AndyTravis

Them’s for these

A little muted

Found it…

There’s an ointment for that

Well… I love 51’/tele basses. Had a very nice custom shop “sting” and have had a MIJ reissue at some point. Saw this on a facebook page and just went for it. Thanks to @walshyfor doing the middleman bit. So spec is Fender neck - stripped, nitro refin guitarbuild ash body, nitro BSB fralin pickup Gotoh reverse machineheads bakelite pickguard bakelite saddles etc some posh pots and capacitors etc. Fender covers all slot-head screws as per early 51’s needs some tweaks to suit, but it’s ace. slightly heavy at 10.5lbs…but it’s a resonant chunk.

Perfectly serviceable basses mate; you’d spend £100 on a knackered squier

You got any spare strings? I had a guy buy a Jackson Soloist from my shop years ago and I chased this buzz for about 2 days. i took the strings off to inspect/level the frets… the string had a kink in it.

Righto - good news Earlpilanz (Brian) has messaged me and the pickguard is a “category 2” size - I paid for category 3 - so I got some money back. fair play to him for being up front; again why I use him frequently. he has mine - so if you want one doing, it’s the time.

Yeah - he’s sort of on and off, he’s plenty busy. email him now - mine got posted off today, happy for him to template from mine

I remember well, damn fine bass.

No - they didn’t reply, so I’ve just ordered via an eBay pickguard guy I’ve used before.

They’ve grown on me. I might feel differently when the pickguards are changed. i have a drawer full of controls…maybe jazz style knobs will work.

Pickguards being ordered tonight. just think that SoloKing will charge £25-£30 plus waiting for a few weeks and possible import. Brian Pilanz will do great work so he’s sorting me and @Machinesout with my pickguard going as a template. Going aged white Pearl for LPB and aged tort for black. tried chrome knobs on last night - they don’t look right…

Patient 0

What number is he? 🙄😆

Looks exactly like my old one 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hmm. Listed for…not necessarily selling for.

Weren’t TB basses being listed at £10k a while ago? Or was that just the weird Flying V (without the V cut out) guitars?

That’s the chap who owns The Zero Fret (boutique fuzz pedals) - also seems a fairly realistic price?

Yeah - decent money. £500-£800 seems to be the range for 1100s

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