Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

Sparky Mark

⭐Supporting Member⭐
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,831

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Sparky Mark last won the day on July 15 2023

Sparky Mark had the most liked content!

2 Followers

Personal Information

  • Location
    Suffolk, UK

Recent Profile Visitors

8,687 profile views

Sparky Mark's Achievements

Veteran

Veteran (13/14)

  • Great Content Rare
  • Basschat Hero Rare

Recent Badges

1.5k

Total Watts

1

Community Answers

  1. Sparky Mark
    Photos with original pickguard fitted.
  2. Sparky Mark
    2011 Fender Custom Shop 1960 Jazz bass in faded 3 tone sunburst nitro lacquer. Weight 9.12lbs. Comes in Fender G&G brown tolex case with certificate of authenticity, Custom Shop Cruz tool kit, bridge and pickup covers, thumb rest, all with reliced screws. Sold fitted with a superior Montreux Retro tortoishell pickguard and currently wearing TI flats. The original pickguard and CS roundwounds will be included in the case. Price is £3000 collected, no trades please. Thank you for looking and happy to provide further details, just message me.
      • 8
      • Like
  3. Sparky Mark
    Photo with covers and thumb rest fitted. Also a close up of the pickguard to show how similar it is to early 60's tortoishell.
  4. Sparky Mark
    I would guess there's enough slack in the neck plate screws to allow that gap to be reduced at the same time as correcting the obvious neck alignment bias towards the G string.
  5. Sparky Mark
    Deleted
  6. Sparky Mark started following Fenderbird, hand painted cow print with emg ta set - *WITHDRAWN* , Fender Custom Shop 1960 Jazz bass (Relic) and Fender Custom Shop 62P bass, Heavy Relic, Chocolate 3TS
  7. Sparky Mark
    2015 Fender Custom Shop 1962 Precision bass in Chocolate 3 Tone Sunburst. Body sorted for lightweight ash and fretboard sorted for dark AAA rosewood. Weight is 8.5lbs. Bass comes in G&G Fender Custom Shop tweed case, Certificate of authenticity and all candy including reliced bridge and pickup covers and screws. Also included is a beautiful Avantguard tortoishell pickguard worth £££ in addition to the original pickguard. Price is £3,500 collected, no trades, many thanks for looking. Happy to provide further details, just message me.
  8. Sparky Mark
    I believe the fan cooled version came after the heatsink version. Fan cooled should be lighter weight as the solid aluminium heatsink is pretty hefty. Personally, I prefer the heatsink version as it has no fan noise for low volume practice and keeps the internals dust free.
  9. Sparky Mark
    Yes, the chamfered edges are quite rounded off, but still look good IMO.
  10. Sparky Mark
    Indeed, although I don't think the processes used by Avantguard and Spitfire are scalable to the numbers that would be needed by Fender CS. I cannot think of another reason why Fender wouldn't fit an admittedly expensive, but infinitely more accurate pickguard to its £4-5k+ instruments.
  11. Sparky Mark
    Thank you, and I agree entirely. Avantguard are as close as modern tortoishell pickguards get to early 60s IMO. All modern Fender "vintage" tort is distinctly average unfortunately.
  12. Sparky Mark
    Whilst I agree, it doesn't look so bad in situ.
  13. Sparky Mark
    Avantguard fitted vs Fender Custom Shop on right hand side.
  14. Sparky Mark
    It's that old conundrum; what came first, interest or photos?
  15. Sparky Mark
    I kinda agree regarding Fbasses, but *you did ask about any musical instrument. *correction; it was jazzyvee that asked the question.
  16. Sparky Mark
    30 years +
×
×
  • Create New...