OldGit

[quote name='dangerboy' post='136550' date='Feb 8 2008, 01:57 PM']Yep, the Kramers dive. The Beans don't. The aluminium tone is definitely different to a classic wooden one.[/quote] Sorry I'm sure they are all lovely really

My Tutor has one. It's absolutely horrible to play, weighs about 500 kilos, neck dives worse than a thunderbird and sounds very average indeed (IMHO).. Sorry if you like them I'm sure he'd sell it for £900 if you asked him nicely ... He actually plays an SX Jazz and the Kramer hangs on the wall in his studio .....

[quote name='ped' post='136196' date='Feb 8 2008, 12:07 AM']Jimbo - are you mental my son?! Of course that would be brilliant but... I mean... ...Think it over and see how you feel nearer the time!! Cheers matey ped[/quote] Ped! Shuddup and sell me a book of raffle tickets!

[quote name='setekh' post='136181' date='Feb 7 2008, 11:38 PM']I'd say it's 68K yen for the bass and 14K yen for S/H[/quote] Ah! Derrr I didn't think of adding the numbers together That makes sence now. So did the 14K for S+H also include the import duty and VAT?

[quote name='Jase' post='136042' date='Feb 7 2008, 08:26 PM']All together with shipping and insurance 82,000 yen 68 for the bass and 14 for shipping/insurance. At the time the exchange was £380. Believe it or not, if I had ordered it the week or so before the rate was even lower less than £350...still all is good I had a good service, good price and a good bass. Just to clarify it was new not U Box, so cheaper again for U Box I imagine.[/quote] Sorry Jase, Can you go through that again please? 82,000 yen for the bass (£390 today) But what is the 68 and 14? Is that 68 quid for shipping and 14 quid for tax and VAT? Cheers,

[quote name='Jase' post='135939' date='Feb 7 2008, 05:49 PM']Yep, it's a right pain....The Big F has spoken!![/quote] Jase what was the final cost of yours, over and above the price of the bass? Looking through the U-box hase stirred the odd pocket of GAS ...

[quote name='Jase' post='135939' date='Feb 7 2008, 05:49 PM']Yep, it's a right pain....The Big F has spoken!![/quote] I expect the UK dealers were complaining too ..

[quote name='Jase' post='135782' date='Feb 7 2008, 02:36 PM']Yes I did, a 62 Jazz fretless vintage white( needs to be given to Dave for an epoxy job ) and Ishibashi provided a great service Just made it in time I think, about a week after it arrived people started talking about the end of non exports. Just wondering if Guitar Emporium and Far East Guitars will be affected????[/quote] FEG seems to only have used ones ... GE seem to be unaffected (according to their .. hummm, somewhat challenging website) It bugs me that corperations can do that. Like Sam Ash and other US stores not being allowed to ship to the UK

[quote name='tauzero' post='135640' date='Feb 7 2008, 12:13 PM']I bet it cost you more than that, but top marks for trying.[/quote]

[quote name='Rich' post='135616' date='Feb 7 2008, 11:51 AM']Weren't we thinking of having some t shirts made with 'I SURVIVED JON SHUKER'S WOOD STORE' on them? [/quote] ha ha that may yet happen

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='135528' date='Feb 7 2008, 09:52 AM']The fabled wood store...I've heard many a tale of it.[/quote] 'tis no fable, fellow traveller. The Siren call reaches far and wide, nay even south of the M25 ...

[quote name='Ant' post='135514' date='Feb 7 2008, 09:37 AM']when i get the first few build pictures ill start a build thread!!![/quote] April then?

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='135519' date='Feb 7 2008, 09:41 AM']He certainly does. I'm actually glad he's chosen all the materials now. At least it means when I go up there, I won't be able to change my mind QUITE as much as I probably will....[/quote] Stay out of THE WOOD STORE then

[quote name='Jase' post='135432' date='Feb 7 2008, 12:26 AM']Seems to be the case, shame because they're decent basses for the price. They had instructions from Fender Japan to stop so I heard.[/quote] Shame. Did you get yours?

[quote name='Clive Thorne' post='135427' date='Feb 7 2008, 12:20 AM']To be fair to Fender, it looks to me like the Shuker design owes more than a little to the original fender designs of 40 years or so ago!, so no one could really complain at Fender borrowing a few ideas back! Clive[/quote] And they say people don't "get" irony these days My brief to Jon was "62p bass with 5 strings please.. oh, and can it sound like the JJ Burnel one you make and have a bunch of oher features" but the 62 p was the starting point.

[quote name='SJA' post='135425' date='Feb 7 2008, 12:16 AM']the (now discontinued) Fender Deluxe precision 5 (the active 22 fret one with the bridge humbucker as well) had the P pickup halves the other way round- as on the Shuker. the Shuker way looks wrong to me, because on a 4 string P, the A string is sensed by the neck-ward half. so the most precision-esque tone comes from the 3 section on the B E and A towards the neck, and the 2 on the D and G, towards the bridge. ps. but when i pointed that out on Talkbass, P deluxe 5 owners said they hadn't noticed any tonal difference.[/quote] I noticed a tonal difference Mine's much, much better than my old Fender P4 was ..

Someone just told me Ishibashi no longer exports new CIJ's to the UK Anyone heard this?

[quote name='ped' post='114170' date='Jan 5 2008, 05:08 PM']Bacchus sent me a Happy New Year card! What a brilliant bunch they are.[/quote] Smart Marketing 101. "Be nice to your existing custome for he will return and he's a hell of a lot easier to sell to thn a new one."

Oh! Cousin Blue's looking good .. That Jon knows how to choose a bit of wood ...

[quote name='Rich' post='135227' date='Feb 6 2008, 06:31 PM']...and the lord looked upon the Wood Store, and he saw that it was good... not to mention potentially expensive...[/quote] Josh, Don't listen to him. Do not ever be tempted. Just Say No, Walk away from the workshop. DO NOT EVER go into the Shuker Wood Store, Do not call him and say "My girlfriend's going shopping in the Next factory shop on the Chesterfield Rd so I wondered if I could just pop in and say hello and have a look at The Wood Store" ...

[quote name='chris_b' post='135214' date='Feb 6 2008, 06:17 PM']The Fender 5 string Jazz didn't get good reviews so I'm not holding my breath for this one and £1200 would buy you a far better 5 string Lakland, Shuker, Sadowsky Metro etc, etc![/quote] Yup, almost .......

[quote name='wotnwhy' post='135199' date='Feb 6 2008, 05:57 PM']maby thats for the people who want it to 'relic' faster [/quote] Well I wondered about that Wasn't there some problems with Highway 1's and that? I really can't see how a few microns less coating can make the tone flow through better however I can see how it would keep Fender's production costs down .... The guy in that Video "Mr marketing, Fender and Squire basses" seems to have forgotten the virtually identical Squier from 4 years ago .. that was passive, single PUP and almost identical. I know 'cos I had to explain the differences bwtween the £180 Squier and the Shuker, other than the number of zeros in the price Thank gawd for LEDs ....

[quote name='josh3184' post='135203' date='Feb 6 2008, 06:01 PM']holy crap he's in sheffield and i never knew...[/quote] ... And lo, the clouds parted and a beam of sunlight shone upon a small well fortified workshop in South Sheffield ......

[quote name='Rich' post='135160' date='Feb 6 2008, 05:06 PM']Good call... but if it were my money, I'd have at least tried the Ibanez first.[/quote] +1 (and we both have Shukers )

[quote name='OldGit' post='134863' date='Feb 6 2008, 10:12 AM']It's the extra 100% to buy it here that annoys me[/quote] And no, Sam Ash won't ship one to Europe... i did ask I suspect Fender would get dead annoyed if they started doing that sort of thing ...