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Mike Walsh at Zoot bass springs to mind. 

Recently picked up a Yamaha FX550 effect unit for not a lot, unfortunately it needs the internal CR2032 battery changing, anyone done this or has any experience of opening up such things?

Everyone and everything. 

Give Mike at Zootbass a call, he has a reasonable stock of it.

*PRICE DROP*

Allparts fretless jazz neck,  ebony unlined board, dots at 3,5,7 etc.

Gotoh GB10 machineheads,  truss rod fully functional,  no marks on the board. Screw holes at the heel have been plugged and redrilled and work fine. Few marks here and there but overall good condition. £200 +£10 p&p

10 hours ago, chris_b said:

I don't understand buying a cheap amp as a backup.

 

For many years the back up for my TH500 was another TH500.

 

If I ever have to use the second amp I want it to be as good as the first amp.

Thats all very good and well, but not everyone can afford 2 top end amps, just in case. Any amp is better than none if your amp fails and it's more important that the gig carries on, at the end of the day the punters are more important than you having your preferred tone. 

Jazz bass bitsa, body is genuine jap fender 60's reissue, neck is an old stewmac licensed fender replacement.  Gotoh large plate machineheads,  wilkinson pickups.

 The sound is classic jazz, these wilkinson pickups certainly punch far above their price point and the playability is excellent.

 Couple of dings here and there, nothing major.

 Weight is  approx 10lbs.

 Would prefer collection as no bag/case but can post well wrapped if need be, or can deliver personally within couple hours of witham, Essex

Fretless PJ bitsa, body is a squire and the neck is an allparts unlined fretless with ebony board, with dots where 3rd,5th etc frets would be. 

P pickup is seymour duncan,  bridge pickup is a di marzio, hipshot kickass bridge and gotoh gb10 machineheads. 

 Couple of small marks on body and neck, nothing that affects playability.  

 Sound is fantastic, really good mwaah if that's what your after, and with the bridge pickup soloed you're in classic jacoesque territory. 

 Weight is  approx 9lbs.

 Would prefer collection as no bag/case but can post well wrapped if need be, or can deliver personally within couple hours of witham, Essex.

Hi Dood, interested in any trades?

Speak to Mike at Zootbass,  he's building me 5 string from paulownia, should weigh less than 8lbs when complete. 

On one particular jazz I had I used to raise the neck pickup slightly, or lower the bridge pickup, either way gets a similar result, still sounds like a jazz bass but with just a touch more body to the sound.

Mike at Zootbass makes excellent scratch plates.

Big fan of ernie ball cobalt flats on my fretless, nice top end with good midrange thump.

Believe they were marketed as a TR Revelation,  late 90's, early 2000's. Guitarist mag ( possibly bassist, I forget) did a review on one. 

Price Drop, £120 delivered.

Jazz body, quilt maple top, I believe it's a poplar back, part finished, needs a bit of work on the final finish. 

Bought this as is for a project,  not going to get used now so here it is.

Price includes postage to mainland UK. 

Markbass Little Mark 3, good condition, sounds great, everything works as it should.

Price includes postage to mainland UK.

Just received this yesterday,  courtesy of @bigthumb with a lot of help from Mark Newman. 

Absolutely fantastic amp,  bags of power, great tones, how people can say that these amps are sterile is beyond me.

Not as heavy as i feared either, it's no lightweight certainly but manageable. 

Kate Bush's version of rocket man.

Four sticks, nobody's fault but mine.

I have recently come to enjoy jethro tull, for years I just thought of them as weird folky stuff about witches delivered by cat weasel standing on one leg, actually bothered to delve a bit deeper and found out I liked it.

1 hour ago, Fishfacefour said:

 

Would you consider a trade for a Hagstrom Swede? Not a telecaster, but a lovely guitar. 

Got any pics?

May consider trades, 6 string basses, or a nice telecaster guitar or anything really, try me. 

Here we have a virtually brand new Sire P7 5 string, bought brand new from Andertons just before Easter this year. It has an Alder body, rosewood board with blocks and binding. Weight is a middling 4.6kg on my scales.

Active and passive modes, 3 band EQ with variable mid, and a passive tone roll off that works in both passive and active.

This bass is as it came from the shop, to all intents and purposes is a brand new bass.

Price includes postage.

Well I've had a good Google, and have found chrome spiral bridges but not in black or gold. May to settle for chrome.

Is it me or is it difficult to find a 20mm spaced BBOT bridge, especially in gold or black? Loads of 19mm around. I realise that hipshot etc do many different types but I'm feeling tightfisted and want to spend that much.

If any of you fine folk have any suggestions I'd be most grateful.