Duroc17

Just back and Mon dieu it was superb - going through ash down Evo 2 the old one with 8x10 - had to turn it down to quarter volume and a touch of gain. It’s a keeper! GET ONE!

Bought this from fellow BCer Fender Am Original Jazz in CAR I decided against the self build project for now and fell in love with this lovely thing and with la bellas on but switched out for TI flats and sanded down the gloss on the neck a tad and bingo - blimey what a great sounding bass this is. Articulate, warm yet punchy, bottom end full as a man who has seen a 3 for 1 in a pie shop and bought 6 pies for lunch! the neck is quite chunky - not a baseball bat but something to get used to and it’s quite heavy - would lightweight tuners make that much difference? It’s alright on a strap - I love the neck - gonna stick with it rehearsals tonight can’t wait 😛

Anyone got a 4 string bass mute contraption by Ellio Martina? Tried the website and filled in the form twice now and seems to have stopped making them. Prefer 19mm I specifically need a mute I can engage and disengage that allows me to play towards the neck. Can’t do this when palm muting and Nirdy mute is bit too mutey ta

It wasn’t the Roadworn aspect I especially interested in but the nitro vintage pickups and rosewood neck. So got a Fender American Original jazz on the way 🤠

was £900! which i got straight back in person

I met him person and in face value I believed him, he was super apologetic but now with the “road worn” service he can offer, he was lying to my face. And I have a high BS detector- he says he bought it from a shop in 2009 and it’s not been played. But I asked him when was the neck last oiled, he claimed 2 weeks ago, which was plainly untrue as neck was very dry. He said the shop he bought from was closed and he was going to ask Fender- which raised an eyebrow 🤨 but by putting that ad back - shows him to be a scammer

He’d listed it before I got home from returning it!

I had a lucky escape I wish I’d looked properly just cost me £20 in Errol and 3 hours in time but as long as we know his name in this community- Leon the Bassist on Facebook too

Yes saw it but the pau ferro neck - I’m not keen - but nice bass

nice stuff

I've had time to think and i think i need to think about it a bit more- had a chat with DG who was hugely helpful and I'm tempted at my own build as opposed to one of his fine fine relics, as i have realised i just want an amber oiled body with jazz neck set up - i think apart from the electronics, i could do most of it - but I've also not long got the Sire V5R, i wired wooled the body to take the sheen down and apart from needed a red tort guard (it's the 24 fret one, so not seen these yet) it's pretty much what i'm after for now. I also find i want to play it for 10 mins when i get up, and at lunch and after work - so might be a mod project and maybe do a build next year. Thanks to you lovely BCers =that have given me food for thought - i was getting carried away last night planning my perfect jazz bass, from elements from 1960 to 1974 - here's me specs of the basics of what i'd think would be ace: The Duroc Signature Jazz Bass 🙂 Alder body with nice grain. Amber tinted/old stripped look Aged red tortoiseshell pick guard C shaped 9.5 radius bare back neck with dark rosewood board. Or 7.25 radius rosewood with block inlay 74 neck Lollipop lightweight gotoh tuners aged nickel Bone nut or synthetic bone Low tension flats Fender hi-mass bridge 1960 style stack pots with cloth wiring - orange drop 0.10 capacitor for dark tone Vintage 64 pickups - cavity shielding tape Jaguar mute Aged F stamped ash tray bridge cover - if it fits over the jag mute

Yes I think I’ll see if one pops up

I’m just inept at doing practical stuff. Give me something to design or coordinate and I’m your guy.

I know a guitar tech no builder - weighing up options

Thanks sir. One for the future

I think this may be the case.

The neck and tuners felt right. But the body isn’t nitro it’s definitely a thick poly finish - so it’s perhaps a different body

The advert is back up so consciously aware he’s selling not a RW - avoid https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325824241709?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=wrOquW_CRvy&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=qxwjsrkpQX6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Yes it’s a second hand bass I’ve seen

Already been in touch haha. He won’t post and he’s away next weekend and I have gigs etc for rest of Oct weekends so no go

Cost me with UPS and import charges about £300 to import a bass earlier this year - but probably wont again as lost £250 when the GAS faded and sold it on

There’s one out there same for about 950 weighs 10.2lbs. I’d hurt my shoulder when fell off my push bike so I noticed it after 3 hour rehearsals sure are purdy basses

The 70s RI was my bass for 15 years. Was just too heavy. I’m tempted to get another and just get a super wide strap