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Except nobody told this person it was a genuine, original vintage bass. When I bought my 1970 Jazz and found out it needed a refret, the elcetronics were trash and it needed a few hundred euros of repairs, now thát was a moment where I was upset.

Honestly, I can’t believe nobody else is as upset as me that a bass player has potentially been sold a dud here. To me it’s all part of the murky, messy world of vintage basses. Off to play some now rather than bang on about it.

voting is now being served , steak a claim while you can , well done

A440 tuning fork for at home, keyboard at band practice/gigs. I still have one. I can reach it from where I'm sitting. I tap it and listen to it from time to time.

We have some more mooosic for you After an outright winner was declared for January, @upside downer was over the moon with having the honour of choosing our February theme. Its not BS to say I chuckled somewhat when I opened the message By way of an introduction upside downer moooosed... "A farmer paints stripes on her cow to increase its visibility at night and prevent car accidents if it wanders onto the road during blackouts in World War II. I wonder if Lee Marvin ever starred in a film called 'Paint Your Cow'? " A fantastic picture that brought some great variety, have a listen and vote for your favourite 3 pieces of Moooosic 1 @Al Nico Those stripy outfits make the poor cows hips look big? 2 @Baloney Balderdash How to paint a holy zebra cow : 3 @Leonard Smalls Inspired by the pic of a majestic Zebra, I thought we needed some dub to celebrate the hole * of the plains Zebra... * edited to say my song isn't about Zebra's holes, but homes! 4 @Jean-Luc Pickguard I had not intended to paint a cow that morning. The plan was to paint a fence. 5 Lurksalot its the Beef 52's 6 @AndyTravis think the breakdown in the middle represents the painting part, the higher paced ending, just the freedom of the newly painted cow… https://on.soundcloud.com/dodnjMxBAi7P8xpfqu the link is to soundcloud , we couldn't get it to embed this time! 7 @MoonBassAlpha Something a little jazzy for a change, inspired by BlueNote Organ jazz, a bit of Wes Montgomery and possibly Pink Floyd and Pat Metheny for good measure. 8 @upside downer Kapow! Cow! Now! Er... A clomping, stomping romp that takes its title from a line in Douglas Adams' superb Hitchhikers books and is in no way a comment on Mrs UD's driving, oh no. It's about my Dad's old Volvo. Most excellent tuneage but a choice needs to be made have a pick of 3 of them voting will end at midnight on 28th of the month good luck

Not if you told me upfront that it was made of parts.

Try the MXR synth pedal first before investing. It's a digital tracking pedal and a lot of the sounds only work with precise playing. For instance the Chameleon sound works with a very clean technique and so long as you don't play faster than the song tempo. The sub/octave don't seem to suffer from this and track well without glitching. Unlike an analogue pedal there is a learning curve to playing this one.

Are really talking about vintage prices at £1.6k? It was advertised as a bitsa made of Fender parts, all of which have been modded / refinished. It appears that the provenance of some of the bits is a bit unclear, but if it kinda look like 70s Fender parts to my un-rained eye. At worse, he may have paid £300 or so too much, but if it plays well enough and is gigable, then that's not the end of the world. It would be a different story if he had paid £3k for it!

A good teacher will cover hand technique, tuning, basic shapes. Your short scale will make this much easier

Ah, Dennis Fano! Now I can see his Novo designs in this bass.

Can’t beat a little innuendo and who doesn’t love a little Nigella.

Misty -various artists-

Yes, we'll have to disagree 👍

There's a Scott Devine video you should be able to hunt down on YouTube where he talks about tapewounds on a P bass. It's a few years old now but I did it myself after hearing that and was very pleasantly surprised with the result.

Again, if I’d have stuck an old neck on the precision body I sold could I charge £1600 for it? It’s literally the same principle. The bass may play wonderfully well, but its value evaporates if it’s not a vintage item. Put it another way, if I sold you a 70s bass that turned out to be made of parts. Would you message me back and ask me what I had done, or would you shrug your shoulders and chalk it up to experience? Finally, the buyer is obviously concerned about this. He’s spent £1600 and could have been ripped off, so as someone who is on the board of Citizens Advice I’m professionally offended too!

Thanks Dad3353 Nothing near me (St Helens / Widnes), I’ll go to Liverpool if I can’t find anything nearer. There’s a music school nearby that I will contact this week.

Really? Sale price is not much more than the retail cost of some recent MIM Sig models (DM is £1499), I buy stuff that plays well and sounds good, which is what the buyer appears to have done?

There are far more expert people than me on this forum, @Andyjr1515 of course being one of them, but my experience with a mid-70's Fender neck that I bought following a period in which it had been off the bass (and some recent stresses with a relatively recent Warmoth neck) suggests keeping it at tension is a good strategy, wood is not as consistent and stable a material as we'd like it to be, so reducing the risks is a good shout 👍

Fair point.