LukeFRC

My guess - based on the title is that it's a Hayman 4040 .....

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1421432175' post='2661230'] Bit of Warwick for the weekend? Here is my newly acquired SSII [attachment=181206:DSC_0498.JPG] [/quote] wayhay!

[quote name='Karlos69' timestamp='1421434378' post='2661270'] I've just bought what I think will be a guitar I will keep for ever, so am thinking of selling one of my existing basses and it feels like having to finish with a girlfriend. It's wierd cos it's just wood and strings at the end of the day...... [/quote] we've all been here - it wears off after a while....

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1421433507' post='2661249'] Looks like the Retros are ready to be shipped! [/quote] would love to hear them!

exciting!

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1415307590' post='2599144'] Isn't that the power taken to power it & not the watts it produces ? [/quote] which are very much linked

? so the power supply has gone... and I guess it steps the power down to 12v does it? but that's blown... and been replaced with another one... and you want to take that out and use a 3rd one? or use batteries?

[quote name='Kev' timestamp='1420831161' post='2654067'] I daresay you won't be the last to be disappointed by a Stingray 5, particularly if your a Stingray 4 player. However, the classic series fiver is the 'real' stingray 5 and I would love to give one of those a try. Sorry if I have induced further GAS [/quote] [quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1420881478' post='2654432'] Ok, I have to step in here, I think there IS something wrong with you lol. But seriously, knowing you just offloaded a beautiful Spector rebop 5, and now you are moving on a stingray 5, is it the active growl you don't like? The rebop is a 35" scale and the 'Ray is a 35", which do you prefer?? I found the neck very playable on my us SUB, which felt the same as a U.S. ray, and my NS2000/5 doesn't feel too far from that so assume the rebop and the Ray are not too different? Tell us more, is it just GAS? Are you searching for the holy grail? Gives some reasons WHY none of these basses were for you, they are both great basses imho. Throw us a bone and maybe we can help!!! If you want an active bass, have you looked at the Fernandez Gravity deluxe? Others that spring to mind are G&L, sandberg or sadowsky they are active basses with their own distinct sound but not as growls as Spector or stingray. If it is a passive sound you seek, have you tried a U.S. fender jazz 5??? [/quote] Having seen jassbass buying and selling stuff on Facebook forums... I don't think it's possible for him to have more GAS than he does at the moment!

[quote name='gareth' timestamp='1420656925' post='2651844'] luke I think that with the rosewood board this is a 62 reissue - the 57 reissue would have a maple neck - and as such a three ply pickguard would be correct [/quote] I've a feeling I might be wrong here... but didn't the export JV come either with the single ply white or the tort, the white normally on the '57 and the tort on the '62? was there a 3 ply white option too?

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1420331336' post='2648258'] The colour combo may be one not produced outside of Japan. I've been looking at Fender mij basses for a while and there are many more colour options. The knobs are definitely wrong. Should be flat-top knurled chrome ones. [/quote] not true on both parts. These knobs were also used. Colours don't look wrong to me, only thing is the scratch plate, should be single ply, can't see if is or not. [quote name='CH161' timestamp='1420477438' post='2649771'] My understanding is that the Fender JV was for the domestic market and Squire JV was for export. Same specs as I understand it. Lots of US parts too including CTS pots and some hardware. [/quote] Partially right on the first bit, wrong on the rest. Big Fender small Squier logo - export small numbers... Big Squier logo... - export Big Fender JV - domestic *at different price points* Squier SQ - export, not more 70's influenced Squier E series - also made similar time.... All different specs! *SOME* of the earlier strata may have supposedly had Fender USA pickups in. But the rest was japanese. Willing to bet if you bought this bass and took one of the screws out it would have a metric thread the CTS pots I'm not sure about.

can I just interject here and say sorry. I'm a fussy designer - and I made a comment about a logo that isn't great in my opinion - but it's also not awful and far worse design horrors have been unleashed on us bass players... warwick up to a few years ago used comic sans as the main typeface on their amps and so on. Please don't turn this thread into a barefaced slagging one - we've had enough of them. I'm interested in Jenny's new cab, and the new designs generally - I think I've played through about 5 or 6 different barefaced models - 1 I didn't like, 1 was very impressive, 2 were brilliant but not my taste and 1 was one of the best bass cabs I've ever played through. I'ld buy one tomorrow if I had the money. Please don't start the slagging again. (I was actually thinking - what other UK based, UK build amplification/cab companies do we have? Barefaced, Purple Chilli, Matamp and [i]some [/i]ashdown stuff are all I could think of, does anyone make speakers in the UK still Celestion I guess... and volt which Glockenklang use?)

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1420390849' post='2648728'] The F is surely the same set of lines as the B and D with a little bit missing? Aesthetically it works for me, and I work in design too. My one and only gripe (incl. logo, handles, finish, sound, weight etc) is that when I stick my Midget on top of my Compact I have logos that go at right angles to each other. I'd quite like to put the one on my Midget the other way around. It doesn't really matter which way it faces when used on its own. [/quote] Meh I'm not the biggest fan.... but again I wouldn't stop me one second of owning one. Bank balance would.

there you go... and Bill actually understood the question being asked!

also its a very late one....

I think it's probably genuine, and I also think I've seen it before somewhere?