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25 minutes ago, BassAgent said:

I even seem to remember I have a J. Torres neck on my Precision. It's a fantastic neck, especially after I had one of NL's best luthiers refret it.

My '73 Precision.

Fair enough!

4 minutes ago, itsmedunc said:

Will you be bringing any of the cows along Rob? 😂

Do you want to give me a clue? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about!

7 minutes ago, OliverBlackman said:

Were B necks standard in the period? I thought they were made to order and C was still standard. Happy to be wrong  because I find B width much comfier.

It's why I have no desire for a 60's Precision Bass. Thank the Lord !

1 hour ago, OliverBlackman said:

Is that a reasonable price? It doesn’t seem that long ago that £2.5k would be appropriate for an early 70s p bass. He should really take the neck off, almost looks like a B nut from the pics. Pics of the neck pocket and pots should be minimum. 

£2.5k would have bought you one maybe two or three years ago. My '73 was £2.6k exactly two years ago. I do think this is a nice bass for a decent price right now. It should be a B neck, mine is, at 41mm.

Rob

7 minutes ago, phsycoandy said:

Sold

Not surprised at all at that price.

Bargain !

I love mine! 

GLWTS

What you see here is a vintage 1973 Fender Pro Reverb.

It has all the right parts, but not necessarily in the right order, as you see.

I bought this with restoration in mind, but in three years, I have only stripped it down and removed the tolex from the cab. 

This was a working amp when I bought it, albeit in need of a full service and restoration. I'm supplying it with two reverb tanks, on the off chance that one of them is working. I'm also selling two faceplates with it, one is the original and a bit tatty, the other is one I bought to use in the restoration and is much cleaner. The speakers are working, and the cones are intact. The mains transformer is changed, current one make and spec unknown.

There is no such thing as a dead Fender, someone will be able to restore this and have a wonderful sounding amplifier.

I would suggest new tolex & grillcloth, cabinet hardware and new mains transformer (correct parts widely available), full service, recap and revalve.

This amp does not come with a "roundtuit", I could never get one anywhere.

Collection or meetup preferred, for obvious reasons.

Rob

Removed from a vintage Fender 6G3 combo. Fully working, sounding good. no damage to cone.

Reduced to £10

Price does not include postage, I will need to get quotes.

Rob

These came on a Precision, but I was informed they hadn't been on it long. Hence, they are cut for P bass, and I have included a pic of them fitted so you can see the number of wraps available.

I have used them a little, but not much, just enough to play them in. They feel great, just like La Bellas should, I just prefer the lighter gauge of the LTFs.

Price includes postage to UK mainland.

Cheers,

Rob

2 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Anyone ever seen a logo like this on a 65 L serial number Jazz , I’ve never seen it before 

No, never. It does make me twitch a bit.

Andy bought my Babicz bridge. Paid promptly and then was patient to wait over Christmas for delivery.

Nice guy to deal with.

Rob

Shug! Good luck with the new year sale! Jan sends her love, Rob.

15 hours ago, asingardenof said:

Does the power socket on anyone else's Elf move this much? It's now one of two suspects in my glitchy hell from last night and wanted to see if this was ommon and/or something to worry about.

 

 

So, given mine does the same, maybe to a lesser extent, I don't know. My first thought was to investigate whether the socket is wired directly to the board or if it is chassis mounted then wired to the board by flying leads. Looking at some pics available on the internet, it's the latter, in which case the lateral movement should have no effect on the connections inside. 

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/internal-photos-of-trace-elliot-elf.1306639/

Rob

15 hours ago, asingardenof said:

Does the power socket on anyone else's Elf move this much? It's now one of two suspects in my glitchy hell from last night and wanted to see if this was ommon and/or something to worry about.

 

 

I just got mine out, confident that mine didn't do that, but in fact it does. It does move side to side a bit. I've never noticed it before.

Rob

I think the decision whether or not to take a spare depends quite a bit on the basses that you have/use. Mine are vintage 70’s for the most part, and very recently I had a pickup spontaneously expire. If I had been on a gig, with no backup, it could have been awkward. It was a Jazz bass however, so I could have got away with just using the other pickup for the rest of the gig. In the case of a Precision pickup failure, it’s game over. Since the pickup failure happened, I have bought a double gig bag, and always carry two basses. The chap who rewound my Jazz pickup (Ash from Oil City Pickups) told me that pickup failures in 70’s Fenders are becoming much more common as they hit that 50 year milestone. 
Rob

Alegree pickups do some good ones, I’ve got them in a couple of basses.

https://www.alegree.co.uk/products/precision-bass-height-foam

Rob

I've not tried their bass pickups, but I have a set of his Cirrostratus Tele pickups in a partscaster Tele and they look, feel and sound decent quality.

1 hour ago, StingRayBoy42 said:

Look, it's really very simple.

They make StingRays and Sterlings.

The Sterling is a 4 string version of  the 5 string StingRay.

They also made a 5 string Sterling, so a 5 string version of the 4 string version of the 5 string StingRay.

Their budget line is called Sterling by MusicMan, which have nothing to do with the Sterling. Unless it's a Sterling by Sterling by MusicMan.

Sterling by MusicMan also make StingRays, so it's a StingRay by Sterling by MusicMan.

They also make a Ray34 (4 string, unless it's a 5 string) and a Ray35 (5 string unless it's a 4 string)

They used to make the S.U.B. but everyone liked them so they stopped, then they made the SUB which is a different thing to the S.U.B.  They also make the bongo, which isn't a bongo, it's a Bass and looks like HR Giger and Hieronymus Bosch had a bet as to who could make the ugliest thing and they both won.

 

Hope that clears things up!

Why didn't you just say that before ! It all makes sense now !

2 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

adverb,superlative of much, with more as comparative.

in or to the greatest extent or degree (in this sense often used before adjectives and adverbs, and regularly before those of more than two syllables, to form superlative phrases having the same force and effect as the superlative degree formed by the termination -est):most rapid; most wisely.

 

More of it's life was spent with....

5 minutes ago, Paul S said:

 

Works out fine for me.  Made in 1965, in 1992 it was 27 years old.  It is now 2023, so 31 years later which is more than half its life. 

 

Maybe the time difference between NZ and UK is the problem.

I was also made in 1965, so I'm fairly sure I'm right.

Full disclosure. My name is Rob and I used to be a guitarist. I also used to buy and sell amps, and have probably owned 100’s of them. I now have just one, a 1965 Fender Deluxe Reverb which a got in trade from a dealer in Texas in 1992. It was only a 27 year old amp then, and it’s now 58 years old and I’ve owned it most of its life. I have done hundreds of gigs with it, and many friends and acquaintances have tried to buy it off me. I have owned maybe a dozen of this model, and almost every other vintage Fender combo ever made, but none came close to sounding as good as this one. I will never sell it, despite me not having used it in anger since 2015. 
 

Rob.

I'm glad I read this thread. I had thought it was just me being stupid.

I'm still befuddled though.

9 hours ago, Supernaut said:

It's amazing how many players believe that going from Thomastik flats to heavy gauge drop tuning rounds won't have much effect on the neck. 
 

I find even switching brands, still the same gauge, will require a truss rod tweak. 

Yep. Even switching  between Thomastik and LaBella Low tension flats needs a tweak on my basses. 

1 hour ago, Matthew Canty said:

Hello everyone.

 

Sad to be saying that my dad has passed away. He died on Sunday 17th December around 1pm - just in time for a coffee.

 

It's been a really tough few years. I want everyone who said something on this thread to know it's been really important for me to hear these kind words, stories and memories.

 

I had to no doubt he was a kind, inspirational and talented person. Liked by so many. I want you all to know that he was a wonderful dad who taught me so much about the world, life and of course bass guitar.

 

If you're in any doubt as to how you might remember him in any way in light of this news, perhaps you'll find something in his Desert Island Discs, curated by him:

 

I also kept track of any music that was discussed or mentioned during his stay at the care home:

And finally, he recorded a gig back in 1991 at the Tower Hotel in London. It was mixed recently and I'm hoping to have it mastered soon and pressed to vinyl. Nothing commercial, just a very special keepsake. The tracks are SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/matthewcanty1988/sets/tower-hotel-1991-vinyl

 

 

I'm celebrating with music.

 

So sorry for your loss. I live in Morecambe and know and play with a lot of musicians in Lancaster. I saw a tribute to your Dad on Facebook yesterday from a guitar player I know called Tim. He put up a video of a few people playing, including your Dad on bass, at a party in Lancaster a few years ago. He certainly touched a great many people’s lives.

Rob