budget bassist

I've emailed the winner, and not quite busted yet, the winner may still pay for it

Damn, didn't see that, well i've messaged the winning bidder, hopefully he'll read it before he pays for it.

[quote]okay yes. im sorry. But to be honest the fact was I bought it with not pictures and thought that maybe i should just resale it to make my money back. I know it was just as wrong but im sorry. I will stop it now. Thanks for helping me to relise it was wrong. Cheers - and never to be done again![/quote] Huh, it seems being frank with him may have worked. I'll just wait and see if the seller de-lists it before replying. EDIT: he's taken it down

He knows it's a fake. If he claims to have owned it from new then he KNOWS it's a fake.

[quote]"Thanks for the info but I am sorry to say you are wrong. This was custom made to my liking in the 70s with the custom body type and I was not to sure of the specifications but I added in my own of what I saw on the other site. If you think the specs are wrong please let me know and I will be happy to change it." You are absolute scum mate. This is a blatant fake, i know it and you know it, it's not even a good fake! I'm going to make sure that this doesn't sell Pull the plug now and be the bigger man, because right now you're just being an absolute tosser. In fact you know what, i'll tell you why i KNOW this is a fake. Musicman have NEVER made custom orders for the public. The bridge is wrong The headstock logo is not consistent with the truss rod the pickup is TOTALLY wrong the strap buttons are wrong And i haven't even seen the back of it yet. Battery cover? probably not 6 bolt neck? unlikely Have a nice day[/quote] Normally i'd think before sending a message like that, but the fact that he's trying to pull the 'i had it custom made' card just gives his game away completely. What a dick.

The pickup looks more like a jazz humbucker or whatever you call it that you'd find on a precision deluxe or something.

You just need something long, thin and metal. Sterling ball designed it so that you wouldn't need to have a specific size of allen key at the ready to adjust it, just any old screwdriver.

Haha that's a 100% fake! A bad one at that!

Don't you mean 20GB hard drives? if you're not careful someone might sue you for mis-representation the state things are in these days!!

this thread is rather entertaining!

I wouldn't say he did it in a non-reccommended way at all! He made use of everything at his disposal, worked hard and took advantage of his free studio time at his college. Of course finding the right band is luck, be he still had to work hard to get where he is today and i know that i'll utilise all the studio time i can get my hands on once my college allows me to do so come easter.

Regarding the music industry, you can make it elsewhere, the guy that produced/engineered the last two arctic monkeys albums and the last kings of leon album managed to make a good name for himself without being in london. He has only just gone to london, and i think he said he managed to buy a flat there while keeping his old house too, so there's definitely opportunities to be had elsewhere, you'll have to work hard for it but it's doable. As other people said though, the majority of the music industry is based down in london and it would probably make it much easier to break into the industry by moving there, though times may be hard for a bit if you don't have a secure income. I want to get into the music industry too (as a bassist/guitarist or a sound engineer), and i plan on moving to london too, it's just something i want to do and that's probably the best place to do it. Just my 0.02

[quote name='Absolute-beginner' post='349162' date='Dec 8 2008, 10:20 PM']I won the hellborg rig![/quote] Seriously? And does BGM come out every month or every two months? I can never wait to get it.... anyone seen it in the shops yet?

I definitely think reuel should be allowed to keep that £100 for customs. Let's face it, if you imported a bass of that price into the UK you'd pay more than that in customs. I think he should be allowed that, if just for his hard time.

I like both, though humbuckers are my preference because they have that fat, growly sound. I'm a huge musicman fan!

Glad you've been converted! I was recently converted by my reggie signature jazz, it just plays like butter and it has a decent growl to it too (though nothing like my musicman), i must admit i'm rather smitten!

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Ash neck! Should be interesting!

if you're lucky, you may be able to get a SS1 for under £750, there was one went on here for £650 a few months ago i think. Best place to buy used is there though we're all pretty genuine people and i've bought and sold a few things on here no problems at all.

Fair play! I have a suggestion as to what to do about your bass situation.... Play them both, decide which you like more.... but that one, and then buy the other! (save a while first) Though you could get a real bargain on a SS1 right now because of the general fall in warwick prices.