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This isn't a thinly disguised plug for one of my auctions... There are certain similarities between the description for [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300538456822"]my Jack V[/url] and a [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170619840035"]Jack 4-string[/url], which is very flattering because obviously my command of English is greater than his and I am far wittier and more charming. If he hadn't been so eager to nick my text, he might have noticed that his bass isn't actually a Jack V like the title says because it's a four string and the V means 5. Copying stuff from one place = plagiarism. Copying stuff from many places = research.

Anybody who does proceed needs their bumps felt, they're sub-£500 new. Hence my thinking it was a somewhat optimistic price. If they take the "2" off the front, that would be rather more realistic.

The tuners look as if they're in the same place as for [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=510"]this inlaid Mazeti[/url]. Build quality on mine is fine. And I dropped the seller a message to ask if it was a typo and she said she was selling it for her boyfriend who had told her what to put. I'm sure there's a smutty joke to be had from that involving the definition of an inch but I'll not be the one to make it.

I have a Mazeti 5-string fretless. Jolly nice it is too, I'd be quite tempted at the idea of a 7-string version. But perhaps not at the price of [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290547640070"]this one.[/url]

What was the situation with rosewood board neck truss rod adjusters? Were they all heel end adjustment, with no plug at the headstock end (no sign of anything, just a blank scallop), or did that vary through the years?

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='1171779' date='Mar 22 2011, 09:25 AM']The 'it looks to clean for something that old' worries that crop up around things like this never really bother me...[/quote] Indeed. Statistically speaking, there must be at least one P owner who has catered for the fragile finish and actually looked after the thing.

I have an AX3000B,and what I'd like to do is to be able to play a note/chord and have it repeat ad infinitum, so it goes plunk plunk plunk... Then I want to be able to play over the top of it, without the playing over the top getting added to the loop. I'm using the HOLD DLY function, with it assigned to the CONTROL pedal. However, when I play "plunk", then press the CONTROL pedal, then play "plink plink", it comes out as plunk plink plink plunk plink plink regardless of the initial state of the CONTROL pedal and what I do with it. So, any of you AX3000B owning experimenters out there, can I actually do what I want to do? If so, am I using the right effect (I forgot to try experimenting with FREEZE which may be the other candidate) and what do I need to do with the CONTROL pedal?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1164370' date='Mar 16 2011, 01:26 PM']Not mine unfortunately - I think it's a custom job, I just did a Google image search for "hippie sandwich bass"! Have to say I've always loved this sort of plywood![/quote] Found it. It is indeed a custom, using a Warmoth neck. Pictorial history of it being built is [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/danfcrea/sets/72157606940563012/"]here.[/url]

What about putting an aluminium neck on an Epiphone? Then you could have an Epidural.

[quote name='daz' post='1164720' date='Mar 16 2011, 06:09 PM']cant find any pictures of 3 star jumpers anywhere.[/quote] Weren't they tank tops rather than jumpers?

[quote name='cocco' post='1156945' date='Mar 10 2011, 05:30 PM']Just googled 1987 bass guitar and I got a Kubicki ex-factor and a Thumb NT. What a great year to have been born![/quote] Coincidentally, I own an 87 Thumb NT. However, being born in 1957, I had to wait for 30 years to get a really good bass. 1957 - the year that Fender redesigned the foul-looking Tele-based Precision to the most-copied-of-all-time P bass shape that everyone knows The year that Rickenbacker introduced the 4000 which I find unplayable Gibson had been producing the EB-1 for three years by this time and for some reason actually continued to do so for many more years.

[quote name='Clarky72' post='1164929' date='Mar 16 2011, 08:21 PM']Hahaha!!! A 5 string body with a 4 string neck! Genius....[/quote] That's the 4 + 1 - 1 neck.

[quote name='Conan' post='1164469' date='Mar 16 2011, 02:53 PM']I'm not sure I understand why this subject engenders such strong feelings. It's not as though there needs to be a "do you hate fretless/fingerstyle/pick playing/distortion/five string basses...?" poll is there?[/quote] Slap is quite obtrusive though, so it needs to be used wisely.

[quote name='cetera' post='1162880' date='Mar 15 2011, 11:11 AM']I hit 40 this year.... and the daughters will ALWAYS be more interesting than their Mums... [/quote] I'm not so sure, didn't Gary Glitter say something along those lines?

Mike bought a double bass pickup from me - quick payment, good communications.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1157311' date='Mar 10 2011, 09:54 PM']is the body on your one ply?[/quote] [quote name='Bassassin' post='1157491' date='Mar 11 2011, 12:02 AM']Sadly yes it was![/quote] Surely one ply is good, it's when it's more than one ply that it's bad...

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1148764' date='Mar 3 2011, 07:12 PM']Triumph bass. "MIJ Gibson" it says. Copy it is. Interesting looking beast though. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-1970s-Vintage-LES-PAUL-TRIUMPH-BASS-MIJ-Gibson-/200582728172?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2eb3a989ec"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-1970s-Vintage-L...=item2eb3a989ec[/url][/quote] 10 kg? [size=6]10 kg?[/size] What's it made of, lead?

At least they're matching socks.

I may be completely wrong, of course, but didn't Fenders of that vintage (and, indeed, the following decade or so) have their trussrod adjustment at the heel end (which was a right royal pain in the bum)?