Grooverjr

Beautiful bass. Those pickups are so gnarly looking - the equivalent of some 14 hole cherry red docs. 

13 hours ago, eude said:

All very good to hear dude.

What's the specs of the new one?

 4 string recurve. 33 inch scale with a PB and RFB pickup combo and the uni pre. Nothing outlandish. A 50th present to myself. 

On 22/04/2024 at 20:16, notthefish said:

I thought you would never sell an ACG Ewan.. Selling any 34" 5 string Uber specs ?

Ewan sold an ACG to me last year, and very happy I am with it, too.

It's led me down the path of no return, mind you, because then I bought another ACG on here and now I have ordered one from Alan. ACG: the Pringles of bass!

9 minutes ago, bassist_lewis said:

What's the collective noun for JMJ Mustangs?

A stable, I reckon

No worries, sorted one out elsewhere. Hope you end up liking it and keeping it!

Hi. Still available? 

Hi.

Is this still available? 

If I hadn't been hit with a completely unexpected bill for almost exactly 800 quid this morning I'd have been beating a path to your door for this. Good luck with the sale - someone is going to get a fantastic and unique bass!

23 hours ago, Devers95 said:

Cheers! Its based on a Precision neck, 9.5 radius and a 43mm nut width if I remember correctly. Can always check tomorrow as Im away tonight. 

Oof! I was hoping you'd say it was skinny so I could stop drooling over it. 

Bought a very nice P neck from Frank - so I could do the 'proper' PJ combo of J body and P neck! Good price, very easy to deal with, top man overall. Thanks. 

I bought Tom's absolutely cracking ACG Skelf. Lovely guy to do business with, did a fantastic job of packing it up for couriering and communication in general and was genuinely interested in how I got on with it. Can't recommend him highly enough. Cheers Tom!

Looks like a great bass for that money! What's the neck profile and the nut width?

1 hour ago, Berserker said:

@Grooverjr is looking for one of these.

Thanks @Berserker. Will PM you @Rollin Thunder

Very cool. Great colour. Looks nicer than the Attitude IMO.  

Gorgeous. That 'dirty birdseye' looks so much better than it sounds! And with an ACG you know it will be a joy to play. For that price someone is going to get a hell of an instrument.

That's very cool. Maybe you can get the same paint job on one of your P basses? GLWTS

Does Brian count as an extra band member for payment purposes? 

Blimey, you could shave in that it's so clean! Black on black with maple is indeed a lovely colour scheme for a Fender. GLWTS

Is this still available? 

That's a very nice looker.

I have a similar story with my Squier Jazz that was my bass when I was a teenager. I stopped playing completely for around 25 years (life got in the way) and it sat in my grandparents' loft. I picked it up again during the pandemic and that's what restarted my playing. It's a mid 80s MIJ so would probably be worth a bit (if I removed the poster paint 'art' on the body) and I rarely play it but I could never sell it unless I was incredibly desparate. Just knowing it is there reminds me of the old days practicing in my mate's garage, getting fake IDs so we could play in pubs, dreaming of one day getting into Kerrang or Metal Hammer. 

I get your point and it's lovely that you want someone to play it but it's very grown up and I think irrational attachments to things from the past are a big part of what keeps us sane. Good luck to you if you're sure you won't regret it and whoever does end up with it will hopefully get 20 years of playing from it. 

1 hour ago, 2pods said:

 

They're the models I was trying to remember.

Get that bridge sorted and you'll have a first class bass.

 

I wish I had mine back, but I caught a glimpse of it and it hadn't been looked after that well.

However, your SR looks great looks great 👍

Thanks. All this love for them makes me want to get it sorted and then give it another go before deciding to part with it. 

1 hour ago, PaulThePlug said:

I take it back... and tried to with a sneaky edit!

From the Ibby Site, Support, Catalogues

http://www.hoshinogakki.co.jp/pdf/ibanez/catalog/1995EU.pdf

 

That catalogue is great - super useful! So it's definitely the 1300 with an EMG mod - nice to know what the 9 ply body is made of!

3 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

Yeah, had one of them too, very nice basses of the usual Fujigen standard and scrub up well with a bit of TLC. I did that same mod, swapping out the Ibanez pickups for EMG.

 

@Grooverjr Depending on what they've installed, you've got the following controls

1 - Master volume, pickup blend, bass and treble cut and boost

2 - P Volume, J Volume, bass and treble cut and boost

3 - P Volume, J Volume, P tone, J tone

 

With that in mind, play around and you should be able to figure it out.

 

Yeahm h

That's the very one!  I think I'll get the strings off and give it a week of oiling and love then send it round to the luthier to get the action figured out. 

Thanks everyone - even Sunday is a school day!

32 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

a SR1300PM? I don't tthink the G should be in there

 

Like this:

 

https://reverb.com/uk/item/41729275-ibanez-sr-1300-pm-custom-made-1994-natural

This is very similar, but the nobs on mine are not stacked. Mine could be a later version of that with less sophisticated preamp as the nobs are all standard with no push/pull or stack. 

1 minute ago, 2pods said:

That looks like one of my old basses.

IIRC it was a SGR1300PM, and cost about £900 at the time.

 

i loved mine.  Active pickups as well as active eq.

I only sold mine (locally) because my head was turned my an 20th Anniversary Stingray.

I had the action petty low on it.

Unfortunately, I don't have the serial number.

Thanks - seems like every bass was once owned by someone on here 😁. It's certainly had a life, then because I think the guy I got it from was in Essex. I can see why you loved it, it's a really, really gorgeous looking thing and sounds great in a few of the settings. The neck feels good as well but it is way too cramped for me. Interesting on the action. The bridge is cut into the body at an angle - back end is down into the wood, front end not at all, and this means the saddles are really high so I feel like I'm never going to be able to get it to sit that low. I think I'll take it to a luthier and see what they can do with it.