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[quote name='PauBass' timestamp='1323268606' post='1461290'] Who is this seller, please? I'll soon be on the market for a new Jazz neck. [/quote] [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330651181073"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330651181073[/url]

A hollow bodied Jazz! What will those creative Japanese come up with next?

[quote name='sixdegrees' timestamp='1319390725' post='1413535'] Hi all, Currently using an Ashdown ABM with 210 and 115 compact cabs, and this isn't enough to cut through at the larger venues without the cones farting. Any advice most welcome. [/quote] Wow, your drummer must be a BEAST if your ABM at full blast can't keep up! If I ever hear of an earthquake in Ilford I'll know what caused it.

The best bassline to learn that uses all 4 fingers is 'Hey Joe' by Jimi Hendrix. I'm talking about the end bit which doubles with the guitar. If you play that repeatedly you will end up with full control of Mr Pinky. When I first started playing bass the book I bought to learn had Hey Joe as it's first lesson and I've never looked back.

I have left my poor old, UK built, electric blue ashdown combo in the back of my car for a year now. I use it regularly (at least once a week) at smaller gigs and it's never let me down. I would never leave my more expensive stuff out in sub zero temps like I do my ashdown but it only cost me £100 secondhand and it seems like it's bulletproof.

Just fitted the neck to my Jazz and it fits like a glove and plays great. TOTAL BARGAIN!!!!

The price of the bass is irrelevant. It's far more important to start off on an easily playable instrument with a low-ish action (the height of the strings above the fretboard). If you want pay to £1500 for a bass and can afford it that's fine but it isn't necessary to pay that much to get a nice sounding playable bass. I would recommend finding a bass you like the look/sound of and then getting the shop to set it up for maximum playability (go to a shop with an in house guitar technician who will do this for you).

I got up to play a couple of songs at a friends gig the other day and used his bass. He plays an epiphone thunderbird and the first thing I realised is how far away the neck feels compared to playing a normal shaped bass. I felt I should have had an abnormally long left arm just in order to get to the end of the neck.

I sold my amp, for the same reason, a few years ago and if I needed an amp I would rent it. But it was such a hassle that I ended up buying a small (but loud) ashdown amp secondhand for those few and far between gigs where I had to provide my own backline. I now have a car so I bought a bigger louder flashier rig (but with no blue lights unfortunately) but I still have that little loud fella as a backup and if my circumstances change I may sell the big rig but I'll hold on to the ashdown.

[quote name='henry norton' timestamp='1322923933' post='1457350'] You can't argue with 99 notes, is it new or used??? [/quote] It's new. And has a cheeky Fender decal put on it by the seller. I saw these a while ago but assumed they must be naff and built down to a price (and probably built like a bassball bat) but after being quoted £400 for a secondhand Geddy Lee neck took a punt and was surprised at it's excellent great build quality. Of course since I haven't actually fitted it yet the final verdict will have to wait but having bought quite a few necks in my time I think I know a good un when I see one.

I just bought a maple Mighty Mite neck off Ebay for £99 new and it looks great. I haven't yet fitted it yet as I need to drill some holes for the tuners etc but so far I'm VERY impressed. It's lovely and shallow and very well made. I recently bought an allparts neck for £200 which was good quality but 'chunky' and spent £300 on a actual Fender neck from a 2011 60s Classic Jazz but this neck looks like the best of the bunch. Yes, so far I'm very happy. I'll update this post once I fit but I've a feeling it will play like a dream (like the neck on my old Geddy Lee which I loved).

As long as the open string is in tune with the same string at the 12th fret (and you get them both in tune with each other by moving the saddles at the bridge back and forward until they are) then you'll be in tune. If you aren't in tune all the way up and down the fretboard then the frets must be in the wrong place. My bridge saddles aren't in a pleasing diagonal line, in fact they're all over the place, but my bass is in tune. Check out this video it makes setting intonation nice and simple [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC30nJgIAJM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC30nJgIAJM[/url]

Your combo won't be putting out the full 575 watts into one speaker (15 inch I assume). You'd only get the full wattage with two 8 ohm cabs connected to the amp giving a combined impedence of 4 ohms. The old speaker will, more than likely, have been 8 ohms which means the amp would only have been putting out about 350 watts. A 400 watt 8 ohm Celestion or emminence speaker would be more than capable of replacing the old Ashdown speaker.

I'm in 3 bands. Two are blues bands and one is an acoustic rootsy kind of band playing original music. I can see the two blues bands stepping on each others toes as they play most weekends but the original band's gigs are few and far between. I want to get back to playing professionally so if I'm going to be a bass for hire I'll have to get used to letting people down gently when I can't do the gig.

If I'd known I would have gone too! Bollocks!

Just got an email from Ebay to say it's been removed probably because the whole thing was dodgy as a £3 note. [b][size="2"]We're writing to let you know that the listing for the following item you bid on has been removed: 220898188442 - 1960 Fender Jazz Bass Guitar Stacked Pot Knobs If you haven't yet paid for this item, we strongly recommend that you do not complete this purchase. If the seller asks you to continue with the sale after the item has been ended by eBay, the item won't be covered by eBay buyer protection. Purchases completed outside of eBay are extremely risky and highly susceptible to fraud. [/size][/b]

I once had to learn 35 songs in an afternoon for a dep gig. I then drove 100 miles to the gig to find out I'd left all my notes in the rehearsal room [b][size=6]DUH!!![/size][/b]. The singer Neil, amazingly, managed to write out all the chords plus lyrics, in the 15 mins before the gig for about 30 songs from memory. And thankfully the gig went ok with no major fluffs. So my brain capacity is miniscule..............but his must be like a small planet!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1321911951' post='1444435'] ill go pick it up for you [/quote] NO PICK ME!!!! ME!!! ME!!!

What were you saying? Eh something about bass? I was a bit distracted. By the way those backing singers can't sing for peanuts.................I wonder how they ever got the job?

I've just bid £20 for it.................wish me luck!

A zero feedback score too?

Edinburgh eh? I live in Edinburgh...............but I don't own this bass. Although I do know some silly collector/investor types in Edinburgh who may be the culprits.

You obviously need psychiatric help.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1321706036' post='1442173'] Allparts necks are the dog's spuds though, and are second only to Fender. In fact they can be superior in some cases, in my humble opinion. [/quote] Oh well you missed out on my allparts neck with rosewood fretboard I was selling on basschat a few weeks ago. I ended up putting it on ebay and it went for next to nothing.