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Totally forgot to leave this feedback for Rich, I bought his Fender Musicmaster off him and a lovely smooth transaction, top bloke to deal with and we had a good Basschat on the phone. Cheers,Brian
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Maybe it would be better Andy if we swapped houses and that would save on the postage 😉
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soooo nice, does it stay or does it go now LOL
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Mmmmm BB Jazz, what colour
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I bought yet another of @AndyTravis basses, his Tune and a lovely instrument it is. He does buy some good stock and I have my eye on the 1600😜 only jesting Andy. Well packed as usual and in good clean condition Top bloke Cheers Andy
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Sorry, I meant apart from me and @AndyTravis
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Does that make me the only one to have owned all 3, still have the 1300
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Just bought Andy's Yamaha SB-55, as alway a super smooth transaction , well packed and good conversations in between. I have another one in the post from him as we seem to have the same taste in Basses but I know that whatever he sells me it will be top notch and in good clean condition.. Cheers Andy
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that BB sounds great Andy, you bagged that one before me LOL, nice playing by the way....
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I had been looking at that BB1600 Andy and noticed in pic4 that the frets were quite green and indicated the fretboard was quite filthy and lots of DNA so you had a bit of work to do on it by the looks of things, in spite of the issues are you happy with the sound...
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Could I tempt you Andy with a BB300 in Black, a cracker little bass with ££ your way...
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I bought a set of Chromes off @PaulHornBass good speedy delivery and a gent to deal with Thanks Paul
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Have a look at this post from 3 years ago. Tune Guitar Technology started the ball rolling in Japan. Kawai,SGC Nanyo,Washburn and Ibanez quickly started with their takes on the Maniac. Late 80's Tune Guitar Tech got the contract for the Levinson Blades so started importing necks and bodies from Korea. This gave them more time for Levinson. At the end complete basses were imported from Korea. Then Tune goes tits up. The Koreans keep building under the Tune Guitar Technology name. Some luthiers in Japan started using Tune templates and called themselves Tune Guitar Maniac,they claim they own the Tune brand but the Koreans dispute this saying they had a "gentleman's agreement" to produce Tune basses. Said Gentleman being dead nobody knows the truth 😃 Upshot is there's a factory in Korea building Tunes and a luthier custom shop in Japan building Tunes,up until recently the Japanese shop still bought it's hardware from the Koreans. The so-called "bad blood" between the two is mostly the product of owners with Japanese built Tunes. Not surprising, I think Fender Master Built owners would get upset with MIM Fender owners claiming there's no difference between their basses. A basic Tune Maniac from Japan will be built by a small team and maybe fired in their PLEK machine, photos of it featured a lot on their FB page along with fancy inlay work on folk's Strats and LPs. It'll cost you about £1200 before shipping and VAT/import duty. £1500 shouldn't be far of the mark. A basic Korean Tune Maniac can be had from Ned at VSN in Canada for £404. With Shipping/tax etc £650 easy. A few years back Sam Ash over in the USA wanted to buy the brand name for another budget line of theirs. The Koreans said no and SA had a fire sale on Tune products,can't say if that was a deliberate attempt to damage the Tune brand name but that was the effect it had in the US.Both are recovering with the Japanese holding the upper hand,given the fantastic value they are for a hand built bass 👍 Fine basses no matter the flavour -
haha you still have a way to go yet Andy, I still fell like a kid most of the time 😂 -
The 32inch Chromes might suit me for a short scale bass so I will take these off your hands... -
That was one of my worries too as I use headphones when practicing along with tracks at home, but I usually keep them slightly above my ears, hopefully this is fine
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Everything you mentioned above @Bolo is my goal as I head towards retirement after Christmas, and hopefully these recommendations will take me to a better place so that I can enjoy my spare time with my favourite hobby, fixing up basses and a little bit of playing of course
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Totally agree with the stress related lockdown syndrome as mine got worse after a long time working from home and my marriage breakup. I managed to get to sleep OK with it and when I woke up it took about half an hour to kick in but lately its been starting to wake me up in the morning and lasts all day, no distractions at home to take my mind off it except the hi-fi and some Rush to ease the ringing. Great on a Friday and Saturday night when I have a few bevvies as this seems to relax me enough to forget all about it but you can't drink every night 🤷♂️ so its a case of embracing it so I might give the meditation a go...
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Sold a Jazz bass loom to Tony , nice smooth transaction and very quick payment, top bloke to deal with. Thanks Tony
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@Sambrook I bought the Dean B2 from Sean and it was a pleasure doing the deal with him, Bass is wonderful and well packaged, a gentleman to deal with Thanks Sean
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Cheers Karl... -
Thanks Andy, lovely bass to play, I will be sorry to se it go
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I bought Seans Yamaha Jazz bass, was exactly as described and a great deal, well packaged and a very smooth transaction. Gentleman to deal with
