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Horses for courses sir , I despite Black with a white scratchplate something chronic ... reminds me of cheap nasty argos catalogue instruments , so I wont try and change your mind ... our bands called " Limewired" so manky green is par for the course.

It looks weirdly good under odd Stage lights , taken this weekend 😛

I bought the recent Classic Vibe " re-issue " its REALLY grown on me i wouldn't have picked it over any other finish but playing wise ... through luck or setup kicked the crap out of all the other options and i needed to leave the shop with a bass or i wasn't playing the wedding . Changing the Antigua Scratchplate to a black one was a massive improvement IMHO , the " colour matched" one is going begging if anyone is DESPERATE for Antigua on Antigua . Its Standard Fender screw pattern.

Well , considering the confidence that was lost in the two guitarists eyes and the fact that a new one has just arrived , If anyone who wants to have a Go at fixing it is very welcome to come get it from me in near woking , Stew our guitarist was asking if he could go at it office space style.

Last night ... " well saturday" ... our PA failed , We had to spin our Monitor round and crank it to make up with it ... as a Fully ampless band this was a bit of a disaster. The right side of the Mackie Industrial ART 200A would not transmit any sound from the main speaker ... the Horn/Tweeter was producing sound confirming that it wasn't a power issue or a mixer send issue , I confirmed this swapping it and in my post mortem testing sunday ... when i cracked it apart hoping to find a simple issue like a loose terminal connection and within my cack handed ability to mend. Sadly is seems one of the EQ block's is soggy / rotten 😐 Annoying ... but we've had to rush order a new EV PA ahead of next weekend's gig , the band voted with their wallets after being let down by used gear.

This would probably be fine if the wrap was over a bass that wasn't cut for a scratchplate ... that Bitsa's body had a blooming great swimming pool sized rout underneath the scratchplate which was great for weight relief considering im sure the body was MDF ... but one assumes the maker used the same jig for Soapbars , P's etc ... so i left the plate on for support it .. If you had a solid body / no scratch plate i'd expect it to be fine ..... It was more hard wearing than i thought it would be ...

Yup , works a treat ... I had a jazz bitsa with a rather weird layout scratchplate and it was white on white pearl 😐 not for me ... wrapped it black worked a treat. From this To this

So , it will depend on the finish of the bass itself , Poly / VS Nitro ... i would avoid trying to stick anything on Nitro finishes ... that way lies ruin. I've had pretty good results with this Clear mounting tape then cleaning off any residue with Isopropyl alch but this was on THICK Glossy 90's Poly on an old Aria .... I think kiwi's carpet tape solution looks like it might work pretty well too ... Again clean off residue . with Iso or non acetone based nail polish remover WHOOPS its removed the link it was Clear Gorilla Double-sided mounting tape from Amazon.

i Suddenly wish i still had this thing to sell on but , i know its a right hander , but with no plate and some super low profile knobs it would have just been the ticket i sold this thing to a guy starting a local 80's cover act , it was a matt eggshell texture , and it played really quite nicely . Washburn " lyon"

For the longest time ..... I did not need or in fact particularly care for Precisions .... I prefered the jazz body shape , i prefered the tone and artists who used Rays' ... Or gibson basses. I suspect it's the " horrid black Argos / Encore P bass with the white scratch plate that every single young bass player round my neck of the woods was using where I grew up has " tainted " me , i don't recall many entry level Jazz options back then ... unless you had Rich parents ... which not many of us growing up in Hounslow seemed to do. It wasn't until i grabbed a cheap P bass for my own wedding gig a squire abroad to save on shipping a bass i figured i'd buy one then flog it back to them used ... they seemed quite happy about it I played pretty much everything in the store under Euro 500 ..... the Antigua classic Vibe came home and you know what i even paid to ship the bloody thing home ... its great ...

Aye but it's only flipping a bass if it enough time has passed if you've had it for a month and are moving it on that's totally different. The topics on flipping

I think there are two distinct differences scenarios that are being confused a little And both do need to be thought of differently Option A. Bass was advertised on basschat sold , and is now back on basschat for a higher price , for whatever reason. Option B Bass was bought locally in a smaller market for a different price and is now being sold on basschat for a higher or perhaps /more realistic price. A usually makes me suspicious of the bass either having an issue or that something distasteful going on, but you had the chance to get that previous price and didn't so it's perhaps only slightly sour grapes that now when you can buy it's a different price. B .. is basically what car dealers do for a living .. the difference is you don't know any better about the history .. unless the buyer had a lengthy post about there amazing Facebook marketplace find in west nowhereslip .