New bass on route from Thomann. Current EU border delays?

[DocTrucker]

What sort of drlivery time are folks seeing frim EU / Thomann at the moment? Last time I ordered it was seven days, was hoping for a little quicker to tty and get settled on the new bass before rehearsal on Sunday!

 

Finally pulled the trigger last Friday on my five string Harley Benton MJ-5MN. Alas my original budget of <£400 was slashed by circumstance and another hobby nibbling a little off the side too. I appreciate it's heavy, but reports seem to suggest it is in the same ball park as my previous Squier VM 4 string at 4.7kg or 10lbs 5oz.

 

Certainly looking forward to it. If not settled on the tone it will be a tough call between replacing one of the pots with a stacked pot inorder to enable the mid control (on the preamp, just not wired/fitted) or go straight to a three band Artec preamp unit.

Edited September 4, 2024 by DocTrucker

[spyder]

7 to 10 days on my last few orders.

 

[DocTrucker]

2 minutes ago, spyder said:

7 to 10 days on my last few orders.

 

 

Balls! the 3-4 working days or 5-6 total currently listed on their website appears to be aspirational!

 

With the way the UK side tracking only starts after DHL/UKMail pick up from our side of the boarder it would be very easy for DHL to pick up parcels in bulk without scanning them, and then scan in a day or so later when they are ready to send the parcel on.

[MichaelDean]

Last time I placed an order, I ordered on the Monday evening and it got delivered on the Friday. There was no tracking until the Thursday evening which was a bit excruciating as I was excited and I'm impatient!

[BigRedX]

My experience both before and after the UK left the EU, is that no matter what you order or when you place it, so long as they are in stock, the items arrive on Wednesday or Thursday of the following week.

[DocTrucker]

1 hour ago, MichaelDean said:

...which was a bit excruciating as I was excited and I'm impatient!

 

Snap!

 

WANNA PLAY WITH NEW TOY!

 

😄

[spongebob]

Bought a new MB cab in June, took just over a week. 
 

Hadn’t used them for a few years, service was as good as ever. The packaging was amazing! 🤘

[DocTrucker]

Typical. Made it through customs at ~2330 last night. Today being the only day this week I couldn't work from anywhere! Redirected to pickup point, so looks like it'll be tomorrow now.

 

 

[DocTrucker]

Tried my luck and won out. just drove over to the local DHL depot and said it was out for delivery tomorrow and would lile to pick it up now.

 

I can't fault it with just tuning. Leaving it be in my house for a while before looking at checking intonation or any further setup checks. Playable out of the box. Think my fingerstyle needs a little neatening as I seem to whack the string on the pickup from time to time, which needless to say doesn't sound great!

 

Oh, and the talk of this girl's weight is not understated. At 5.6kg more a shot putter than marathon runner!

 

[DocTrucker]

I realise this bass is almost a carbon copy of a discontinued Sandberg but I'm guessing Sandberg hasn't made much fuss about being copied, or did they need to get alsorts of licences from Fender?

 

 

My old Squire Jazz Vintage Modified against the Harley Benton MJ-5MP

Edited September 8, 2024 by DocTrucker

[DocTrucker]

Resurecting an old post to add some lived in details!

 

Stripped the guitar down to add some stick in copper shielding yesterday. I was finding the background noise intrusive, even as a fairly low skill bassist. There was black paint in the cavities which I assume was shielding paint, but I could read no resistance across <5mm seperation of multimeter probes. There was also no connection between the cavities (ground lead to the bridge was in place) and the pickgaurd was completely plastic.

 

I was able to cover the two pickup cavities, control cavity, the back of the pickguard, and a few tabs to make connections to the pickguard, and te metal control plate. Continuity checks showed low resistance between the cavities, and once the control plate was screwed in the pickup cavities and the bridge. I finished the work up with a re-setup. I found the gap between the b string and the 7-9 frets to be less than 0.3 mm, I increased the curve in the neck (loosened truss) to take this to 0.75-1.00mm and tweaked the action to suit.

 

Plays much better now with a lighter touch on the lower frets and generally less fret noise and buzzing that I had associated with poor technique.

 

[tauzero]

My Squier Vintage Modified Modified is partway there - passive but with a MM pickup (and a tarty control plate).

 

[DocTrucker]

4 hours ago, tauzero said:

My Squier Vintage Modified Modified is partway there - passive but with a MM pickup (and a tarty control plate).

 

Looks like a brother from another mother! Nice, did look at five string Squires pre-purchase but there were few about. Don't bother droping in on shops for a set of strings. Tried all four shops within 20 minutes of me in Merseyside and none had a set. Thought that was an easy ask, but will just order in future!

 

My squire wasn't especially light, but I'm guessing your 5 is still lighter than 5.6kg?

[tauzero]

5 hours ago, DocTrucker said:

Looks like a brother from another mother! Nice, did look at five string Squires pre-purchase but there were few about. Don't bother droping in on shops for a set of strings. Tried all four shops within 20 minutes of me in Merseyside and none had a set. Thought that was an easy ask, but will just order in future!

 

My squire wasn't especially light, but I'm guessing your 5 is still lighter than 5.6kg?

 

I haven't weighed it - I play sitting down so weight isn't quite so important for me (except when carrying it in and out of venues). It's definitely on the heavy side though. The mod to put the MM pickup in was quite well done but not perfect, and the original MM used was for a narrower string spacing but an Aguilar came up on Ebay for a good price so that got put in instead.