Grassie

What did you get?

Epiphone Rumblekat 😊

Very nice!

https://www.herrickpickups.com/our-products/custom-colour-covers/

Ooh fanx! Their site won’t load properly on my phone though, will have a look later. 👍🏻😊

Just ordered a set, never tried flats on my fiver before, or on an active bass.

Good price that. Thanks for the steer. Just ordered a spare set.

I'd like a medium scale set for the recently acquired 33" Chyla 5er but I can't see how I can ask if they're available.

Help!!

Are you saying that these strings were on the bass from new? It's worth noting that in this case, they may have been on the bass for months before arriving at your own paws

Try a set of XT coated strings from D'Addario  

@Dood do you use them? If so what’s the lifespan like? I’m assuming you’re usually a busy man… 😁

Ive had Elixirs in the past, impressed with those.

Funnily, I've been using them on my teaching basses (thus no sweaty evenings lol) but I've recently put a set on a gigging bass rather than my usual Pro Steels. I have a gig tonight that might be a hot one, so I'll have some ideas over the weekend! 
Obviously with all the cold weather = no sweaty mits, strings have been lasting ages, but, I do have hands that kill strings quickly after long drenching 2 hour gig sets, so I'd expect a hit on string life generally.

I've been using D'addario for many years and there's certainly other brands I have used that have died significantly faster. 

Elixir are good strings, a good choice too.

Hm.  Wondering if you might be OK tuning the whole lot down a semitone...  give you that low Bb.

Some of the songs we do are without the piper, so are in standard tuning. I'm gonna leave it as BEAD and see how I get on.

Done that on my sire jazz bass, purchased a 135 B string and took them all down one.

you watched the Ian Allison 8/12 string bass video too? I hadn't heard of them either but they're great!

Yes! Ha ha! Amazing isn’t it - how something like that 12 string video can lead to the discovery of something great like BW. 😁

totally, that's kinda how music works though isn't it, one thing leads you to another and then you're off into the unknown

love Ian Allilson too, he's great to listen to

Looks like 170+ basses have been in my hands over the last 40 years!

Current collection:

(PRE-KRAMER) SPECTOR SB-1 USA 1976 Active (Walnut/Maple)
(PRE-KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA 1986 Active (Cherry Sunburst) - Hazlab
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA 198? Active (Black) - Hazlab
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA 1987 Active (Black) - Hazlab
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA 1987 Active (Gloss White) - Hazlab
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA 1989 Active (Tobacco Sunburst) - Hazlab
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA 198? Active (Red/Black Lava Crackle) - Hazlab
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2 USA 198? Active (Red Stain) – Hazlab
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2A Active (Gloss White) – K-Haz/EMG upgrade
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2A Active (Black) – K-Haz/EMG upgrade
(KRAMER) SPECTOR NS-2A Active (Black) – K-Haz/Spector
SPECTOR NS-2 USA 2001 Active (Holoflash Black & Abalone) - EMG BTS
SPECTOR NS-2X ‘Spectorbird’ USA 2012 Active (Tobacco Sunburst) - Haz
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro CR 2001? Active (Holoflash Black) - Tonepump
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro CRFM 2001? Active (Purple Stain) – EMG
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro CRFM 2004? Active (Emerald Green Quilt) – EMG BQC
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro CRFM 2004 Active (Plum Stain) – Aguilar
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro 2007 Active (Gloss White) – SNC Haz
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro LX 2012 Active ‘Ian Hill’ sig (Black) - Tonepump
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro LX 2017 Active ‘Rachel Bolan’ sig (Black/Silver sparkle)- TPump
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro LX 201? Active (see-thru Black Quilt) – Hazlab!
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro LT 2019 Active (Violet Fade) - Darkglass
SPECTOR NS-2 Euro Classic 2021 Active (Solid Red) - EMG
SPECTOR NS-2 JA-CR Euro RI 2008 Active w/Badass (Gloss White) – EMG BTS
SPECTOR NS-2 JA-CR Euro RI 2008 Active w/Badass (Black) – EMG BTS
SPECTOR Legend 4X Classic Active 2012 (Holoflash Black) – EMG DC/Tonepump
SPECTOR Legend 4X Classic Active 2012 (Black Stain)
STUART SPECTOR DESIGN NS-CR? Euro Active (Natural)
STUART SPECTOR DESIGN NS-4 Euro Active (Red Stain)
WAL Mk1 Fretless Active 1982 (Mahogany with Stained Maple facings)
WAL Mk1 Active 2000 “Geddy Lee” (Black/Gold Hardware)
M.V. PEDULLA Buzz Deluxe Fretless 1989 (Black) 
FENDER Jap Precision ‘70’s Reissue “Phil Lynott” Alder/R-wood board (Black/Mirror)
FENDER Jap Precision ’62 Reissue Alder/Rosewood board (Vintage White/Red Tort)
FENDER FSR Precision P/J maple board/blocks & East preamp (Sea Foam Green)
FENDER Jap Classic ‘70’s Precision maple board & blocks (Sunburst)
FENDER Jap Jazz Bass Special ‘Duff McKagan’ (White with black neck)
JACKSON "Kip Winger" HB Signature Model Active (Orange Cherry Lacewood)
JACKSON "Kip Winger" HB Signature Model Active (Red Cherry Lacewood)
JACKSON TBX-Pro ‘Jacksonbird’ Active 1 of only 56 made (Black)
JACKSON Ontario ‘Concert Bass’ 1987 Active (White)
HAMER Impact USA Active 1991 (Black & Gold ‘Marble’)
HAMER Impact USA Active 1991 (Red)
HAMER Impact USA Active 1990 (Copper/Gold)
HAMER Scarab USA ‘Rick Savage’ Active late 80’s (White)
KRAMER Forum I Active late 80’s (Flipflop Blue) – damaged headstock
KRAMER Ferrington Electro/Acoustic (Black)
ESP The Surveyor 1984 (Blue Stain with Blue fingerboard!)
ESP PPJ-160 ‘Masayoshi Yamashita’ Signature Model 1985 (White)
ESP/Zep-II PPJ-160 ‘Masayoshi Yamashita’ Signature Model - Active (Black) 
PEAVEY RJ-IV “Randy Jackson” Signature Model Active (Red Sunburst)
PEAVEY “Rudy Sarzo” Signature Model Active (Dark Natural)
ROCKINBETTER “RonnieBarker” Ricky copy
TOKAI Works TW801? Active 1987? (Black)
FERNANDES MV-65NS “Nikki Sixx” Non-Reverse Spectorbird 1989 (Black)
FERNANDES MV-65NS “Nikki Sixx” Non-Reverse Spectorbird 1989 (Black)
FERNANDES MV-65NS “Nikki Sixx” Non-Reverse Spectorbird 1990 (Black)
MUSICMAN Sub Stingray 4 (Black/Mirror)
YAMAHA BB3000 (Black Sparkle)
ARIA CSB ‘Black & Gold’ (Black)
GUILD Pilot Active (Purple Burst)
GUILD Pilot Active (Red)
BASS COLLECTION “Betsy” Jazz Active (Burgundy Mist) 
ITALIA Imola GP “Ricky Phillips” Signature Model (White)
EPIPHONE Thunderbird Vintage Pro 2018 (Black)
EPIPHONE Thunderbird Vintage Pro 2018 (Tobacco Sunburst)
HOHNER B2A ‘Steinberger’ Active (Black)
FELINE/SPECTOR "Gene Simmons SB-1" Hybrid. Active 1977 (Black)
FELINE/KRAMER "Gene Simmons Axe" Active 1980-Copy (Black/Silver)
PUNISHER "Gene Simmons" Ltd. Edition (Signed/#’d 0007) Active 1997 (Black)
AXE "Gene Simmons" Ltd Edt (Signed/#’d 163 of 250) Active 2000(Black/Silver)
CORT “Gene Simmons Axe-2” 2010 (Black/Silver)
CORT “Punisher GS-2” 2011 (Black)
STACCATO MG Active (Black/Magnesium Alloy/Numbered 22 of 34

Used to have:

2 x Kramer Spector NS2A (Red Stain)
1 Kramer Spector NS2A (Teal)
1 white US Spector NS4
1 cherry Spector ReBop
1 red Spector NS2J-CR
1 natural Spector Euro LX
1 blue stain Spector NS2 CRFM
1 Poplar Burl Spector Euro LX
1 Zebrano Spector Euro LX
1 Dark Cherry Spector Euro LX
1 blue stain Spector NS2000/4
1 black stain Spector NS2000/4
1 cherry Spector Euro5
1 holoflash Spector Rex2000/4
1 black stain Spector Rex2000/4
1 black stain Spector Legend 4X
3 x DeArmond Pilots (black/white/red)
1 Epiphone Goth Thunderbird
1 black Feline Spector
1 cherry stain Aria CSB360
1 black Ibanez Destroyer
1 black Bass Collection
1 natural noname P bass
1 purple Charvel Model 3A
1 Teal Kramer Forum IV
1 white Kramer Forum III
1 black Fernandes Spectorbird
1 black Fernandes Spectorbird ¾ scale thru-neck
1 Jackson Kip Winger (lacewood)
1 Jackson Kip Winger (White)
1 Jackson Kip Winger (Black) £500
1 multicolour Nightingale Harlequin
1 black Hohner ‘stick’
1 black Musicman Stingray SUB
2 x black Hartke XK4
1 cherry sunburst Kay Tulip bass
1 natural Avon Grabber
1 black Washburn Scavenger
1 natural Mighty Mite Precision
1 black Schecter Model T
1 Fender FSR Precision ‘70’s Reissue Ash/Maple board (Natural/Red Tort)
1 Fender Jazz Bass Special 80’s Jap original (cream)
1 Fender Jazz Jap Geddy Lee (black)
1 Fender/Allparts Jazz ‘70’s (Vintage White, maple board/white blocks)
1 Guild Pilot (black)
1 Ibanez Soundgear SR1000 Custom Active (Painted by Yoshiki 1988)
1 Tokai ‘Hard Puncher’ P/J Alder?/Rosewood board 80’s (Red)
1 Tokai ‘Hard Puncher’ P (Black / Maple board)
1 ESP Horizon Custom Active 1990? Ebony Fingerboard (Cherry Sunburst)
1 Dingwall NG-2 Active 2018 (Purple)
1 Dingwall DBird Active 2019 (Colorflip Blue/Purple)
1 Frankenstein Billy Sheehan ‘Wife’ Bass (Aria/Fender/Allparts clone)
1 G&L Tribute L-2000 (big logo 2003 Indonesian)
1 black Archer KS3 ‘Kasim Sulton’
1 natural Bass Collection Rickenfaker
1 Hagstrom Super Swede “Rutger Gunnarsson” Signature Model (Mahogany)
1 Peavey RJ-IV “Randy Jackson” Active (Silverburst)
 

Holy stinky poo! 😂😂😂

All those Spectors…. I’d settle for an NS2 and it would cure my GAS. 
Maybe… 😊

I don’t mind a bit of weight, I get suspicious if a bass feels too light…. 😁

Sweetwate has a few white JB-2s and publishes their respective weights:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/JB2TrRSB--g-and-l-tribute-jb-2-bass-guitar-sonic-blue

They all seem reasonable, not too light or too heavy.

My newer candy apple red Kiloton is a little under 4.5 kg, which is lighter than the older 'Irish Ale' Kilotons.

I’m not keen on the look of the JB 2s, prefer the OG JBs. 😊

Shout out to PMT in Bristol, too as they're great.

Nice one!

I have one of the new candy apple red ones.  Lovely bass!

How are you getting on with it Billy?

I bought my first 5 string just two weeks after I got the Kiloton and promptly put it back in the rack, to. be picked up again when I am used to the fiver.

But, I loved it.  Nice neck and lovely tone from that big humbucker.  I'm looking forward to picking it up again when I've got used to the fiver.

I agree, I tried one last year and it wasn't anything special.

Took me two hours to set my new (to me) EB-3 this morning after picking it up yesterday evening. My first experience with a 3 pointer, first thing I did was take the strings off to give it a good clean. Second thing I did was pick the saddles and bridge up off the floor after it fell apart. 

Sounds exactly like my experience. 
I shall be getting a Babicz bridge at some point…

I know I'm probably a bit of an outlier here, and I completely understand that folks have issues with these, but I've had the same three pointer on my 1987 TBird since...well, 1987. I've never had to do much to it.  The action was low in 1987, it's still low now. On the other hand, I tried a hipshot on my NR bird a few years ago, and that was awful. Bloody great clunky thing that would have needed countersinking to get the action to the height it was with the original three pointer. I now have a Babicz on there which is a very nice piece of metalwork, but still quite idiosyncratic in its own way. Anyway, just my experience, completely accept that people might think I'm talking out of my hat. 

Let me know how it goes. First year ever that I've missed it. Just not comfortable with festivals etc at the moment. 

It was ok. Same as usual really, some good acts, some were let down by diabolical sound (Duran Duran), the food was fine for the most part, 36 for a pint, pretty busy though, around 60,000 there I reckon.

There's a seller on ebay selling amber tinted black block maple Jazz necks for about £40 - just got one for a Jazz bitser and it was pretty decent quality (that way if you decide to move you'r P on, you can stick the original neck back on it) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203347780016

Can you dream that I have an Alembic SC like the one for sale in the marketplace but that it was free.

I saw that. If I had a spare 5K lying about, she’d be mine. 😁

In your dream, did you manage to solve what I imagine would be simply colossal neck-dive?

You mean your new job is selling hearing aids, or you've had to get some??

Had to admit that my hearing is knackered, and get some sorted. 🙁

Just been to try it out - not for me. I was expecting a little bit of Stingray vibes from it, given it has a big humbucker and a 2 band active EQ, but it just sounded meh. 😶

I'm using this view setting (note the first  option in orange) so it looks the same as the earlier version.

I find change confusing....

How It's Made: Making a bass guitar from scratch: Biarnel Iter 4TB - YouTube

They look the biz! Can't say I'm thrilled by what I hear in any of the demo videos though - those seem to be rather generic sounding instruments.

Not really a fan of the look of single-cuts but I do like those Akme fretless'

You have me intrigued. of whom of what do ye speak oh grassie and greek?

I'm not sure I can say....

I think we (probably me) may have said too much already 😬