Beedster

Now THAT is a bass collection 🙏

Post of the year

Looks like you just broke that rule, gotta let the bass go now or you go straight to Bass Jail 🤣

...and bassists 🤣

That's a shame, although having owned a few MIJ Precisions, the PUP was often the weakest link

I saw one in the flesh IIRC in Denmark St and it really was a very very nicely put together bass. It had a bound body with a trans finish and the grain on the body was stunning, almost good enough to suspect it was a veneer, stunning. Being MIJ I imagine it was also a very good instrument in its own right 👍

I would LOVE to arrive at a jam night with that

It was a nice piece and no doubt accurate and useful. Will it make me think twice about using tube amps? Hell no! And I'm pretty sure the word 'heft' wasn't even mentioned 🤣

He’ll be telling us that all basses sound the same next. Great vid 👍

Thanks for the balance Micky, he might do better if you did his copy 👍

The promo material for the gig put me off Steve, hence my quoting the Wales comment 🤔

'He’s regarded as a force of nature in his native Wales'. Great quote

You're very kind Jack, you'll be pleased to hear I'm currently building an uber-lightweight active aluminium 5-string fretless Fodera copy. I'll be in touch

Nerves are about audiences and this audience is going to be 120% behind you. It’ll be an amazing experience 👍

At 3-4k luck should not come into it though. I know that if I buy a mid-top range Warmoth neck and body, a Lindy Fralin PUP, a @KiOgon circuit, Gotoh hardware and spend some time on setup - £1000 in total including import duty - I'll get a great Precision bass 95% of the time. Frankly I find it f***ing amazing that with Fender costing 3-4x more it's still a 50% chance at best....

I've never played a Lull so can't comment, but point taken Dan 👍

A guy in a band I used to play in - he was singer AND guitarist - had a rather 'het everyone, look at me' car. We were outside a venue waiting for him a year or so back and had got into conversation with some rather nice locals who'd come to see the gig. Anyway, said singtarist arrives in said motor and one of the guys watches him pull up and said "You'd have to be a right f***ing c*** to drive that" to which I said "That's our frontman" to which he said "Ha ha, nice one, you almost had me going". He didn;t stop apologising. Point being, Nissan Juke or any car in that general space is NOT OK

There you go over explaining things again.....

I've owned several Fender Custom Shop basses that weren't very good but were in the same price range Dan. They looked great for sure, but they just didn't have that combination of playability, responsiveness, and core tone that says 'great bass'

Could be so many things from loose screws at bridge or tuners through to poor neck relief through to worn/uneven board. Assuming you've checked loose screws etc I'd suggest starting by taking up the action by raising the bridge saddles and checking whether that changes anything. If so, come back here and we can more precisely diagnose from there 👍

Vintage Fenders that fetch massive cash are no more than bolted together 50-year old and off-the-shelf/run-off-the-mill components, and therein lies the opportunity and the challenge in this thread. I've 'built' (in reality sourced, drilled, screwed together, soldered, and set-up) a lot of Fender-alike bits, at last count around 35 basses, most of which I've sold here. Some combinations were outstanding, they're the ones I sold (I've kept two but I'll sell them one day too), others were average, and some were dire. In most of the latter cases I deconstructed them and held on to the parts until I found combinations that worked (and I still have some bits that never worked.....). I love the process, so none of this was a problem for me. But unless you have a lot of parts - especially the wooden bits - when you take an order you won't know whether a combination works or doesn't ahead of time (which is why some Fender basses are magical and some are very much not). If Lull are using aftermarket parts, but through trial and error finding those that work together to produce outstanding instruments, then good on them it's a good business model because I rarely hear a bad word about them (and let's face it, Warmoth quality is significantly above Fender et al so the start point is solid). I have however had the misfortune of buying a lot of basses including eBay bitsas that despite being promising on paper were dire because people do not always go to that trouble (one particular seller who has a lot of bitsas for sale springs to mind). But to reiterate my earlier point, I've ALWAYS made a loss cobbling together and selling bitsas, I enjoy doing it, so it's a loss I'll take, and that there are over 30 basses out there in BC-land that I cobbled together makes me smile (I think I'm going to go back through my photos and put all of them in a single composite photo when I can find the time). But it takes a clever and very dedicated person to turn that model into a business. Easier to think of it as a form of bass altruism that costs relatively little in real terms. Less rewarding in cash terms but hugely rewarding in other ways

Sounds like you have enough

Nice, but as you say, not cheap, and only marginally less than you would pay for the parts new