dougie

Ive done 6 deals here between buying/selling/swapping......all went smooth and everyone ive dealt with has been top drawer,to such a degree that i if im looking i now post here before going near ebay,no one here wants a bad rep or look a prick and its pleasing coming in from work etc to get pm`s from you guys saying cheers,ebay on the other hand isnt as personal and i for one have been bent over n rodgered twice there.....for every bad experience here there will be 1000s good ones,it must have been frustating though for the OP to do all the leg work he did to draw a blank though.

[quote name='Toastie1' post='1187764' date='Apr 4 2011, 02:05 PM']I recently bought a Schecter Diamond Series 4 string. It's lovely and plays fab. I sold a 1976 USA Precision on the strenght of it ![/quote] Love Schecters,bought this for £50 needing rewired,couldnt identify the year or exact model(neither could anyone on the Schecter forums)found similar bodies but none with the fender shaped headstock

Guitar apart i needed to have a 2nd glance,thought id spotted a duff stain on his bed cover,turned out it was my f***in monitor(disclaimer.......white mark,not a duff stain)

On this subject,ive a spare jap J pup (thanks Dan) im thinking of sticking on my P copy,it already has MIJ P bass pups fitted,not quite as far as the neck but would fitting the J pup maybe 2" in front of them be ok?

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1186893' date='Apr 3 2011, 05:44 PM']In the Ocean?[/quote] Hey,the fact i bought it to begin with should have shown you i was retarded without waiting for a howler of a typo......as i stated in another thread,even thick guys are entitled to play bass. ANYWAY THANKS TO ALL FOR THE PM`S.....ITS GONE TO "BOO",THE FIRST GUY TO CONTACT ME.

Jon your knowledge on this stuff never ceases to amaze me ,you are indeed the Richard Attenbourgh of the bass guitar...this is where i regret leaving it til 45 to get into it,calculated i`ll be at least 50 before confident enough to gig and at the current rate will have bought 1323 cheap bass copies by the same time.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='1186809' date='Apr 3 2011, 04:30 PM']Doing a setup and moving on is cool, entry level basses with a good set up are really good for people starting out. I try and offer free/cheap setups to people starting out, but kind of hard to do without people 'making the fun'.[/quote] At this moment Fox im really hoping that isnt you...?,if it is can someone please help me remove my foot from my mouth ,not being malicious m8 just a few of us being childish,hey beats the sh*t out of us sniping at each other!

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1186662' date='Apr 3 2011, 12:48 PM']It looks really cool.[/quote] thats what i thought prior to buying it,in real life its cheapo moulded plastic,moulded exactly to take the coolcat pedals,no amount of altering is gonna make it take other pedals,when its closed in case mode it looks like some doughnut punchers handbag....totally awful bit of kit....and bear in mind im not exactly fussy as most my gear is either budget sh*t or prehistoric

This guy gets around.....

He looks like hes just nicked it from some geezers back seat. "i`ll have to sell this one cheap its got two f***ing strings less than the last one i nicked"

As title says,Danelectro pedal case/board.bought it on ebay a couple months ago to discover it is moulded pacifically for Danelectro Coolcat and some other of their range. trid re-flogging it,turns out its about as desirable as genital warts,although its easier to get rid of genital warts it seems,so its free to anyone with a sense of humor and doesnt mind their band members laughing about them in secret.free.nixxy,gratis etc,dont get hurt in the stampede for it....

Won this thing on Ebay for a total of £40 includind carriage,Its called a Keiper Resolute or something like that,what surprised me about it being a cheapo and costing me less than a night on the piss is its solid wood,ok the grains as rough as a badgers arse but body etc looks deceivingly good quality,it weighs half a kilo more than my P bass,it plays/sounds better than i thought it would,only thing i dislike is the neck width,despite being the same as the P copy 63mm at the body and only 3mm wider at the nut feels far chunkier,rest of the hardware seems ok quality,problem is ive googled and theres very little about these on the net but its certainly the best 40 quid ive layed out on a complette playable bass.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1183767' date='Mar 31 2011, 07:39 PM']I've got 4 basses listed on ebay at present and I've offered free 'basic' delivery on all of them. Now though I confess I'd not be happy to send an expensive bass without insurance, I'd decided that I'd leave the issue of insurance up to the buyer and they could add that to whatever level they like. This seemed about the fairest way to be sure I didn't have accusations of inflating delivery costs and it also made it appealing for prospective buyers. However... I've had a message that I am contravening eBay rules/T&C by trying to bypass ebay fees and my listings may be terminated if I don't either include a delivery fee OR offer free delivery but remove the request that buyers pay insurance! Now how the hell they come to that conclusion I have no idea but I'm at the point where I'm tempted to say stick it and close my account. Tw4ts! [/quote] same here,closing both ebay and PP accounts after being bumped by the c*** in Romania who got away with paying me 60 quid,from now on its gumtree or here for my bass stuff.

[quote name='plankspanker' post='1182851' date='Mar 30 2011, 11:08 PM']No, it's 16 ohms now. It's just a Peavey 2x10 175W and 4 ohms because the two 8 ohm drivers were wired in parallel. Now, after two minutes with a soldering iron they are in series, 8+8 = 16. The best part is that I bought this cab for only about £40 as it had no output but was cosmetically really good. It turned out to be a faulty crossover - I don't use crossovers or horns anyway - so out they came and voila a really punchy, clean-sounding cab that sounds great on the A channel of the amp or if I put it in the B channel along with the 1x15. Incidentally, I also bought the 1x15 (Ashdown ABM) for a knockdown price (you might've guessed by now I'm a skinflint) coz the original Blueline driver had seized solid. I bought a new Eminence 400W driver (I think about £70) and it is a better cab now than when it was built. Two good cabs for an outlay of only about £160 - can't be bad![/quote] Nice end result i agree,good to hear a happy ending:)

"and a 2x10 (175W) that was originally 4 ohms but I re-wired the drivers in series so now it's 16" am i misreading this?,shouldnt it be 8 ohms?

In the 80s i done stage crew at the Scottish ex cen,after every gig had that annoying wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo noise in the back of my head for a good few hrs,can still hear ok,i think....

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1177246' date='Mar 26 2011, 03:11 PM']I have [i]all[/i] his details, Mobile, Landline and postal address so he may be getting a few surprises Jose [/quote] pass me his numbers,i work nightshift and will call him at 1,3,5 am and sing to him

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='1177775' date='Mar 26 2011, 11:29 PM']Good Lord, imagine the shame of buying a bass from someone with poor spelling. [/quote] wiv poor spelling u mean....innit?

each to their own i suppose,never understood the roadworn concept tho,you wouldnt buy a new car and pay for designer rust and a pikey to blag yer cd player....

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1176457' date='Mar 25 2011, 07:58 PM']Dougie : As a finishing touch I'd darken up that very brown fingerboard to make it fit in with your colour scheme - it'll show of those strings better too. You might be able to do it with multiple applications of oil or conditioning wipes but a safer bet that you can get it right first time would be to stain it.[/quote] bastard!!!!,now you`ve said that i cant get the idea out my head!!,looking at the staining thing now.only thing ive stained was my Dennis the Menace duvet.......aged 11

useless ifo,stems from the doles old name"the beurau of employment".....i know that berau is misspelled but tired n last thing i can be arsed looking at is some smartarse spell check.

Obviously a liar too,his grammar suggests he`s never played it and stole the f***er from someones Mondeo.