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Nice one dude - thanks for that.... Just snagged one - AND eBay are doing a PayPal coupon offer - so I got £5 OFF the postage as well!

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='123290' date='Jan 19 2008, 10:39 AM'][url="http://www.stevesamps.co.uk"]Steve Rowse[/url] in Surrey did a nice job on my Trace Combo.[/quote] +1,000,000,000 for Steve Rowse!

[quote name='doctorbass' post='123949' date='Jan 20 2008, 04:56 PM']Try flightcasewarehouse.co.uk They do cases for all types of gear - good prices too. Excellent gear.[/quote] +1 For flightcasewarehouse.co.uk - great products & very competitive prices.

[quote name='R,5,R,5...' post='123449' date='Jan 19 2008, 04:57 PM']Zigaboo Modeliste.[/quote] Oh yes - now you're talking! Great one Nico!

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='123118' date='Jan 18 2008, 08:45 PM']Well, I'm lucky enough to be in a band with my all-time favourite drummer so... I guess he doesn't count. Apart from him, it would be [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=11Y987Uf1wY"]Levon Helm [/url] and John Bonham.[/quote] +1 Levon - yeah! He's awesome (& Danko - what a great bass player!)...

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='115967' date='Jan 8 2008, 12:04 AM']He is amazingly cool Definitely agree about the atmosphere of black & white photos....[/quote] Here's a more recent pic of George - doing what he does best....

[quote name='Machines' post='117036' date='Jan 9 2008, 02:56 PM']Yeah - might be getting one for review next month .[/quote] Cool - I bet there'll be a lot of interested Basschatters waiting to read that.... And then maybe a rash of wireless systems for sale on here & eBay?

Ooooh! [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/freebass/index.asp"]http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/freebass/index.asp[/url]

That will definitely be a DI box - but it's not a Sansamp or any of the other usual suspects that a pro pa company might use (countryman, radial, bbe)... Doubt if it's anything exciting & will be there just to provide a clean bass signal to the pa.

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='115977' date='Jan 8 2008, 12:10 AM']Ladies and Gentlemen......we have a winner [/quote] Oh yeah - that's the one! Awesome!

[quote name='mr pablo' post='115956' date='Jan 7 2008, 11:51 PM']Here be a couple o good uns [attachment=4704:lemmy.jpg] [attachment=4705:philiplynott2.jpg][/quote] Gods of Bass!!!

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='115749' date='Jan 7 2008, 08:32 PM'][quote]it's not you that's the numpty, as great as leo fender was, he wasn't really aware of a bassist's needs in the early days, the reason the first fender basses have 20 frets (which means you have just below a 4 octave range in standard tuning, pretty silly) is that he thought they didn't need much range because it was supposed to be a "bass." He also assumed that people played with their thumbs rather than the fingers, so early models had the so called "thumb rest" the wrong way round.[/quote] I can't work out whether or not this post is a p*sstake.. [/quote] Yeah - he was obviously pretty clueless that Leo Fender...

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='115578' date='Jan 7 2008, 05:06 PM']Right now, this: I'm in love.[/quote] Oh yeah. Just wonderful. I've got the full set of these from the eBay listing... spend far too much time looking at them. Ahhhh...

[quote name='steve-soar' post='115725' date='Jan 7 2008, 07:53 PM']Outstanding![/quote] Oh what the hell - George deserves another pic - he's earned it!

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='115659' date='Jan 7 2008, 06:29 PM']That's a pretty rare logo on the headstock of that Telebass....[/quote] Yeah - must be a very early '68 Tele bass to have that variation of the logo... And that dude is, of course, the one and only George Porter Jr. of The Meters. And here's another great picture of him in action....so unbelievably cool.

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='115547' date='Jan 7 2008, 03:47 PM']My strats have... No foil on the inside of this jazz scratchplate I am afraid. That's the next port of call...[/quote] A guitarist friend had terrible trouble with this - every electric he played would start making cracking sounds after playing for a few minutes. It was driving him nuts - so I suggested covering the back of the pickguards completely with self-adhesive backed copper foil shielding - it fixed it for good for him. Definitely worth trying on your Jazz.

It don't get much cooler than this.

[quote name='Beedster' post='115594' date='Jan 7 2008, 05:17 PM']Given the rate of forgery in other antique markets - and the high level of skill required in many of these - the idea that forgeries are not common in the guitar market is perhaps naive, especially given that a couple of dates/signature written in marker pen in the neck pocket is pretty much all that would be required to 'authenticate' a 'vintage' body. The markings in most of my Fenders would be extremely easy to copy and I doubt the original craftsmen would be able to tell the difference if even a half competent forger got to work. Buying a body like that above is a leap of faith unless you REALLY know what you're doing, and I think as has been pointed out above and elsewhere, perhaps even then, at that price, a foolish one Chris[/quote] +100. I know a guy who basically served an 'apprenticeship' in forging antiques...a business that has been going on for centuries. Whenever anything 'rare' starts to attract high prices the forgers will start to gather - unfortunately it's inevitable. Clive Brown has started to sign his guitars under the lacquer or have an impressed stamp added under the pickguard because he'd heard rumours that they were being sold as originals (some muppet even tried to sell two of his own restorations to him as originals!).

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='115543' date='Jan 7 2008, 03:46 PM']Finditonlyhere = Tune-o-Matic in disguise, I think.[/quote] Spot on.

[quote name='Hamster' post='115175' date='Jan 7 2008, 01:42 AM']It really doesn't look right [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-FENDER-1959-PRECISION-BASS-ORIGINAL-BODY-RARE_W0QQitemZ320202080608QQihZ011QQcategoryZ41406QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-FENDER-1959-...1QQcmdZViewItem[/url] C'mon you experts! Hamster[/quote] Could very well be a '59 body (it does have the 'router hump' characteristic of an old Fender body) - but there's no way to conclusively prove that without the original date markings... Maybe if the neck & all the other parts were from a '59 then you could probably safely assume that a refin body was the original body. But like this? You're basically trusting the seller that it is what he says it is.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='114812' date='Jan 6 2008, 05:45 PM']I am definitely interested in the Stroborack especially if you can do a special "Basschat deal" Keep us all informed please![/quote] +1.