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  2. I did buy it new, but I never thought to approach NS design to be fair, I kinda need to get on with it. Having said that, it looks like dissatisfaction with the tuners on the lower models is quite common. The Gotohs should be an upgrade. I suppose I should be relieved... Had it been the E string snapping, like I thought at the time, that would have probably cost me more!🤣
  3. Re advertised with reduced price. I’ll give this a couple of days and then withdraw it again. Selling at a reduced price before I trade it in. Fender Musicmaster Bass 1971 This is the rarer first issue of the Musicmaster bass. This is the baby of the Fender range of this era and has a 30” scale. This early version has the smaller logo and model name with the distinctive hooked R. The tuners are original with the tulip shaped keys, later models had Schaller types. The neck is nice and easy to play, it has a lovely dark rosewood board and 19 frets. Truss rod works as it ought to and the action is low and comfortable. It also intonates very well for a two saddle bridge shorty. The bass had been modded years before I bought it and had been routed for a reversed Precision bass pickup rather than the original rather weedy sounding Strat pickup. I swapped the pickup for a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder as the fitted pickup was in poor condition. I also removed the ‘choke’ from the original wiring circuit as this was probably used to make the original Strat pickup sound darker. I will include the choke with the bass. The pots and Bakelite knobs are all original. The scratchplate is one I made. It’s rather rough but does the job. I have the original one but it has been modded to accommodate the P pickup and the original pickup cavity patched. I’ll include this of course. The finish is original with lots of dings, touch ups, crazing and darker patches where stickers have been removed. It has had a long life as a gigged bass. It looks great because it’s been played and loved. I’ve personally used this for all my gigs over the last year. It sounds punchy and has a surprising tonal range. It’s light at around 3.7kgs and very easy to play. I’m selling because I’m getting back to playing long scales. I don’t want trades sorry and it’s UK only. I can post at the buyer’s expense and/or arrangement. I’ve dropped the price for a limited time as I’ve got an eye on something else. This is a bargain price for a vintage Fender albeit slightly modded.
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  4. Another Pro Steels user here too. Great strings.
  5. I had it up on eBay and fb but taken it down. Decided I’m not in a rush to sell so quite happy to keep it. Someone will come along at the right time. Cheers tho for the bump!
  6. I used to play octaves with thumb and forefinger, but have taught myself to use forefinger and middle finger for speed and a more consistent tone. As each finger has its own string and muting is easily dealt with by left hand for octaves I use free strokes.
  7. Razorblade Alley - Madness
  8. Gasoline Alley - Rod Stewart
  9. Need it gone, £450 without flight case (much cheaper to post as well)…..?
  10. If it's as easy to convert those pups to neodymium as to convert jazz pups...
  11. That looks great, it's a very elegant design to my eye. One of the nicer headstocks in the boutique space imho
  12. I think my build is JB1 only because it is more “zingy” and I seem to remember headless wanted to change some stuff to make mine more. towards the higher frequencies but then I am absolutely clutching at straws between the two. I hope so because I prefer the sound of the first one as I prefer the less muddy sound. Either way for a change of capacitor and some different pickups on the price of the original bass it is a fraction of the cost of the Fender
  13. Yessss that looks sick, I love it, even if it is wildly impractical
  14. Difficult but I’ll go 2 for Flea
  15. I don't know why I'm asking as I need to save, but will you be selling the musicmaster neck?
  16. Damnation Alley - Hawkwind
  17. Scumbags
  18. A very good point there, in pubs & smaller venues with no FOH it’s only band members (and more often than not the lead gtr) to blame.
  19. Really interesting - thanks @Dan Dare!
  20. Fixed it for you. 😄
  21. I loved Hessey's - bought my one and only brand new bass there in 1979: an Ibanez Musician MC900 (because Sting had one.....) I still have loads of LP's that I bought at Probe records too, it was a great place to hang out. Only a vague memory of Curley's though. Growing up in Cambridge; the only shop for secondhand band gear was Cambridge Rock, on Newnham Rd; (Millers in the city centre did a very limited range of new gear). Run by a Jeff Lynne lookalike with a very dry sense of humour. I remember drooling over the stock of mainly 1960's Fenders, Gibsons and Rics - nothing costing more than a couple of hundred, but still way outside my pocket money budget. When I first saw an Ovation Magnum I vowed I'd have one one day, and 25 years later on I did.... All that vintage exotica, and all I actually managed to buy there was my first "proper" amp - a Carlsbro Stingray 100 head and a 4x12" cab DIY kit.
  22. Couldn’t tell you which is which but I preferred 1
  23. It's a tough one, isn't it? They really do sound very similar, even though one was built by FMIC and the other was constructed from imported bits in a bloke's living room & painted in his garden.
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