LeftyJ

And this:

I'd like to bring up the Gyrock revolving pickup system by Wild Custom. This stuff is weird and interesting!

I'm weird when it comes to this. With my electric guitars, I've always had a strong urge to tinker and make modifications and upgrades, like better tuners, graphite nuts, different pickups, additional switching options, better electronics. With my basses though, I'm somehow more inclined to take certain imperfections for granted and leave them as-is. The only exception is my Fender Jazz, on which I've replaced the bridge, tuners and pots.

Probably my least favourite ACG body shape, but it does look beautifully made and I love the woods! Interesting pickup placement too, very widely spaced with a big humbucker close to the neck.

That looks ridiculously cool! Beautifully made, and veneers everywhere! Very cool.

Sonic Grey, methinks. Pretty cool. https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/fender-jazz-bass-guitar-left-handed/1414446001

If you like birdseye maple and extended range basses, this might be your cup of tea. Looks beautifully made, and very elegant. https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1769497715

I can't comment on the basses, but I have an E-serial Strat and a Silver Series Strat and I love both of them. The E-series has been my main guitar for years now and has seen many mods and upgrades. I could never bring myself to sell it. The Silver Series appears slightly cheaper made, with a neck finish that wears more quickly (on mine at least) and softer fretwire that wears quicker. They're both great sounding and great playing instruments though, and if it's any indication for what the basses are like, I'd say go for it if the price is right.

It's also the type of d*ck move that would fit Monster Cable. At one point they tried to sue anyone who used "monster" in a brand name of some kind. They even attempted to sue Sesame Street because of Cookie Monster a.o., and Disney for the title to the movie Monsters Inc. to name but a few. FFS! I've been using Spectraflex cables for years, they make nylon braided cables in two thicknesses. I especially like the FatsoFlex cables, with extra thick braiding. Incredibly sturdy, and the braiding stops them from getting tangled too easily. Their lifelong warranty is nice too. I had a problem with one once, and walked into the store I bought it from, and they just replaced it on the spot without even asking for the receipt or any proof of purchase. I don't know if that was Spectraflex policy or the store owner being nice, but it was incredibly helpful!

The EMG's will be less susceptible to noise, as they barely have any windings to pick up noise and rely on their internal preamp to get the output to the desired level, and are internally shielded so well that they don't even require a ground connection to the bridge. I would expect it's either the (lack of) shielding of the passive bass, the mains earth, or a loose ground wire to the bridge of the P-bass. I would start by checking whether the wall socket you're plugging into truly is grounded, and I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet. I live in a home built in or around 1990 and the only place where I originally had grounded sockets was in the kitchen, in the shed (attached to the house) and in the attic, for the central heating boiler and the ventilation system, even though the sockets in some other rooms look like grounded sockets too

Proper bass porn! Bass Direct's photography is on point too, the lighting really brings out the beautiful flame and grain of those woods. What a beauty!

Very cool! The shape reminds me of a Warwick Dolphin, but without the "belly".

I would message Delano to ask them if the pickup covers are available separately. Maybe they can send you one? As for the sound, I would imagine a broken cover wouldn't affect the tone of the pickup. It's just a plastic casing, and it's not shielded on the inside, so it wouldn't affect the magnetic field of the pickup in any noticable way.

I wanted to go over, but only managed to get Halfway to Kevin. Kevin can wait.

I think what you're describing is the JB75-US/FC, which was a Japanese domestic market only-model and a bit of a limited edition based on the regular JB75-US. Rather than an ash body, the FC has an alder body. The colour is Old Lake Placid Blue (OLB) and is unique to the Japanese models. They come stock with Fender USA 70's RI pickups and excellent hardware. My only complaint was with the stock potentiometers, they were a rather on/off-job on my lefty (but that may have been due to reverse-wiring standard righty logarithmic pots instead of mounting reverse-log pots. I have since sorted this on mine). I have a regular JB75-US from this era (I think it's a 2003) and I love it. It's heavy (mine is ash) and the neck has the appropriate 70's style U-shape so it's fairly thick but narrow at the nut. I love mine! I did add a few modifications though: Badass II bridge; Hipshot X-tender, and while I was at it I changed the other 3 tuners to the same model Hipshot; MEC reverse log pots and a De Gier / VanderKley FatBoost. I had a battery box routed in the back, originally to mount an Audere JZ3D preamp, but I hated the Audere and never quite got it to sound the way I wanted. So back to passive it went, but with a switchable 6dB bass boost. Here's mine, before the preamp was added:

I have one 3HE EBS headcase that currently only houses my HD350, and one 4HE SKB case that houses my Ampeg SVP-CL and SVP-PRO, a Korg DTR1000 rack tuner and formerly my Sennheiser EW300 IEM G3 in-ear transmitter, but currently an SWR Grand Prix that doesn't get used.

I don't have much of a band anymore, but when I played in a metal band and a pop noir band (think Nick Cave) at the same time, I definitely needed different basses! In my metal band, I mostly played a Warwick Streamer LX5 and sometimes a MM Stingray 5. In the pop noir band I almost strictly played 4-strings, and varied between an Ibanez MC924, a Rickenbacker 4003 and an Italia Torino (semi-hollowbody). That band really needed a very old school tone, and when I recorded basslines for an album with them I was told my bass (MC924) sustained for far too long so I cut up a dishwashing sponge they had laying around and used it as a mute. Amp-wise I used the same gear between bands: my EBS HD350 with EBS Proline 4x10. In the metal band, I started using an Ampeg tube preamp later on but up until then, the EBS worked fine for both. Prior to that I used an Ashdown ABM300 C210T combo and ABM115 Compact extension cab, but with the metal band it always drowned in the mix so I sold it in favor of the EBS.

Very nice! If that's a factory fretless, that would make it an RS940

If it wasn't so ultra thin.

I like it! With those big routs you suddenly have a lot more options than just split-coils too. You can fit J pickups, many types of humbuckers or any combination of those.

That looks incredible! I had never heard of either cottonwood or camphor, but they look stunning. Especially that fingerboard!

Ah, I think I know the one Did you buy that from Rob @Bonin-in-the boneyard?

Don't think so, I bought it here in the Netherlands and the previous owner has had it for quite some time. It's this red one:

Best: a 2001 Warwick Streamer LX that I've been playing almost exclusively since I got it, unless I need a low B. Brilliant bass! I'm trying to think of my worst purchase, but I don't recall buying any other bass related stuff this year. I suppose my worst bass-related purchase was a guitar, a MIJ Jackson DK2