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Max Normal

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  1. Would let this go for £200.00 bump, worth it for the parts. If not it's going to become an organ donor by the next bump.
  2. Just swapped my USA standard Precision for a very sweet Music Man Sterling with Adee. Met and exchanged basses in a car park near that Adee located equidistant from our homes near the bottom of the M1 so it felt like a drug deal (Viagra I suppose, it was a golf club car park). Lovely bass, lovely guy, was a pleasure to deal with so buy (or most probably swap these days) with confidence.
  3. [url="http://s1223.beta.photobucket.com/user/maxnorma1/media/Frankenbass/P1040891.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0"]http://s1223.beta.ph...html?sort=3&o=0[/url] I put this together a couple of years ago so I could learn passive guitar electronics. It's made out of good quality parts, so I have valued it as the sum total of the second hand value of its parts as follows: Dimarzio Ultra Jazz Bridge pickup. £35.00 Seymour Duncan SPB2 P-bass pickup. £35.00 Dimarzio Model One Mudbucker neck pickup. £45.00 WD guitars Licenced Jazz Bass Neck, black tuners, Graph Tech nut, hipshot string retainer, installed with metal ferrule neck bolt kit £75.00 250K push/pull pot with black knurled knob x3 £30.00 Concentric 250K/250k pot with stacked black knurled knob £10.00 Wilkinson brass/chrome bridge £5.00 Ash P/J body routed for model one, side mounted jack, finished in Tru-Oil £30.00 Fender Precison scratchplate routed for Model one at the neck position £10.00 = a nominal value of [s]£275.00[/s] reduced to £200 If it does not get any love here as a bass, it'll be broken up for parts. The wiring is as follows (from front to back) Stacked master volume and tone Volume Model One (pull phase switch) Volume SPB2 (pull series/parallel between SPB2 and Ultra Jazz) Volume Ultra Jazz (Pull phase switch) Tone control = Sprague orange drop. Poss trade for a solid body 6-string electric guitar. cheers!
  4. Both basses taken now pending blah blah etc. Thanks chaps!
  5. Precision is now traded pending. Bob Glaub is now up for sale only £550.00.
  6. Ampeg soldering is CRAP. I have a Korean SVT3pro. It actually sounds very nice indeed, very loud and SVT warm (I understand these can be a bit hit and miss for volume and tone). The first few months when I took it in the van to gigs it was constantly going wrong due to dry solder joints. It was in M J Still in Hove about 3 or 4 times getting them redone. Seems to have settled down now, hasn't gone wrong for about a year despite some bumpy van rides. I use the Markbass at the rehearsal studio now just to save moving it and tempting fate though, and just save the Ampeg for gigs. I'd buy a Markbass instead as they are light and punchy and reliable, but there's something extra about the Ampeg I just can't let go of....
  7. A single pickup 3 EQ is £1500 in GAK, so IMHO £750.00 is not unreasonable at all for a bass of this stature. Good luck with the sale!
  8. [quote name='Rustyhornpipe' timestamp='1360354596' post='1969342'] If you want a USA Jazz in your life for the P let me know. Cheers. [/quote] I'd love one, Jazz's are my favourite basses and I don't have one right now. Unfortunately it's not the sound my band need right now, so i can't afford to get one
  9. [quote name='cocco' timestamp='1360400087' post='1969739'] No problem, it's sort of flea ish in design, graphite neck, 2 Hot j pickups, she's a funk machine! [/quote] PM'd re: Status
  10. [quote name='tredders' timestamp='1360355624' post='1969377'] That's my old Bob Glaub, and it's an absolutely beauty. I loved that bass - I'm actually tempted to buy it back.... [/quote] It is a beaut alright and I have looked after it. It's been my dropped D bass for the newer Nate stuff (he used a Glaub in Wasting Light). I'm skint though, and these are my two most valuable basses, so it's a hipshot for the old Highway One if I'm to get an active bass.
  11. [quote name='cocco' timestamp='1360364044' post='1969560'] Fancy a graphite necked status energy? [/quote] I don't know! I have never played one and don't know what they sound like. I'll look into it, but I would like 'ray type bass for the sound if nothing else.
  12. [quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1360355051' post='1969356'] Hello Mr. Normal. You started a thread for these basses yesterday, and you have just started this one today. No need to start new threads all the time. You might want to try bumping your original thread every 36 hours rather than starting a new one Good luck with the sale. Cheers, Karl. [/quote] Yeah I know, that one had about a hundred looks and no replies because I was remiss with the piccies, so i thought it'd be best to let it die ;0) It would have bumped when I posted pics up anyway, but I promise to be good in the future.
  13. [url="http://s1223.beta.photobucket.com/user/maxnorma1/library/Basses%20for%20sale"]http://s1223.beta.ph...es%20for%20sale[/url] I'm after a Stingray or something similar. Nominal value for these [s]£600.00[/s] £550.00 each. Red/black/maple P-bass has a couple of minor virtually undetectable dings (not on the front of the bass, shown in pics), has an S1 switch and is all factory original. It plays remarkably well for a precision and has a very low action, about as low as i have seen on a P-bass. Sunburst Lakland Skyline Bob Glaub is immaculate and unmarked, and fitted with Lindy Fralin pickups. Plays and sounds very nicely. I got these for my Foo Fighters tribute, both from BC'ers, it's a genuinely reluctant sale, but now we are starting a new project doing some RATM and RHCP covers, so I need that Stingray sound as well! + 1 x Fender moulded hardcase and 1 x gig bag to go with these. Would be particularly interested in a 3EQ 'Ray, but practically anything considered except passive P-bass or Jazz-bass types. Will consider any interesting offers: Swap both for a decent quality active bass, swap individually for basses of similar value, or sell individually for £550.00. May downgrade to a lower value bass with some cash or goodies my way.
  14. I recently got one of these for my daughter (and then decided I quite liked it myself.....). Have you ever managed to find anyone who sells strings for the 25" scale length? They are seemingly made out of unobtanium.
  15. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NATURAL-FINISH-PRECISION-BASS-GUITAR-COPY-plus-GIG-BAG-/221143378328?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item337d2c2998 Seems a bit brazen and cheeky to sell an obvious Chinese Fender knock-off on ebay though (especially at that price!).
  16. Bought a SPB2 basslines P-bass PUP off Mark, good coms, well packaged, turned up on time, seems like a nice dude, you can certainly feel safe doing business with him.
  17. I don't read pinned topics.
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  20. In that case, the answers are already here - either use individual LEDs (in parallel, with resistors, maybe a trim pot at the start of the +ve bus and a 9v battery), or the better sounding make a trench and stick fibre optics in it and have one LED. I'm assuming that the talk of op-amps suggest the use of some kind of logic-based oscillator to animate the dots? I don't see the point for just the side markers personally. If you wanted to do this though, a programmable PIC like an arduino would seem the easiest (and potentially most controllable) method?
  21. Try [url="http://www.auroraproject.co.uk/"]http://www.auroraproject.co.uk/[/url] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here's a fibre optic unit that sticks on the back of your headstock: http://www.zazdas.com/department/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcountry=218&idproduct=2741875&idcategory=0 You get the very thin fibre optic dots in a clear rubber type thing that sticks on the outside of the neck along your side markers, and this provides the coloured light source I think. You could of course use this to power your own permanent installation and stick it in the guitar body. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.fretlord.com/shoppingcart.htm everything (including the stick-on passive glow dots), but in America. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, Bernie Goodfellow at GB guitars in Brighton does this, not sure if he does installations on other peoples basses, but he offered to install one of his active circuit boards in my frankenbass, so he might do.
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