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Yep, a good sense of smell is a useful trait when inspecting a pre-CBS, especially if it's in acase, I've yet to play one that didn't have something of the whiff of 60 years of sweat, alcohol, nicotine, and no doubt a few other molecules......

even though I lurk in this thread - as lets face it vintage instruments look great sometimes - I'm really glad you, and a few others warned me away from the whole minefield when I was thinking of getting a P bass. The fact the refinished £4k '64 I was looking at popped up with another seller 6 months later as all original £17k says a lot...

Interested in that too as I am thinking of making a case for my superlong sei

Our drummer has an LCD monitor in his kick drum. It can play a series of different still images and video clips that are stored on USB drives. It doesn't sync with the music. It gets lots of comments. I was looking for a photo of it but that kind of defeats the point to demonstrate it's a video screen!

And by the same token, having the knowledge of where they should be it is quite simple to recreate them in the right place, and as the art of doing so takes a £60 body to a £3000 body, quite an incentive to do so. Specially with the raretly of pre-cbs fenders, I am sure by now we are down to only about 3 times what they made!

Indeed... Very interesting photo proving that moding Fender instruments has always been a fact and that you have to be very careful when buying this kind of vintage stuff.

There was a time when Mackie 450's were the go to PA tops. People still talk lovingly about the 'made in Italy ones. I think the newer ones are still decent speakers but for some reason Mackie became unfashionable. New I think you can do better for the money but a pair of used Mackie's are still a good choice. Even the Mackie Thumps which used to not sound so good have been considerably improved in the latest models. I've never understood how there can be 'fashion' in PA or even bass speakers, but then my wife will tell you I have no sense of fashion in anything

Lovely basses and HUGE pups! Enjoy the new toy, they're really underrated and a joy to play/hear.

And if every splinter that came from the cross was collected, it would be bigger than the Amazon rain forest. Strange how some religions venerate this sort of thing. Mind you I have circa 1.5M old cigarette and trade cards my dad and I collected over 25 years, so I'm the last person who can criticise this sort of thing. In my defence, I do not think they have magical or mystical powers though...

It's also had a really nasty looking truss rod job as well.

The more I look at BD's description..... 1962 Fender Precision Bass for sale, this bass plays beautifully but is made up of a few different parts. Replacement alder body, originally had a bridge pickup too (filled and refinished in Sherwood Green) 1962 Fender neck, had an ebony fretless fingerboard fitted at some point, but now wears a rosewood fingerboard, there is evidence of the fretless side dots on the neck now. Non original pots, non original pickguard. The more I wonder how they can possibly be asking £4.5k. 1. Replacement alder body, I assume if it was vintage Fender they'd say so, in which case we're talking a few hundred quid max 2. Had an ebony fretless fingerboard fitted is only relevant if some of that fingerboard is still in place underneath (I assume) the reosewood, that renders the neck value very low also. 3. Nor original pots and pickguard, again a few quid. It's odd that they don't make any mention of PUP originality which would be a factor, as well as tuners. But even if everything other than 1-3 were original, am I being too harsh in suggesting that it's a £1500 instrument tops, and that's in part because it looks bloody lovely?

I went inter-railing twenty odd years ago and one of our favourite things to do in Eastern Europe was to learn about the local saints and martyrs, and figure out what relics they had at the church (and hopefully get to see them). It wasn't a debauched trip, but that's the life I lead.

What does that monster weigh? Is it on wheels and motorised?

Yakkety Yak Don't Talk Back - The Coasters

Out of curiosity what are the expected marks in a pickup cavity for a 60’s Fender?

yes, it's also possible to control multiple parameters simultaneously - e.g. I have an overdrive patch where the expression pedal controls the amount of overdrive, blend, eq settings and volume all in one sweep. Dead easy to set up too.

They vary, often stickier vinyl, or the same as the front - some are grippier. I have another two that aren't shown in that picture, one is pretty sticky

Interesting picture from 1963. Appears to show a bass with a Precision body but with an early Precision style neck - but dark fingerboard (guy standing next to Ringo).

My updated fretless pedalboard. 1. TC Electronic Tuner 2. Boss OC5 Octave 3. Harley Benton Custom Line Chorus 4. Walrus Audio Slo Reverb 5. Mooer Ambient A7 Reverb 6. Sonicake Boost 7. Ampeg Optical Compressor 8. Sansamp BDDI V2 Preamp Super happy with this and it sounds amazing. The only thing I would like to try for a possible change is replace the two reverb pedals with a Strymon Cloudburst. I'm happy with these two reverbs but the Cloudbust has a few features I would like to try out and still does what my current reverb pedals do.

Why can't you?