Marky L

Do they all wear Doc Martin's or something?

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='1222082' date='May 6 2011, 11:28 AM']I sold each of mine for £25 IIRC. I wouldn't get one from the USA - you will at least have to pay a handling fee to Parcelfarce which IIRC will be about a tenner, then you might get stung for VAT too. It's only really worth importing more valuable stuff from the states.[/quote] Aye, that's a good point. Just wanted to get an idea to see if it was worth doing. I'll keep my eyes open on here

Well I may be able to get a crazy deal on one from the States but I need an idea on shipping cost (ergo weight requirement) to ascertain if it's worth doing. Used here they seem to be around £35 ish?

Just trying to find out what the weight of the EHX Bassballs unit is. Anyone have any idea? (I emailed EH but no response yet).

So is Craigslist UK going to be the new laundering site for musical instruments of dubious heritage? And who is George Gruhn? I've seen him quoted in a couple of sales on there so far? [url="http://london.craigslist.co.uk/msg/2316222372.html"]http://london.craigslist.co.uk/msg/2316222372.html[/url]

This and the various other basses of dubious heritage and authenticity he keeps lobbing on eBay.

[quote name='ras52' post='1185303' date='Apr 1 2011, 09:39 PM']Sorry OP, here come the language police: it's the opposite of a dearth! But I agree they are certainly tasty. I was sorely tempted by that fretless.[/quote] Oooh hot damn you're correct! What on earth possesed me? What with being a terrible pedant n'all!! Let's change that to a [b][i]glut[/i][/b] of natural P basses!!

Eeeuw

Nice starting price, and I guess the collect only option will limit it's sales opportunity. Wish I was in Arbroath, I'd like to have a look if it stayed cheap n durty!

I must admit, I am starting to feel the love for that nekkid wood look

Just a comment that there seems to be a dearth of natural wood finish P basses up for sale at the mo. Some on here, and on eBay too. This trend seems to have kicked off over the last few weeks. It's like dominoes!!

I wish I wish ... Both ears ringing, or whistling currently but I think my left is worse, yup I nearly always stand to the drummer's right. I usually sound check one or two numbers without ear plugs, but gig with one in my left ear and another half in my right. If I jam both in I just don't feel in contact with the music. Somedays the whistling is worse than others, certainly if I feel run down or have a bad stress headache then it's worse. My Dad is profoundly deaf due to tinnitus and all from shooting without ear defenders... no one had heard of that sort of thing back then!

+1 on the Devo steal!! And why did I first read his strap as "POOP" ??

Didn't this seller have something else listed a short while ago that seemed rather shonky? I imagine the reserve is set at a price level the seller wants to attain. The bass looks OK to me though a wee bit tatty, I guess that's a replacement pickgurad and no case? Finally, in the listing the seller does seem to prefer being paid in other ways than Paypal.. isn't that an eBay rules infringement?

Thanks everyone. Yes he certainly did used to have a small pedal stuck on his bass for a while, I thought it was a distortion pedal of some sort as he certainly laid into a distroted tone regularly. I do love them with their experimental stuff and no one did doom and gloom with so much skill and humour too. They were the proto goths and no-one IMHO has ever come close. So there!!

So I love me old Bauhaus stuff and David J did wrench out some interesting tones from his fretless P bass. Certainly some sort of distortion pedal was used, but what else?? Anyway, I'd love to know how he got the fruity noise used in this little ditty - St Vitus Dance - any ideas? (I'm a pedal doofus BTW!!) [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2cmsMS4BU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW2cmsMS4BU[/url] Oh and how do you embed a Youtube clip??

Yes, I did say it needed to be a cheap n dirty repair as the bass isn't worth that much extra expense. He didn't have clamps with a long enough reach so that's why the bolt down idea developed, something he'd not done before so it was guinea pig time! Obviously use as large a washer as you can on the bolts inside the body before you wind the nut on. And of course this is pretty much a do or die repair as you can't really move the bridge if you want to reposition it at a later date. Still no movement to report so I think it'll hold just fine. Need to look at lowering the action next. I read that it's a case of removing the saddle and sanding a little off the bottom before slapping it back in.

Those wouldn't have fitted! The bridge is some way back from the soundhole and you need a minimun of 160mm really.

OK a quick update. The bridge fix was going to be too much for me, not having clamps with long enough jaws and the bridge also being fixed with a couple of nasty little self tapping screws that I couldn't access easily, I called a local luthier and popped it over on Monday afternooon. He's a great guy, very honest "This is a piece of crap really isn't it? Cheap parts and thrown together" and decided the simplest solution (and best budget one) was to drive a couple of holes through the bridge and use a couple of bolts to pull it down into place. Before doing this he would tighten the strings to pull the bridge up to enable a good squeeze of epoxy underneath it. Anyway I had a good old chat with as he started the work but then left him to it. Got a call yesterday midday to say it was done, tuned to concert pitch and the bridge was holding well. So I popped down, paid my £25 quid and took it away. Oh, he'd topped off the bolt holes with a bit of rosewood to finish it off. Trying it out properly at home and I'm 100% happy with the repair. It'll need a bit of tweaking to get it right for my required feel but for a total of £76 I'm happy. FYI. It's not loud acousticaly and I wasn't expecting it to be. Also the quality of the finish is shocking. One peghead not being in line with the others, rubbish paint finish on some of the edges, colour bleeding into some of the "inlay". But I don't care, for the price I'm not fussy!

Pickguard is incorrect for the year, could be a replacement of course, but the above evidence suggests it's what this NON 78 P came with.

[quote name='essexbasscat' post='1164926' date='Mar 16 2011, 08:21 PM']Glad you posted this, as I've a 12 string guitar with the same problem, but not as drastic as yours. What clamps are you going to use ? could need something with long jaws [/quote] Not sure on the clamps yet, I need to ask around and see what may be lurking in various friends tool boxes. Long jaws and not too deep. Ref glue, I had a look on the Titebond website and see they do a hide glue. Having done a bit of interweb research it seems this is a popular luthier adhesive so I think I'll get a bottle, unless there are other suggestions.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1164143' date='Mar 16 2011, 10:07 AM']It's worth bearing in mind that some lifting bridges need more glue than others. [attachment=74917:picresiz...wport_75.jpg][/quote] Some how, I just knew.......

Something like the good old Arldite? [attachment=74918:bridge.jpg]

So, I bid on and won one of the Aria factory seconds electro acoustic basses with two faults, a chip in the finish on the front and the bridge lifting from the body all for the grand sum of £51 What I wondering is what sort of glue/adhesive would be best for resetting the bridge? Clamping it after it's been glued seems straight forward, if I can find clamps to fit, but I want to end up with a good solid bond. Now... where me No Nails...!!!!!

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1162966' date='Mar 15 2011, 12:31 PM']Would be nice but my guess is that someone will see a bunch of vintage parts there rather than a neat custom or restoration.[/quote] +1 There are a few bits on there I could make use of. I'm sure it'll fly when it gets near to it's end time.