LeftyJ

Good call. I would love one in Lake Placid Blue with matching headstock and rosewood fingerboard.

I'd hit it When it first came out, I hated the Mustang PJ and I still prefer a regular Mustang with the smaller splitcoil. But now I would happily grab one! I don't care if it's MIJ, MIM or MIA, or even a bloody Squier FFS

I'm really gassing for one at the moment, but lack of funds currently stops me from getting one. It's called the Baby Z-4 PJ. There's a JJ too.

I don't have a lot of wishes at the moment. I'm really happy with my Status S2 Classics, followed closely by my MIJ '75 Jazz Bass RI and my Ellio Martina Forza 5. The only thing I would really love to get my hands on are a cool shortscale (come on Fender, give us back a lefty Mustang already!) and a bass with fanned frets. I would love to try a Dingwall NG3 5-string or something along those lines, I've been intrigued by them ever since I first heard of Dingwall. And if Fender won't deliver, I'd be happy to settle on one of these by Atelier Z. Cool Competition Mustang looks, but with a very solid Hipshot B-style bridge and active 2-band electronics.

Found my answer Flat back, curved front:

I can't tell from any of the pictures I've seen, but I was wondering: are these slab-bodied (i.e. fully flat front and back), or is the top curved like a Fender Aerodyne Jazz?

I have an E series Strat that has been my main guitar for over 10 years. It's just great in every way. If this Jazz is of the same quality, it'll be a no-brainer (depending on the price).

I love when he explains the pickup configuration, and it sounds like "Fronto, middle, the other" 😄

Oh man I was never a fan of the c*ck stock (despite having owned a Horizon guitar with that headstock) and this isn't making it better.

Some British accents appear to do well in the Netherlands too, up to a point where Dutch singers try to copy the accent of Kate Nash for example. I like it when it's genuine, but not when people are trying too hard.

Yes, back when these were made in Korea they came from the same assembly line as the MIK Soundgears, and the SR500 and SR600 series share the same Bartolini-licensed pickups (made by Cort) too. These are now Indonesian-made, again along with the Soundgear. The Cort Artisan series has been around since the 1990s, almost as long as the Soundgear range (1987).

I owned an older B4 with a natural ash body, a 5-piece wenge and maple neck and a wenge fingerboard, with Bartolini-licensed Mk1 pickups and preamp. Excellent value, and really a fantastic neck and overall ergonomics. I wouldn't mind owning one again, if I ever come across a 5-string for the right price I might just get it. The new ones have Markbass preamps.

I use Status Hotwire double ball strings on my S2 5-string, and 4 of the 5 strings are taperwound. No intonation or overtone issue at all, I love them.

Don't violins mostly have wooden nuts? Makes sense on a fretless instrument, since it matches the tone of the fingerboard. The fretless Sandberg Bullet 5 I once owned had a rosewood nut too for this reason.

I used to have a Japanese-made ESP Horizon guitar that had a woven-graphite nut. It was incredibly cool, totally unlike any other graphite nut I have seen. Just multiple densely packed laminates of woven carbon fibre, well lubricated and smooth, and the open strings rang with a beautiful clarity. I've never seen another one like it.

Oh hell yes! Just lush. I really love the feel of a well worn-in, played-in lacquer finished neck. It just turns so nice and smooth after years of playing! Look-wise, I really love to look at the carbon weave of my Status necks.

Likely because there's no real passive mode with EMG's: they only work when they're battery-powered, and have an internal preamp which is always on. I'm guessing the switch only bypasses the tone controls, which may colour your tone slightly even when set flat. Very cool find, looks well-made and very pretty!

I've had my EBS HD350 for more than 10 years now, and am still incredibly happy with it. It's built tough, has a powerful EQ, and a drive that resembles a tube amp tone very closely - but it can be ultraclean too.

I've kept the original boxes of all FX pedals that came in one. When I have to ship one, I just wrap the pedal in bubble wrap, put it in its box and wrap the whole thing in brown packing paper.

Fender PJ455 seems accurate. Also, absolutely nothing wrong with the tuners. Those Gotoh's are great.

Yes, I remember that one. I think @BassAgent and @wombatboter have both owned that one too.

Hello back from the Netherlands

Have you ever been mellow? - The Party Animals Oh, the memories...

But wickedly overpriced for what it is. As much as I love my M80, I'm not getting a Tick at that price! It would fit my Pedaltrain Nano perfectly, but I'll stick to the gigbag that came with the Nano (which straps around the neck section of the M80 rather than on the mounting rings).

The 200 isn't shorter, but it is more compact: the body is narrower than that of a 300 (which is huge) and will therefore also be slightly lighter in weight. What's more, it doesn't have the classic triple coil ATK humbucker, but instead has a quadcoil humbucker with different switching from the regular ATK models (on the ATK300 there is a single coil setting with a phantom coil to reduce hum, the ATK200 is always full-humbucking). On the plus side, the pickup of the ATK200 has regular MM dimensions and can be easily replaced by any type of Music Man-like pickup, making it much easier to mod than the other ATK's.