Sparky Mark

Unless your single cab has more than two speakers it's likely that your amp's 300 watts is already capable of driving it to its maximum sound pressure level. Once that is achieved additional power is only going to be dissipated as heat. The wattage rating of your cab is a thermal rating and doesn't necessarily correlate directly to how loud it'll go. As has been advised, if you want more volume, you need more speaker area.

My 4003S certainly looked too red to be rosewood but the website says rosewood still.

For me it depends on the bass. I had a Bongo with a lighter fretboard and I was fine with it. Rickys need to be reddish. However, for my Fender Jazz and Precisions, I want the rosewood to be as dark as possible so I use mineral oils (either fretboard conditioner, lemon oil or woodwind bore oil) to feed and darken them. I'm often amazed at how bone dry the rosewood is on some of my acquisitions. For an initial feed I use clarinet bore oil which feels slightly thicker to me than lemon oil and really nourishes a dry fretboard and brings out the beauty of the grain.

The first time I changed the strings on my Gibson SG bass I learnt that I should've removed and replaced the strings one at a time. Never had a problem thereafter as long as the strings don't have silk at the ball end. The original Rickenbacker bass bridge gets my vote for the most flawed design but once again changing strings one at a time helps a lot. I tolerate the idiosyncrasies of both of these original bridges because I much prefer their aesthetics over those of the modern replacements.

Eden Glowplug pedal at G4M for £49 seems an amazing deal if you're looking to add real valve (12ax7) warmth.

I have a Rafferty HPF. £100 including delivery from Northern Ireland. I like the fact it can be PP3 battery powered, has a phase switch, volume and adjustable frequency controls. It works and worth the extra real-estate IMO.

I have no experience with it, but the Eden WTDI for £69.99 from G4M would be a no brainer if I needed another DI. It's only downside is that it runs off 15v (PSU included). My favourite coloured DI is the Tech21 VT Bass and my favourite more neutral DI is the Tech21 Para Driver.

Or Bugeratti?

Same here too. The only amp that has ever tripped out on me mid first gig was a Markbass F500. There was nothing wrong with it but I was pushing it too hard because I was used to my LM3 which never skipped a beat. I sold the F500 shortly thereafter.

Deja vu all over again.

Thoughts in no particular order:- A 4 ohm 210 will appeal to a smaller market if you come to sell it later on. It seems logical that if you're buying an 800 watt amplifier you are planning on using more than just a 210 in the future(?). If a 210 is all you'll ever need then a 350 to 500 watt at 4 ohm head should be plenty and save you some money. The 8 ohm version will allow you to add another 8 ohm 210 to create a better balanced rig, especially with the 800 watt amp.

You are lucky, not just because of your relative youthfulness, but because there will be excellent 1985 vintage basses out there, you just need to be selective. Feel sorry for those of us who's YOB falls in the pre CBS era.

Agreed. I bought my Stingray new in 1981 for £415. That's probably around £2k in today's money; about the price of a new one. I might get a small premium because it's a pre EB, but I won't get rich for sure.

Nobody know what will happen long term (10 to 20 years) but in the short to medium term this view may be based on the probability that energy costs won't fully return to pre February 2022 levels, increasing the cost of just about everything in the supply chain from raw materials to production to distribution. Additional friction to certain import/export activities could also be inflationary. The GBP/USD exchange rate shift has increased UK prices of US imports by approximately 10% over the past year. Who knows when that might change? Currently there are more indicators of prices rising for some time to come rather than falling. Of course certain marketplaces might soften for other reasons, i.e., baby boomers and generation X die away along with their demand for Alembics, pre CBS Fenders etc.

One of the best, most melodic bassists I have ever seen was playing a fiesta red Squier precision. Possibly a decent Japanese one but only worth a couple of hundred pounds back then. I doubt he's on here either.

I would've said EVEN WRONGER but words kinda don't matter in this case Another thought; I wonder if these are reverse winders?

I thought I said "imagine". It's entirely up to you.

We all wish. My one and only USA custom build would cost at least twice that.

Imagine what these would cost if they were from the USA.