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  1. Hello, sorry for the delay, have only just remembered to take a lunch break 😅 It's 38mm nut, nice and slim. I've taken pics for you of nut measurement, depth at 1st fret, and depth at 12th fret
  2. Very reluctant sale as I love this bass, but I only need one these days and my other one gets slightly more play time. I've had this since it was built in 2015, it is parts so I'll list what it's made up of and the cost of those parts Body, control plate, knobs, pickguard, and neck plate are from the very popular squier short scale jaguar, was about £220 for the original bass, so say about £120 for those bits Neck is made by the brilliant luthier Jon Shuker and was about £350, excellent quality neck, most stable of any bass I've owned, perfect fretwork, great finish, and Jon made a nice brass nut for it. It's got carbon fibre reinforcement rods, and dual action truss rod that's fully working and very smooth. 50 year old Indian rosewood fretboard. Truss adjustment is at the heel like an old Fender. Schaller lightweight tuners were £90 DiMarzio model p and j pickups were £90 Wiring and pots were installed by Jon Shuker, don't know what brand he used Gotoh 201 bridge was £35 It's got Dunlop strap lock buttons installed. Strung with new D'Addario nickel rounds 40 60 75 100, and I also have two or three spare sets that I'll throw in for free. Scale length is 30.25", action is low and it practically plays itself. The neck dive normally present on this style of bass has been very much reduced by the scale length and bridge/tuner mods, it's not completely gone, but with a good strap it's absolutely not noticeable. Total cost was £685 so £450 seems like a fair price. No case so meet up preferred - Gloucester area but can travel up to an hour away EDIT: Just been asked about the weight, I should have added that originally 😅 it weighs bang on 7lbs EDIT2 - at the out of hours vets with a great big bill, lowering price to help shift this bass EDIT3 - now sold, thanks
  3. I had one of these as my gigging head for several years, it never let me down and always sounded great. GLWTS
  4. Mine’s an Ibanez SR505 with maple board, that I did own for a while. Nothing super special, but I really loved it. Was going through a 4 string phase, didn’t have the confidence to switch between 4 & 5 strings all the time, and traded it for a Warwick. Regretted it even before I got home, but the other guy wouldn’t trade back, even though I offered him a better deal. Still really gutted about it, and it’s probably been 6-7 years now. Wonder where it is now
  5. I’d like to come along this time, never been to a bass bash!
  6. I bought an amp and cab from Jez, great transaction and great bloke, deal with confidence! I've also had the pleasure of hanging out with him for a couple of hours and trying out his bass builds, which was a real treat - superb build quality, design, and sound on all of them, very talented man! Thanks Jez
  7. Well I'm very disappointed - I was off to see Jabba_the_gut this afternoon for him to have a look at this bass, and hopefully resolve the issue, but my partner has asked me to put the trip off for today. Winds are supposed to get up to 45 mph this afternoon and BBC weather has classified as a potential danger to live, so I'd be silly to go against her request really. The bass is sitting by my desk at work, all packed up in its gig bag all ready to go and get fixed up - if it had feelings, it would probably be as bummed out as me at the moment
  8. [quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1507841896' post='3388373'] What's the balance like between the P and the J? Keep the cable tie on - it's doing something from the sound of it - and try lowering the bass side of the P pickup by a couple of mm [/quote] Hey Andy! Sorry for the delay, hectic couple of days at work! I had a minor breakthrough this morning with it. I got frustrated with the lack of note definition on the E string, and it was making the G string sound funny (haha) so I took the cable tie off. Then I decided to see if it would work with the tie just on the E string and not the rest. It definitely makes more of a difference, and the notes are more defined. However the string is not quite as bright now. Overall it sounds a lot better. I also lowered the poles on the pickup under that string as well, and I think the combination of the two is much better!
  9. I just had a thought Maybe I just don't like P pickups?!
  10. [quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1507751872' post='3387794'] Trust me...it'll work with anyone [/quote] Hehe! Well Andy. I tried the foam, no effect actually, in the interests of full disclosure, I can't find any foam short of stealing from the. Sofa cushions and that wouldn't go down well, so I shoved a sock under the strings. I also tried the cable tie. It massively lessened those 'orrible overtones and got rid of the rattle at the nut, but had a weird side effect - at least to my weird ears anyway. J pickup still sounds fine, but as soon as the P pickup is brought in the lower notes on the E string are almost indistinguishable from each other. And even worse when soloed. No idea what that's all about
  11. Ohhhh I see! Would that work with a rather tubby sort like me? Haha
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