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What A Load Of Bollocks - Oblime Shame

I've had a quite a few custom builds over the years, and I've learnt to take prospective delivery dates with a pinch of salt. To still be waiting two years after being told it's nearly ready (if I have understood correctly) is a bit much, though. By coincidence, I was looking at the JayDee website last night for the first time in ages and it says the current wait time is sixteen months months. If it was actually sixteen months or thereabouts I'd place an order right away. However, after reading what Kevin has gone through though and other people's travails, I can do without that kind of stress in my life. There's plenty of other nice basses to buy that might arrive before my family have put me in a care home and spent my savings on scratch cards and extra strong cider. My contact with Jaydee back in the old days was always with John himself, and he was a lovely man who took great pride in his work. The bass he made for me was a flawless masterpiece and I should never have sold it. I can't understand why Jaydee would tell someone the bass is nearly finished when It isn't. They're just making problems for themselves and risking getting doorstepped by Esther Rantzen or whoever is the modern equivalent. A few weeks or months delay, okay, things can happen, but years? It's hard to believe that someone making a guitar can't differentiate between those timeframes for completing the job.

Would be my recommendation too

What about a razor wire saw?

EarlPilanz on eBay is your guy👌 great value and incredibly easy person to work with

@binky_bass will pass on, thankyou

shadduppa ya face - Joe Dolce

At the risk of upsetting Basschat, Hefty 😁

Cracking share right there! Thanks!

Sean bought a Boss BC1 X Compressor pedal from me earlier this week and behaved in an exemplary fashion. His payment was swift and his comms excellent. Highly recommended Basschatter. Thank you Sean,

The TE Elf is also a good choice into a decent 4ohm cab As a rig for £600 it’s possible

You’re welcome Sean. Thanks to you too.

Weighty?

More pics... Shape oversize cut prior to routing...

Not a specific tone, as the Electric Bass was a natural progression from classical Cello & Double Bass, but the early playing tone I really latched onto was John 'Rhino' Edwards' Status-Graphite tone from Status Quo's "Ain't Complaining" album. Later, it was Mark King's glassy tone from his early KingBasses with Trace Elliott rig. Much later, I really got into the richly scooped Jazz Bass sound, from such players as Jaco Pastorius, Will Lee & Marcus Miller.

Lovely stuff. What a band. And Martha, as well as being a great singer, was a bit gorgeous, wasn't she?

Ended up with the above after looking at and listening to several practice amps. For a small combo it has a lot of bass. It is actually almost a mini PA system and reminds me very much of my old Ashdown acoustic amp, but with less controls. Bluetooth music sounds okay from my iPhone, almost good actually. To get a decent snappy crisp bass tone with plenty of presence and definition and any kind of decent jazz bass growl I still need to use my valve preamp, but it sounds better than my small recording guitar cab which is what I was using. Although, one of the reviews I saw on facetube, it had a lovely growly tone with just a passive jazz bass with the tone control wide open, so it might just be my Sire bass has less oomph. Nice quality and solid construction. No nasty vibration or rattles even at full volume. Think I will be getting one of the Ashdown new British made 100 watt single 10 combos. They have valve crunch built in to the preamp. Whenever I make a purchase of a significant bit of gear i never get it right first time, but then the grass is always greener………

@knicknack [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Get Mark to blanket email the above executive contacts within Parcelforce. I had a similar issues some years ago (bass of higher value as it goes). After a good number of emails back and forth with the above contacts (firm but diplomatic from my side) they eventually offered a 'goodwill' gesture that covered the costs of the lost instrument. They didn't admit any guilt, but their 'goodwill' gesture covered my losses. Worth a go, so long as you approach them with a firm, respectful and diplomatic email and tone of voice, often they do capitulate. Hope this gets resolved. Russ.