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  1. Skinnyman
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    That is a lovely looking bass, especially with the tort guard. The American Specials are incredible value so GLWTS and have a free bump on me
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    No love for the Fender so now back on the wall..... Price now reduced to £1400. I'm not prepared to go below this so if there's no interest this week I'll put it back on the wall and just look at it.... This is hard, soooo hard.... ....but two new basses have moved in so two must go out and the first out is my absolutely beautiful Fender Select Active Jazz. It's the 2013 model and I've copied the technical specs below. I bought the bass brand new last year and have gigged it just once. It's in immaculate condition - I cannot see a mark on it anywhere. It comes with a Fender Select logo'd G&G vintage tweed case which is in equally good condition - the bass lives in a cheapo Kinsman case and the G&G case lives in its dust cover up in the spare room. Yes, I know. I am that sad..... It's a beatiful thing to play and I love the flexibility of the active/passive electrics and in an ideal world I'd keep it just for the looks. But I don't use it anywhere near as much as a bass this beautiful deserves, so it has to go. I'm not keen on posting this so I'd prefer collection or - provided you're not In Lands End or John O'Groats - delivery for a small charge to cover petrol. I'm in South Lincs but travel to London daily so I'm sure it'll be possible to work something out.... Some pics - note: Kitten not included.... [attachment=175888:SAM_0018.JPG] [attachment=175890:SAM_0017.JPG] [attachment=175891:SAM_0019.JPG] [attachment=175893:SAM_0021.JPG] [attachment=175892:SAM_0020.JPG] [attachment=175894:SAM_0028.JPG] [attachment=175895:SAM_0032.JPG] [attachment=175896:SAM_0025.JPG] And the description.... [b] Fender Select Active Jazz Bass (Tobacco Sunburst)[/b] The highly acclaimed Fender Select series introduces an all-new lineup for 2013. These finely crafted guitars and basses put decades of Fender expertise on display, with elegant features and design options for discerning musicians everywhere. Experience the latest figured tops, beautiful finishes, choice tone woods, figured and quartersawn maple necks with compound-radius fingerboards, an innovative new "inlaid" fingerboard design on two of the models, specially voiced pickups, and several new first-rate features that mark Fender's top-line best as remarkable instruments. Like its passive-electronics 2012 predecessor, the Fender Select Active Jazz Bass® takes our most versatile bass to new heights of elegance and power. Its alder body has a flame maple top and a beautiful hand-stained Tobacco Sunburst finish with gloss-lacquer topcoat. The modern "C"-shaped quartersawn maple neck has a comfortable contoured heel, satin lacquer finish and Posiflex™ graphite support rods; the compound-radius rosewood fingerboard (9.5"-14") has 20 medium jumbo frets and stylish white pearloid block position inlays. Other premium features include dual Fender Select Jazz Bass single-coil pickups, active/passive mini-toggle switch, master volume knob and pickup pan knob, three-band active EQ (treble, mid and bass boost/cut knobs), three-ply parchment pickguard, high-mass vintage-style bridge (strings-through-body or top-load), vintage-style tuners with tapered shafts, and Fender Select headstock medallion. [b] Fender Select Active Jazz Bass Features:[/b][list] [*][b]Body Shape[/b]: Jazz Bass® [*][b]Neck Shape[/b]: Modern "C" [*][b]Number of Frets[/b]: 20 [*][b]Fret Size[/b]: Medium Jumbo [*][b]Position Inlays[/b]: White Pearloid Block [*][b]Fingerboard Radius[/b]: 9.5"-14" Compound Radius (241 mm-355.6 mm) [*][b]Fingerboard[/b]: Rosewood [*][b]Neck Material[/b]: Graphite Reinforced Maple [*][b]Nut Width[/b]: 1.5" (38.1 mm) [*][b]Scale Length[/b]: 34" (864 mm) [*][b]Neck Plate[/b]: 4-Bolt [*][b]Truss Rods[/b]: Modern Heel Adjust [*][b]Bridge Pickup[/b]: Fender Select Single-Coil Jazz Bass® [*][b]Neck Pickup[/b]: Fender® Select Single-Coil Jazz Bass® [*][b]Pickup Switching[/b]: Pan Pot [*][b]Controls[/b]: [list] [*]Master Volume [*]Pan Control [*]Three-Band Active EQ with Treble Boost/Cut, Bass Boost/Cut and Mid Boost/Cut [*]Active/Passive Mini-Toggle Switch [/list][*][b]Hardware Finish[/b]: Chrome [*][b]Bridge[/b]: High Mass Vintage (String-Through-Body or Topload) [*][b]String Nut[/b]: Synthetic Bone [*][b]Tuning Machines[/b]: Fender®/Hipshot® Vintage Keys with Tapered Shafts [*][b]Control Knobs[/b]: Vintage Style Black Plastic Jazz Bass® [*][b]Strings[/b]: Fender® USA, NPS, (Gauges .045-.100) [*][b]Unique Features[/b]: Neck Heel Contour, Fender Select Headstock Medallion, Stealth "A" String Retainer [/list]
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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1415384834' post='2599871'] Ive got a 9.2 Shuttlemax [/quote] And I've got a 12 so nyah :-) Actually, that's a good point about pickup height. My American Standard suffered from exactly that problem when I got it. Mind you, it was the worst set up new bass I've ever come across. I'm sure Mr Fender didn't let it go out the factory like that.
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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1415380740' post='2599822'] I want it to sound like the squier one I sold! Really happy with the way it plays and the build though, just needs beefing up, never had the volume knobs so high on any of my amps! I'm running the bass nearly flat out on the shuttle 3.0. [/quote] You need a Shuttle 6.2 :-)
  7. Skinnyman
    [quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1414972634' post='2595308'] True. But I'm sure if you wanted, they'd make an unlined one. [/quote] But they'd probably charge extra for it.
  8. Skinnyman
    Where are you based?
  9. Skinnyman
    Interesting.... Thanks guys. Ead raises an interesting point. If you ignore the frets, are Dingwalls worth the money? I know that's a very subjective thing but, leaving aside the frets, does a Dingwall stack up alongside an Overwater/Sei/Sandberg etc at around the same price point? If I do get one then it's definitely going to be secondhand. Probably a super J if I can find one when and if I'm ready to buy. There's a couple on here at the moment which are lovely looking things but, realistically, I think I'm going to be a few months off getting anything, assuming that I can get my own sold first....
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    I had a go on a Dingwall Super P/J last week and loved it. The fanned fret system makes soooo much sense and was completely intuitive. So I'm now seriously toying with the idea of getting one. I'll have to sell a couple of basses first (or a kidney) but assuming that I can raise the readies my worry is that I'll get so used to the fanned fret system that I'll find it difficult to play a "normal" bass. Does anyone else swap regularly between the two? How do you find it adjusting from one to the other? And does anyone have any experience yet of the Chinese-made Dingwalls? I'm wondering if they're a decent entry into Dingworld? Or would I be better off selling the Fenders and splurging the lot on one really nice "normal" bass?
  11. Skinnyman
    Very nice. I love the burst. You really can't beat a good passive.... Sounds like you had a fun day - hope the gig goes well. Now you've pulled the trigger, I guess that's the end of this thread then :-) Enjoy the new bass!
  12. Skinnyman
    [quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1414856494' post='2594018'] Bass has been bought. Question is... What has he bought?? [/quote] And.....?
  13. Skinnyman
    Collected the Sei from the Gallery tonight. Nicely set up by Martin and fitted with a nice new set of flats. Hmmmm.... Mind you, walking from there to Kings Cross in order to get the train back home to fenland, it weighs a bloody ton. Or maybe I'm just out of shape. Cunningly, when I turned up, Martin hadn't quite finished setting it up. So I had a half hour to mooch round the shop with an invitation to "try whatever you fancy". So they have a Dingwall 4 string in Quality Street orange (probably not the real name for the colour but that's what it looks like....). With the fan frets and all. OMFG - that's got to be the easiest bass I've ever played. They frets look weird but they are totally natural. So now I have to let Mrs Skinnyman get used to the Sei before I sell all my other basses and get that Dingwall. Curse you, Bass Gallery! At least let me get one bass out of my system before you give me GAS for another. So be warned, do not go to the Gallery....they will tempt you and draw you in and then they own your soul! Mrs S is well impressed with the light up fret board on the Sei. She is a tart.
  14. Skinnyman
    [quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1414689220' post='2592308'] Red strings too I see. [/quote] Someone must have thought they were a good idea. They're coming straight off.
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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1414687973' post='2592290'] That will be the bass that was discussed early on in this thread, if it had been blue with chrome hardware I'd have bought that unseen! [/quote] It was. And I'd sort of discounted it as it didn't have a maple neck with blocks and wasn't in Olympic White or metallic blue. But then I played it.... The other one on my possibles list was an Overwater that's listed on the OW website under the special offers tab. lake placid blue, RW neck and tort guard. Brand new at £1835. Only thing that put me off a bit was the weight (10lb) and the guard. But I figured I could order a white pearloid guard for it if necessary and eat my Shredded Wheat. But then I played the Sei....
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    Went into the Bass Gallery earlier in the week and tried out an Overwater and a Sei. Both beautiful to look at and play. The Overwater was probably the better spec but I just fell in love with the Sei. That ebony board and the neck are just a joy to play. Been thinking about it all week. Just called up Martin and pulled the trigger.... I'm not sure the taste police will approve - CAR with gold hardware and light up red led fret markers. I'd have preferred something just a little more understated but then it's not as if there are hundreds of these to choose from.... Life's too short not to have that bass in my life.
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    Too bloody many if the wife is to be believed. A Rick I'll be buried with, a beautiful piece of wood with a Fender Select jazz attached, two SGC Nanyos that, this side of Keira Knightley, are most comfortable things you could drape round your neck and a limited edition American jazz in a never-seen-it-since wine red stain that's numbered and signed by the Fender head of production. I can only assume things were quiet on the factory floor that day and he was carrying a pen as he walked past the neck rack.... Hoping to add a nice 5-er soon but am probably going to consolidate so one of the Nanyos will go and the scribbled-on jazz Unless i can distract her with shoes....
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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1414447660' post='2589468'] The one im going to look at has a clear guard but it needs a black one?http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/bass_guitars_detail.asp?stock=12061516390949 [/quote]agree - black or maybe even white pearl - I don't think it works with clear, although it may be different in the flesh. Nice colour though.
  19. Skinnyman
    [quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1414454667' post='2589550'] You can always get a TT5 with just the 2 jazz pickups. The bucker in the TM5 splits very nicely though. I tend to use it split most of the time, unless I'm just using the bucker, then I use all of it! [/quote] How's the neck profile on the TM5? It's on my list of basses to try but finding one within reasonable distance is tricky and I don't want to travel the length of the country for a baseball bat....
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    [quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1414443009' post='2589395'] This is how my DJ5 ended up. I so miss this bass. [/quote] I'm not normally a fan of black basses but that is utterly, utterly gorgeous. If that plays and sounds as good as it looks, I'd sell one of my children's kidneys for it.....
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    Hmmmm. My reflex reaction is to try and get like for like. To stick with the familiar. But I'm not sure that works. Like many on here, I have Genz amps so I'm stuffed there. And I love my Bergantino cabs - but I quite fancy trying a BareFaced sometime. So, going back to the original question, what's the one thing i'd have to replace like for like? Nothing. Each of my basses has it's own "personality" and is like an individual, with its own story - a particularly good deal, a long trip to collect, a long and protracted search for that perfect setup, the coming to life with a specific set of strings, a great gig.... So I'd be sad for the loss of my gear but then I'd be looking forward to building new relationships with their own stories attached to them. If the question was "what piece of gear would you save from the flames" then that's an easy answer. But the question was "what would you have to replace with the same item?" And that's nothing...
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    No excuses, I'm a snob. Always have been, probably always will. I grew up in the seventies, when you were either into albums or singles. Prog or glam. I was prog. Then came punk which I hated with the same passion that they hated my music. Now I listen to pretty much anything that I like. I'm enjoying the prog revival (that love which once dare not say it's name) but my iPod has everything from Coltrane to Gaga on it. But I'm still a snob. I dislike hip hop (I suspect they haven't noticed my absence), I'm not keen on most of the bland pap they spew out of commercial radio these days (oddly, Radio One has started playing some really good new stuff), and you'd still struggle to get me to a country concert.
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    [quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1414273174' post='2587864'] I've just 'discussed' my shopping trip next saturday over a nice 3 course meal, went quite well Jazz Deluxe looking OK :-D (Russ we are on if you're still up for it?) [/quote] I like your style. Happy shopping - let us know how you get on....
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    But it's not a Jazz-a-like.... I know I'm being picky but, hey, it's my GAS... I think I'll be taking a trip to the Gallery some time this week. Although the wife is doing that one-in, one-out thing that she applies to guitars. (But not shoes or handbags, oddly). So maybe I'll need to move one of my four string jazzes. Wonder how much a Select Active might fetch...
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    I managed to try out a couple of five strings today.... Squier Vintage Modified V - first impression, it weighs a ton. And I think that put me off from the word go. There's just no way I could see myself doing a set, let alone a whole gig, with one of these things on. Fit and finish are good, but I found the neck quite deep as well as wide. That may be my imagination but it just didn't seem to sit right under my hands. It might be perfect for someone else but it did nothing for me. I like the neck binding and the colour but that was about it. The B string seemed really loose - annoyingly so, to the extent that if I got one I'd have to change the strings. To anchor cables from the look of things.... Fender modern player V - I really like the idea of the Modern Player series and I've been impressed by some of the guitars I've tried. But I really didn't care for this one. It was that matt white which made it look like the Storm Troopers in Star Wars might have played - just a big slab of plastic. I didn't even try it. I also tried an Ibanez SR505 which was really light with a lovely wide but shallow neck. Gorgeous to play although I wasn't enamoured with the tone. Or the shape. Or the colour. So, the search continues... Next on the list to try is a Sei, a Sandberg and an Overwater
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