Aidan63

I respect his musicianship and playing and even more that he is willing to sell this instrument at a sensible 'players' price, especially as if a collector or dealer buys it rather than a musician, it will be up for sale for 2-3 times the price in no time because of the providence I hope someone who can use it buys it and makes more music with it

I wish 😄

ok so not perfect but it's a non original to instrument control plate, this scratch plate 'fits' in that no mods required all the screw holes lined up and good fit around the neck and pickup and actually better fit with this control plate than the original MIM scratch plate and two other American made plates and an unknown origin one on this instrument, the gap is pretty small and if I hadn't messed up with the position of one of the large capacitors I used I'd be able to adjust the control plate the smidge necessary to take it out but I didn't want to relieve the control hole aperture the mm necessary and I might do that in the future, at the time I just wanted to get it together and see how it sounded and played after the home neck refurb and mods - if I'd paid a luthier to do the work I might quibble but I'm gearbox builder The original scratch plate and control plate weren't the greatest fit, it's a 2003 MIM after all 😉

Does anybody know what benefit, if any, this type of saddle is supposed to confer on an instrument or is it just a period look thing ? Personally I don't get the slavish bbot bridge thing - it was just cheap simple and and pretty effective and still used for those reasons but some modern bridges are better from a number of standpoints be it adjustability, ease of loading, stability, sustain, balance of instrument etc...

with screws and wood 'straight' is slightly relative thing it's not like machined metal and threads and high tensile bolts so a shim is perfectly acceptable modification, well tested method and completely reversible or variable - you are only adjusting the variance that is inherent in the materials and the manufacturing process, some high end acoustic guitars have shimmed or adjustable necks

£7 Chinese fitted my MIM perfectly I have a made in America aftermarket 3 ply black one I bought from someone on here I was going to fit but preferred the weird tortoiseshell one, you are welcome to try before you buy, you would have to modify it for the truss rod adjustment if you decide to keep it

I don't know what is was like in it's 'heyday' but of the 11 basses listed since Thursday morning the 4 priced to sell / good value (imho) for money instruments have sold and a good number of other basses listed earlier have also sold in the last couple of days, so I'd say once people got paid this month and allowing for the seasonal feast of mammon wallet draining the market is fine if things are correctly priced but there are too many overvalued instruments imho, including obviously my Kala Ubass, which I am listing for 50% of what it cost me (I clearly paid too much), but since I bought it Harley Benton and others have been knocking out Uke basses (and everything else) for not much more than the cost of the materials in the west so bringing down the whole lower and middle market values used, why pay £70+ for collection only from Ebay for a often well used or neglected used instrument that was £200-£300 (when originally sold) when a new one with 30 days return and 3 years warranty is now £120 delivered How anyone can think an old Squier is worth twice what a new one costs I don't understand, should be less than half the price of a new one surely regardless of how 'nice' it is as no return, no warranty. I don't think your home insurance company would pay out £700 for a 25 year old mid market bass if it was stolen or lost in a fire without some damn good valuation evidence I bought my used Maruszczyk less than 12 months old for 50% of it's new actual price (not it's list price) and at that price I thought it was a great/good buy but worried that it was flawed somehow as otherwise why would the PO be selling it (and the fact that none else bought it in the month or so it was on Ebay meant others were also concerned as to why it was for sale so cheap), but it's absolutely perfect 😃 just the brand doesn't hold it's value in the same way that overpriced (what the market will bear pricing backed up by price agreements and restricted access to trade) Fenders seem able to do I don't have replacement value insurance so if the Jake was stolen all I'd get back would be what I paid for it and the hard case(which I can prove) probably less some wear and tear and I doubt I could sell it on here for any more than that and I certainly wouldn't ask a lot more than that as I just don't have the front to do that but others clearly do I see the same thing in my day to day work with VW campervans, people buy into the lifestyle, buy a van, do it up, use it, appear to have a great time, then sell expecting to get back every penny they have spent plus some scene-tax, not allowing for all the fun times they had or depreciation due to age/mileage and thus expect the next owners to effectively have subsidised their previous fun; price of vans goes up, everyone tries it on, the value for money/correctly priced stuff doesn't sell as quickly as it should because people are suspicious but if you ask a silly inflated (to me) price people somehow buy into that and then end up paying over the odds and when they come to sell the cycle repeats Don't forget the younger generation didn't grow up with records and record players and buying stuff once to own and have for ever (a good long time at least), they live digital lives, pay to stream, have smaller footprints, micro this and that and 2-3 year replacement cycles on stuff (3-7 years for really big ticket items like cars and domestic appliances), and needing to save money to be able to buy a house or paying over the odds to my generation of landlords means that they won't be buying 2 or 3 or 4 shiny objects to possess unless they are actually making money out of them and I suspect there's a number of traders on here who have realised it is quite hard to monetise music in the digital world but it is possible to make money buying and selling instruments/effects etc. so expect more of that

I asked what it was he was selling... Hi Aidan - good question 😄 ... I'm actually not trying to sell anything here which is why it makes no sense and is a mystery item and photo of a cardboard box. It was the start of a bass related listing which I've never had the time to complete. I'll have to either complete it or delete it - which sounds like a good philosophy. All the best, Dan

will it fit in the Gator large guitar case, my short scale miniJazz fits perfectly https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Gator-GC-ELEC-XL-Deluxe-Moulded-Case-For-Electric-Guitars-Extra-Long/CU0?origin=product-ads&utm_campaign=PLA+Shop+-+Gator&utm_medium=vertical_search&network=google&adgroup=*Gator.+All+Products&merchant_id=1279443&product_id=16632d1&product_country=GB&product_partition_id=84816598879&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj7aTp5b63gIV6LXtCh1aOwsKEAQYAiABEgJ8U_D_BwE

The position of the adjuster looks correct it is in the same place on my Jake 4 I haven't had any creaks from my neck but I have only changed strings once from rounds to Maruszczyk Flats and it seems to be very stable, I have only adjusted the neck by 1/6 turn either way from where it was when I bought it, it seems pretty sensitive to adjustment - 1/3 turn was about 1mm variance in relief around the 7th fret with the rounds that were on it - , D'addario exl 160s, they are medium gauge, tensions will be on D'addarios site; since I set it up with the flats I haven't adjusted it - I only fully loosened the middle two strings to move them aside for good tool access, the outers I only loosen a little ( say a tone) before adjusting the truss rod so some string tension still on I don't know what tension M's strings are but they are excellent value for money and I figured they should be right for it and I'm happy with them

nothing to do with me, just the first time I had seen such an ad on Fleabay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Guitar-player-required/183544880725?hash=item2abc209e55:g:hbAAAOSwMjpb82Hv:rk:35:pf:0

some Bluetooth devices are quick enough to pretty much sync but most cheap stuff or stuff designed for phones primarily isn't I have found - not just audio this affects things like GPS modules as well as I found in the past when using laptop with Memory Map on it and different GPS devices my Bluetooth speaker by Nokia has a terrible lag but my XU07R cheap Bluetooth stereo receiver works well so lip sync appears to be okay when watching video using my practice combo as a monitor (eg. watching SBL lessons or other videos where you want to properly hear the bass) - there may actually be some slight delay but as I am only streaming stuff to play along with like a drum machine or a song off Spotify or Youtube and playing on my own I wouldn't notice any inherent delay - but given that both devices are getting a signal from my sound card in the PC and the USB2/3 Bluetooth dongle that broadcasts it the difference must be in the receiving devices, the phone tech one being very slow and the dedicated stereo receiver being much better, but it's much newer tech (4 years newer)so probably has a smaller faster processor in it

modern lead ends don't seem to be as chunky as the old ones (or they wear - maybe the internals of the plug rather than the body ?), I have a lovely 2m long thirty year old grey right angle head IEC lead (original with TE combo) and that is a really robust snug fit in both the bass and guitar amps whereas the lead that came with the guitar combo from 5 years ago (Fender) is a looser fit in both amps you can trip over the old grey one and it will pull the amp over ( Boxer 30 watt practice combo), trip over the Fender one and the plug pulls out even with the lighter guitar combo The old cable is heavier gauge as well, BICC made in St. Helens 13amp flex of it's era whereas the fender one is thinner, less flexible and more like just the 5amp rating it is fused at and has more memory so if kinked will tend to retain a slight distortion where it has been kinked - I notice now how much cables hold the shape they were packed in (usually bunched with a tie and in a plastic bag) even if you use them fully extended in a warm environment for a while - it can be convenient if you put the cable back in a confined space like with a power tool in a case but it does mean they don't lay flat when you might want them to like on the floor where you might be stepping over them so can be more of a trip hazard

which pickups ?

Monica bought my mini Jazz bass, was patient while Parcelforce faffed a bit, pleasant easy transaction and nice feedback left thank you

cheaper to change strings

92% positive feedback on 31 sales I'd tread careful and want to haggle it down a lot

And now...……. I have been offered second chance on this for £95 cash on collection as apparently the winning bidder can't pay till November - I don't actually want it so does anybody else want it at that price, or I'll just decline, explain I was only bidding it up to help vendor get a decent price and then doubtless it will be relisted again with £52 start price and someone may be able to get it for that

would have gone for £52 if I hadn't bid it up to £99.99 - apologies if you were the multi-bid winner who was out on the town last night and wanted to make sure that you won it, but you were probably prepared to pay £200 for it so you are just glad you got a bargain If a 52 came along I'd be interested in that

The original strings fitted are supposed to be American made, J&D brand. Maybe the same ones fitted to the Ibanez Mikro basses as they are same scale length, they are available from Ibanez and online from France on ebay. Standard short scale strings fit but you will have a little top wrap on the post on the E string but I haven't had a problem with that, and lots of standard scale strings end up with a little top wrap on the E string on some 34" scale inline 4 headstocks I have found depending on bridge design and closeness of tuner to nut, especially flat wounds. I don't actually have a strat to compare with but overall body size is about the same size as my telecaster and only a couple of inches longer than it overall

Wooden body version, these were £500 new weren't they, seems to be some love online for them https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cort-Curbow-4-String-Bass/113291177370 someone really wants it, they have 5 bids in for it