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  1. kodiakblair
    Saw them on the PMT website, has the same materials as the RB414 .
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    Once I would have encouraged everyone to do their own work, seeing this changed my mind 😬
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    Geographically too 😄 Alpha, Bourns and CTS all come out of factories in Taiwan.
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    You don't need luck, you need a doorway into an alternative universe 🤣 Later T-40s were lighter but none of the T- series basses had left handed options. Hartley didn't think left handed instruments were economically viable until the mid 80's. By that time the T-series were on the road out, only reason they kept building until late 87 was to use up all the parts the stores dept had.
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    Nope. The only option from Meridian was 3 ply B/W/B. Glad to hear that. I still have one, it's in bits but if they're bringing that kind of cash it'd be worth the half hour to stick it back together 🙂
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    If that's " Why would anyone remove the sticker ?" . As I remember it, in years gone by few of us gave a monkey's where or when our basses were made so why leave a grubby sticker on it 🙂 If you were really interested there was no internet databases to look up so your only option was write to customer service and ask. If they replied then you faced the real kicker, who could you share this wonderful information with ? There were no bass forums or gear pages, no collectors clubs or owners groups putting out Xerox magazines once a year. Knowing the year of manufacture or model had value for a couple of American brands but other than that nobody was bothered.
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    They also include a standard 4mm Allen key should you lose the key.
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    I've sold quite a bit of bass gear via FB, only glitch was heading through to Glasgow for a drop off and the fella being a no-show. Think that was around 7 or 8 year back so I've got over the disappointment . Can't say I've been bothered by 'scammers' either but I keep any ads to the local/regional gear pages.
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    Very affordable Tony. All told I was £600 🙂 £330 to Mark for the build and for supplying fret wire/ truss rod and a blank of bone for the nut; the rest was on me. The costly items for me were the Bloodstone pickup and the Gotoh bridge, nearly half the parts/material budget for those 2 😀 I'd bought the panga panga neck/fret board blanks and the utile for the body a few year back, they came from a timber merchant. Same story for the walnut drop top. You can make some pretty serious savings on parts/materials by avoiding any suppliers with the words "Guitar", "Luthier" or "Tonewood" in their trading name 🤣
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    Errr, I forgot a few, it's actually 16 including the variants . Memory has never been my strong point 😄
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    Thanks @LeftyJ I'd been looking at those gorgeous basses built by Alpine over in France.
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    6 counting just the single coils, rising to 13 if I include the variants 😊
  13. kodiakblair
    Took possession of this lovely a couple of hours back 🤩 Built for me by the extremely talented, and local, Mark Provan of Bonnywood Guitars in a remarkably short space of time. Link to the build diary is below.
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    Updates coming thick and fast. Just the set up to go 🙂 Here I'll admit to being more than a little excited 😀
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    No idea how to play a guitar but I'd love one like this.
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    When I arrived at his place, clutching both TIs and La Bella's, the wiring was done. What a sight to behold
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    Had a message from Mark this morning, asking for strings as he's about to start cutting the nut. Oh my, it's gorgeous.
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    I tend to avoid Amazon purchases, if I want something cheap I'll buy from Ali-Ex. 10 - 12 day wait for delivery hasn't killed me yet 🙂
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    Glad to hear that Tim 🙂
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    JB had some input but the design was down to Jim DeCola. When Jim later moved on to Fender there was a few folk waiting to greet him, they'd used a Palaedium neck when designing the Geddy Lee bass 🙂 The necks are quite thin front to back. Vowed I'd apply myself and become accustomed to it 😄 Like most of my 'vows', that joined the to-do list and the Palaedium has been stored in the cupboard ever since 😕
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    Compared to a Northern Ash jazz bass it probably is mega light. That said I doubt the Fazley is 'Basswood', it's just a blanket term for several lookalike timbers. Most East Asian basswood is Lime/Linden since it's plentiful over there, about 20 varieties. Limes are generally heavier and harder than American Basswood.
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    Just weighed the surf green Fazley guitar I converted to a short scale bass, with a 30.25" all maple neck and chunky bridge it's 9lb. Based on that I'd guess 9.5lb to 10lb.
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    Aye, he's doing a grand job. I don't suppose I can claim any credit for supplying the timber 😄
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    Aye, turned out lovely 🙂 Just in from work, Mark has sent me these photos with a wee note saying he thinks it's time to leave things to settle for a couple of weeks .
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    Certainly does, much better than the black one I threw together last month 🙂 In my defence it's not a serious build, American lad messaged me about sound clips with different pickups in the P-bass spot. He mentioned Sting's new toy, I had a WRHB so pupped it in the pickup test bass. Vast swimming pool cavity is hidden below a plate.
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