn't great - the saddles can shift about a bit (the E or G moving outwards) and the saddle grub-screws seems to be waiting to slice my wrists! Easy enought to get a new bridge though. One question: What is the extra screw on the back of the headstock for? I'd always assumed it's the other side of the string tree, but it isn't, it seems unnecessary:

I'm a happy customer. Good comms, next day delivery and arriving in the condition as expected.

No joy with the my Nux getting revived. Some good wife work going on here though - I was complaining my old Vox headphone amp broke and now the Nux has broke and the response was "oh I've got one of those for you"! (intended as a birthday present but I'd bought myself the Nux in the meantime)..... I'm not ungrateful but am not a fan of the Vox though, so the brand new one will be in the classifieds shortly if anyone's keen. Don't tell my missus though. It does lead me to the same question as @Fuzzbass2000 though as I don't think I'll get the Nux again and the Blackstar looks pretty much like a re-branded Vox with different rhythm tracks and no ability to adjust the rhythm volume independently. I had the Waza Air which were great but quite hard to justify >£330 for headphone practice, I'm hoping their wireless latency free technology filters down to some cheaper products soon. The Fender Mustang Micro might be worth a look https://www.andertons.co.uk/fender-mustang-micro-personal-guitar-amplifier-2311300000 It has similar features to the Nux Pro but with more onboard control. A shame it doesn't have built-in rhythm tracks though.

My Nux Mighty Plug perhaps isn't so mighty, it has stopped working. 😥 Charging light comes on, but other than that it is dead for bluetooth or Bass and no other lights turn on, reset doesn't solve it. Perhaps mucking about plugging it into a Laptop for firmware updates will sort it, it'll be a shame if it doesn't as it has been a good bit of kit and alternatives don't seem to be in the same league.

Two of my favorite genres of music are dub and stoner/doom, they are similar in quite a few ways but aren't often combined but The Bug does it sometimes: The Bug vs Earth: And a new from The Bug vs Al Cisneros (Sleep)

I think you are correct that the UK/EU deal means zero tariffs (i.e. customs) for UK imports as long as a product has been produced in the EU (and can be proved as per the 'Rules of Origin'). An issue might be if small retailers can go through the faff of proving rules of origin rather than just putting the non-EU origin customs cost onto the UK buyer. The UK 20% VAT (not classed as a 'tariff' in the same way as customs fees) has to be paid, but the EU VAT does not: "The foreign retailer is not required to charge VAT or excise duty (whether at the UK rate or its own) on the sale. Instead, the UK consumer must pay HMRC the tax owed. Usually, the postal service or the courier will pay HMRC on the individual’s behalf, then require the individual to repay them before the goods are released. They may also charge an administration fee for this service: for example, Royal Mail charge £8 per parcel, while some private courier companies charge substantially more." https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/tax-brexit

The D'Addario is the best one I've owned (one downside being I find the # symbol a bit small to see). Korg Pitchbalck mini is good too, a slight downside I've found having owned two of them is they both spat out certain jacks rather than holding onto them tightly so I ended up with elastic bands around them. I like the look of the new Nux but haven't tried it yet: https://www.nuxefx.com/flowtune.html it seems the best of both, it does the D'Addario thing of having the more intuative up/down display rather than left/right, and the Korg thing of being small. And it can do buffered bypass. I'm going clip-on tuner next though - it simplifies things for times I want to just plug directly into an amp without any pedalboard. I've just ordered a Korg Pitchclip 2 (£14 incl. postage Amazon prime), the v1 is on sale for £7 direct from Korg but they charge £5 postage so I thought I might as well go for v2. If it's anything like other Korg tuners then I expect it'll do the job well, I wasn't sure if the extra £20 for the Unitune would've been worthwhile but I guess I'll soon find out if the Korg turns out to be unreadable or falls apart......will report back! EDIT: It arrived, it seems to work well - including on the open B string, it is much smaller than I expected (almost comically small - like when people buy a cheap chair online and only find out when it's delivered that its a Doll's chair), it isn't easily readable in direct sunlight but fine indoors.