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GuyR

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  1. Beautifully expressed. Any assistant in a music store who thinks that trying to intimidate customers with their Mark King party-piece makes a sale more likely has no place in a service industry, nor some may say, unincarcerated. NB If actual Mark King has ever worked in a music shop, he gets an honourable exception.
  2. I could find house room for this, and because I have an almost identical example, certain parties need never notice……..
  3. Maybe circa £3500 with the stripped finish. Lovely looking bass.
  4. Lots of good suggestions, I often just don’t bother plugging in, or use an old zoom multi-fx. One point worth making, I’m sure many of us here suffer from tinnitus, mine was 100% caused by headphones. Go easy on the volume, particularly over extended periods. Once the damage is done, it is irreversible.
  5. Sorry to hear your very sad news. Depending on where you are in the UK, Bass Gallery Camden, Andy Baxter Leeds, ATB guitars Cheltenham would all be worth a visit. The value depends heavily on whether any changes or modifications have been made and that’s not reliably done by only sending photos. £5k ish if it’s original in good order is the ballpark, if it is in the standard sunburst finish. More if it is a different colour.
  6. Another for Hi Beams. They are the zingiest and they last for ages. I use them on all my basses
  7. If you buy a second hand bass, you should btw, spend £40 having it set up. Any local guitar/bass shop will be able to do this in house or recommend a local tech. Have it set up to be easy to play and your initial learning will not be unnecessarily impeded. Welcome and good luck!!
  8. Firstly, I’m very sorry to hear about your Dad. Re the bass, a friend of mine asked me to dispose of a black 6 string marathon bass for him about 4 years ago. I posted a thread here asking for advice and took it to a shop where they looked online and recommended £1200 as a sensible price based on what little evidence there was and it was sold. I received a number of messages of interest subsequently and I am confident a significantly higher price around £2000 might have been achievable. In the same situation again I would eBay it. I understand it is a very rare instrument, so make sure it gets full exposure to get the best price. Happy to forward the enquiries to you. Link to my thread from 2018
  9. As someone who suffers from w@nker intolerance, I have a similar reaction to that phrase
  10. They are all real. The basses both have provenances going back 25 years. The Strat doesn’t, but has been examined in detail by vintage dealers and found authentic. The white 62 Jazz was bought from Randy Hope-Taylor and saw use with Jeff Beck, a few changed components but original finish, the CAR 65 I bought around 2010, but subsequently found out that one of our own members @Kazan had been a former custodian. It was great to find out further detail about past owners and meet an interesting musician and gentleman into the bargain. As you can tell, I do like a worn finish. Too much at stake with an immaculate bass!!
  11. GuyR

    Why? oh Why?

    They could do a lot better in my opinion. I wouldn’t criticise other people’s choices but to me Fender CS relics are unconvincing, the necks usually being less authentic than the bodies, especially the belt sander effect.
  12. First time it sold in 2012, there were a number of his basses in the shop. I remember there being a Wal, an Ibanez I think, and a few others. It was priced at £2900, which was about £1000 or so over the going rate. Pino had owned it for about 20 years and it had been used only when his main bass was in for work, he couldn’t give any detail of particular gigs or sessions. When it next sold about 2 years or so ago, the gallery recommended asking £5000, based on their educated guess of what the market might bear. It didn’t sell for a couple of months, then they received an offer of £4250 which seems reasonable, maybe £1500 over the going rate. It is a very clean and original example, and plays as you would expect. I keep an eye on the gallery website, I’m pretty sure this is the only Pino Stingray they have had for sale.
  13. It’s very seldom you see a genuine non-sunburst slab 62 for sale. Last one I am aware of was the fiesta red one ATB sold quickly a few years ago asking £30k. Fair value for such a rarefied bass, if rules permit me to comment, and I have no doubt ATB will find a buyer if nobody here has sufficiently deep pockets/a sufficiently understanding wife. Pmjos, you are a gentleman of taste.
  14. I have bought a couple of very nice guitars there. If you post a decent description including weight and good photos it should sell, priced right. With something as expensive as a masterbuilt, I would leave it on consignment with one of the custom shop importers, like Peach or Coda. They will have the right buyers and should get a price that covers the commission, compared with a private sale. Or just keep it.🙂You can’t have too many nice guitars.
  15. Are you posting this because you have been back the Gallery to ask them to resolve the situation and they have refused to?
  16. No need. Just repeat it slowly and loudly in a cockney accent, like we do in France.
  17. It's not mine, buI think this deserves to be back at the top of the list..........
  18. If I were looking for a fully handbuilt relic JB, I wouldn’t look any further than the Bravewood in the classifieds. If you don’t bond with it, it would be difficult to lose any significant money. I have had one, they are great. I have had CS - also very good, but the Bravewood felt more like an authentic original.
  19. The 64 you are referring to is a refin. An original finish one would be worth significantly more, although your overall point is an interesting one.
  20. What a ludicrous notion. That’s for your children to do once you are dead, surely? Nobody actually buys a vintage bass as an investment, it’s a convenient delusional justification.
  21. There is a great deal of sense being spoken in this thread. IMO, You might generally make more by using the value of a fine vintage bass or three as the deposit for a buy to let property, which may pay for itself by the time you retire and give you an index linked income in perpetuity, as well as a legacy. On the other hand, moderate sums of money which would otherwise lie unproductive in an account or investment product, effectively diminishing in value and making some other bugger richer, are proving a better return, while also improving the quality of your life tied up in an item of pre-CBS eye/ear candy. Vintage basses are not currently subject to capital gains tax and I am not aware of any plans on the part of the chancellor in that direction. With houses, pensions and investment products, sadly you are a sitting duck for unwelcome HMRC fiscal pickpocketry, the tax laws changing with the wind. Of course, no guarantee of future value on anything you do with your money, but if you have a rack full of fine vintage basses and/or guitars, the feel-good factor might insulate you against a sizeable slice of fiscal vicissitude.
  22. Bass gallery usually has a decent number of early-mid 70s examples. Andy Baxter is worth a look too.
  23. A further thought re refretting; If you continue to use your bass with low frets, wear on the fingerboard is greatly accelerated. At some point you are going to have to replace the frets. Don’t necessitate replacement of the fingerboard too.
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