AndyTravis

I think the attraction with musicman as a company was that you could pretty much order what you wanted at a much better deal than say Fender - if you want a Precision Bass with a matching headstock in one of 30 colours, you have to go custom shop and £3000+ Musicman were always a bit more expensive than Fender but you got that choice (think matching headstock was £120 more) Now, they’re fender CS prices in some really odd (some are nice) colour choices - and they’re fixed options... So...I won’t buy new MM again - and I have had about 4 new ones as well as 3 or 4 used

My dad got a new TV and since I’ve done the install, he keeps talking about sky arts... so I’ve retuned all of my TV’s and hey presto. I get snippets between Fireman Sam, Hey Duggie and the bloody Octonoughts.

Yeah - looks well that, like it’s been considered - rather than just a block.

Bah. I’ll be out at 5 collecting my oldest daughter from her mum. And we’ve got rid of Virgin now so don’t have a record facility. Knew I should’ve kept that DVD-R machine

Yeah, he replied to me on Facebook about it - said it stemmed from the American old army drill chants “I don’t know but I’ve been told...” Now I can’t unhear that - same as when someone told me the first phrase of the “sunshine of your love” guitar solo is lifted from Blue Moon...

Not famous by any stretch, but our bands songs always stem from the bass

Sort of prefer that version...

Positions as far is I can remember

Good Lord, looking good @Andyjr1515

Ah, ok - imagine a short scale neck shoved into a Les Paul body with a generic set of pickups off an Epiphone viola bass and an Ibanez stop tail. Hardly worth the picture to be fair mate - I’ve saved you a job 😉

Gryphon is top - actually not as bad as I recall. but that SG was stunning.

Meh. This is their latest offering they also made a Gryphon and other SG’s in conjunction with Drew when he ran the GBBL. The Gryphon was silly ugly (in my opinion) but they did a Pelham SG which was stunning...

I haven’t - I played an SG bass in black satin in about 2015/16 at the GBBL. I wasn’t bowled over - but it was nice to see. I often think they could do something really special along the lines of a Gibson esque bass - and have massive orders... But they seem to be happy enough in their current guise. I spotted a Gypsy semi hollow bass announcement recently? But it fell short of the mark for my wallet to start tingling...

A “producer” switch and a “DFA” switch.

Will wait until payday...but think I’ve found replacement

Today’s task. Sort the 2 point series/parallel switch which has been intermittent. Cleaner...nowt. Open up the back. Loose (off) wire. Easy peasy - look - an empty prong with a blob of solder, magic - that’s it. Yep, signal...good. Solder. Not an ounce of difference, well...no, just nothing. de-solder. touch test, signal from a couple...took a faff of hold/strum etc. Solder. Magic. Works and deffo series/parallel. still intermittent. FFS. Switch is goosed/on its way out.

Looks ace that

Are the spaces at the bottom “just in case” 😂

The only genuine “lawsuit” was Gibson vs Ibanez on a headstock copy. Possibly Tokai too on the fenders...but fender just had that factory make some guitars for them (I think I read somewhere) The “lawsuit era” is a bit of a misnomer really. And people shove it on listings to add some sort of magic... Copying tried and tested designs saved on expensive r&d I guess.

Probably adds value

If I wasn’t skint, I’d give it a go

Ah yeah. That.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363275709866 whats the betting it turns up absolutely unusable

I sit down with a bass, get comfy, then adjust strap to suit that seated position. For pretty much everything that works. For Thunderbirds...not so much. My back is terribly fragile though.