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The problem for USPS is that stuff sent via them goes on the usual scheduled passenger flights from USA to UK - and these days most of those flights are cancelled, hence the massive backlog. My bass has been en route for 6 weeks now. Just so you know..... 😅

You can have PayPal do the currency conversion - and the website will do its level best to encourage this - but their exchange rate will not please. I have PayPal charging my credit card so for purchases from USA I have PayPal bill my credit card in USD and let the credit card company do the currency exchange. This seems to me a happy compromise between convenience and cost. PS word of warning about using standard USPS / Parcelforce route - there are huge delays to virtually all countries atm the moment, and, I am painfully experiencing right now, especially to the UK 😖

Theres a lot of brianmayerie in Metallica, and this is probably my favourite bit of it As for least favourite.... I never understood why Robert Smith was so often drawn to lifeless plunky guitar sounds. And often felt Johnny Marr jangled a little bit more than was necessary.

Firm ground for blanket mistrust. I've a 7 lb. SB-1 dawdling its way through the international postal system at the moment. If I find it not to have balance issues, you promise to call me a liar, right?

When I enquired about them on the bassesbyleo forum, I received nothing but wholehearted encouragement. How did they wrong you?

"This bass is a lovely G&L LB-100 with a light Empress body finished in Shoreline Gold.....I'm 99% sure this is the lightest G&L I've seen yet! It weighs just 6.7 lbs, and even at that weight balance is not an issue." http://www.rocketmusic.net/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=6886

CLF L-2000, at least £1,600....Tribute L-2000 £600. Rather cheaper route: buy a Tribute L-2000 and a Tribute LB-100, swap the necks, and then find someone who would be delighted to have a mid price Indonesian built P bass with an old fashioned P neck. Edit: I wrote this only semi seriously, and then it occurred to me that I cant recall reading of people swapping the necks of Tributes: can it actually be done?

Q. Why do dogs lick their balls? A. Because they can.

This is why I wrote "everyone's different"

The other day, I wrote something on paper, and then worked out how to play it on my 4 string, and enjoyed deciding the exact points where I would go up and down the fretboard, taking into account where the natural breaks in the phrases were, and also thinking about the different sounds the same notes make on the various strings. Once I was done, I noticed that on a 5 string, I could have played the whole thing in one single position. So the limitations of the 4 string obliged me to engage thoughtfully with my task, whilst a 5 string would have indulged my tendency towards laziness. The OP has written about how having an additional high string is opening up his creativity, so quite the opposite. Everyone's different I note that if Jaco had wanted six strings, he could easily have pulled the frets out of a Fender Jazz VI....but then, what kind of serious musician would play a short-scale, eh? 🤪

Exactly the same good?

Is the L-2500 your only option? Or has the Kilton 5 got a Tribute version now?

Another one in the UK on Reverb: Blackburst Tribute M-2000

When I chanced upon this webpage, I had no idea what a lengthy read I had embarked upon. Fascinating and slightly terrifying: History of JE's gear

And just think how much better it would be on a BB, with no huge black pickguard cramping its style!

When the pickups are 50/50, how audible is it that the bridge is not just a standard single coil? Or, put the other way round, is the benefit mostly found when soloing the bridge pickup?

I came across this on an old TB thread - the owner had put it together themself. "the E/A coils are located in 60's Jazz positions, and the D/G coils are moved neck-ward from there."

I've remembered the dark metallic green that was in the back of my mind - Dingwall posted on TB sometime last year.

The purple looks great, but I would to see it alongside the actual shade of the fretboard, to check they're happy with each other. The green would be even better if it were a slightly deeper, more husky shade. The blue is nice but if it had a tiny bit more grey to it (farrowandballstyle) .... yum Edit: our posts crossed in the mail.

Five weeks ago, thinking, very misguidedly, that my SB-1 would be arriving soon, I put my TRBX away, and have played only my 424 since. Today, noticing that the SB-1 is clearly having a good old kip somewhere in the international postal system, I got the TRBX out. Five minutes later it was packaged up again. I 🖤 you, BB, even with your totally shot RS66s. Mwah mwah mwah 🥰

FTFY 😬

Last summer it took me a while before I realised that the bass options link on the USA basses page actually take you to the guitar options.... 🙄

On the fairly rubbish G&L site, the listing for the Tribute LB-100 is missing its specs, but I'm pretty sure that the nut is 1⅝" (as is the factory standard for the USA LB-100) If you wanted a 1½" nut on a Tribute with a split pickup then theres the SB-2 which has a split P pickup almost in the traditional spot and a J pickup very close to the bridge. The quirk of that instrument is that it has 2 vols and no tone knob. But the SBs have the much more lively MFD pickups, whereas as the two you are looking at have traditional Fender style pickups. That's definitely an LB-100 he's playing in that video rather than the extremely similar SB-1 - the pickguard is shaped differently just by the neck - but there's no knowing if he's swapped the pickup..... G&L Tribute Series Basses

A nicer photo of one. Again, an x.