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Lol the pricing nowadays...

A refinish is going to cost you £300 (plus the loss in value), so I would just buy a 2nd hand backup for it, where you won't lose any money if you sell it on. The '71 can then sit and carry on accruing value.

When you tie money to instruments you love it kinda kills the mood...Like when you see a good looking girl on the high street, maybe get an erection and suddenly have to start thinking about carpentry or politics to get rid of it.

Buy yourself a G&L.

Very tasteful

Bartolini Soapbars and a Glockenlang Preamp is a wonderful combo - Marleaux used it for ages before swapping to Delano Pickups (not sure why).

Vmaxblues had one of these and he was kind enough to let me try it out while we were trading other things and it is still the best rock bass I've ever played.

HNBD!!

Do you need any Guitars?

Love these - I think Rocco Prestia played them at some point.

I loved my A4 and A6, but I was enticed away after playing a Precision Bass (The Sound in My Head) and later upgrading to a Marleaux Consat.

You'll be hard pushed to find something (double soapbar) that will beat them for less than £800.

Where are you based and what's the condition like?

Cor - Diggit!

...But they're the absolute opposite of 'Zing'

From reading the OP I would stick with Roundwounds.

I've had to save Mike Duda's towel a few times and now I've put a fake spider from the Early Learning Centre in it, just in case.

Always buy shirts - Especially if they're £20, as that's not much more than something in TK Maxx.

I forgot my Judas Priest shirts!! I wish I'd stored them in a suitcase, but I wear them all the time.

Just wanted to see what cool stuff people have got from Gigs etc?

I've got...

A towel and pick from Mike Duda of WASP
A printed canvass signed by Jack Bruce
An album signed by Chris Squire ('Fish out of Water)

and then T-Shirts from the following - Jethro Tull, Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Bob Dylan, Jack Bruce and Thunder. So not so remarkable.

A friend of mine has Keith Moon's Drumsticks...That's the best I know of.

What you got?

Love the Guitar Pickups (particularly the Humbuckers), but the Bass Models don't do it for me - I like more Definition.

+1 ^

Got a chance to meet him at a Cardiff Bass Bash and he was exactly the same in person - Loved his Shuker 5 String P.

Wounded that the Precision has gone - Bump for the others!

Ah noe dat - It was when the Precision switched over to a Rosewood Fingerboard

Switch to the neck pickup and say it's a '59.

How do you find Maru Basses in comparison with your Vintage Fenders? (You can tell I've been away a while - Just found out what a Limelight was a couple of weeks ago)

22 pages about that...

These sound amazing - Really impressed by Xotic Basses

I think the problem with a P/J Bass is the same as a HSS Stratocaster - The pickups don't balance.

^ Ditto