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Oops. My post was bass cabinets. Sometimes I need to read more than the subject line. 😄

I've been through more cabinet combinations than I care to remember and nowadays it's more about downsizing my day to day kit. I still own a Barefaced Big One (15/6) but a couple of years back I bought a pair of Darkglass 1x12s. I can use them as singles or double them up; they're rated 500w/8 ohm, lightweight (12.5kg), capable. UK price was £600/$750 each, Sweetwater do them for $810 a pop (I was actually more surprised that they weren't actually cheaper than the UK price despite being made in Finland). Expect this price to increase once tariffs kick in your side.

I think Hamer got things 100% correct (in the UK) regarding marketing; from memory nothing in the music press, but you'd go up to London and there'd be these postcard sized flyers in guitar shops and piles of these US Letter sized flyers of the Vectors and others.

Scratchplate arrived today from gig.ink here in the UK. £45 shipped. Fantastic stuff. So happy! Thanks to @mathman for the original scan!

Mother. Of. God.

When I got the Cruisebass in the top photo (this is a photo of what it looked like when it arrived), the pickups didn't seem to have much oomph; they were right under the strings - very close - and there was very little downwards adjustment. I decided to have a lookie (like you do), took them out and found the bar magnets that should have been attached to the underside of the pickups had come off/deattached and were stacked on top of each other. I was honestly loathed to reattach/test/remove etc. so sourced a replacement set of P/J pickups and bought a set of EMG Geezer Butler pickups. These pickups are fine, but as my other basses were all active I pulled the original loom and dropped a John East Retro 3 unit in. I've obviously kept all the original guts and that'll go into the box whenever I decide it's time to sell this on, but for now it's a keeper. Smitten kitten. I found the bass on a Reverb advert and at one point it had been in Russia, before being imported to the UK by someone in Scotland, so it's had a bit of a journey.

Genuinely quite excited about this. First time I saw a Cruisebass it was an earlier iteration and hanging [new] in a shop in Denmark Street, London (see the postcard flyer below/not my image). It was exactly this model. I was just doing a paper-round back then; for my measly £5.00 a week it might have taken several years to amass enough moola to have bought one!

Order in...should see it in about a week. Weeee!

Brief update! @mathman was kind enough to shoot me over a scan; I've had the schematic back from a place called Gig.Ink here in the UK (see attached); this is UK A4 papersize. Just tweaking the neck pocket size; mine's a mm or two bigger. Will post an update once I have the plate. Hamer Cruise Bass TEMPLATE.pdf

Hello - sorry for the delay, Christmas and all that! If the body shape is the same/similar to the above, then yes! The guy cutting the pickguard has said he can alter things to accommodate the nuances of pickup positions. I'l shoot you a PM. Thanks!

I find his videos a joy to watch. His delivery is gentle and relaxing, and there's a drinking game in here somewhere, 'Well, hey gang!' and 'Polishing, polishing, polishing.' The above Junior project was great.

Sorry to bump this...nobody can help? I just need a scan of the pick guard, face-up, 300dpi, PDF. I've found a guy who will scale things up here and shoot me over a template to offer up. HELP!! 😄

I just did a little bit of jizz.

Wrong model/shape!

We seem to have guys over here that can make up a plate off a .pdf scan. The plate just needs to be scanned face up.