LeftyJ

And passive. Steve Wishnevsky will rather sell you an external "Wishbox" (a wooden case with a passive varitone) than build a tone control into a bass, let alone active electronics

The strings of your SR800 are on funny at the headstock end Can't you keep them both? They're goint to be very different in every way. The SR has about the thinnest and fastest neck you can find, the Fernandes will be a fair bit wider at the nut and thicker along the entire length. The Fernandes will likely be a lot heavier. It's fully passive, so will sound different and the controls are much simpler (2x volume, 1x tone?). I would definitely try first, or keep the SR around until you're sure the Fernandes suits you better if you have to pick just one.

I don't think Ibanez use it for the truss rod, but for additional stabilizing rods (the same way many manufacturers use carbon rods these days).

Here's an interesting read: https://unicornbass.se/site/m-total-neck-recovery/ This luthier describes the neck as very poorly and crudely made, with a very old-tech compression truss rod with so much excess glue in the thread that it just gets stuck when turning.

Roadster, not Musician

And I love these for keeping my frets shiny and smooth! They really are a treat. It's a lot of work, but I've had great results and it really improves playability if your frets were dull.

I've always been intrigued by that wide pickup spacing, but have never heard one. They look nice, both the Dean and the Cort.

If it is anything like my Streamers, the push-pull pot bypasses the active tone controls but does not switch the bass to fully passive, because the active MEC pickups require 9V at all times. A wire from each pickups runs to the preamp board to provide the power. If your bass turns quiet when you pull out the volume knob, I'm guessing it may cut the power to the pickups? What pickup and control configuration is in your Fortress? PJ with push-pull volume, pickup pan and two-band EQ?

From the looks of it, yes You could always send Seymour Duncan an email just to be sure, they seem pretty helpful.

Martin Lopez, formerly of Opeth and now in SOEN.

Looks a lot better! I thought that V body was much too compact for it to balance well. Looking at other V-models and Jackson Rhoads models, they appear much longer to me. I like your new design!

Yep, the pickups aren't powered through the signal wiring, there's always a separate Plus (the red wire) and the Minus will be the ground. This is a wiring diagram for the STC-3A, but with soap bars. In this example they're regular two-conductor, so wiring will be the same as your PJ-set. As you can see the red power wires of the pickups join the one from the preamp towards the battery:

Too much compression to my taste.

This is interesting! I've been playing nickelplated steel ever since I picked up my first bass, and have never looked at anything else. When I first tried Elixir nanowebs I was sold, and I've pretty much stuck with them until I got my first headless Status and needed double ball strings. I'm now playing their own brand Hotwire double ball strings, which incidentally are Stainless Steel and feel and sound great. I now have two sets of stainless steel Elixirs waiting to be used on two of my regular 5-strings and after reading this thread I might just have to stop waiting

I have three that I'll never sell: My 1983 Ibanez MC924 because it's my year of birth, the serial number dates it just one month younger than me. It's also absolutely brilliant to play and sounds amazing. My 2003 Warwick Streamer LX5 that I've played at nearly all my gigs with Eve's Fall. And my Ellio Martina Forza 5-string, my be-all, end-all workhorse that I've gigged and recorded with and it really can do it all! It lends itself to any kind of music I could think of and it just works.

Not too familiar with the genre, but just over a year ago I was asked to play with Akelei. They're a one-man project now mostly, without a fixed line-up, and the singer needed a band for a show he was doing in January 2020. The drummer of my former band is his brother, so it was easy to just ask all of that band and we happily agreed. I love dark, melancholic music and was almost instantly drawn. I like listening to Paradise Lost, Agalloch, 11th Hour, and especially Alcest (not really doom but more shoegaze mixed with black metal with a beautiful atmosphere) so it was a small step to adjust to Akelei's music. The lyrics are in Dutch: https://akelei.bandcamp.com/

So would this qualify as a hollowbody? I bet it cost him an arm and a leg. Or two.

If this was mine I would most definitely have a decal made in Fender-style that said "Boner" instead of "Filip".

Came with OHSC and matching tour bus.

The Holy Trinity of Japanese high-quality basses around 1980 Wouldn't the batwing headstock of the SB700 date it older than 1981?

Thanks, but not really. I'm lefthanded, I couldn't play it if I wanted to

Greetings, fellow Dutchman! I'd think so too - this pickguard looks much too angular for the period it was probably made (1960s, Japan). The original pickguard probably matched the rounder shape of that Burns-like separate piece of pickguard on the upper horn. Also looks like the pickup may have been moved closer towards the bridge. Here's one exactly like it, but with a more curvaceous pickguard: https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/66725/bass-identification-no-name-anywhere

That should probably be Meinl Shop, after the drum brand. They sell Ibanez spare parts too: https://www.meinlshop.de/en/ibanez/spare-parts/e-basses/tuning-machines?p=1

I'm currently at work and unable to take pictures of my actual setup, but I'm using the Yamaha MW8CX. Not the smallest solution out there, but it works for me. I could make do with just two inputs, USB, monitor out and an aux in. The FX are fun but low quality. But then again this is already 10+ years old, I bet newer ones are more advanced and better and have faster USB connections!