Happy Jack

Ooooh! That takes me back. Had one of those in my first studio.

... but why would you boast about it? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hand-made-Fretless-bass-guitar/224234468865?hash=item34356a7601:g:l70AAOSw5Jdfr--l

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Custom-bass-guitar/124434752199?hash=item1cf8e3a2c7:g:qB8AAOSwrXhfonbO

At least it's plug-together and play.

And that's the bass that inspired me to commission this:

I'm guessing those $prices turn into £prices in the UK, and on a 1:1 ratio. If that's the case, then happy to see that my personal estimate for the value of my April 1957 Precision is absolutely ballpark.

Oops! Sorry mate ... Any chance you could put me in touch with the buyer? I reckon I could do business with someone like that. 😂

I remember it well, Chris. I was desperate to like Jazz basses and had no idea how to identify a 'good one' ... your help that day was invaluable. Plus it was fun too. And no, I still don't get on with Jazz basses. It took me FAR too long to realise that the sound in my head was a Precision.

Blimey Luke, talk about apples & pears! That Andy Baxter bass is a genuine, all-original Precision from one of the UK's best-known and most reputable dealers. It is also IMHO horribly over-priced, and it will only be worth that amount of money if someone buys it for £13,500. Which patently has not happened. Yet. 😉 The bass in the OP for this topic may very well be built on a genuine 1958 but there is no way of knowing. With no provenance, no evidence, but plenty of admissions about refins and parts replacements, it could be just about anything.

I was about to correct you to 'fewer strings' when I realised that the shorter scale length means that you were right! 😂

Good grief! He's a bit of a card, this chap, isn't he? I can't wait for the original ashtrays to appear, at £500 each ...

And he had that future with British Steel, too ...

I'm really hoping that his bass really is worth £7k. If a bunch of replacement parts and after-market paint, all of dubious origin (no provenance or documentation, just what he claims the previous UK owner told him) is worth that much, then my all-original, unmolested 1957 P is worth a lot more than I ever realised. I wouldn't touch this listing with a bargepole. This is not a reflection on the vendor's honesty, more on the sanity of anyone who would buy this bass at this price.

You can get some more midi socks here: https://www.oneills.com/uk_en/accessories/player/socks1/midi-socks.html

Jaco only needed four. Random bass players over the years.

I don't know why anyone is interested in this ... he hasn't even bothered to label the control knobs. 🤨

Damn! Rumbled ...

The three I'm working on first are the ones that will support our first release, timed to coincide with a radio broadcast on 6th December. Until then, it would be a bit premature to publish. Rest assured, they're coming towards you down the cliff like a landslide ...

So here we are, 10 days later. I now have a new PC with a spec broadly similar to that mentioned many pages ago, and a paid-up version of Reaper 6.0. I've barely left my study (also known as 'the upstairs landing') for the past week, I ache all over, my beer consumption has soared, and I'm going cross-eyed. But I have now edited video. Feel free to share my joy.