Clarky

Daily bump. I know this is a pricey bass and money is scarce so I would be prepared to listen to payment options (upfront plus payments over say three months) from BC'ers that I either know well or who have an excellent reputation/feedback

[quote name='Clarky' post='1146243' date='Mar 1 2011, 07:03 PM']I will take your caps lock kind sir. I am the son of the former justice minister of a small African Republic which must remain nameless. My father and family were all killed by a trained rhinoceros in the pay of the cruel dictator of our Republic. With my father's last words he gave me the details of a bank account into which he had deposited ONE MILLION DOLLARS with instructions that I should only share this money with a person of the highest caps lock. I will send you half of the ONE MILLION DOLLARS if you send me the caps lock key to Post Box 5457, Nigeria together with your bank account number, sort code and PIN number. I thank you kind sir for answering my prayers and the last wishes of my dying father.[/quote] Good sir, please read my message. ONE MILLION POUNDS awaits. Do not let the Dictator and his rhino emerge with victory.

Please note that - as there are a bunch of BassChatters in Brussels and Paris - I will be staying over in each of those cities in the next few weeks so could deliver the bass. I will be in Brussels next Tuesday evening and in Paris on evening of 7 April.

Bump for some additional pics posted last night ^^^^

Discovered some more photos of the bass taken by the prior US owner from his Talkbass FS thread. The condition today is as immaculate as you see here: [attachment=73722:AC4_004.jpg][attachment=73720:AC4_001.jpg]

Early morning bump from freezing Helsinki where I cannot face smoked fish for breakfast

I will take your caps lock kind sir. I am the son of the former justice minister of a small African Republic which must remain nameless. My father and family were all killed by a trained rhinoceros in the pay of the cruel dictator of our Republic. With my father's last words he gave me the details of a bank account into which he had deposited ONE MILLION DOLLARS with instructions that I should only share this money with a person of the highest caps lock. I will send you half of the ONE MILLION DOLLARS if you send me the caps lock key to Post Box 5457, Nigeria together with your bank account number, sort code and PIN number. I thank you kind sir for answering my prayers and the last wishes of my dying father.

Tuesday bump, adding that would trade against a sunburst 63 Precision as well as oly white. Off to the lands of pickled herrings and smorgasbord, yay! So, as mentioned in OP, I may not pick up PMs in an especially timely manner in next couple of days

Thanks Andy and Loz. It is the best bass I have ever owned so it seems perverse selling it, but I have a weird psychological calling to a year-of-birth Fender ... and I am of a certain age that means that would be a pre-CBS (and thus pricey) option!

Blimey, old thread resuscitation award! These were sold in June 2009

Thanks Barrie! Monday morning bump

Incidentally here is loz' FS thread with some more details than mine (eg, it was made in June 2008) [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=100561&hl=lozbass+Alleva"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...=lozbass+Alleva[/url]

Thanks Jack, it was playing your lightweight, superb sounding '66 Fender Precision yesterday that tipped me over the edge and prompted me to renew my longstanding (but never-done-anything-about-it) search for a Y-O-B (1963) Precision

I recently got this from molan (it was previously owned by lozbass, a man of impeccable bass taste too! Loz' photos below, if thats OK Loz) and it is quite the most beautiful Jazz I have ever seen or played and in immaculate condition. It was the last one fully hand-made by Vinnie Coppolo and team in his NYC workshop (numbered 48 on the neck plate) before he moved to California and introduced CNC machines etc. Nitro 3TS finish, weighs 9.74 pounds, has a comfortable B width (1.625) width neck (its not a skinny J neck), and a beautiful dark chocolate-y dalbergia negra rosewood board (DN is a rare rosewood, stocks of which are no longer available, so I am told). It plays very slickly with very low action (ask the previous owners or Happy Jack, who played it yesterday) and has a huge range of tones from fully passive Jazz through to various active tones (controls are V/V/T, treble boost, bass boost; the second V control pulls up for passive mode). Comes protected in a Hiscox case. Reason for selling: I have re-appraised what I need in basses (again and am going the traditionalist route) and I really want a year-of-birth (1963) Fender Precision, in Olympic white or 3 colour sunburst, and this sale will hopefully fund that (or at least most of it) I am after £2850 - which is the trade value molan and I agreed - or of course a trade against a '63P in oly white (long shot!). BTW, I will be travelling a lot on business this week and next so may not always be able to answer PMs quickly. Would prefer to hand over in person but will ship (given my travelling I will not always be around to package it up immediately). [attachment=73479:IMG_1414.JPG][attachment=73480:IMG_1417.JPG][attachment=73481:IMG_1412.JPG]