Clarky

[quote name='dudi8' timestamp='1352648040' post='1865542'] you can put the bass i will trade you on the roof to stop the leak [/quote]It would need at least three basses as there are at least three places my roof is leaking! So that's a 'no', sorry!

Thanks dudi8 but a £7,000 bill to fix my leaking roof means no trades

The photos from chris2112's thread (hope he doesn't mind), showing it pre-scratchplate [attachment=123543:thebass021.jpg][attachment=123544:thebass020.jpg][attachment=123545:thebass022.jpg]

Hi all, I have a US Fender Jaco fretless bass (the artist edition, I believe, which sells new in the UK for £1600-odd). Its a nice-to-have for me but not essential as I only play double bass or acoustic fretless bass in my band and my '63 Precision is the bass I always pick up to noodle with at home. I traded the Jaco with BC'er chris2112 a couple of months back for a Warwick custom 5 string that I valued at £1000 and have since added a custom Bass Doc-manufactured 1962 Jazz reissue-pattern tort scratchplate (which could be removed in seconds if you want it to look pure Jaco). The first owner (BC'er dudi8) added Fender custom shop '60s Jazz pickups and relic'ed it to make it resemble the Custom Shop version, I believe. It comes in a lightweight generic hard case. Its a super bass but - in the interest of full disclosure - there is one minor issue: a small dimple in the epoxy finish around the 7th 'fretline' on the A string (possibly caused by impact by a previous owner) - if you play hard on that point it buzzes a bit, but not if you play more lightly. This could be filled with a small blob of superglue or epoxy glue and fine sanded or a luthier could fix it quickly (I got a quote from Alex at the Bass Gallery and he said luthier supremo Martin could fix it for £40 but recommended I just put a blob of superglue on and fine sand it). I did put in a small amount of superglue but not quite enough so there is still a slight dimple there. Here it is with scratchplate: [attachment=123528:P1050517.JPG] Here is chris2112's FS ad with loads of pics without scratchplate: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/184831-for-salefor-trade-fender-jaco-pastorius-fretless-jazz-bass/page__p__1860331__hl__jaco__fromsearch__1#entry1860331"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry1860331[/url] OK moolah type stuff. I will sell for £900 posted with a 48-hour Interparcel service. Or its handover/collection in London for £875 (via bank transfer). Afraid, no trade offers as I would appreciate some cash right now (lots of outgoings on house at present eg, fixing leaking roof) and I have plenty of bass gear. If you didn't want the scratchplate I would cut £15 off the price so I could recoup by selling it separately on BC.

36 hour (and a bit) type bump

Still available!

Cheers Keith

Loz, you're selling this over one of your fancy dan Alembic collection? Blimey, there's no accounting for taste

Just to be clear regarding the interest I mentioned above, this amp is still available

I bought these strings a week ago as I have been experimenting with strings for my Kolstein travel bass. As solo strings, they are normally tuned A/E/B/F# but are often used by Latin bass players (and by Miroslav Vitous) down-tuned to the standard E/A/D/G as they become quite low tension (similar to Silver Slaps; see tension chart below). After initially feeling great, they loosened up and settled down and I find they are actually a bit too low tension for me (not helped by the fact the Kolstein travel bass has a relatively short scale length of 40", nealry 2" shorter than my full 3/4 flatback bass). I have replaced them with a set of Spiro Weich strings which seem to fit the Kolstein's shorter scale length rather better. So here is a set of strings that cost £138 last week at Stringmail (link below) and are in vgc (very minor fuzzing of silks at peg end - the unavoidable minor fuzzing that comes from installing once). FS at £95 or - preferably - trade for an equally very good condition set of Spiro 3/4 Weich [url="http://www.stringmail.co.uk/dbass.htm"]http://www.stringmail.co.uk/dbass.htm[/url] Spirocore tension chart: [url="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f17/all-different-spiros-sets-724598/"]http://www.talkbass....os-sets-724598/[/url]

A couple of BCers have already expressed a potential interest here chaps and I'm waiting to hear back. But for the record, its 40cm wide by 34cm deep by 9cm high and I am guessing it weighs just under 20 pounds (similar to the iamp800). In terms of provenance for "the white face" or UK-iamp500s, Ashdown made a run of 100 of these amps for EA around 1995 I believe but it turned out Ashdown were not making money on the deal, hence that was the lot - meaning these are pretty rare beasts. As for the fans they are very unobtrusive, unlike say a Mesa Walkabout which sounds like a wind tunnel when played at home volumes!

Also listed in amps section but favoured by some double bass players. Bit too many EQ controls for me and a little on the large size compared to my usual micro amp fare! £270 posted for 500W of quality tone [attachment=122998:ea1.jpg][attachment=122999:ea2.jpg]

Pics from previous seller (sure he won't mind): [attachment=122996:ea1.jpg][attachment=122997:ea2.jpg]

Bought a few weeks ago on the forum, one of the rare Euphonic Audio "white face" iamp500s that were briefly made for EA by Ashdown in the 1990s. Its in very good condition (just missing one adhesive rubber foot which I'm sure is easy to replace for pennies) and in perfect working condition. I bought it due to its excellent reputation as a 'doubling' amp (for DB and electric) but its basically over-specced for me in the EQ department and a bit big for a wuss who has grown used to micro amps! Looking for £270 posted, which is what I paid Here is the previous sale thread with a link to photos - it looks identical as it hasn't left my house since I took ownership [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/189421-sold-pending/page__hl__iamp__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url]

Yes, to me!