GrammeFriday

I bought Andy's olympic white USA Fender Jazz way back in September 2012. Being a total noob at the time, I did not know about the BC seller feedback forum so did not post any feedback then. A year and a bit older, and a little wiser, I am posting this now to belatedly confirm what everyone else above has already said. Andy is a total gent, who guided me extremely patiently through the whole process - I had never bought anything via BC before, and the workings of the UPS courier service were entirely new to me at the time. (I did say I was a noob!) The Jazz turned up bang on time, was exactly as described (i.e. "lovely"), and was in a hard case so thoroughly swaddled in bubble wrap that you could have dropped it off a tall building without damaging the contents even slightly. Buy with confidence, and big up Andy!

O. M. G.
Stunning!

Mine's ash. Sounds killer.

Here's the jaw-dropping Mr Bubby Lewis demoing a CRB5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-QghArVVo

Yeah, can't go wrong with a decent 2ndhand P-bass, if you want 2ndhand, and as long as you try before you buy. But if it doesn't have to say 'Fender' on the headstock, you could consider getting a really excellent brand new instrument that is very well suited to the sounds you are into: the MTD Kingston CRB. You can get one for £429 from Bass Direct. That's a hell of a lot of bass for the money there.

Yup - Sandberg, no brainer.

Bass Direct has some absolute peaches for sale right now, my favourite being this:

http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Sandberg_TT4_HCA_Roq.html

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He looks like my Dad, circa 1970
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He looks like me, circa 1970!
OK I exaggerate a bit - I was only six at the time - but I'm pretty sure I had a pair of very similar specs then.

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Lets Rock!

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Bloody hell! Memory Lane! And on a Saturday morning, as well! Thanks for that, Billy Apple - made my day, there!

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this'll wake you up. astonishing playing.

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The drummer is rocking those glasses!

Tort
... or how about white pearloid? Looks very nice on the Hamburglar Precision currently up for sale here:
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/219148-cheeky-hamburglar-fotoflame-mij-fender-precision-19945-l475-ono/"]http://basschat.co.u...19945-l475-ono/[/url]

If money were truly no object, you could do both!

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I can wholheartedly endorse Dr T on this . All Music Man basses have got massive bottom end - including the single pickup Stingray- but the more recent models have got a low end response that has a deeper dimension than most other basses on the market . The bass on my Reflex HH is huge , as is that on the Bongo HH, . The HSS and SSS available on some basses configurations are probably even deeper , so if you dig the really low stuff , EBMM is the way to go .
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Agreed. The bassiest frequencies from my single humbucker EBMM SR4 are truly trouser-flapping, but with clarity to match - not muddy at all. Killer bottom end.

Lovely colour combo, and a billy bargain price!

As others have said above, it doesn't necessarily follow that big hands = thick neck, or small hands = thin neck, for that matter. Actually, I'm not even sure that you need to 'take sides' on the thick vs thin question at all. My MIJ Jazz has a very slim neck profile, and my Stingray has a pretty chunky one, but I love playing both, and don't find either of them any easier or more difficult to play - I just see these differences as part and parcel of the 'personalities' of these two instruments, and I've always enjoyed the challenge of adapting my playing style to suit whatever bass it is I happen to be playing at the time.

Thanks, TRBboy and ezbass.
Talking of black hardware, I did toy with the idea of swapping the chrome hardware on the fretless for black for a while, but that urge to spend unnecessary money on a purely (and possibly futile)cosmetic exercise seems to have faded away now, thankfully! But I will own a bass with black hardware at some point - maybe my next Sandberg!

If money were no object, I'd use my unlimited funds to attempt to buy Bernard Edwards' Stingray from John Taylor.

If he refused to sell at any price, then I'd settle for an MTD 635-24.

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Here's my twins. Fender Steve Harris P Bass (2010, added SPB-4 Steve Harris pickups and graph tech black tusq nut) and a Westfield P Bass that's been, ahem, slightly modified (CTS pots, SPB-1 pick up, graph tech black tusq nut and of course a mirrored pick guard). Fender straps with scarf sock covers too.

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Lovely ... but what's with the Leeds Utd socks? Should be West Ham, surely?!

My California TM fretless:

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As tight a neck pocket as I've ever seen on a Jazz-style bass:

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Normally I prefer gloss finishes on Fender-style basses but this satin job has really grown on me - and much to my surprise seems to be more durable - not a sign of buckle rash on the back!

Oh, and by the way, it sounds fantastic ...

Hey, TRBboy! Just catching up with this thread and was looking at your post of 5th September, and thinking 'great specs, but wrong choice of hardware - black would be much nicer with the cherryburst' - and then reading on and lo and behold you went with the black! Excellent choice! This bass is going to be a thing of beauty and wonder. Please show pics when it arrives!

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I'm surprised you think the Squier/Fenders have narrow string spacing, they are some of the chunkiest 5ers around. Definitely avoid Yamaha and Ibanez if you want a chunky neck.
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+1

My Jazz twins:

1) sonic blue MIJ 62 reissue, dating from 1993-94, bought from eBay in July 2012
2) oly white MiA, 2010, bought via Basschat in Sept 2012



As is usually the case with twins, it was not part of the plan to have two - the story is that I bought the first one and enjoyed playing it so much that I thought I would upgrade to an MIA and flog the MIJ. So, as soon as an MIA in my favourite Oly White/Tort/Rosewood combo appeared in 'Basses for Sale' I pounced. And it was indeed a superior instrument in every respect: high mass bridge instead of BBOT, much better pickups, much better taper on the tone control (the MIJ is either on or off, basically), better fretboard radius and thus lower action, alder body rather than basswood or whatever it is the MIJ is made of ... etc etc. And yet ... I keep coming back to Sonic the Wonderjazz (as it is now known in my family) and am now even contemplating selling the MIA on again, as it is hard to justify having both. But whenever I get the MIA out again I think 'Oooh, this is nice, maybe I should revert to plan A and sell the MIJ", and here I am a year later, still in possession of twins! I'm so weak ...

This sounds pretty good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shHywjPn_I8
£246.00 from GAK - enough change for a couple of sets of strings too!

'Apocalypse' by Thundercat.

Pictures, please!

Be still, my beating heart! What a bass!