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stingrayPete1977

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  1. You'll only end up with a DB in the end anyway, I disagree about plywood, yes if you want to drop £3k+ that's great but I'd rather have a decent ply or part ply bass than trying to get your hands on the cheapest all solid bass for the sake of it, unless you dropped on really lucky you won't get a well made, nice sounding and good condition solid bass for £600.
  2. [quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1482491913' post='3200983'] I have this: [url="http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/LanterneRouge/media/Gordy%20Blueshift%20DoubleNeck/gordy02_zps4dzlqpiz.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/LanterneRouge/media/Gordy%20Blueshift%20DoubleNeck/gordy01_zpszuvp8til.jpg.html"][/url] Which is a Gordy Blueshift Custom, from 1985, bit more info [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/266670-twin-necks/page__view__findpost__p__2831705"]here[/url]. The band I was in at the time is on indefinite hiatus, so in a sense it's surplus to requirements now (if it was ever needed, really!) - but the fretless neck's the nicest I've played, and the bass is a genuine one-off. Or should that be "two-off"? [/quote] Have you ever considered building a body to take either neck to give a fretted or fretless neck?
  3. That's a version from before the 2007 update, the giveaway is the selector switch being at a sloped angle where the newer ones are parallel to the pickup, the battery box is also up near the lower horn when viewed from the back on the newer ones. They started off with that shape pickup cover and an Alnico pickup in 87, in 93ish they stayed with that cover but went to ceramic magnets, then the update came as I said in about 2007 which also brought in the compensated nut and the newer pickup cover, a year or so later the pickups went back to Alnico but in the same newer pickup cover, it has a sort of sloped edge rather than the 'lugs' of a Stingray4.
  4. I've got welding tools from the wife for Christmas but I've a few more things in my watch list including a big bottle of gas which can't be posted so I might see if I can collect it while I'm off. We had a new car this year so that has wiped us out, jam sandwiches for Christmas at our house
  5. I converted 3 four string Stingrays into 3 five string versions buy selling/trading them.
  6. Gedo are great, email them in english without worries, quite a few of us have them here, only one had a fingerboard that came unglued, Gedo sorted the problem swiftly iirc?. Mine is a solid top with Spiro strings and adjustable bridge fitted as upgrades from Gedo, that came in at over a thousand with postage but I don't see any reason why the totally ply versions wouldn't be a good buy.
  7. Just how old is the ageing guy at Sandberg? Maybe his sight is going
  8. They tend to come up just after you buy something else!
  9. Yes no matter how badly they cut your hair they get paid a minimum wage, tips are more of a bonus than an income!
  10. Much better than my shoe gazing
  11. It depends on budget really?
  12. I've gone from a Genz-Benz Shuttle 6.0 to a Shuttlemax 9.2 so technically thats a slight weight increase
  13. My Jazz hasn't got volume for each or a selector, it's master volume then a pickup pan knob, stacked bass/treble. I always prefer a single volume knob to fade my volume down on stage, I'm yet to meet a passive bass I like, every one I've had has ended up with a circuit stuffed inside!
  14. [quote name='blue' timestamp='1482339966' post='3199738'] Interesting Pete, I thought tips went against the grain in the UK. Blue [/quote] If you really like something it's not unheard of here, a decent waiter/ess service and we will leave a tip for example, people might give a few quid or a pack of beers etc for the milkmam,window cleaner,bin men etc etc
  15. My East circuit gives no warning at all, but I always have a spare bass at a gig and a spare battery at a practice. Everytime I've had a total failure it's been a broken wire sort of deal, active/passive being irrelevant.
  16. Unless you really need to go pre EQ too, can of worms opened
  17. We have actually had some cash tips this year from punters and from land lords.
  18. I would like to see a picture of someone playing it, even Dood would look like Suzi Quatro with it!
  19. I think they have the same problem Yamaha do, other than possibly the Attitude the model numbers could be anything to anyone other than the initiated, BBNE2 could be a £179 with a practice amp even to other bass players, I only know what one is because someone else had one, I have used a 5 string Ibanez at practice for a couple of years, I am not sure what it is ! Gibson Thunderbird, Fender Jazz, Musicman Stingray, Warwick Thumb Bass, etc etc all have a known starting point before you look into the exact model be it chinese,japanese,korean,german,US,mexican etc. An SR535 and other variations always sound more like something you'd need a motorcycle licence to use rather than a plectrum
  20. I think we would have done it at the full price somehow but we won't be taken for a ride, you've taught me well blue
  21. People have been buying Gibson and Ricky basses for years for big money, I've never played a good one, neck dive, thick globby finish in the joins and the legendary binding bleed. If some one has their heart set on something they will buy it regardless.
  22. Saturday's gig got cancelled by us due to the tiny area they wanted us in and the pay cut to play a shorter set. NYE is a private golf club party, one set straight through for 1h 45 mins, no slow songs. Why is it cool? It's more than twice the pay we normally get
  23. The reality is that after around the £400 mark the quality starts to increase in quality is very small, I've never been totally blown away by anything, just bits of wood screwed together at the end of the day. I'm surprised to hear of bad frets though, the one thing I hear all the time is how nice the post 2008 and then 2012 necks are, mine is spot on.
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