W1_Pro

Bought Ed's Sting Precision reissue.
Very good experience and a nice chap. Deal with confidence!

Ahh, house insurance. I had a similar incident a couple of years ago with an acoustic. Tripped, dropped it, buggered up the bottom bout and the binding. The repair plus refinish came in at a rather unpleasant £900. My insurance company, fair play to them, settled very quickly. When I came to renew the next year I found my premium had gone up by..erm..£600 because of the claim...bit of a bummer really...insurance companies, you think they work for you because you pay them. Mmmmmmm.....

That is a fine looking bass at a decent price. Very surprised it's not sold yet. GLWTS.

The figure on that fingerboard is lovely. Great thread Andy.

Jesus Christ. In 1983 I bought a no name precision copy which some enterprising previous owner had a: Lovingly hand painted a 'Fender' logo on the headstock and b: added a second pickup. This second pickup was a rather agricultural device, which looked- to my untutored eye at least- like a six inch nail with some copper wire wrapped around it. The tone it produced (when engaged by means of a light switch attached to the scratch plate), could best be described as challenging. Not in a good way.
That was £95. There was nothing else to be had locally for less than £200, which was a lot of money back then.
So here we are in 2017, and you can buy a bass of this quality, Japanese made, in good nick, for the same price £ for £.
Quite astonishing. GLWTS. Lovely bass for someone.

That is truly lovely. GLWTS.

Also, it's worth noting that unless you are somewhere near Altrincham, he seems pretty set on collection only, which is a right pain, and should thusly be reflected in the price.

Bloody hell. This one has legs!

Glorious looking guitar that. GLWTS.

Are there pictures?

£811 with an hour to go.
Thats me out....

That, is some bass....

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Perhaps no 2nd chance offers because he's bidding with a second account?
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Controversial.....I have to say though, that bit in the listing about 'checking notes with a scanner' is a bit mental. I'm sure buying secondhand basses is not organised crimes route of choice for passing counterfeit cash.

Up to £700 already. Heading for the stratosphere....

It will!

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That does sound interesting, I prefer the older brighter sounding pickups!


[/quote]How come Gibson never managed to do this? It beggars belief.

In 1983 I bought my first bass, from a music shop in Cardiff. It was a Precision 'copy'- and I use the term in it's loosest possible sense- which some enterprising previous owner had lovingly painted a fairly passable 'Fender ' logo on the headstock. Possibly the same enterprising former owner had added a second pickup near the bridge. The pickup looked remarkably like a six inch nail with some copper wire wrapped around it. It was £95. There was nothing else within £120 of this, and I had £100, which had taken me AGES to save.
Thirty four years later, this is £85 and actually looks like quite a nice bass.
Globalisation can't be all bad, eh?

I must say. I can take or leave Spectors as a rule, but this is gorgeous. GLWTS.

Lovely looking bass. GLWTS.

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The seller messaged me today. It was won by a Ukelele dealer in Yorkshire who has failed to pay for it He asked if I was still interested. I declined, being very glad he didn't take me up on the £1k I offered originally.I told him why, as it is a Roadie and as such far too expensive.
I've checked and the dearest Roadie of the 4 sold on eBay last year was £720. One only made £521 and a Series 2 Supernatural in lovely nick made £1119.(bargain).
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The seller must be gutted, he must have thought he was on to a proper result. Those prices for secondhand Jaydee's sound about right to me- and as I said earlier I'm no expert- I would love to get my hands on a proper supernatural.

[quote name='Maz LFC' timestamp='1487174980' post='3237774']
The Roadie is a Supernatural. The JayDee website states that the only Supernatural to have a black fronted headstock is the Roadie. The one on eBay was a Roadie Active which sells for £1455 new as W1 Pro said in the first post.
Whoever won it at £1200 clearly had not done their homework and thought it was a full-blown Supernatural. I almost bid on myself and contacted the seller, but luckily he turned down the offer I made before doing the research that I should have done first.
He hadn't done anything wrong,just failed to state that it was a Roadie, which he must have known as he bought it new in 1999.
Bet he's laughing his head off
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I would be!

Did this ever get finished?

I was following that. Couldn't work out what it was, so thanks for the info! Nice looking bass as it goes.

Hi, where would I find the pics of this bass please?

I thought, perhaps a percussionist? Have triangle, will travel? There must be a gig out there somewhere.....