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£2000 is as high as they insure.

I’ll phone him Monday. I might be able to have the electrics removed as the bass is otherwise excellent. Apparently a straightforward job but I’m not keen on doing it but I use a local luthier who is great and I’d probably get him to take them out for me. The cost of sending the electrics is pretty reasonable and 2 grand insurance will cover them going missing.

I’m in Glasgow so pretty far, also just not feasible too take a holiday really.

Looks like UPS with £2000 insurance next day delivery which hopefully means less time getting shipped for pillar to post.

Do you book them direct or via interparcel?

Hi Folks I want to send my Wal down to Surrey for a service. What is the best courier, I don’t mind paying a premium for a reliable service.

Just an update on this got the Jazz back from the luthier. He set it up and the action etc is spot on. He had to take a part of of the pickups and fix it was a little bit worried it would be completely sealed but it wasn't. The bass is in great condition and the luthier told me it was a very well made instrument. Mahogany as Bassassasin thought. Plays really well if anything the action is now too low but very pleased!

Will do I work in Edinburgh so handy. I actually have a very good luthier I use but he just wasn't keen on doing this!

It's a good copy of a famous bass! Bolt on and decent quality and I had it professionally defretted and added set of Barts. I've spent more than it's worth in monetary terms but I like it!

That bass looks fantastic I should add!

Hi Chaps that looks ideal to be honest I only knew about epoxy but polyester looks great. I suppose the only caveat would be the cost, its not a particularly expensive bass. But I'll drop them a line !

I’m looking to have the neck of one of my fretless basses epoxied (?) . I would love to do it myself but alas I am hopeless! Scotland preferably but could post the neck I suppose? Advice gratefully received!

Yes indeed I’m very pleased with it!

Just bought the Cazpar 4p fretless that was for sale in the forum. Knocked out by it, amazing bass and my first short scale!

Wow that's great thanks so much for looking into it. I'm totally over the moon about it I was humming an hawing on whether to to get it down to the guitar tech for a set up but I definitely will now. Thanks again!

Well it’s cleaned up rather well and looks really quite good and not heavy but I thought I had a spare set of strings knocking about but I don’t so I can’t give it a go which is annoying!

Thanks again for the info and by all means use the pics. I googled Yasuki and noticed the built in effects guitars. I’m now checking out Chushin Gakki!

I just picked up what I take to be a 70s/80s Japanese Jazz. It’s badged as Yasuki which I can find almost zero information on. I dropped Bassassin a mail before I bought it just for some tips and he pointed me to SH73’s post about his unbranded Jazz. This bass has similar rounded pickups, it’s a dark natural colour and has a serial number on the neckplate. I plugged it in and other than the action being terrible and the strings very old, it’s sounded like a Jazz. It’s heavy but not outrageously so. I noticed with the truss rod is at the base of the neck but unlike SH73’s bass I cant see it unless I take off the scratchplate, maybe not the original? I don’t know much about Jazz basses never mind old Japanese ones. It was very cheap but is filthy and one of the scratchplate screws is completely unscrewable so I’ll have to work out how to get it out! Any info would be much appreciated!

Sold a compressor to Bas, very smooth transaction. Lots of comms and general bass related chat. Excellent guy.

Well everyone loving the Helix so far, the sounds are excellent but I'm just knocked out by the ease of use. Not doing anything wacky simply just assigning sounds to switches and using the amp models etc but in the limited time I've had to play with it I've created some really usable presets. I can easily see it replacing my current set up and there is the added bonus of being useful for the guitar.