Clarky

Cool retro collection you have there! The 57 looks surf-tastic

Mark just bought a maple P neck off me. As before with the Shuker JJB, a pleasure to deal with!

Just stick at it. Something else will come up and - as others have said - you now have a much expanded repertoire, so its not been all bad I endured a nutter drummer in my last band who at various points broke his hand very badly (practising martial arts on two would-be robbers in the Woolworths in which he worked, who turned out to be not robbers at all but quite handy in a fight), then as he finally recovered 3 months later decided to stage dive and missed everyone (I spent the evening with him in casualty) and eventually quit after our 'big gig' at the Underworld to be a teaching assistant. A year later after various rubbish potential replacements we killed the band and I started on the quest for what is now my current band. So it ended up as a happy story. Don't know how the kids at our ex-drummer's school fared though

[quote name='Cairobill' post='859578' date='Jun 7 2010, 09:43 AM']My old Nash (which is the one that stacker now has?)[/quote] It is indeed, the lovely candy apple red one which I sold to buy a 'real' vintage Fender Jazz and then discovered too late that I preferred to the real McCoy. As Stacker (rightly) wouldn't sell it back to me, I ended up with the s/h sunburst JB-63 from BassDirect

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='859478' date='Jun 7 2010, 01:39 AM']Too pricey in my opinion though.[/quote] They are definitely not "cheap". I was lucky enough to pick mine up s/h, so considerably cheaper than listed on the German website. That said, they are hand-made in a small workshop and are superb instruments. Lots of reviewers on the web seem to think they are better put together and playing than Fender Custom Shop basses (which generally cost more than this amount) and often better than the vintage Fenders they were originally designed to replace (as I understand it, the initial demand for these came from musicians with very valuable old Fenders who were nervous of taking their basses on the road). My Nash (and the one I sold to Stacker) is the nicest playing Jazz I have ever had in my greasy mitts and I doubt any Sandberg/Sadowsky etc would play any better. You pays your money, you takes your choice ....

I am thoughly enjoying my recently acquired Nash JB-63. Such a great, worn-in feeling instrument. BassDirect are going to stock them (4 on order) but until Mark gets them in, here's another site (a German one) which stocks some nice examples for you to peruse. There's a very Pino-ish 63-PB amongst them. And for the anti-fake Fender brigade, they are now using 'NashGuitars' as the headstock decal. [url="http://www.station-music.de/index.html"]http://www.station-music.de/index.html[/url]

[quote name='molan' post='858892' date='Jun 6 2010, 02:22 PM']Negotiate hard on the price - I don't think he qualifies as a celbrity, that wouldn't add a thing to the value of it anyway.[/quote] +1 I got £200 off the fretless even though it was a commission sale (they implied they could have gone lower if it was from their own stock)

You could get away with just buying a pair of cowboy boots [attachment=51539:nakedEPA..._450x589.jpg]

Would look great as a re-fin in sunburst Seriously, thats a really nice job you've dome there Wayne - you obviously have a talent and should start doing this as a money-making sideline

[quote name='ahpook' post='858822' date='Jun 6 2010, 12:48 PM']spelling "hazzard" with only one z was your second mistake... [/quote] Peddent - wot woz my 1th mistake init?

Good to see that V&R are still listing my 1976 fretless Precision around two thirds of the way down the FS page, even though I bought it about 3 months ago now!!!! [url="http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/Our-Catalogue/Fender/Electric-Basses"]http://www.vintageandrareguitars.com/web/O...Electric-Basses[/url]

[quote name='discreet' post='858791' date='Jun 6 2010, 12:14 PM']I think you may be right... and that's why I'm getting a bit of a pervy buzz off it At last, an excuse to wear a fringed suede jacket! Ohhh.[/quote] "Dukes of Hazard" video for you tonight, boy!

Not seen this before. Call Simone at V&R and I am sure she would tell you. But pls don't sell your lovely aged Oly white P bass as I like your avatar!

Rubish, should of bin Marc King

I still find the whole tug bar concept strange as, if you hit the strings with the meat of your thumb that way, they are very loose and it makes anything other than 4-4 quite difficult. Its not as if it even replicates the way you play a double bass

Birds tweeting in my garden. Lovely!

To finish the story, Sid has gone back to the original rosewood neck and the maple neck is on its way to MarkyL for his 70s B/B/M Precision. Thanks to all who contributed and helped me make my decision.