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This is awesome!!!

Can you send me some pictures of the green one if you are looking at selling that??  Danke!

Just moved house end of last week and got this cheap stand for my guitars, finally found them all and put them on, 4 jazz....

What is a future impact?

The bass is with me, and freezing!  Letting it warm up a bit, brand new Japanese Tokai AJB118, quite rare!

It's really light weight, much lighter than my Sandberg, and probably the same as the basswood Fender.

I need to get some strings on it that I can handle as I am a wimp, but it sounds good so far.

2 hours ago, mxm said:

Bargain saving at GAK:

I’m not even left handed and I’m tempted.

Yeah, he’s a bell end.

Boo, it's only just reached the UK, so I won't get it til Monday!  This has made me wonder what wood my Sandberg is now, my 64 is alder, and my Jap Fender is basswood.

19 minutes ago, TrevorG said:

Ash grains don't sit that far apart normally. Alder has very little grain. I used this site to discover my Ash bass was made from Heartwood(the centre of the tree often all olive wood or Tiger wood). Try looking here.

https://www.wood-database.com/wood-finder/

 

It looks very much like the Oregon Ash picture they have on their site.

Good old bass chat!

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

Why? What difference will it make?

What difference does anything make?

That was in a jokey way by the way, I am actually more in the I don't care what the wood is when it comes to sound camp.  I am more just curious what the wood is, because I want to know.  Either way, I had bought the bass before I posted that picture.

Good good, to be honest, I am wanting it to be Ash!  And the more elaborate grain made me think it was.  It will be here later today anyway, all the way from Barcelona to Kippax in Yorkshire.

It’s a jap Tokai, they’ve made Alder and Ash basses, so it’s more about the grain.  All the others of this model I’ve found say Ash, but they are natural finishes.

So is this Ash or Alder?  I think from the photo Ash, but the spec says Alder?

14 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Who wants a fender banjo?

 

The Bajo bit confused me on one of their listings, I thought it was a cool limited edition before realising its just Spanish for bass, haha.

I ordered a Tokai from them though, I wasn't even wanting a bass really, ended up on that site after googling about Jap ESPs.

Fanatic Guitars in Spain has some good deals, including this Jazz...

https://www.fanaticguitars.com/producto/fender-bajo-jazz-bass-classic-70s-3ts/

Even with shipping that’s a good price.

You should have a PM?

I saw an awesome deal on a 70s Fender, did you want the link?  Vintera that is.

On google it says these are MIJ, is that right? As they seem good value for less than £800!

EDIT - ignore this, managed to zoom into the back of a headstock and saw they are made in China.

Sorry if someone posted this, but it is online...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000kxx5/the-repair-shop-fixing-britain-series-1-episode-9

Just saw this on facebooking if anyone’s interested, PMT Leeds.

I am glad this sold, so I didn’t buy it!

He was awesome.

30 minutes ago, SamPlaysBass said:

Sulking that the Sandberg had gone, absolutely gutted. Has anyone else had a refund? Just hoping that no-one has experienced any problems with the refund process... 

The Sandberg is the one I “bought”, I’m waiting for my refund.

You can still “buy” the one I “bought” too even though it sold days ago.

They have an issue with their system, so some of that stuff is sold but you can still “buy” it, I’ve had to get a refund after a bunch of calls to try to figure out what it was.