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Selling this lovely Bitmap in great shape with original box - it's basically mint apart of velcro. These received significant software update last year with additional clipping modes etc. Red Panda has also very convenient web editor for presets. Happy to trade (with price adjustments) for interesting dirt pedals. Bitmap occupies my "loose spot" for additional dirt in pedalboard and I'm just happy to experiment. Basic overdrive I'm covering with Capo. The ones I would love to try are EAE, Damnation Audio, Broughton, Bearfoot, Hiero etc. Would've thrown 3leaf in but what are the chances-
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We Gouda Get Out Of This Place - The Animals
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Lightweight 115 cab; originally part of a two-piece combo, but without the amp now. It’s not in pristine condition, so it was excellent for my pub band (now folded). 17kg - you can carry it with one hand. 500w @ 4ohms. Tilts back. 15” neodymium speaker. Always-on tweeter. Mainland UK delivery £20-
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Will be interesting to see if it does get resurrected. I must confess that every time it’s surfaced I have winced but wondered what I would do if I was any good with woodworking tools (which I absolutely am not). I’d be tempted to cut off the sides leaving a wide central rectangular core with the neck and pickup cavities. Then get some wings of a contrasting wood added - either something pale like a figured sycamore or dark like wenge or cocobolo. Make a kinda thru-neck plus wings kinda look. Wonder if anyone will eventually manage to make something of it.
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The decal is correct: it's the first thing I look at, @GuyR.
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Apart from the neck plate, mix&match screws, strap buttons, it looks right, as far as I can tell without looking up the correct decal type. Lovely looking bass!! That level of wear suggests it plays as well as it looks.
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Still available, possible trades with cash either way for a small form factor reverb pedal. Hit me up with what you’ve got. -
Ditto.... I just keep looking at this and remembering what I was like drooling over this exact model 25yrs ago. It's simply stunning (and it's practically being given away at that price). -
Cheese electric - Oasis
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Double bass rebuild - not for the faint of heart!
Hellzero replied to The Guitar Weasel's topic in EUB and Double Bass
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@JazzyJ as your bass is an L series model, you could ask these people to make you a more accurate neck plate bearing an L84239, for example, which would be an August 1965 serial number. Don't ever buy an "original" pre-CBS Fender neck plate as most of them are fake. https://axetremecreations.com/product/custom-serial-number-stamped-stratocaster-telecaster-bass-neckplate-screws/
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they had to wait till you were born, and news got to California before they started making it in your honour. Once the lacquer had cured they made sure they used the brand new shipment of pots for it...
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I reckon nobody would look askance at a neatly done access hatch on a removable neck bass. Some very well-respected luthiers do them, for example; https://www.talkbass.com/threads/nz-non-standard-cleveland-removeable-neck-and-sound-post-hatch.562329/ - Today
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5-6" past the tuning peg, 90 degree kink, snip the string with around half an inch for the capstan. Plenty of winds to keep the string low and seated properly.
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So close, but yet so far.
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I was born on the 20th... I was talking about the pots codes, not the 5 meaning Precision Bass, while 7 means Jazz Bass. 😉 The pots codes are saying 23rd to 29th of August 1965.
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Thanks for the heads up but I'm already well-stocked on the TK-421 front. It's a lovely pedal though so I'm sure someone will get joy from it! -
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I think the 5 refers to Precision bass rather than a day.
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Mouse of the Rising Sun - The Animals
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heat crazed vole - Gypsy's Kiss
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And it's the closest to my birthday Fender bass I've seen: day, month and year. Amazing.
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I cut mine at 12cm for D & G 11.5cm for A 11 for E
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The neck plate serial number is weird, but as it was Leo's philosophy to use everything remaining, it could be right and it's never been a reliable way to date a Fender. The black grounding wires going from the pots to the jack are not original as there were none back in the days. Apart from these points, I can't see any other "flaws". Everything is saying 1965, even the maxed in truss rod nut. A photo with one tuner removed should show some divot cups at the back of the headstock to permit flush mounting of the machine heads.
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Yes, what he said 🙂
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I may be wrong, but isn’t the amount of silk showing at the tuner not completely dependent on the length of string from bridge (or ferrule if through body) to the tuner? Having more string wound round the tuner will make no difference to that - no?
