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It was the only exception to the rule...never got a call back from the buyer, I hadn't lied but it didn't feel good.

I feel very fortunate to have a friend who is considered as the best bass repairman in our country...I showed him the Jaydee, he sighed and said that he could try to do a refret job but that at the beginning of the neck it was curled in an impossible way. He sanded down the neck, did a refret but it didn't help. Was one of the few occasions in which he couldn't help me. I've owned over 100 basses during the last 25 years but I felt really bad when I had to sell the Jaydee because I like to have satisfied customers. The new owner failed to try the upper register, otherwise I would never have gotten rid of it.

I don't know how you do it but again : this one is gorgeous and the most beautiful Alembic I've ever seen. I love buckeye burl. I used to have an Alembic but this is something else. There must be some secret well around Manchester. Hope this one works for you and makes you play with ease.. Absolutely stunning. I don't do this too often but every now and then I download pictures of basses which are stunning to look at : I don't have a lot of pictures since I'm rather picky but your Fodera and this Alembic are both in my picture collection. I'm gonna post this on a Dutch bassforum : will raise some eyebrows over there..

I bought a Jaydee years ago at the Bass Centre..I saved a long time to have one but when I had it, it was absolutely nothing but trouble. I know about the Mark King-hype at the time and there were inferior basses made but I still think that this is a disgrace and a quality-check should be obvious for every bass for every customer. Just think of someone who worked hard to get his dream bass and it turns out to be horror.. I had a lot of trouble with the neck which would twist within half an hour (took it to a bass-shop and when I came back home it had moved already). I tried everything, send it back to John Diggins (it got lost, came back severly damaged). Problems continued, had a refret job done but this just meant that the upper octave wasn't useable anymore.. No more Jaydees with refret jobs for me..

Never thought it would happen but the Celinder is no longer mine. One of the best and fastest basses I ever played but I also found myself looking for a sound less "modern" and "hi-fi". The Celinder is a jazz on steroids and sounds really Miller-ish in a superb way but after a while I realised I was looking for something else. I recently bought a Sandberg JM4 (aged relic) and the combination of the Musicman and the jazz pick-up works better for me although its sound isn't as rich as the Celinder. Yesterday the Celinder got sold to a young bass dare-devil from Holland who fell in love with it the moment he played it at my house. I guess I will regret that I sold the Celinder but this bass deserves to be played a lot and I couldn't make it my main bass (too much choice hanging on my walls + combination with bass midlife crisis)

Great chap to deal with...send him an email for some information and he took the time to send one back with every information I needed. Excellent !

About a month ago someone told me that Level 42 was playing at the Belgian coast that evening and asked if I was planning to go...I have already seen them live about 20 times so I said I wanted to stay home with a nice whisky.. My friend was very convincing and although it was raining heavily we drove to the open-air concert next to the beach. I'm not surprised anymore about what I see and hear (first time I saw them I had never heard anything like that) but although I was soaking wet, the show was great and I was glad I had made the trip. Good soundmix with plenty of bass (not thàt obvious, I've seen some terrible shows soundwise) and the more it rained the more the audience was determined to stay and enjoy the music.. Good songs, great musicianship and lovely bassplaying (that bass-line of Love Games still sounds as fresh as it did in the eighties). I'll always be a Level 42 fan and they still mean a lot to me in my musical directions. Love that b-side : The return of the handsome rugged man.

Paul McCartney..things like "Mrs Vanderbilt" with a very prominent bass.

I put nearly every control in the center, maybe add a little bass but the rest is almost flat (taste also in the middle). Compression is off and every bass I have used sounds great.. Only funny thing is that some basses hardly need any gain (?). Not that I get distorted sounds but the light clips quickly. Doesn't affect the sound though... Have used the Tecamp a lot and I get good reactions from the different bands and engineers I work with.

Great basses and I admire your taste...love the blue one, absolutely gorgeous.