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    Added link to new pics.
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441063659' post='2855850'] Because it's a one-piece maple neck with a skunk stripe? My Ash/Maple 76P is just the same. [/quote] Thanks for trying to explain, but I'm still baffled... Okay, manufacture involves machining the TR channel into the neck from behind, then gluing the skunk stripe in over the channel. That bit I get. But why drill through at the nut? I'm not seeing it.
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    [quote name='lee4' timestamp='1441052139' post='2855748'] How about taking a sander to those sharp body edges!!?? [/quote] And deepening the chamfer under your right forearm while you're at it.
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    [quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1441061565' post='2855839'] He's playing with Darrel Higham but I've had no luck finding where and when sorry. [/quote] Thanks for trying, appreciated.
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441061322' post='2855837'] Pawn Hearts - Van Der Graaf Generator. [/quote] True!
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    I've not seen one of these before. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-Super-Bass-800-Japan-/221868548244?hash=item33a8656094 I don't know what it ought to look like, so I've no clue if it's even what it claims to be. TBH I'm a bit suspicious of the trussrod arrangement - access at the heel, but a plug at the nut?! Why would anyone do that?
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    25 minutes
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    [quote name='Grassie' timestamp='1441046335' post='2855646'] ... (www.bonnevillemusic.bandcamp.com ... [/quote] Well, I enjoyed it
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    Ended, £311. Looks like a bargain.
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    [quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1441022699' post='2855370'] The white/tort/RW Super P plays and sounds as good as it looks. David's off on tour soon so i wonder if the sales related. Fantastic opportunity to grab a quality bit of kit. [/quote] Do you know where he's playing?
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    [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1441015159' post='2855251'] Deps are [i]always [/i]paid. Regardless of your desire or otherwise to be a permanent member of this band, if you allow this precedent then you will be seen as an easy touch and will be asked to play a lot more freebies, perhaps to the point of not being paid where previously you would have been. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot bass playing pole. Whatever that is. [/quote] About 110" scale, I reckon. Now I have GAS And, what he said: Do it now and you're stuck with it.
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    [quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1441010211' post='2855208'] They represent great value and with £50 be daft not to. [/quote] Indeed.
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    Welcome A colleague tells me that instruments are hard to get/expensive in Brazil (his wife is Brazilian). Would it be cost-effective (and legal!) to buy something here, take it home and sell it?
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    Can't afford one myself, but that doesn't mean you lovely people can't [url="http://www.retrovibe.co.uk/"]http://www.retrovibe.co.uk/[/url] (Disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been, etc.etc.)
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    [quote name='BassBunny' timestamp='1416847408' post='2614227'] There is a UK company that sell the same thing, Rothko and Frost [url="http://www.rothkoandfrost.com/ip-luminous-glow-in-the-dark-side-fret-marker-dot-inlay-rod/"]http://www.rothkoand...-dot-inlay-rod/[/url] I have used these and also Lumnlay and can't tell the difference. If you want genuine Luminlay, don't worry about ordering, they are spot on. [/quote] R+F seems to have moved the page; this seems to be the new page: http://www.rothkoandfrost.com/glow-in-the-dark-luminescent-inlay-dots-pack-of-12/
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    I have no idea about these, myself, but this may be interesting to someone. It comes with a hard case. Poor pictures may keep the price low? [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-guitar-and-case-spare-s-or-reoair-/181851985360?hash=item2a573915d0"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item2a573915d0[/url]
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    [quote name='roman_sub' timestamp='1440942040' post='2854863'] only £10 shipping though - surely actual shipping costs would be more?! [/quote] This is a problem if the seller refuses to cover the extra cost, which would presumably be a big no-no for eBay.
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    Where have all the flowers gone?
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    I wonder what went wrong with our love I wonder why she ran away And I wonder where she will stay.
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    Some interest, but still here.
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    Reduced to £75 posted. I nabbed this off eBay because I was curious about the controls and fancied a project, but I haven't got time to do anything with it and I need the space. Maverick was a UK-based company, now folded. This is a four-string, metallic black with matching headstock; TRC and a couple of screws missing. The trussrod turns smoothly. It needs rewiring; when I first had it the pups worked but one of the tone controls did nothing. I took the electrics cover plate off and looked at the roller pot assembly; they are mounted on a frame which can be removed - it looks to me as if they are normal pots mounted sideways. Now it makes almost no noise, so I suspect I've stretched a wire somewhere. The back of the neck has a deep scratch running to the scarf joint. I am pretty sure it is a scratch, not a crack. I've tried to photograph it. The neck has its share of minor dents. The bass has dents and scars; it ought to be refinished, probably. Pics here: [url="http://s1295.photobucket.com/user/alyctes/media/Maverick/IMG_0469_zpshqf1tr4r.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0"]http://s1295.photobu...html?sort=3&o=0[/url]
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    I suppose I could experiment with defretting it...
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    Interesting Paint-wise, I'm not all that keen on white, generally, but I love the white and pale grey that Yamaha do on the RBX4A2. That should work really well on the faceted body, IMO.
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    Useful, thanks for posting
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    It's an Ibanez SRX of some sort. Bound body, four knobs in a row. (I have an SRX430, out on loan to a friend.) Which specific model, I don't know; I'd guess you can't tell without looking at it up close.
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