finnbass

Looks like a Chad Valley headstock to me, but I like the idea

[quote name='dood' post='153443' date='Mar 8 2008, 12:16 AM']If this thread were a comedian, It should have been bankrupt ages ago lol[/quote] If you were a grammatician...we'd have to shoot you You simply cannot keep replacing a full stop with the acronym 'lol'. Pass that one on to Ped as well.. lol haha etc

[quote name='NJW' post='149434' date='Mar 1 2008, 01:35 PM']An acquaintance of mine just had a 2nd hand Alembic shipped up to Scotland which Parcelforce 'lost' and are as yet unable to track down[/quote] That's why they are frequently referred to as 'Parcelfarce'

[quote name='Bassassin' post='149146' date='Feb 29 2008, 07:33 PM']I posted a bass & it was more than £60. It was to Iceland, mind. Jon.[/quote] Ah! That'll be for the team of sled dogs though...

[quote name='chris_b' post='148847' date='Feb 29 2008, 10:33 AM']I posted a bass and it was over £60. What's the problem???[/quote] Who did you use, NASA?

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='148481' date='Feb 28 2008, 04:24 PM']Parcelforce 69? [/quote] No! I'd want it to arrive in one-piece

I'd want it hand-delivered by a troop of naked dancing girls for that price.

[quote name='elom' post='140172' date='Feb 14 2008, 11:30 AM']I was seriously considering a bid on that and wondered if finn17 was you. In fact the only thing that stopped me bidding was the minor detail that the auction had closed the day before! Looks fantastic - hope it plays that way too. If you ever get bored of it give me a shout.[/quote] I was going to go away and think about it, but realised that the BIN price was so reasonable it wouldn't be there when I went back...I'd seen it listed a few times and thought it had changed hands but it's been the same guy trying to sell it for some time now. I've exchanged some correspondence with the seller who seems a great chap with an interesting site devoted to historic guitars: [url="http://www.historicguitar.com/"]http://www.historicguitar.com/[/url]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='139187' date='Feb 12 2008, 11:46 PM']Think that's the third or fourth time that's been on, I did mention it the first time I saw it & kind of forgot subsequently, what with the price getting incrementally lower and all... [/quote] I've seen it several times myself and had to check if it was the same seller...it was. I only chanced upon it again as I saw Bill Wyman last night playing his headless and was idly trolling ebay to see what was currently on the market. Considering how many questions the poor bloke has had to answer, I'm surprised no one actually bought it before. I'll probably soon find out why however...

[quote name='Bassassin' post='129004' date='Jan 27 2008, 11:38 PM']Ibanez Axstar headless weirdo: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200193352709"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=200193352709[/url][/quote] Sold! To the headed weirdo I'd like to say you led me to it Jon, but I spotted the relisted, reduced-in-price auction and then headed over here to see if it was on your list of JapCrap

[quote name='dood' post='111017' date='Dec 30 2007, 03:55 PM']I feel sorry for anyone who gets sucked in to this auction![/quote] Come on Dan!! It's currently priced at ten quid...a bargain

[quote name='Bassassin' post='105637' date='Dec 17 2007, 11:14 PM']Also looks like a replacement, home-chewed "custum" brass nut. Maybe the owner liked the strings to be in unconventional places?[/quote] You're just one of those conventional, 'stick-in-the muds' who cling-on to outmoded conventions like having strings above the fretboard...

[quote name='Bassassin' post='99925' date='Dec 5 2007, 11:57 PM']Not the cheapest, but certainly the cheapest pearl blocks/rosewood board Jazz I've ever seen - particularly if you sniped it at its start price: Jon.[/quote] "Free duster" That settles it...

[quote name='Bassassin' post='94741' date='Nov 26 2007, 08:17 PM'][b]"CURSE YOU, RED BARON!!!"[/b] J.[/quote] You're right!! Snoopy...we missed you!

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='94689' date='Nov 26 2007, 06:35 PM']... it hath an upper horn...[/quote] Oh no it hathn't!

[quote name='Paul Cooke' post='94639' date='Nov 26 2007, 05:05 PM']I've never been keen on these exaggerated singlecuts... they just look ugly...[/quote] I would have agreed with you a year ago. I think Alan at ACG has re-written the rule-book on singe cuts now as far as I am concerned.. I have to say though, that his are the only ones that have ever really appealed to me. That other thing just looks heavy and 'lumpy'...and ludicrously expensive of course

That's truly foul... I wouldn't even use it as an occasional table Each to their own however...

Well spotted fellas That headstock is, upon close inspection, clomplete clap

[quote name='BOD2' post='69750' date='Oct 4 2007, 10:51 PM']Is that rhyming slang aimed at the seller ?[/quote] LOL...not at all I can just hear the 'expert' trying to describe the object... "Well this is clearly.... errm... a guitar, probably a bass guitar. You can tell that by the number of knobs at the end of the stick...." etc....

I can just see this on 'Bargain Hunt'

I didn't get past the first sentence: This is a Fender Precision Bass guitar from the 1950's - 1970's Period. Classic

Ads seem to have disappeared, or is it just me?

[quote name='Waldo' post='30247' date='Jul 11 2007, 01:08 PM']Anyone?[/quote] I am going to have to pass, so Vegas Hooker was next on the list.

I love your column! It should be 'stickied'.. Binface

[quote name='ShergoldSnickers' post='26685' date='Jul 3 2007, 07:51 PM']How Halifax town centre has changed since I were a lad.[/quote] That's Basildon mate