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Maybe I should have asked more than £5k for my ex-Pino stingray?

7 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

I posted this a while ago. All your puny efforts are amateur hour - this is expensive!!

https://www.guitarbroker.com/product/1979-musicman-stingray-fretless-bass/

No wonder my ex-Pino one sold so quick price at £5k

4 minutes ago, Iacopo San said:

Does it mention the openly racist comments throughout his careers or are these omitted?

It gives a brief but seemingly frank and contrite account of that and Clapton speaks candidly about the shame he has for his conduct. BB King's on stage tribute to Clapton as the "Most gracious man I have ever met" gives his assertion a level of credibility.

Only Clapton knows the truth, but I'd give him the benefit of any doubt based on the interview.

That was a great buy. Well done!!

8 hours ago, ped said:

 

To this day I still have that 'one' bass that I know is just perfect for me, but it doesn't 100% stop me wanting to buy and experiment with others too, so that way I look at it is that I have MY bass, and sometimes one or two others that I play with for fun, but I never buy them for keeps, and can easily slim right back to that one bass at any point.

There are so many other areas of interest this applies to. The word "bass" could be substituted for so many others......

1 hour ago, Dov65 said:

Always try in a shop then online for cheapest price, 

If I have tried something in a shop and I like it enough to buy it, I will buy it there. I am happy to pay for the service I have received in trying the instrument in person. I always haggle and I always get some discount.

If we continue to treat shops as a showroom for the Internet, our specialist retailers will continue to diminish in number, our high streets will continue to fill with charity shops and we will continue to pay higher taxes to compensate for the loss of jobs and business rates, while Jeff Bezos gets ever richer......

Sorry, I have gone on a bit of a rant there, definitely not a pop at you Dov65😀, It applies to most forms of retail.

Lovely bass, very attractive price. Gone by tomorrow.

I have always liked the look of this fabulous bass. Sadly  for me it is not a Jazz Bass.

The price is very reasonable. As with the other basses you have listed.

I'm surprised it has not sold yet.

GLWTS

6 hours ago, Flat Al said:

The greatest gig in the sky - Pink Floyd.

 

This and "where were you" by Jeff Beck

7 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

Must admit I have found this myself (A terrible ‘63 comes to mind), but of those that I thought were great, nothing currently available (new) compares tonally. 

I had until recently a Bravewood and currently have a CS relic. I prefer the originals. 

6 hours ago, martthebass said:

I wish I hadn't seen this thread, got me thinking about a Bravewood Jazz.  I don't need one, I don't need one, I don't need one........

Of course you do. It is pointless to resist. 

5 hours ago, OliverBlackman said:

I’ve actually found a huge difference between Fender basses, even between ones produced in the same run (such is the lack of QC).

IMO, with the 60’s and 70’s basses, it isn’t just hype.

 

There is a lot of variation between 60s models, and some are much better than others, based on the sample I have played and own. I do like them and I also used to have a Morris Minor

34 minutes ago, owen said:

I have a 66J which is very mature. I had a Bravewood P. If I could get on with a P nut I would still own it. It ticked all the same boxes as my J does. All of them. 

My Bravewood J didn't equal any of my pre-cbs Jazzes. My Bravewood Strat is spectacularly good. Sadly I don't have a pre cbs Strat yet to compare it with.

Agreed a good Bravewood is a formidable thing.

1 minute ago, Rexel Matador said:

It was once stolen and left in a ditch. Also he supposedly had unusually acidic sweat. Both probably contributed. Incidentally the worst relic job, if you can even call it that, I've ever seen, is the Rory Gallagher custom shop strat where it looks like they've just masked off and applied finish in the appropriate areas, rather than finishing the whole thing and then sanding it off. Only three grand to you sir.

That is the story often quoted, but I doubt his sweat was ever PH tested. Leaving it in a ditch would not have helped. Definitely human gunk has softened the finish on my bass.

Agreed re the Gallagher CS Strat. It is not to my taste, but if it gives pleasure to others, it can't be a bad thing.

In my opinion, the most realistic distressing on a guitar finish I have handled is by Clive Brown.  To me, both neck and body indistinguishable from the real thing, of which I have several. His CAR reproduces the straightish parallel checking lines particular to this finish and LPB perfectly. A couple of examples below. I tried the 65, the finish was fantastic

https://guitar-auctions.co.uk/portfolio-post/lot-66-1960-fender-stratocaster-electric-guitar-made-in-usa/

https://guitar-auctions.co.uk/portfolio-post/lot-32-1965-fender-stratocaster-electric-guitar-made-in-usa/

Bravewood is also very good, particularly the neck finish, which is similar to Clive Brown's.

Fender relics are OK. The body wear is reasonably convincing, albeit the checking usually exaggerated. The simulated neck wear is generally poor, with the unrealistic belt-sander look with definite pronounced edges that I have never seen on genuine examples. 

The OP's 38 year old Aria, like my 38 year old jv squier, has a poly finish which is much tougher than the nitro finishes most relic finishes are trying to simulate. It will probably never look remotely like a relic. 

Re the Rory Gallagher guitar,  my strong expectation is that most of the finish came off when the guitar was being cleaned over the years. You would never get significant wear where on that guitar the finish is completely gone.

If the finish on a genuine nitro fender gets dirty and gunky, the finish softens and the gunk becomes part of the finish. Any attempt to clean it after that can result in the top layers of lacquer and some of the colour coat coming off, exposing the base coat. I have a 64 I have gently tried to clean, using nothing more aggressive than a soft duster and spit and a patch of the red in the sunburst came straight off. I smile when I see old guitars and basses where this has obviously happened and it is presented or discussed as play-wear.

I'd always wondered what went on in church.

Lovely looking bass. I like that your wife is an "enabler"

I was very tempted by your AVRI and surprised it took a while to find a buyer.

It's a new fingerboard. It would have had a curved thin fingerboard and the whole of the truss rod would have originally been within the maple part of the neck. It appears to have a slab type fingerboard, which is 100% a replacement.

Still looks a nice bass though.

On 2 May 2020 at 02:26, tauzero said:

Photos will have to come later...

The oldest guitar I have is an Eko Ranger 6 from the 80s, owned from new - I had an older Ranger 12, which I sold, I think because the front was bellying out. This has a vinyl scratchplate instead of the hefty plastic one of the earlier Rangers.

Other skinny-stringers in approximate age order:

Yamaha 12-string acoustic

Line 6 Variax 300 with Roland pickup

Crafter 6-string acoustic

Line 6 James Tyler Variax - JTV59 (Les Paul-ish shape)

Tanglewood 6-string acoustic

Peavey autotune AT-200

Harley Benton 6-string classical

There's also a Hohner G3T awaiting resurrection and a brandless Ebay headless awaiting assembly

Incidentally, one problem with lockdown is that Mrs Zero (furloughed) has been doing a major tidy-up on the house and consequently has been able to count how many guitars and basses I have.

 

You might wish to consider "furloughing" Mrs Zero.

All on stands for me, all over the house at least one in each principal room. Cases all in storage in the loft. I do cover up the pre cbs custom colour ones to protect the finish from sunlight. Apart from making it zero effort to pick one up, I am constantly reminded of any neglected basses and I enjoy looking at them, not as much as playing them of course, but they are still eye-candy.

Hard luck on that - don't beat yourself up too much. It was an accident and so easy to be wise after the event. A definite warning to others though, I have absolutely avoided any form of unnecessary risk recently. That is what I have been telling the Mrs anyway.

I hope your op goes well and wish you a full and speedy recovery. 

Got a small number. Only have one  poor picture of them all.

62 Casino. Long term loaner. Never going home.

84 jv squier strat. Super light

66 Tele

Bravewood Strat

Godin A6

Love that. Tell us (much) more.

There seems to be a consensus.

This forum remains, thank goodness, a haven of relative common sense and almost exclusive good will. Long may it continue.

did you go and see them all? Do I win the prize?