police squad

Go for it Paul. Look forward to hearing the results mate

Was that the pickup based on the early 70s. If so it is the best sounding p pick up Ive heard

actually all their own brand strings are dirt cheaper guitar sets from £1.30!! change them every gig at that price but I've recently bought 50 sets from a closing down JHS so I'm done for strings now might try a set of these flats though

surely no one would ever think of such a thing😂

Having had a few emails with Frank, we have acertained that this wasn't his,as he had modified the side dots

yes mate defo factory. I'm wondering if this is actually Frank Allen's bass. My band mate bought it from Frank about 35 years ago but he passed away a long time ago, so there isn't anyone to ask It has dot markers for every fret, which is annoying because it makes finding 3,5,7,12 etc quite hard

what's that, a 700 I've google image searched and cannot find any pictures of a blue fretless TSB550 except the ebay listing I got this from

truss rod is stuck still may take a trip to my guy, he'll have more tricks to do to this than me

With my thanks going to @HeadlessBassist for agreeing to collect this from Rotherham and meet me at Membury services (mentioned positively in the 2019 Gavin and Stacey here is a 1981 Aria TSB 550. I have only ever seen one other fretless one of these in this colour and it belonged to Frank Allen from The Searchers. Undergoing some TLC as the truss rod is seized atm So 3 in 1 oil into it and fingers crossed I can sort it 32 inch scale and MB 3 pickup

for those old enough to remember Hissing Sid is innocent

not who but what Dingwall road worn single cut basses class d oh there's probably a new Fender bass, based on an old fender bass, with or without a Fender logo, made somewhere else in a factory, somewhere

42

if it's anything like the 43 quid strat, it'll be banging

sounds like a good result to me

it looks great

There's a bass on ebay but it's collection only in Rotherham. Is there any possibilty of a BC relay possibly, to get it nearer to Kent thank you

yep I got the 5th week email too

nearly!! the low res picture makes em look odd

It turned a few heads, especially the head of R&D who is a design sepcialist

it could be. not so many images on google of the PB

that's quite good actually

are the inserts glued or pressed in, or both?

I think the HH is a 250 watt Bass Machine combo having googled images

me too. I do the odd dep in covers bands so get to use the other basses outside of the tribute stuff