miles'tone

Long story short..
Found out I have a herniated disc and two desicated (yes, like coconut!) discs in my lower back so need to go seriously lightweight as it ain't going to get better anytime soon.

I see there's a couple of places online (GFS and EYGUITARS) that sell really lightweight paulownia P bass bodies for not much dough. Anyone here got one? What do you think?
I already have a reasonably light P bass (8.5 lbs) and have lightweight tuners but if I could lose another pound, it wouldn't hurt (as much )

These bodies are cheap I know so it might be a crap shoot quality control wise so I'm really interested to see if any fellow BCers have trodden this path with any success?

Cheers.

Wow! Amazing story!
Loving those vids, she's really my kind of front person.
Can't wait to hear how the gig went!

Brilliant, thanks!
I love YouTube because I just watched that and it led me to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs7LhL_I9kE

Weather Report on the South Bank Show. Great insight and explanation of their creative process.

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We had the pleasure to support and meet Wilko and Norman back in Jan of this year, it lived up to all my expectations and more, even got Norm to play my P after their sound check That night will stay in my memory for a long time.

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Very cool indeed!
Beautiful P-bass you have there too.

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+1 on playing A Forest at a gig.
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Playing A Forest at a gig in a forest. That would be the biz.

Yep. Brilliant bassist.
It's funny when you go back to music you grew up on and hear it all with fresh ears.
Simon Gallup surprised me as to how good he really was, as did Andy Rourke of The Smiths.

Just sold Geoff a nice Jazz pickguard. Swift payment, nice friendly comms.

Deal with confidence peeps.

Cheers!

Simon.

I like a nice light Precision myself.
Partly due to back problems and partly due to me liking the way a lighter body resonates.
My bitsa P weighs in at 8lbs 3oz and has the best open E that I've ever owned

Seafoam

A while back I went out shopping for one of these and came home with a Vintage Icon "Jaco" fretless J. Nice rosewood fingerboard and the pickups and hardware were better than the Squier imo, felt a better quality instrument all round really.
Twas a bit cheaper than the Squier too.

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That's similar to what I was thinking originally but just wasn't sure if it would sound right, after doing a bit of reading on it, it would appear that for p-bass setups the pickup has to be in an apparent "sweet spot" and after measuring up, the p pick up in the ibanez is off of that spot hence my suggestion of plugging it up and rerouting
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I reckon they are in the sweetspot mate, they just look nearer to the neck as your SR800le has 24 frets instead of Fender's 20 (just googled some piccys out of interest).

I understand money is tight, but keep an eye on the Basschat basses for sale section for a used Vintage V4 bass. They change hands here for about £80 (I've personally bought and sold one for that amount) and they are fantastic basses for the money that need no upgrading as the Wilkinson pickups and hardware are more than up to the job.

Check out this Vintage v American Fender video.
You get a hell of a lot of P bass for little expense with the Vintage. They're pretty lightweight too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-pBCyNu20

Doesn't the old SR800le come with a P/J configuration anyway? (OK, a reverse P but it's still a P pickup) - a friend had one in the early '90s and it was a top quality bass (made in Japan) that sounded fantastic.
Silly question probably but have you tried really backing off the treble and some mids to mellow it's tone and lose that "in-your-faceness"?

Added piccy bumpage

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Bingo! Well you learn something new everyday

Many thanks Charic!

Hi all.

I'm having trouble uploading photos to my ads in the marketplace as when I try, it just says "upload failed" while displaying that I've exceeded my global upload quota (31 mb so I'm over my 30mb allowance)
I've taken this to mean that I need to delete some old photos but all my old ads are locked so I can't edit them now.

Is there a way of fixing this problem here on BC, or is that it and I now have to link from, say, Flickr from now on?

Thanks,

Si.

Sold a P-bass neck to Mart. Nice easy deal, great informative comms and he paid instantly.
Top man.

Great doing business with you Martin

Many thanks,

Simon.

Sold pending the usual.

Bump

Boomp

Sold.
Parchment pickguard off a Fender American Standard Jazz bass.
Surface scratches from use (only visible in reflection of light) but it does have some wear around the truss rod access notch.
Good quality pickguard though.

£9 posted.

Cheers,

Simon.

*can't upload pics right now for some reason, will try again tomorrow) *

Mighty Mite P bass neck with rosewood fingerboard and a nice 70's Fender logo.
Bought brand new from Bluebass on eBay and never used. Never been drilled for tuners or body either.
I have been selling off parts for a bitsa P I wanted to put together but alas, I just don't have the time to build it so this neck is the next to go.
Looks great with the Fender logo and is as new just as I received it.
It has a thin finish on it and is lightweight.

£75 posted (cost me £110 posted from Bluebass)

Cheers for looking,

Simon.

Been following his progress on Facebook, scary stuff. Glad he's received treatment in time.
Get well soon Scott, your awesomeness is very much still needed!

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I remember something about that... didn't the singer throw a bit of a tantrum and go off stage for a while?

Questionable idea starting a fire in an enclosed space full of thousands of people....

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No it was John Fruciante who stopped playing so Anthony could tell the perps to "put that f***in sh*t out you a**holes, you want people to die?" Nobody stormed off though. Twice it happened too. Unbelievable!

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I watched the performance yesterday. I quite enjoyed it.
I've kind of avoided popular culture for the last few years due to having a kid and work- no radio 1, commercial radio and very little tv etc. so thought Bruno Mars and Olly Muirs were the same person!


I was there also though not on mushrooms. They were very good.
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I concur that they were great that night (even though some tools down the front were making fires which made the band stop a couple of times!)