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  1. Alemboid
    Aw shucks, you're all horrible, mustn't make this too much of a love in Cheers Clag, and have fun with it! Strangely enough, given my seeming promiscuity with fretted basses at least, it's taken the absence of the OW to transfer my allegiance properly to the Zon, as that Overwater is a fine thing. Fretlesses are quite 'personal' (!) and developing a complete bond with the new one felt indelicate until now... And that's probably quite enough information for the moment. B. P.S. Clag: number 1 of 3 duly drunk. Flavoursome, thank you! [quote name='clagooey' post='203297' date='May 20 2008, 10:04 PM']A very happy customer! Yes I did Kiwi; I had a bit of an unamped noodle with his new Zon, his Alembic, and a few others. Bloody fantastic pieces of kit! And I managed to see a chapman stick in real life for the first time. It was almost like bass heaven, if I say so myself! Clagooey[/quote]
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    Sold to clagooey. I'll thoroughly miss it but it couldn't have gone to a nicer chap. B.
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    Little bumpling. I meant to say that I'm happy to take Paypal for the bass if this encourages anyone. And I'm reasonably open to offers. I won't bite or be excessively rude back... probably. This is a deliciously lovely fretless you know. B
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    [quote name='ped' post='185349' date='Apr 25 2008, 03:13 PM']I think I had a go on this in your batcave did I not, Ben? Superb as I remember...[/quote] Cheers Ped, yes that's the one. "Batcave" perfect - won't be able to refer to the place as anything else now! Thanks too Marcus. B
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    [quote name='haimesy' post='184798' date='Apr 24 2008, 07:57 PM']I have the same progress & its the best bass i have ever had fretless or fretted[different woods. and lined, wasnt brave enough].Good luck selling[/quote] Cheers haimesy, and thanks for the kind words! B
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    [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='184710' date='Apr 24 2008, 06:03 PM']Ohmmwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah... [/quote] No, no. I can't [i]sustain [/i] all the punning. I do promise that my humous won't carry e-bow-la though....
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    [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='184618' date='Apr 24 2008, 04:17 PM']...you're not turning into a Zon Buddhist by any chance?[/quote] Aargh! Yes, mine'll be one with everything... Squeezing some poor innocent baby chick peas as we speak.
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    [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='184595' date='Apr 24 2008, 04:02 PM']Have you got any hummous instead? I don't like the taste of houmous.[/quote] Hummous is certainly more tuneful, although I can never understand the lyrics. I've definitely got humus in the back garden though...
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    [quote name='overwater#1' post='184580' date='Apr 24 2008, 03:51 PM']Can I pay in installments for the next, um say, 20 years??? [/quote] Cheers Matt! It is a beaut and to be honest I have a lingering guilty feeling even thinking about selling it as it's so good and the Overwater guys are so very good too. But recent badness involving the aforementioned bit of graphite-y fretlessness and a challenging new dalliance with an NS/Stick mean that something's got to give. As to installments, hmm 20 yrs @ an APR of... let me see. Have you sold your soul yet? (mine went on the big Alembic a few years back) B
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    [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='184567' date='Apr 24 2008, 03:24 PM']Are you insane?[/quote] Well: 1. Quite probably, yes ; 2. You saw what the garage/studio was like last time; 3. Wait 'til you try the new Zon; 4. I'm trying 'serial monogamy' with the fretlesses, or that's my story at the moment... Fancy some houmous?
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    And I should add that copious quantities of humous or hummus or houmus will be laid on for any visitors, now this has been 'outed' as the Basschat snack of choice.
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    Following a very naughty wallet opening session involving a siren call from a fretless Zon 6, whose image may grace the porn section soon (if you ask nicely ), my otherwise beloved fretless six string Overwater Progress III needs to be gently shown the door, preferably while I’m under anesthetic or equivalent as I’ve been very much in love with this bass in the four years I’ve had it. So here goes: It’s a Progress III Deluxe fretless 6, finished in May ’03. It has the distinction of having been Laurence of Overwater’s personal bass, before, as I understand it, he went over largely to double bass. The bass is 35” scale with the usual maple/purpleheart through neck, walnut body wings and a particularly nice English flame olive ash top. The fingerboard is a particularly thick piece of ebony, unlined except for the rather decorative ‘helper’ dots between the C and G strings. Hardware’s all black, including Hipshot Ultralite aluminium tuners. Usual OW electronics with the East made bass/mid/treble circuit with locking jack + balanced XLR outputs. The condition is generally very good or better: there’s virtually no wear on the fingerboard and absolutely no playing issues; there a couple of very minor dinks around the side of the body (really trivial) and one little crunch at the base of the headstock (ugh, don’t ask...) which you can see in the photos. There’s a little bit of lacquer checking (if that’s the word) happening on the back of the neck around the veloute. Funnily enough my OW guitar has done this too. I mention all this just to be pedantically complete, as the bass really is in great nick. It’s currently got almost new Status groundwound/halfwound strings on it, which I’m not totally in love with to be honest, but they do at least feel quite smooth without being completely flatwound dead. Although TI Jazz flats do sound great on this bass... The bass plays wonderfully well, as you might hope, and has a big, open, quite clean tone to it. Just to ensure that the cliché quotient is kept up, I am of course obliged to tell you that it has ‘tons of mwahh’. Well it really does! The figure I have in my head is something around £1000. Feel free to make an offer approaching this. Offers not involving small body parts or mouse clavicles will be particularly welcome . I’m not really into trades at the moment as I have more than all the basses an Alemboid could ask for, but I’m weak and suggestible when trades are offered, so you never know. Oh, I should mention, it comes with a Hiscox hard case. I’m near Oxford and you’re welcome to come and have a look at it, or even have a look at the bass if you’d rather. Will post under duress, but would rather not. Cheers all, B. [attachment=8118:OWfr2.jpg] [attachment=8120:OWbackend1.jpg] [attachment=8127:OWfr5.jpg] [attachment=8122:OWboard1.jpg] [attachment=8119:OWback1.jpg] [attachment=8123:OWhead1.jpg] [attachment=8124:OWheadrear1.jpg] [attachment=8121:OWcontrols1.jpg] [attachment=8125:OWfullfr.jpg]
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    A quick PM....
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    And just to add further to the confusion (and Modulus anoraksia), there are at least three types of construction the Mod necks have: this earliest chopped strand "Polane" finished sort; an intermediate weave which looks very similar to Status necks and the current, challengingly named, 'thousand ladies dancing" type. There's a school of thought that the earliest ones, which were very overbuilt, sound the best. Having had this one and some later Moduli, I would probably go along with that.... <anorak now off and hidden>. B [quote name='bassaussie' post='174035' date='Apr 10 2008, 05:32 PM']I didn't know that, I thought it was a bit later. I also didn't know the part about the Modulus/Alembic logo - I've never seen one before!! Thanks for the picture, that's great. Other than that, the logo looks pretty similar to what I had (at least from memory). Thanks for the info![/quote]
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    The early Fender-like Bassstar graphite necks go back even earlier in fact, dating from the late 70s onwards. Here's mine (1979-ish, neck number 53): [attachment=7456:bassstar_head.jpg] Just to add to the confusion, at this early stage they were sold as "Modulus/Alembic" in a licensing arrangement Geoff Gould had with Alembic. Although these Bassstar necks had nothing to do with Alembic as such, the period overlaps with the short time Modulus made graphite through necks for Alembic series instruments. Cue a pic from CrazyKiwi....? B
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    How much for the GK3-B please? I could use another one as part of my spring "try to love my V-Bass" effort. (PMd too) B
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    [quote name='Zonnick' post='96623' date='Nov 30 2007, 12:45 PM']Arrrggghh...the pain! This is not an easy sale... N[/quote] Don't do it! The inevitability of some sort of Zon relationship was sealed when I discovered that an old friend of mine lives only a mile away from Zon HQ in Redwood City, CA. I rather badly want a fretless twin to keep it company now B
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    [quote name='Crazykiwi' post='96580' date='Nov 30 2007, 11:39 AM']Blimey thats almost the same spec as Alemboid's Zon 6![/quote] So it is! Just so it doesn't feel lonely, here's a pic of mine (a Sonus Custom 6) [attachment=3847:zon.jpg] Great price - had it been a fretless I'd be gnawing someone's arms off at this point... B
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    "Redneck" - irony in the US isn't as dead as I thought Marky L: Sounds like it would have been good if you'd won that bass. I regret that I've never 'met' another one... B
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    [quote name='Marky L' post='81251' date='Oct 30 2007, 01:58 PM']Oh bloody hell, that was it I'm sure!! Did it sell to some one in the Oxford area or were you from there? Yup, I fancied having a 4001 for a long time and when I discovered the Blackstar then it was THE obvious choice. I'm still pi**ed that I missed it. Thanks for posting the pics too M.[/quote] Ah, funny you should remember the bass after all this time. I'm from around Oxford, the guy I sold it to was from Essex/Herts or somewhere around there (we met up on the M25 services...). I think he then re-sold it a while later, again on ebay. I only know this because the second highest bidder from my original listing emailed me to say that the chap had re-used (ie nicked) my photos for his listing Knew I had the pics somewhere in the vault of previous basses. There have been so many. It was a good bass, and rare, just not for me as it turns out. B.
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    I had one of these very basses a few years ago. Essentially they were just a limited run of a basic 4003, mine had the certificate proclaiming it to be one of only 199 made, or some such number. They made a white one too if I remember rightly. Apart from its undoubtedly considerable blackness and small dot markers, it was just another 4003. This was the only Rick I've had - after lusting after since I was very young, I discovered their complete unsuitability for my playing style Great with a pick though. Sold it in 2002 on ebay for eight hundred and something... Perhaps this was the one you remember? B [attachment=3154:rick_blackstar1.jpg] [attachment=3155:rick_blackstar2.jpg] [attachment=3156:rick_blackstar3.jpg]
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    Looks like the bass unit from something like a Celestion Ditton 15 hifi speaker. Probably mid 70s-ish. What's its diameter? If 12" or thereabouts probably from a Ditton 66. Potentially nice sound but very limited power handling for bass! B
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