GreeneKing

Welcome in Ivan, sounds like Bill Fitzmaurice's site may be the place for you. [url="http://billfitzmaurice.com/"]http://billfitzmaurice.com/[/url] Good to see folk older than me

A seller is also entitled to refuse to serve anyone without giving a reason. It's a fairly well known ploy to swap tags on items. I didn't do it btw

They offered a 20% discount but still too rich for me. It was well put together. I now have bloody P GAS

I pass Promenade Music in Morecambe to and from work and occasionally pop in to see what gives. The bass guy was off today and the guitar guy was helping out in covering the bass dept. I tried a MIM P bass this afternoon, through a Markbass Jeff Berlin combo. It wasn't set up that well and was pretty meh... Noticing that there was a white US P in the shop I helped myself as the guy had gone upstairs. It was marked as a Jaguar (!) and was reduced to £699. It was also a stupidly light body, so much so that it had a slight neck dive Wow, what can I say. It sounded and played truly superbly. The tone through all it's range was to die for, subtle and rich not just the P thump that I expected. I kept on playing it just for the sheer pleasure of listening to it. Having just sold my Ric I thought kinda hmm... a Fender and me? £699s a lot of dosh but it is quite stunning etc. I asked if there was any chance of a slight price drop (guessing £699 for a US P is pretty low anyway) and was told no but that I'd get a hardcase etc. Then I did a stupid thing, I asked about the label saying 'Jaguar' - doh. Seems wrong label was put on the bass and this particular white P is actually £1799 I'm not sure what model of US P bass goes for this sort of dosh but I've obviously got an expensive taste. It was superb. I'm left wondering if I could have got away with paying £699 for it if I'd have kept my trap shut

Chris A possibility would be Pyramid Gold. They so a shorter scale set and they feel like a lower tension to me. Not cheap but oh soooo nice. Peter

Your car spark plugs operate at about 20,000 volts and they won't (normally) kill you

Basses rarely expire, long term anyway methinks. Have something you get on with as a cheap backup until it's fixed?

[quote name='lozbass' post='538190' date='Jul 11 2009, 10:51 PM']I'll do the survey later, however Greeneking - you could do worse than having a look at the work of Sue Wise and Liz Stanley - the former is very strong on the social work aspect, the latter on Feminist and Lesbian epistemology. Right on with the survey... Right - survey done - it looks like market and product development research? Musicman 1: take care with leading questions, assumptions, and missing options.[/quote] Sue Wise is my dissertation supervisor as it happens . The Liz Stanley recommendation is appreciated. Many thanks Peter

What a good idea and I hope your dissy goes well. I'm about to start mine. Any help would be appreciated. The title: A history of feminism in social work Seriously Survey done

[quote name='BigRedX' post='537788' date='Jul 11 2009, 11:20 AM']The string-tree is all about getting a decent break angle at the witness point of the string whether that be a zero fret or the nut. Is the headstock angled back?[/quote] It's not angled but is maybe set further back.

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='537729' date='Jul 11 2009, 09:52 AM']+1 Nice looking bass Peter! Are you going to put a string tree on it?[/quote] I'm not quite sure how they design around the need for one Nik but it doesn't need one, maybe the setback of the headstock is greater? Peter

True, true John, it just seems to me that some entrants have taken an existing and relatively little known design and basically fed it straight into the competition, particularly the white one at the bottom. It's such a distinctive shape.

Lovely bass +1 for Warmoth quality

The bottom two have ACG written all over them imo. Is it just me that sees this?

Maruszczyk (Maroosh 't' chick)

I think it's a bit of Alan under charging while he starts his business rolling and a lot of other luthiers (not all) massively overcharging as is the norm in a luxury goods market.

Are Custom basses worth it? Worth what I ask? If anyone makes a custom bass how do they price it? If you think that they all total the price of the material and the hours taken to construct plus a reasonable percentage profit I think you'll be mistaken. There's a deal of hype and bullshit involved. £3000 is oft quoted as a sort of benchmark in this thread. Well I presently own 3, or maybe 4 if you include my Ric 4001CS and I'd say yes, they're all worth it but the assumption that the more you pay the more you get doesn't hold true. So bottom of the pile price wise would be my "Maroosh't'chick" (Can't spell it for real) Jazz at about 1,000 Euros new. I's happily equate it's quality at Sadowsky levels, having owner a Metro and a US Lakland. Top of the list, excluding the CS would be the Overwater Progress Deluxe III with a present price for new of £2,395. It's a very fine bass indeed. However my ACG Harlot (see avatar) blows them away in terms of materials, construction, tone and playability and comes in very much lower than the Overwater. If anyone doesn't believe me you're welcome to try it out at a bass bash near you. I'd struggle to get a new HH Ray for the price of the ACG and that's madness. I've laid hands on some high priced basses and wouldn't swap with the Harlot even if I didn't feel such loyalty to Alan for his work. If I do bang on a bit I'm not apologising

Thanks guys and welcome back Alan

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