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Clear references but uniquely yours.  This should balance much better than a standard EB3 (I'd hope).  Quite an understated look but some lovely timbers.  Very impressive - something genuinely different!  'Really sorry to hear about the arthritis - horrible and I hope you're able to find a solution

Price reduced to £90 collected.  Purchased from GAK or PMT (or suchlike) around 18 months ago. Used twice for about an hour and then popped in a cupboard. Something else I thought I needed but didn’t. The presets and effects are surprisingly good, as is the volume. Pretty much entirely as new. The only flaw I can find is a crease or mark in tolex on the top left hand side at the back. The amp was like this when I received it – I think the tolex has just been poorly applied in that spot.

Collection in Manchester at present, though I may be able to ship if I can find a box.

These seem to go for £199 pretty much everywhere, so I hope the price is fair.

Another thing I thought I needed but didn’t. This has had less than a couple of hours of use. I messed about with it, then put it in a cupboard. Pretty much as new. The price includes shipping in the UK

1 hour ago, police squad said:

and I have one of your old ones

Utterly superb bass and mine's very light too

 

This blue one is a bargain

Hahaha, I couldn’t resist another one. That red one is absolutely stunning – almost like new from what I remember. It’s also a very good weight. My current one is reasonable but some are really chunky. Fantastic basses

There aren’t too many of these around so I’d suspect most haven’t had a chance to try one. I’ve had four (and still have one) and for me, they’re amongst the finest Precisions around. Build quality is usually excellent, with real attention to detail – this was the Dan Smith era. Body contouring is often superb – a return to the dramatic curves found on some earlier Ps. The only downside for me is that they tend to be heavy. This looks like a real bargain despite the compromised circuit.

There really were some heavy beasts in this period, I had a ‘76 jazz that I struggled to lift. That said, it sounded amazing. This looks like a fabulous example and an absolute rock bottom price IMO. Good luck – at this price, the bass really shouldn’t hang around!

16.5kg - excellent!  A partially redundant part of my anatomy breathed a sigh of relief.

PM incoming

Absolutely beautifully bonkers!  If this was closer to the North West, I'd buy it now.  No idea why, but I would.

Gorgeous, but as above – really sorry that you need to sell such a classically beautiful instrument

On 04/06/2025 at 23:25, ossyrocks said:

Richard Henry has posted what appears to be a very nice clean looking '72 Precision tonight.

 

I've known Richard for more than 30 years, and in my opinion, he is one of the good guys.

 

I'm going to let one of you guys enquire on the price....

 

https://www.instagram.com/richardhenryguitars?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=NDd5bHgxbnZ3MzJu

 

A bit of trivia and possible provenance, if I'm right.  I think I know this bass pretty well.  The George Radcliffe named in the MECAA card was a serious trombone player but doubled on bass.  He was the bass player for a band called Five Penny Piece - a sort of Lancashire folk and comedy act with some big gigs and several albums (national TV etc.).  George was also the landlord of the Star pub in Ashton-under-Lyne - the best pint of Boddington's bitter available anywhere in my opinion.  The quality of the beer was largely down to George's son, the cellarman and another 'bone player, who I think inherited this bass, along with George's Jazz.  As far as I know, the son was recently made redundant so not unreasonable that this bass should appear now.  With a mate, I took both of the basses to be set-up by Ted Lee (luthier to the stars and painted Manzanera's Firebird red I believe) in the very early '80s when George was still very active.  I shall make further enquiries with the son.  Anyway, that passed a few minutes.  

Best Jazz necks I've played - and that's a lot.  Wonderful basses, I just wish the body curves/contours were a little more dramatic and organic. I really like the colour and MHS on this - really quite rare

Does this come with its original knobs?

Beautiful finish!

The first bass for a while to get me excited - this looks to be very well built and I love the aesthetic. If it were in the UK etc…

Beautiful, and a great price IMO.  I know exactly what you mean - the necks on these are far too chunky for me too.  Try as I might, I just can't get the ergonomics of neck-through Spectors to work.

I like the sunburst! i’m not usually a fan of offset bodies but the scratchplate works brilliantly – obviously, this could be an example built carefully for the photographs but the guard follows the lines of the bass very neatly

That really is quirky but good quirky for me. I’m not the biggest fan of that particular headless bridge and retainer (quite fiddly) but certainly functional. I really like the body contouring - organic and pebble-like. This looks passive - do you know if they’re single coil or humbuckers? Also, is it possible to achieve a low action? 

PMd

Gillett, unfortunately long-since folded and disappeared, built 5s. They come-up for sale rarely but worth a look. Incredible design and world-class execution - I’m surprised that they weren’t more popular. There’s some detail here:

https://www.gillettguitars.co.uk/bass-guitars/c/3/

I've just realised that I used to own this bass - a lovely instrument.  From memory, I had the hardware gold plated to cut-down on constant polishing.  I think that I also replaced the neck pickup logo.  An unusual cocobolo top in so far as it's quite orange rather than deeper brown.  Very nicely figured wood with the usual Alembic build quality and piano tone. 

Monster. I’ve had three of these. Heavy and unforgiving but outrageously powerful and authoritative. IMO, the finest bass amp ever built. Almost ridiculous to try to describe tone in words but there’s a sort of 3D quality to the DB750. Nasty to shift but an absolute classic. The big Ampegs and Mesas can be beautiful but for me, the DB750 achieved a different level

3 hours ago, cybertect said:

 

That looks rather like percussionist Jody Linscott sat just to the right of Daltrey

It is! She played a central role and was excellent throughout - playing with a smile on her face and clearly enjoying the gig and camaraderie

Roger Daltrey in Manchester last night.  A voice I've known since I was 10 and all of the character and timbre remains intact.  An extraordinary vocal performance, and not just in view of age.  An outrageously talented nine-piece band including some big names.  Roger moaned about his IEMs for most of the performance, though that seems par.  Probably a gig for Who and Daltrey stalwarts but a superb two-hour set that covered a lot of ground with some excellent variations on classic and less well-known tracks.  A highly appreciative audience too, and the band and Roger appeared to be genuinely happy throughout.  Excellent mix overall - I was directly in-front of the desk.  Acoustic instruments - and there were many of them - were handled beautifully.  As one might imagine, the only flabby, mushy, indistinct mess was the bass.  No note definition at all.  A P employed throughout with no visible bass amp.  A very good player I'd assume (given the overall class of the band) but impossible to tell.      

I sort of hope it is a mod - I rather like it if so.  In the first image, it looks like the head could be tucked inside Billy J's bassist's jacket?  The second looks a little more clear but still hard to tell.  I expanded the images as much as I could - anything but get on with work.

16 hours ago, Paulhauser said:

Couldn't agree more. 

I'm not big on mods but if you have a man for the job it can be fun and the three I made done turned out great 

 

My first Spector was done in '16 , a LX5 trans black originally, the controls moved to the cavity cover and the whole thing was refinished to a violet sort of color, highgloss on the body, oil finish on the neck. Played many gigs and even today on of the first bass I grab for practice or writing. 

 

 

The second was a pre-LX Euro5 natural, didn't do anything to the controls (East deluxe) but swapped the PUs to a 40P and J plus shaved the neck which was beefier originally than the LX

 

 

The 3rd one was a blue SSD NS-4CR in boring blue that became classic white. I sold this long ago as 4 stringers weren't much use for me but with the full maple wings and super quiet Noll electronics it sounded massive. 

I don't think I have a pic at hand but you get the idea, a white NS Spector with dot inlays. 

 

The thing about refinish and mods is that you should do it only if the basses are keepers as they affect resale value (eventhough I received several offers for the pink and the purple)

The pink and the purple have hundreds of gigs in them and keep counting and I love what was done to them even after 8-9 years. But these kinda things are not for everyone and to this day these are the only instruments of mine that were modified (apart from a pu or preamp swap) 

Absolutely love that violet - could I ask who performed the respray?