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I like tan. But it’s your cab dude....

Honestly, my take on pickups is that the height makes a huge difference. I’ve used lots of replacement pickups - the Fender CS 60’s were a particular favourite - but getting the height right is something that is often neglected, and makes a huge difference. I still need to get mine to Chris McIntyre to sort out the high fret. Ah well.

@LukeFRC you need to do the leathering effect at least twice to make it decent. I did it three times, I think. I can’t quite remember.

Tricky. Good work. I guess there’s no perfect solution when considering alternatives to screws...

I still have my Squier CV Jazz that I bought new. I think I got it in 2009. Or 2010. Its going strong and sounds great. Stock pickups, stock electronics. The only problem I have is needing to reseat the 20th fret a little - it’s finally lifted a little after many years of play. I’ll take it to a tech soon. Otherwise, it’s been a great investment. I spent many years on it learning when I went to music school. It’s my ‘beater’ bass now for a while. I love it. I never have to worry about it. Even though it’s signed by Jeff Berlin, lol.

I think you’ll be impressed with electric piano. I was when my keys player tried it out.

Sold my Hipshot tuners to Deamon, easy communications and fast payment. Happy to deal with again!

Sexy!!!

I used countersunk flat top socket head M5 machine screws from this eBay seller. And T nuts.

The flat bit is meant to go to the side where the rebate is - at the front. In my case it didn’t matter; either way I fitted it there was enough clearance to install the front baffle. So I just did it how I felt. On my kit, which has been tweaked since, the pre-drilled holes for the handles were large; bigger than would accept a wood screw. So I used T-nuts because that’s all I could do, in that case. But it also makes an insanely secure handle, lol.

I like the GK amps. Also Tecamp. Both put out a ton of power, when measured by lab tests at Bass Gear Magazine. The GK amps have more voicing to them, but once set flat are powerful and adaptable units. The GK MB800 is great. The Tecamp Puma 900 or 500 (or now, Eich, since the company changed up) are powerful and neutral amps. A bit too neutral for me, but easily coloured with fx etc.

It's a great cab, I like BF. I'm just warning @Al Krow to be careful about how much stock he puts into manufacturers claims. Yes, even BF. A cab with significant output at 30Hz would either be huge, or suffer severely reduced efficiency in the rest of the frequency spectrum, in general, depending on number and type of drivers. Acme B1/B2/B4 cabs, for example, do have reasonable output at 30Hz, and suffer hugely from reduced efficency as a result. I think they sound great. But you have to carry twice the amount of drivers compared to other manufacturers to get a similar volume because of that huuuge extended low end. And then often you have to HPF that low end out in real world spaces....