Maybe there is a US warehouse?
Mine was posted from Germany a day or so after I ordered then here the following week
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Well I’ve put a Staytrem bridge on order and pickups. I’ve got my wiring harness, which is wired for p1, p2, p3, and series/parallel for neck and middle (instead of high pass filter)
All I need to order is a pickguard. Not sure what goes best with Purple.
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I know this is way out of character for me but tort is actually not bad with purple. I would do white or black myself though.
that’s a good look
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I’m a fan of blues on white myself, yeah.
Mint Green might work too, as it is really kind of a barely-green off-white.
Love that purple and tort.
So you are getting the Squier?
I read it as you getting the Harley Benton too/
I looked at the Guyker trem but it seems prone to breaking strings.
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I am not a tort lover. I am getting the Squier, it has been on order several weeks now. Pre-order is a roll of the dice. I pre-ordered my mustang, and it got here months early. I pre-ordered a Tele Bass, which was scheduled early next year, and in the 40 minutes it took me to derive from the store to my hotel, it shipped.
So the Bass Vi was scheduled for February, currently March; we’ll see when it gets here. I’m ready
Well will be in 10 weeks as that’s when I’ll have the staytrem
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Me either obviously, at all. But in this specific color combo I do think it works nicely.
Then I need to change the pickguard on my Rascal. There can be only one 
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Strings got here, don’t fit.
Too long.
I don’t want to move my tail piece back, so I might have to use them on a 4 string instead.
I thought from the measurements they would be all good
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Will they literally not fit in the tuners if trimmed? Too long is not necessarily bad.
They will fit as they are tapered but the thick part will wrap around the post- that is bad on flatwounds right?
I will put up a pic when I go down again after lunch
Doing some reading, might be ok, just need to be careful with the way it wraps
No idea with flats but I wouldn’t even hesitate to do this with rounds. The taper is nice but not important in most cases, and it’s fine to trim and use the string after thickened out to full diameter.
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Sounds like a plan, I decided I am going to try it and see-
I recorded a sound sample with the stock strings and I will do one with these so we can compare .
It will either succeed or we will all learn something 
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Might try a trick they use on headless basses, which is after trimming dip the end in super glue so it stays wound
I have it strung, thought I had rooted the low E but seems ok.
They need to stretch a bit tho.
I’ll post pics and a sound comparison soon.
I also had a look under the pickguard
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Right, brace yourself there is a bit here:
I got the LaBella flats today (delivered on a Sunday!) they looked very nice too.
Off with the stock strings thinking all would be well, but alas the Labellas were made for the Fender/Squier with the longer space behind the bridge.
I was wrong tho and they were too long, as you can see above much angst ensued.
I bit the bullet and put them one.
The low E needed to be trimmed a lot and I thought I had broken the core, it took a lot to tension to tune and slipped a bit at first but seems ok (I have a string from some Deep Talkin Flats I can use if it is no good.).
The three low strings all had the thick part of the string wound on the post but no more worries about snaps.
You can see from the silks how much shorter my bass is
Here are some sound samples (they are quite long) all straight to the amp, no effects and recorded from my phone in front of the amp:
Each one is playing through the pup options front to back tone full then reversed with tone wound off
TLDL:
I like the new sound, very rich, the floppiness of the low E is solved.
There is some high end zing missing but also the scratchiness is gone so all happy.
Stock rounds
Flats
Apache:
Just for completeness here is a look under the hood:
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It sounds fantastic. Nice. Sugoi.
Really cool.
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I think I learned a new word 
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oh no