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Ouch.

Ha ha, you've singlehandedly driven up the market price of Sunn Mustangs 😁. I check in on it earlier today and it was £230 I think. Then when I looked near the end and saw it at the top end of the £300s I thought folks were getting carried away, then it ends at over £400!😲 Madness I tell ya! Madness 😁

In 1987 I went to buy a Fender Precision. It would have been £325 but they didn’t have any in stock. A pint back then was about 65p so that was the equivalent of 500 pints. A pint now is around a fiver and a US Fender Precision is £1800 - equivalent of 360 pints. So either Precisions or pints have got cheaper!

Well, the bill came out to more than I paid for the bass… in fact it’s more than I’ve ever paid for any instrument… so a new one is not on the card for a while! Now to take it seriously again… picking it up tomorrow hopefully.

Who believes, that does. You believe - you do, why not others do what they believe ?

I recall getting the first Fullerton reissue strats & JVs in the shop I worked in as a 14 year old. We had the JVs up for £199 & (I think) the Fullertons were about £400. Both were impossible dreams for me at the time.

My advice from the deleted thread still stands: get the right neck on the right body.

How exactly does that work? If you eat a banana, then that will register as alcohol in your system.

I believe that it's four hours - one hour to get into your bloodstream and then three hours to metabolise (for a normal pint of lager, assuming that you haven't got a cold / headache or whatever else effects the giant chemistry set that makes up your body). I've always been careful with drinking when driving and these days I can't be bothered with worrying about a single pint! I will occasionally have a swift half at the end of the night if I'm thirsty (but obviously not in Scotland)...

Let’s just help the fella out… I’ve emailed, you can message me back and I’ll do what I can to help you. If you want a bureaucracy free sale then you can call up BassBros or if it’s vintage stuff, then try Andy Baxter.

With all of my basses I find that I have to set the pickup heights to the point where the low G doesn’t boom then adjust accordingly so the other strings match in volume. I never get boom on any of the other notes/strings. This has been the same across Precisions, Jazzes, Mustangs and Stingrays and with many different amps & cabs.

Very good decision. I do it too.😉

There could be various reasons. Room could resonate on G - I once played several times in a room which reverberated horribly on A - as many songs were in A this was very problematic. I would try playing G at fret 5 D string - also is it possible you have the bass boosted on the bass or amp (I find the pre sets on Fender Rumbles can be problematic - in fact I’ve only used them in jam sessions - and found they can be very scooped (bass and treble boosted, mids cut). This could affect this. The G may sound louder dependent on what other band members are doing at that point (eg low notes on a keyboard, low bar chord on guitar; even the EQ ing of those instruments could affect this). It may be worth you trying the Stingray with the amp and soloed - play notes up the E or A strings and see if they become boomier the higher you go - if so it’s possible the pick up is set too high - check against factory settings.

I’m maybe looking at going with Retrovibe for my next 32”. Most of their basses are available in 32” scale and they do some really great looking basses.

Don't risk it up here with zero tolerance. Any alcohol showing and you are done. Dave

This is covered in the forum rules: So the advice is to check sites like reverb, ebay, and basschat for similar current/previous listings. E.g. https://reverb.com/uk/item/81547069-squier-matt-freeman-signature-precision-bass-2012-2015-vintage-white https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/461107-sold-squier-matt-freeman-precision-bass-vintage-white/ One thing to bear in mind is that the asking price seen in adverts isn't necessarily the final sale price, as the seller might have accepted an offer.

In 1973 a brand new Fender Precision in natural ash with a maple board was £252 (I know - I lusted over it!!!). It was more than a quarter of my annual salary. If I was now on 40 hrs a week (under 21 yrs old) at minimum wage (£8-60 per hour), I would be earning £16,512 per annum - so on that basis an 18 yr old me could afford a £4,100 bass guitar - thus team built Fender CS (or the far superior Musicman, which would be even less). Bah - the youngsters of today don’t know they’re born lol!!! And before a series of excruciatingly stupid political decisions, following which the exchange rate crashed (thanks Nigel et al) you’d have got these basses for an even smaller proportion of your salary (although the Musicman would have not been as good as offered these days - they’ve upped their product in line with price increases - the Fender’s still the same, just pricier). And please don’t use those CPI calculators - as everyone (should) know, they only work on certain average products and most certainly not luxury goods (high quality musical instruments fit into that category). Just try putting the price at say 1996 of a two bedroomed terraced house in the south and see what the calculator claims it’s worth, based on inflation and then compare with reality…….. in the immortal words of Fleetwood Mac “you might not get the answer that you wanted to” 😀 (Post script - CPI doesn’t include housing costs I think - do the same with RPI - similar outcome I think!!)

Hi Cygnus x-1. Can't give any advice on value or where to advertise etc. I would say though that only sell if you really need to. I was diagnosed with the big C 7 years ago, when I searched the internet, don't do it, the prognosis for my condition was 2 yrs. I go every 3 months for consultations, and have just moved from 6 monthly to annual PET scans. Every day I play my basses before I go downstairs after getting up. It is a great relief. I have subscribed to a couple of online teachers and am following their courses.

You’re definitely over-thinking it.