LukeFRC

[quote name='heminder' timestamp='1341672540' post='1722586'] surely you can just wire the pickups directly to the output jack and have a totally passive bass in the meantime? at least that way it will still be fully functional while you hunt down a commercially made preamp for it. [/quote] tis what i've done. I just feel a bit silly playing in front of people with a bass with holes in the front!

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1341678388' post='1722695'] Depends if someone offered to buy off site. Could get well stung. [/quote] so many things wrong with that you think someone would have be be a bit daft to get stung by that!

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1341662864' post='1722412'] This thread has made me pull my finger out and put the electronics back in my cheap Dean Edge. I need a bass to leave down the rehearsal room, this on is the cheapest one I own so it's my project bass. But it's been unplayable for 2 years! [/quote] need to be simarly inspired. I think really I want new electronics in mine, but don't know what. Almost tempted to design and build my own preamp!

[quote name='cloudburst' timestamp='1341664332' post='1722434'] Sounds like some irony there. I'd love to hear the story! :-) CB [/quote] not really my story to tell, and I don't have any real reason to do down someone's business do I? When I lived in glasgow my money went to guitar guitar. that's all I'm saying.

[quote name='chrismuzz' timestamp='1341658074' post='1722330'] This time last year big and heavy amps/cabs seemed very uncool but they're making a massive comeback! [/quote] are they? is that as much to do with the chinese monopoly on neyodinium (or whatever it's called) as anything else?

though of the day: At christmas I got the pups, thought about it a bit and stuck them in with the glock preamp. didn't like the glock, took it out and left it empty saved up for acg saved up enough and then spent it on engagement ring wired the p pickup to jack so I could play at home with it. saved up again though maybe just use the original 2 band saved up enough blew it all on not realising that I had run out of free mins when calling fiancee realised today that my main bass has been out of action for 6 months! made me sad. really I want to stick a good preamp in there, unsure what though, or what would be good. acg is tempting- but not sure I actually would like it in practice. selectable freq on a normal 2/3 band would be nice, either sweepable or some kinda dip switch thing- or uber flexible like the schack pre. probably the warwick 2 band will be ok, but unsure- also still spending on new pot.... and I keep stopping myself... Meanwhile the P is getting lots of play time! (but really half a year )

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1341622680' post='1722090'] I almost bought an early surf green 81-82 Tokai for £300 on ebay about a month ago. That was all original so I'm thinking this one would be lucky to fetch £200. [/quote] the one up loch lomond way? with the schaller bridge? Was owned by someone on here, they couldn't get it set up properly, Jimmy Moon couldn't either so sold it for about £300 in Moon guitars stores- turned up a month later at twice the price in the lovely CC music with the action just high enough you wouldn't clock half the issues- sold and then a month later was on ebay again!

but thats not on a warwick.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5C9AEqaqRw

replacement pickups of some kind- added by someone who can't solder! in perfect condition....£450 or so.... in that condition..... er.....

sorry, 1981-84

my guess 1982 -1984

is it a 80's tokai?

[quote name='bremen' timestamp='1341592344' post='1721587'] Ampeg SVP or Alembic Fenderclone? [/quote] look up some ampeg schematics, then a schematic to the caitlinbread SFT

that sounds like a good project, stick a nice home made preamp before it.... and bobs your uncle.... I know what preamp schematic I would use too!

[quote name='bigsmokebass' timestamp='1341530111' post='1720706'] Late night roaming Bass Direct looking at stuff i cant afford, as usual and come upon this . . . I know i've recently gone off five strings but JEEZ! i needs this has anyone tried one of Mike Lull's basses and whats the B on it like? admittedly, im not much of a fretless player but i'd play this More can be found here: [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Lull_P5fless.html"]Bass Direct[/url] BSB [/quote] so let me get this right... you don't really play fretless.... and you've gone off 5 strings.... but... you want this? why?

[quote name='Bass-Thing' timestamp='1341529218' post='1720700'] OK if a court orders you you to do something you actually have to do Jack sh*t! This is why billions of £$€ a year are written off because if you lend money to the destitute you might as well burn it and why people who have been told by a judge to pay me what they owe me haven't! If you had said here's the video, I'd be pretty depressed right now but I'm not because you haven't and Rob Green isn't soft! I notice the Warwick bloke has suddenly gone very quiet. [/quote] Why would he bother. He makes basses, he still can make basses and leave the buzzards to Warwick- I doubt he would have made more than a few dozen even if he had been allowed. John Entwhistle fans can now go to [s]warwick [/s] dean for their signature model.

good price. See in your sig you got your ACG, I think last time I saw your sig you were still waiting for it... utterly OT but how is it?!

[quote name='Warwick_Official' timestamp='1341515539' post='1720453'] That is a STUNNING bass, Grand Wazoo! Enjoy! [quote] Dear Hans P.W, How are you, was doing my job the other day and saw this awesome bass on the net, just wondered how you would feel about wonky fret warwicks. Lots of Love Warwick_Official x x x [/quote] [/quote]

I think the problem wasn't so much that Warwick were a big company and Status the little one.... but that as much as I love Warwicks - I'm willing to bet the status buzzard was better in almost every way. The problem is Status are too good at what they do! If they weren't any good I doubt it would be a problem, in the same way all the 70-80's fender copies from Japan weren't a problem to fender till they started being very good. My guess is that when Spector wanted royalties Warwick could tilt the tuners just enough to make it different but Status didn't have the funds to fight a court case to suggest that their product was sufficiently different (and that Entwhistle had designed it..... but here's an interesting thing... you look at Entwhistle's book of basses.... and there were some he obviously had some input on the design... the Gibson artist thing (that he didn't like), the Alembics.... and then the Warwick/Status Buzzard.... and some bits obviously were Warwick's invention... but there is a strong design trend going through them....the Buzzard in many ways is a variation on the Alembics he was playing (and they were influence by Gibson shapes) ... and warwick (and apparently Modulus too) then took those ideas on a bit further... John Entwhistle claims that it was his design/idea and takes the graphite thing one step further and goes to a local graphite bass company, saves them from Markkingism, and gets them to make the same shape bass........ and at some point despite John saying he designed it, and despite the fact that it's derivative of so much of his other basses... Warwick have a bit of paper from a court saying that they designed 80% of it... how they worked out 80% i don't know.)

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1341498087' post='1720074'] Likely the rights to the the Buzzard bass include the right to any means of producing an exact copy. The fact that Rob was forced to destroy the moulds has sometimes been presented as though it was an assurance for Warwick that he would not make any more, at other times it has been presented as just Warwick being spiteful because they had the financial means to bury Status Graphite and were determined to have their way. [/quote] Meanwhile.... ned steinburger's latest bass looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRBxxof_3Ww&feature=related

[quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1341495565' post='1720029'] I'll tell kate, but she won't like it..... [/quote] what are you talking about. It's a jazz bass clearly says so. :rollseyes:

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1341494286' post='1719989'] Because when I see people using them, I think, 'you pathetic cheapskate corner-cutting, backward-thinking git. You should be in local government, or possibly people-trafficking.' Then I rap them sharply on the cranium with my walking-stick. [/quote] and what do you think when you see a P bass with blocks? how close do you have to get before you can tell?

if it's just for the look... why not use the block/stickers you see people using?

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1341416203' post='1718666'] Where in the SE? The Bass Gallery and Charlie Chandler would certainly do it. Approx £200 rings a bell but who knows what the prices are these days. [/quote] is it? I got quotes £130 odd locally