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    Hi, bass looks great. Is the Strat style jack socket an aftermarket thing?
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    Beautiful looking bass...
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    I'm new to DB but the guy I purchased mine from had one of these and raved about it...
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    [color=#3C3241]This is a beautiful little guitar that I am selling because I no longer have a use for it, and prefer my Fender guitars if I'm honest. [/color] [color=#3C3241]It was made in Korea and has a bolt on neck. Dual humbuckers with individual volume and tone pots. It has an adjustable bridge, and is currently strung with Diaddario jazz flat wound strings. [/color] [color=#3C3241]The guitar is beautifully made, and certainly feels slightly better than the equivalent Epiphone model. It sounds like a lovely jazz guitar, particularly with the flatwounds on. [/color] [color=#3C3241]Everything works on the guitar and it's in excellent condition. In fact, it doesn't look like it has ever been gigged. I used it as a practice guitar in my house, and I can't see a scratch on it. It's about 17 years old I believe. [/color] [color=#3C3241]You're more than welcome to come and check it out at any point, I've got a couple of nice valve amplifiers you can use and make a mean cup of tea. [/color] [font=Source Sans Pro, Arial, sans-serif][color=#3c3241][size=4]There is no case with this guitar, although I could potentially provide a second hand case for an additional feel. Price includes delivery across the UK![/size][/color][/font] [url="http://s47.photobucket.com/user/lawriejones1/media/IMG_1792_zps2ns5wm1h.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s47.photobucket.com/user/lawriejones1/media/IMG_1793_zpsam5m10gk.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s47.photobucket.com/user/lawriejones1/media/IMG_1794_zpsqk1asrje.jpg.html"][/url]
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    I couldn't tell the difference either, perhaps slightly hotter on the reissue, but you'd expect that anyway.
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    Amazing instrument and this is a fantastic bargain for these.
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    I received some great feedback on the new race of Sire basses. The 5 string Marcus Miller ones are meant to be great, I'm pretty sure that would mean the 4 strings ones would be too...
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    I've got a really great book about double bass solo playing. I'm actually selling it, so I could send you details?
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    I've just picked up a lovely new (very old, well 1964) double bass. It plays wonderfully well and is set up fantastically, however it's currently being played by an awful novice (me). I want to get some technique lessons, so thought I'd see if anyone had any recommendations for a teacher in Bristol please. Feel free to DM me (there are some links on the forum, but they're a bit out of date). I was also going to see if people had any recommendations for beginners books as well? I want something that can help me get the right fingering, positions and so on. I'm good with the theory and the practical stuff, I just want to start to tame the massive wooden beast.
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    Always wanted one of these...!
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    I may have had a drink at that point, so apologies for being a bit cheeky/an idiot. Spare a thought for my wife, on the same evening I bought a double bass which I've just tried to sneak into the house. I realise now it's not as simple as a guitar/bass is. Joking aside, they are brilliant guitars for the money, good luck with the sale.
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    How about £210? I know "we're only half way there..." But, "Whooh hooh we're living on a prayer." Sorry. These are lovely guitars BTW. Good luck with sale.
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    Don't worry, I won't come after you if I don't like it! To be honest, I had already decided to get one but I'm not in a position to spend money unnecessarily or waste fully, so some more info is always useful. My only slight issue is that o can't get my hands on one until March. Hey ho, something to look forward to :-)
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    Cheers guys. That's why I love this forum!
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    Cheers Dave, that's a really useful response. I need something with some warmth for an acoustic quartet, but that will have some bit when I dig in. The music is quite technical, which is why I'm considering a 5, it'll give me a bit more 'space' to play, I guess. Recently I'm not one for buying and selling lots of gear, in fact I've had the same rig for 10 years now, but I think a 5 will be a bit of fun.
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    I really want one of these basses, I only found out about them today - seems like a good deal (regardless of the small faults, which I can fix). I'm going to join the club and order one shortly. I'm sure this has been asked before, but would you consider this better than a vintage Squire 5? I need a gigging bass for a new band and I don't want to take out the expensive old ones.
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    That's quite frankly amazing.
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    Crikey. Mind you, if I told my wife how much my guitars were worth she'd be a bit shocked.
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    I wonder if anyone really did? City boys probably...
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    To you it does. They don't feel the same though, do they :-) I've recorded and played live with guitars of all ages (I'll never use a Warwick ever again as it let me down once at the Albert Hall), and they don't all sound the same, and they certainly don't all play the same. I'm not trying to justify the seemingly inflated values of the vintage guitar market. I'm merely pointing out that these vintage instruments are priced at the same level as modern day hand made guitars. 6 strings are mental prices.
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    I understand your point completely completely, but there is one question that's really hard to answer - are these instruments generally the best there is (or up there with similar priced modern instruments) or do we assume they are because of the power that 60s and 70s culture - and those that make it - still wield over us? Is the value in the instrument or merely in what it represents? If it's the former, then the value of these instruments will continue to rise as people always want the best they can, and the 'best' would therefore be the most original, hence their value. If it's the latter, then I can see them becoming less desirable. Interestingly enough, you'd assume the vintage market is the preserve of the middle aged man, but in my experience it's not. I started importing guitars when I was in my 20s, and after having hundreds consider the older ones genuinely to be the best I've played. When I use to sell, it was often to people who weren't collectors as such, but wanted a vintage passive Fender to sit alongside modern guitars as it offered something they didn't feel they could get with a modern guitar. Often younger men (never women, but that could just be coincidence) wanted an older guitar as they respected the past and wanted to try some 'broken in' basses. The most desirable ones were often the most beat up ones...
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    The value of vintage guitars to you and I is in the authenticity, celebrity owned ones transcend this of course. Although I'd always caution those investing in anything like that; there's no market for Rolf Harris paintings anymore...! Fenders are iconic instruments, as are the Gibsons, but when you hear someone like Keith Richards has a collection of over 3,000 (yet readily admits he uses only a handful regularly) there as an awful lot of them out there. The body shapes are, to my mind, perfect for me (guitar and bass) and I can't see myself changing. So I could spend £4,000 on a guitar but if I use it and play it until I die, well, that's not a bad investment. Just hope the audience agrees. I never really got the 'players' and 'collectors' thing, to my mind there's no point in owning something that doesn't get used. Vintage string instruments have to be used of course or (some experts claim) they degrade on quality. Who knows whether that's true or not? But at least we get to enjoy the quality of these instruments through their playing. As with most things, vintage guitars have been well satirised in Spinal Tap. We'll have to wait and see what happens, let's hope the necks aren't all warped on these old Fenders by then, eh?
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    Actually, I considered my collection and it's a good selection I'm happy with. I've got. 66 jazz, 63 precision, 74 Strat and a 74 Tele Deluxe. I also have a Simon & Patrick acoustic and a 60s double bass. Fairly modest by some standards, but one of every model suits me. My next investment is likely to be a cheap Fender I can take out and a fretless bass of some sort.
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    Yes, i understand your point, and I think some of these values are quite incredible. £80,000 for a mass produced guitar is a little silly, and the market has fallen for a lot of guitars. If you look as a whole at the figures, guitars increase steadily in value, circa 5% a year, which is unspectacular. I think that there are enough people who still want to own these iconic old guitars and originality is what makes them valuable. Personally, from having upwards of 15 guitars of various vintages (I used to import them) I made do with just one that I love, and still love to this day - a 1966 jazz bass. I recently spend about £4K on a 63' Precision but that's because it's an iconic guitar that plays incredibly well, so I'm happy to drop that. I'd spend that on a Wal for instance (although they were selling for around £1200 when I last bought one). A typical collector of course may not even want to play the guitars, which is awfully sad. I did actually you with investing in guitars in addition to other savings and things I have, but judged it wasn't worth it because of the risks you identify.
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    It looks nice, but I'd stay away from something that has had that many changes, unless of course it plays incredibly and you're not worried about the resale value, or purchasing it an investment.
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