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    Tone Hammer 210 combo.... Looks nice. 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

    in Amps and Cabs

    Posted

    On 01/02/2026 at 17:39, Dan Dare said:

     

    There's a 350W Tone Hammer already. I expect they used that.

    Quite possibly..but it does say its a 300 watt combo, so I really don't quite get why they'd either make a smaller amp, or de power their existing 350 watt amp. People like a big amp even if they never turn it up beyond ten o'clock. Its a bit of an odd choice, but then, as others have said, its a bit of an odd combo....

    Hamer Blitz bass?

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    8 hours ago, tauzero said:

    Well, that went downhill quickly. "Do you want to buy it or are you just being a clever dick?". So I said I was just telling him he'd described it wrong, and he was too arrogant for me to buy anything from him.

    Its a weird one, eh? Its up for £700 quid and some change. I don't think thats a bad price for a Hamer Explorer. Why insist on describing it as something that its obviously not? I mean he might have thought it was a Blitz when he bought it, he might have always called it a Blitz and never been contradicted before- these are unusual basses after all- but now he's been told and presented with evidence that it's not actually a Blitz but something else, which is still probaby worth what he wants, he gets the hump. Truly there is nowt so strange as folks.

     

    Hamer Blitz bass?

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

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    9 hours ago, tauzero said:

    Messaged him to say it was an Explorer not a Blitz, and he's messaged me back to say Hamer never made an Explorer, that was Gibson, 100% it's a Blitz and he has a collection of Hamer from 20 years of running a Def Leppard tribute. I've messaged him back to suggest he googles Hamer Explorer.

    That'll teach you...trying to be helpful and factual...He's had Hamer basses since Adam was a lad you know.

    Hamer Blitz bass?

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/187850638336

     

    This is an odd thing. It would be very cheap for an actual Blitz bass. I can't find a pic of a Blitz online that looks quite like this one. They seem to have a straight 'P' type headstock whereas this has the droopy/raked (delete as applicable) Explorer type. In fact, the bass is the very image of an Epiphone Explorer save for the Hamer transfer on the headstock. Right down to the shape of the scratchplate.  Anyone with any knowledge of these things care to share an opinion?

    Laney Nexus Tube & Nexus 8x10 with Flight Case...

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

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    On 27/12/2025 at 02:28, tauzero said:

     

    Harley-Davidson - heavy, underpowered, unreliable, incredibly uncomfortable, vastly overpriced. If that's your idea of "wonderful" then yes, they are.

    Maybe the HD thing was not a good analogy. As I said in my original post, I know nothing about motorbikes, so I defer to your obviously superior knowledge. Mea culpa. That notwithstanding,  this is still a great rig for a very good price. 

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    Laney Nexus Tube & Nexus 8x10 with Flight Case...

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

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    £414.70 including buyers proetection fee. Thats a steal for at twice the price  rig like this (with a proper foam suspended case for the head as well). Yes of course its too big and too heavy and you'll probably never need to turn it up anywhere past ten o'clock but still, what a machine. It's kind of like a Harley-Davidson. Utterly unnecesary but really quite wonderful. Or I suppose thats how motorbike owners feel about them? Not one myself so theres an element of speculation there...

    Pangborn on Reverb

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Blimey. That must be some intense slapping action going on there. I suppose those roller saddles are quite fiddly little things but he must have really been hammering it to make that happen with the strings under tension. I can't shift them, despite my best efforts. Still, it must have been serious for the owner at the time to get what must have been a fairly expensive mod done. Thanks for clarifying!

    Pangborn on Reverb

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by W1_Pro

    I'm intrigued when you say that the previous owner had problems with the strings slipping. Where did they slip too? I'm not trying to be snippy, thats a serious question. I've had my Pangborn for a good few years and I don't play it much, although every time I pick it up I wonder why because it is a truly amazing machine. Mine also has the pointy headstock, which makes it a fine looking thing.  I read somewhere that a group  of the UK builders (Jaydee, Pangborn, Goodfellow etc) in the 70's and 80's  were chasing Alembic with  multi laminated  necks, complex electronics and the shape of the bodies. I've always thought that was quite a good description of what was occuring.

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    The US Spector from Bass Direct...

    in Bass Guitars

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    I notice that the rather tasteful US Spector NS2 'relic' has been marked as sold on Bass Directs website. Lovely bass, I played it breifly a couple of months ago but as usual I couldn't bring myself to part with the  large sum of money they wanted for it and now the chance has gone. Did someone on here buy it?

    Pete Back Custom guitars

    in Bass Guitars

    John Birch Thunderbird Bass on Gumtree

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Bassassin said:

     

    I guess so - but 70s JB pickups aren't exactly something you can pick up off Thomann or Gear4Music, so if you really needed a set, your only option might be with a bass attached! If the calculation was to flip the bass for around what you paid for it, it sort of makes sense.

    Yes, absolutely. I had a bit of a ferret around on Reverb and a single JB Hyperflux seems to be priced arounf the £200 mark, so there's your profit on the deal I suppose. If that T bird had frets and the seller could be perseuded into a more realistic price it would be an interesting project for someone- its essentially a great bass- but I appreciate that this is entirely wishful thinking on my part😆

    John Birch Thunderbird Bass on Gumtree

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Bassassin said:

     

    Fair point - I never looked at the fees or calculated a total.

     

    It is definitely the same bass - on the headstock there are two chips & a scuff in exactly the same places in both sets of pics. I'm assuming it was bought just for the pickups - wonder what they went in?

    It looks like you are right...Has to be said, that is a pretty niche thing to do. 'I need  new pickups for my John Birch bass, therefore I will buy another John Birch bass and take the pickups out of it'...That is quite weird, right?

    John Birch Thunderbird Bass on Gumtree

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, Schnozzalee said:

    Looks like my old one - I bought it for £650 in 2006.

     

    Best rock bass Ive played is one of those old Vigier Arpeges though. They've more in the tank than a Birchenbacker.

    Quite different machines perhaps? I have a Passion from 198 something and its wonderful, having said that the John Birch, for all its flaws sounds like Concord taking off (in a good way). 

    John Birch Thunderbird Bass on Gumtree

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    My one - and I'd be interested to hear from anyone else that has one to compare notes- has very little mass around the heel of the neck, consequently the neck can be pulled forward making the action a bit high. I've ameliorated  this a little by using low tension flats but it is definitely an issue with my bass, I'd be interested to know if anyone else has experienced anything similar?

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