miles'tone

Suspicious of the ad but enjoying the pics all the same! 😄

Costs nothing to look thankfully. 

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

This 66 is so clean, it must have spent a long time in the case or been really well looked after, even the case is mint , anyone going to turkey 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225503035266?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=nJCYDXe3Rle&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=1wDkd4CjTIi&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

0% feedback rating despite lots of apparent positive purchases though...🤔

8 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

So…In about 2013, I had this in my hands for appraisal via an auction house.

 

It was an asset liquidation sale - there was a custom shop Marvin strat, and a Hofner 500/1 of some vintage too. A couple of old Wurlitzer jukeboxes and “Americana” stuff like that.

 

The rest was Rolex’s etc and gaudy expensive furniture.

 

It was a 61, with gold hardware.

 

Unsure at the time if it had been one of the refin fiesta reds done by the UK importer…I didn’t know much about gold hardware being an option either.

 

I offered to buy it for £2k (what I had saved up).

 

The guy (rightly…) said “I know it’s worth more.”

 

I later found out that it only fetched £1500 and someone got very lucky…something rings a bell about it being a Fender GBI employee who got it.

 

Never played anything near it since.

 

I had a 77p at the time and this had so much more to it.

 

Talk about the one that got away.

At least it getting away was through no fault of your own 👊

36 minutes ago, bassbloke said:

The album is full of good bass lines.  I had a lot of fun playing along.

They have loads of albums it seems! Which one?

I did. I used a Schaller magnetic pickup, the chrome one that you screw on the end of the fingerboard. Did the job.

I use synthetic guts now so my bass sports a Shadow bridge pickup instead. 

Will post at buyers expense (UK only).

1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

Methinks the secret is phonetic.

Still over my head sorry 😞 

1 hour ago, bass_dinger said:

 

I am already there.....

 

"Do you have a bass guitar that is 58 years old, but lack the authentic longevity to play it?

 

Then you need the Memory Aging Service. With it, you can:

Forget whether you are playing the album or the live version of the song 

Struggle to recall if this band include all the key changes in Think!

Be totally oblivious that you fitted, and engaged a Drop D tuner 

 

You have an old bass - now you can play it like an old man"

 

😆 love it!

Appropriately, I've just sold my actual 58 year old bass and currently on the search for the right new one. 

Any chance this could work in reverse? Hoping my mental faculties might undergo a spot of 'tasteful restoration'?

Not holding my breath...

Mine comes from the username I thought up when I joined Talkbass many years ago. My middle name is actually Miles and I was really into the Miles Davis album Milestones when I started learning upright.

So, miles'tone = tone of Miles (me, not him) because no matter what kind of bass guitar I play, I always sound inescapably like me.

Saying that, this hasn't stopped me from spending a small fortune by ignoring the evidence whilst trying unsuccessfully to disprove the theory! 😂

7 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

My real name is actually Rumplestiltskin, but you try telling that to some smart arsed copper when you get a tug in your battered BMW 3 series... 

Some mysteries are best left to the imagination I suppose...

1 hour ago, Waddo Soqable said:

There's often confusion with who's in The Plank, Eric Sykes swapped his role in a subsequent version with Arthur Lowe, Sykes taking the Cooper part (  I think! ) 

I'm dying to know why you're Waddo Soqable...spill the beans! (please)

9 hours ago, bass_dinger said:

When I went to join the website about 5 years ago, I registered using my Hotmail email address.  Basschat told me that I had already registered using that address, so I got the system to remind me of my username. 

 

Bass Dinger - who knew! Certainly not me...

 

I suspect that I picked that name because at the time I had recently put a dent (a ding) in my then-new acoustic bass guitar. 

 

I wish that I had chosen something better. 

 

And it amuses me that @Bassfingeris only one letter different!

You should offer a relicing service on here.

On 12/04/2023 at 01:12, Waddo Soqable said:

Don't start bringing Jerry Lee Lewis into it.... 

Chantilly? Surely that would be a Big Bopper Cuppa? 😉

59 minutes ago, Bobo_08 said:

.. this is the Harley Benton JB-62 thread... It's a Harley Benton JB-62 😊

I thought he couldn't get anything other than sunburst so thought it was a different brand...just re-read...I'm too tired, time to get off the Internet...Miles out.

2 hours ago, dub_junkie said:

I couldn't order an MV-4JB in anything but sunburst so decided to go with one of these instead. Ordered the Dakota Red 

 

What make is that? Nice colour. 

I do love a happy ending 👍

22 minutes ago, Dad3353 said:

 

And yet, when importing anything second-hand from abroad, VAT is charged on the whole value, plus the shipping; this, despite the taxes having already being paid when it was bought new. Hmm... 

Plus when you import from abroad you've just paid the tax to buy the shipping in that country, and then get the privilege to pay it again when it lands here.

Great 👍 

I was just coming to ask if anyone here has one? I only found out they existed last night. 

Fancy something like this to for lunch hour fun in the car.

Surely you can alter the blend by turning the volume knobs? 

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

The nitro finish will wear off - that's what it does. Hopefully as it wears away the poly coat below will polish up at the same time so it won't be massively noticeable.

 

AFAICS overall it's just a marketing ploy. Although it's never stopped Fender in the past. Even in the days when both the colour and clear coats were all nitro, the grain fillers and primer were poly-based. 

Yup. Fullerplast...

56 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

I wonder what's the best capo for metal....? 

Jammin - Bob

The seller Cici has a good youtube channel. She also demos basses for Andertons on theirs.

Nice bass!

I sometimes use one on my fretless 5 to play in open C tuning.

Also, some people frown too much.

24 minutes ago, briansbrew said:

He's asking £1500

Sounds reasonable if it's in good nick. I played one in the old Bass Centre in 1996 actually. It was amazing. I've often thought about it. They cost about a grand back then, back when a grand was worth a lot more than it is now.

Man, that was nearly 30 years ago...