Chairleg

Just bought a VM Jazz today. Well worth the money.

After going through my wallet and pockets and then having a damned good rummage down the sides of the sofa, I finally realised that I was still £1200 quid short of affording a new Fender VM Jazz. My GAS was so bad I seriously considered either selling my prized Miroku shotgun or offering my daughter up for medical experimentation. Then I realised that one of those choices was highly immoral......so I'm keeping the shotgun.

This is not a review as I haven't even had it for 2 hours yet but my initial impression of this bass is positive, It's well put together, the finish is good (I got the natural version) and the just-out-of-the-box set up isn't very far from where I want it to be. I am letting it warm up a bit before I start fiddling with the intonation (the A string is just a tiny bit flat at the 12th) but the action is spot on for me. Being an inveterate tamperer though, I will be fitting a Babicz bridge, a thumb rest and black Jazz-style control knobs at a later date.

Thanks to other BC'rs who have previously commented on the Squier VM models. Due to your helpful and honest views, I have now got a decent bass to carry on learning with, saved £1200 of hard-earned and my daughter is now safe from being sold (until I want an Alembic anyway).

All the best,

Mark.

Here's the Milan Ciz website:

[url="http://www.cizguitars.com/?str=ofirme&lang=en"]Milan Ciz[/url]

Subscribed and added a couple of Jam tracks and 'Mr Jones' from Counting Crows.
Very good idea this. Some stuff on the list that I hadn't even thought about trying. I think I am going to be busy for quite some time.

Some on here @ £9.00 + £2.00 p+p:

http://www.chguitars.co.uk/

It started off pretty dire but got much, much better after 2:05.

I had one of these as my first bass in the 70's. Not bad as a starter bass. Streets ahead of the Sattelites amd Kays that were around then. The last one I saw for sale was up for £200.

I just read one of the supplier's description of goods/terms of sale and found this:

[b][b]"In our factory, we made most of the guitar with mahogany. There are also some guitars are made maple. Other parts and small trucks have been imported from South Korea[/b][/b]"

I enjoyed that.
All the best for the awards.
I might even catch you at the Maze in February.

Mark.

I saw this bass last Sunday when I picked up a combo from Richard.
Very, very nice instrument.
Have a ' I actually saw this' type bump mate.

Could it be an early 'Roberts'?
http://www.shop.roberts-guitars.co.uk/
Regards,
Mark.

I bought Richards Ashdown 515 combo.
Really nice piece of equipment and a thoroughly decent chap to do business with.
Very happy with the transaction.

Thanks Richard,

Mark.

PM'd.

The one that started it all:

http://s751.photobucket.com/albums/xx160/Wombatchops/General/Bass/Status/

I had to borrow the pictures from the web so, if they are yours, let me know if you want them taking down.
No idea if it's been sold yet but it's up for £225. Mine cost me £65 in 1977 second hand. I believe it was made by Matsumoko (sp?).
A really nice first bass.

My first deal on Basschat and my first meeting with a fellow BC'r.
Will is a really nice chap and, apart from me almost having a major panic attack this morning after finding a loose tuner on the Bass I was handing over to him, everything went well.
Thanks Will, I would definitley do another deal with you without hesitation.

All the best,

Mark.

PM sent

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Can we have a ban on slapping in general and Nigel Clutterbuck in particular?

But keep it in London. At least if the show turns out to be crap there's still plenty of other things to see and do. Something that can't be said for the NEC.
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Oh I Say! Steady on! Birmingham has some of the best..erm....finest.....most popular.......erm....well it's got the best 'Bull Ring' shopping centre in the whole of the UK. And, so I am lead to believe, the district known as Handsworth is one of the finest places in the world to be scared of on a Saturday night.

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I would love to go to this, but I'm well out of London - it just wouldn't work - can it go on tour?

G.
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Same here. Just priced up the mainline train travel, parking at the station, tube tickets, entrance tickets and factored in a very conservative budget of £20 for dinner/refreshments. I can't get it any lower than £176.90 for the wife and myself and that's without spending anything on gear. Stuff that, I will be ordering a set of Quarter pounders and a Gotoh 201 for my build project and still be a few quid better off (and have something to show for the outlay at the end). It may have been a different decision had it been held at the Birmingham NEC.

Whereabouts could it be picked up from?

Mark.

Any pictures?

PM'd.

No problems buying from G4M. Quick delivery and fair prices.

For All The Cows....Foo Fighters.

I enjoyed that. A bit of something different (for me anyway).

If you come down again Gareth, PM me. Live music is just about the only thing I bother to go out for (apart from work that is).
It would be good to meet other BC'rs as well.
Regards,
Mark.