Burns-bass

This worked for my cabinet... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Briwax-FILLER-STICKS-MEDIUM-SHADES/dp/B010ATLYTQ/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=wax+sticks+wood+repair&qid=1617623707&sr=8-5

I did this on an oak cabinet and the repair is imperceptible. Truly great stuff!

Looks like my old Kay bass. Weighed about 5.5kg

What’s even worse is that the guy sells guitars and gear. It got I check his previous listings he obviously knows what he’s doing, so this is a blatant attempt to defraud which is such a shame. Why bother disappointing someone for a few hundred quid...?

I can see your predicament. Those RA basses aren’t unique, but pretty close of you’ve modified them. Personally, I have insurance but I use a £300 bass for stuff like open mics or jazz sessions. It’s just easier if I enjoy a drink or whatever.

Monster players but god I hate that sort of late 70s/80s smooth jazz. All so horrendously over produced and oddly soulless.

I’m not sure that’s entirely true. There will be a ceiling price for these and while the market is hot at the moment, it’s highly volatile. Fender basses aren’t particularly rare (if you have the cash, you could find pretty much anything you wanted on the market) but collecting older instruments is fashionable, hence the rapid rise. Again, we’re knot talking about handcrafted artisan products here. These instruments don’t sound much better than modern versions, it’s nostalgia and that’s seductive to those who remember the 50s - 70s but preposterous to those who didn’t. Take Wals as an example. Expensive in the 80s, cheap as chips on the 90s and 00s, now commanding quite frankly ludicrous sums. Anyone paying £6k for a Wal and imagining it’ll maintain and increase its value is possibly a little deluded. My point is, if you’ve got the cash and you want to spend it, do so. Just don’t imagine it’ll increase in value forever. Oh, and if you use it you’ll have to deal with worn down frets, dodgy pots, weak pickups and scratchy jack sockets. make any changes and kiss goodbye to your 100% originality! Personally, my 60s fenders stay in their cases. I should probably sell them, but they have intrinsic value to me.

Guitars are speculative investments with little intrinsic value and easily replicability. There’s no reason why the should continue to increase in value, and like many of these things, once the core demographic shuffles off (men of a certain age who grew up in the 50s, 60s and 70s) the demand is likely to fall. By all means spend your cash on what you like, but the vintage guitar market is as fragile as any other market out there.

And all the cash went to charity, too. Legend!

No, just well made. They’re cheap collectibles. Many happy owners will tell you they’re worth a grand (personally, I’ve never got it).

This from the marketplace would blow a genuine 70s Fender out of the water.

Nice to hear from another DB player in Bristol! Lockdown has stalled (ie stopped) me from playing upright, but I hope to get back into it when the world goes back to normal.

What a great gig that must have been. In the presence of genius it’s tempting to try and analyse what they do, but sometimes it’s better to forget we’re musicians and just enjoy. I remember seeing a performance by Christian McBride (in amplified) and it was incredible. (Didn’t stop a few people on the audience falling asleep, mind you)

Objectively speaking, they’re both built the same way so you’d expect little difference. My 60s jazz (all original) plays wonderfully but pickup output is very low. Modern jazz (based on a 60s bass) has a much higher output. 60s bass looks better, modern bass sounds better. Difference in price: £7,000. Personally, I don’t think it’s worth it (I bought my 60s bass 20 years ago). Years of experience with 70s basses leads me to conclude that these aren’t worth the premium at all.

Yep. Good eggs.