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These don't really come up often for sale. Last one I saw was from a dealer who was looking at close to £2,000. I would have thought for a private sale it would clear somewhere in the £1,700-1,800 allowing for some inflation. It really depends however on how much you want it, it's definitely a bass that you want to snap up when you come across it if it feels right. I have been keeping an eye out myself for a faded sonic blue one and they just don't seem to get sold!

Yes Magellan amps are quiet and neutral sounding if you want it Build quality is awesome too

The V4B is very nice too 😉

I have a rule though. I have to spend more time practising and playing than I do looking at gear online!

I think I paid the same back in 1993 for my beaten-up trans red maple 4h 2EQ! I got it in a store in Cardiff, if I remember right, along with a Peavy 160w combo. Honestly though, I am very much starting to feel that I want to move it on. At last.

I really f***ing wish someone had said it to me the day I joined BC 🤣

The only way I can see that any fretted/fretless combo board can work satisfactorily is to have the tops of the frets and the fretless board at the same height. If you simply remove the frets, from say the 6th fret upwards to create a fretted low end, fretless high end board, then the fretless part would have far too high an action to be useful. Therefore, the simplest way I see to create a fretted low/fretless high board is to use an already fretless neck, then use a radius jig and router to lower the board from which fret you choose, saw and install frets in that routed down section and then level and crown those new frets to be the same height as the fretless section. Bother sections should then play as normal. This should be possible to do with as many fretted or fretless sections as you wish as long as the tops of the frets and the fretless boards are all level.

Bought a neck from Will, and a bloody lovely neck at that. Easy process made even better by super-quick delivery, extremely good packaging, and strong after-sales support. Highly recommended BCer 👍

I needed to hear this.

I've played that bass. It helps that Ian has a phenomenal technique, but the tone is the best I've heard. I keep up with Overwater basses, I even went to an Overwater event they held in London a few years ago, but every bass I've played has been way too heavy for my back!

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It's a bass, sell it and move on, if only because you will feel better for doing so. That hope that our lives will somehow be better if only we had the bass/amp/pedal that's just been listed on BC, or that fear that our lives will be worse if we let go of bass/amp/pedal to which we have a sentimental attachment but never use, is best dealt with surgically and with as little deliberation as possible

She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals

I got my (trans red, maple, beaten up, 4h) Ray for £450. Mental innit? Told you you should keep it, now you know.

Has anyone got an idea what the going rate for a decent condition AVRI 63 P bass (2014) from a private seller should be?

That would work.

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Ahh! Happy Days! I had a G18 C. 100w Green Back in a home built cabinet. I gave it away to a fellow Basschatter. It sat in my den for over 30 years and was rarely used. I bought it from Tottenham Court Road, probably from Lasky's. Around about 1966/67, I carried it home by hand (in it's big box) on the underground, bus and pavement to Hornchurch. Even after all this time my arms have never regained their original length! That circular wood plate or a piece of 4 x 4 was the stabdard way to brace the loudspeaker and the rear panel. Check out the "Recommended Amp Techs" part of the forum under the "Repairs and Technical" sub-forum. Best of Luck.

You could get a Zoom MB60+ and have a larger choice of everything.

From a former South Londoner.