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    62 jazz

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    Not exactly Triggers broom but Interested cos its a birth year bass - Damn my blasted decreptitude!!

    Is £3K way too much?? And how genuine is it overall??

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    [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1962-Fender-Jazz-bass_W0QQitemZ150433369075QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item2306870bf3"]HERE[/url]

    Refinishes

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    If u are confident enough at stripping the bass down and just sending them the body for refinishing and then reassembling the bass yourself that should save quite a bit.


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    Wal MK1 Fretless

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted · Edited by BarnacleBob

    It was only inevitable that this Pete-era Wal thing would happen - I think it was actually discussed in another thread - the same way people like to point out their bass is from the Ian(?) Waller era 'The Golden Age' some would have u believe.

    Any-hoo as wonderful as this bass may be i think it might be pretty subjective as how it is better than Pauls til someone puts them up against each other. If Paul is using the same woods, techniques and QC etc in previous years then the only variation will come is in the Hand made input and some would say thats what ur paying for ie no two Wals should be identical anyway.

    As for Arse of the month, i think it could have been worse :)

    Also If i had £3.5K I would at least make an offer on this as I really want one, but i want it NOW!!!!


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    Aria SB archive

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by BarnacleBob

    Graemes site is an excellent resource, glad it's back up and running.

    FYI an Aria ZZB in excellent condition turned up on Gumtree for £90 today! If only I had the room!

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    What do you want from your Fender clones?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Standard Jazz body size is just a tad too big for my liking - being only a little feller.

    So i like the reduced size of a lot of the 'clones' - and like Bubinga5 says Fender themselves dont do a lot active/pre-amping and such so u have too look elsewere if u want a wider range of sounds from one instrument.

    recently found a Fender Jazz that was nearly everything clones are - actives, nice hardware, even an exotic top but it had a really annoying dead spot :)


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    Modern trace-elliot

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    seem to regularly see TE 715 combos on gumtree/eBay at great prices - and the cynic in me wonders are they any good or u wouldnt see 'so many' in good condition for sale

    looking for a 'compact' set up to replace ageing Peavey Databass (15" 450W) combo.

    I know the trace needs an ext to get the full Monty and it weighs the same as the peavey but at least it has two handles!

    Unlikely to go out with a band again so dont want to spend too much but would like something that doesnt clutter up my spare room 'studio' but would cut it in agig situation if the notion took me.

    played trace gear in the 80s and early 90s and really liked it tho it was all huge then!

    Cheers BB

    Manson

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by BarnacleBob

    [quote name='Pete Academy' post='799483' date='Apr 8 2010, 09:01 AM']John Paul Jones uses them. Been going for donkeys.

    His dad Charles was a nasty piece of work, though.[/quote]

    Who? Charles Jones?


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    Edit - nice thru neck older one at the Gallery in That London for half that.

    sold Aria SB Black & Gold 1 "83"

    in Basses For Sale

    Posted

    [quote name='noelk27' post='793936' date='Apr 2 2010, 12:40 AM']Afraid I'll have to burst your bubble on that one. Correctly, the B&G I and II were limited versions of the SB-R60 and 80, as these B&G versions first appeared in an APII catalogue printed in Japan in early '83 alongside the R60 and 80 models, although the B&G I and II were conceived and first put into production in '82. The R60 and 80 weren't renamed Elite I and II until late '83.

    There again got to cure another misapprehension you're labouring under, that the R60 and 80 and Elite I and II are different models. This is not the case. These are the same models - the R60 and 80, first introduced in '81, were renamed when APII repositioned many of its models by converting from letter and number designations to descriptor designations in '83.

    And when suggested that the B&G I was a version of the SB700, that was completely correct - the SB-R models, formulated for the US market, featured 18mm spacing at the bridge and a 40mm nut width as opposed to 16mm spacing at the bridge and a 45mm nut width found on the original SB models, but otherwise were technically the equivalent of the then current SB models.

    The bass for sale is a nice example of the B&G I from the first full year of production.[/quote]



    Yeah, wot 'e said! :)

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