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Or me! lol

I've got a Shaftesbury faker, and it's absolutely great! However, it doesn't have the original Truss Rod Cover, it's got a replacement. I wish it still had the original cover If I were you, I'd keep those TRC's - Greco instruments from that era are well respected, and if you remove yours, you risk losing them You may regret that in future?

Saw Robert Cray a few years back, and glad I did My favourite blues player / singer in recent years is Eric Bibb Saw him at Cambridge Folk fest several years back - and I was simply blown away Not only is he an amazing guitarist, but he's got a wonderful voice too, and there's plenty of variation in hist style - it doesn't all sound like 12 bar His album dedicated to Leadbelly, where he covers a whole album of Leadbelly's songs, along with JJ Milteau is amazing - I would highly recommend that one This year, Eric is back at Cambridge and I'm really over the moon about that

Thanks again for your thoughts TPJ Anyone else care to add any comments? Anyone else had problems with the bridge on one of these basses?

I read about someone having a problem with the pickup - perhaps it was yourself? Shame that happened to you, and glad you got it sorted I hope it's not a common fault Was it easy to remove the old bridge and access the wiring? Was it easy to fit a standard bridge, or did it need a lot of modification? I think I need to pop along to the bass centre and give one a whirl..... Thanks for your reply, and sorry for all the additional questions! lol It's just that I'm thinking of selling my Czech Ease to get one of these, and I want to get that right (as I probably won't see another Czech Ease)

Wow! Great job Mr Discreet

Hi, I'm actually thinking the same thing. They do look great, and a serious alternative to carting a full body sized acoustic DB about Anyone else got any more thoughts on them please? Did you go for one Marvin Spangles?

Me too, and I wondered the same thing. There was a thread about this very topic somewhere on here I know several musicians who are left handed, yet play right handed instruments (incl a guitarist I've known for years, but didn't see him hold a pen until years after A couple of them have said they think the tricky shapes, movements etc are probably better suited to your more dominant hand. I'm not 100% convinced on this, but when I began, I felt a right handed bass to be more comfortable (or was it that there was only one Left handed bass in the shops - and it was expensive?) These days, I know four violin players. Three of them are brilliant (one especially, and she helped teach the other two good ones) the fourth player is.... OK Oddly enough, the 3 good players are all left handed. Each of them has said they've never even seen a left handed violin, and they all know left handed violin players, who play right handed violins

Welcome indeed Jeff, and itsmedunc has warned you..... lol mind you, I think I was pretty much ruined, even before joining BassChat

Good to hear such heart-warming news FuNkShUi Hope you're OK mate? Haven't seen you in a while.... Well done BC'ers - obviously, there are still people out there who care EDIT: "You've all done very well" said young Mr Grace

Not played one of those. And boy, that does look good, in Fiesta Red I played one of the earlier models of fretless Jazz type basses. I was impressed with that for the money So if they've been making improvements, I want to try one

Welcome to BC. But more importantly, welcome back to the wonderful world of bass playing

This bass is looking absolutely amazing! Great job Bridgehouse I'll be interested to see what the final weight is, and even more interested to hear it being played (unplugged too - wondering how loud it will be)

Way back when I first played (long before online ordering etc!) the only bass strings I ever saw regularly in music shops, were Rotosound Sometimes a shop would have 2 different gauges, or 2 different varieties of Rotosound bass string. Oddly enough, I don't think I ever noticed a lack of consistency back then Perhaps I wasn't so critical back then? Perhaps my ears were not trained enough to notice dead spots, despite being younger? Or was it that I used to get my bass set up regularly, rather than doing it myself? But overall, I think there are more brands / makes of string available now, and more readily available - which is a good thing. Also, I can now afford to try a few different string types now & again It's a shame that Rotosound don't seem to be as good as my memory tells me they once were, as every bassist I knew seemed to use them Mind you, back in the day, I used to break strings more often - perhaps they weren't so good back then? Or was it just my playing?

I've had similar issues in the past, and it has always been down to a set-up issue - and changing brand of strings has helped too Like Meddle, I found a couple of times that Rotosound (swing) strings sounded quite dead. Although more often than not, it seemed to be the G, rather than the E

Looks like you got a good buy there umcoo. I have something of a liking for those old, MIJ 70's / early 80's basses Just wondering whether the pots are actually duff - or whether it's just a bodge job with the wiring of those switches I think a complete new wiring loom would be a good idea - but definitely keep the original pickup - see if it's working, and see how it sounds A while back, I put a new neck on an old MIJ 70's / 80's bass (i couldn't tell what brand it was - someone had removed the logo on the old, broken neck) Anyhow, the wiring needed a tweak, the pots needed cleaning - but the pickup sounded superb.... wish I'd kept it now Good luck with this restoration project