Congrats on the new bass. I've heard nothing but good things about SX, I may be looking at one of their older tele's for Christmas if I can find the right one.

I play a Peavey Grind 5, and my 4 stringer is a neck thru jay Turser with passive/active soapbars, not a bad little bass as well. For my purposes, it doesn't make sense to spend what they want for a USA fender, The neck thru peavey is USA, and does the job quite well. I used Fender flats on the JT and Carvin Flats on the Peavey 5.

Maybe someday a good buy on a Carvin will come along.

Dang....This is addicting.

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