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I forgot to say that the neck has Jazz nut width rather than Precision. The neck's really fast but as I've mentioned before, I played 5 & 6 string basses for quite a few years before coming back to the 4 so any neck is slim to me. I forgot to say that when I was drilling the holes for the bridge cover, I drilled one in the wrong place. You can't see it as it is but would if you took the cover off.

I've now decided to definitely sell this bass. Pictures are below It is a phenomenal bass, very fat, almost tubey sound through my GK and amazing to play. The specs are as follows: Swamp ash body finished in butterscotch blonde maple neck with vintage satin laquer and vintage Fender sized fret wire and Jazz width neck Gotoh Resolite lightweight reverse action tuners Tusq nut Lollar '51 pickup Gotoh 201 bridge CTS pots, vintage wiring, Fender US jack, paper in oil cap. Chrome pickup and bridge covers Maple single screw tugbar Black single ply scratchplate Schaller straplocks Optima chrome plated strings The specs are exactly as per a '57 pre-facelift single coil P bass would be except where I have had to substitute for parts no longer available, such as CTS pots instead of the original Stackpole ones. I use this bass with a GK 700RB II and Schroeder 1212L and it produces are really big, fat, warm, growly sounds but remains very clear. it has really good balance and the action is pretty low on it as well. Being on a couple of months old it is in excellent condition. the only visible marks are cracking of the laquer round the jack socket when I was building it. The marks are very small and you have to look very carefully to be able to see them. Despite drilling pilot holes, I still managed to snap 3 of the screws for the machineheads. Luckily there was only one snappage per machine so it doesn't affect their ability to do their job. i was going to glue the heads back on but didn't get round to it. I think I still have the heads somewhere it comes complete with a non-Fender tweed case as seen in the above pictures which finishes the look nicely. At today's exchange rate, this bass would cost you over £800 to buy which is the cost for the parts alone. This doesn't include the time taken to assemble, take the laquer off the frets and set the bass up. What you are getting here is a made in USA bass but far better quality than a similar US made Fender IMO. There are no rough edges, bad finish or poorly put togeher components. it may not have the Fender name on it but it is twice the bass a regular USA made Fender is IMO. Make no mistake,you will be getting an extremely well put together bass that sounds absolutely fantastic. Not to mention that you cannot buy anything of this spec in any shop Bearing all this in mind and considering that there isn't anything else like this available off the shelf I have decided a price of £600. This price includes delivery to mainland UK,excluding the usual postcodes that attract a supplement.

As the title says, the amp is a GK700RB II. Bought new in August 2006. it is in perfect condition as it has been racked since day 1. I look after my gear so as soon as i have finished a gig, the lid goes on the rack. Its currently at the hotel where my band is doing the Chirstmas party nights so I won't be able to look at it until next Friday but it may be possible that there may be a tiny amount of paint scrape round about where the screw go into the rack as I have had various set ups in the last couple of years so it has been in 4u, 6u & 8u racks. I haven't noticed any but that's not to say that there won't be any. The tuner is a Fender RT1000 and is also in perfect condition and is linked to the amp permanently with a Planet Waves patch cable. It has blue LEDs and if you're in tune you light up the big Fender 'F' in the middle. If there is no signal going through it for a few minutes, it starts doing the Knightrider sweep thing. The rack is an IMG Stageline which is also in excellent condition. Being the part that protects what's inside it, there will probably be a couple of very superficial marks on it but nothing else. On the back of the rack I have zip tied a 4 way extension to a blank rack panel so that both components are plugged in permanently with shortened kettle leads meaning that you only need to connect to 1 socket. It also means that you can connect other stuff to the extension as well. Everything I own is in excellent condition. Nothing is touched by anyone except me. I never loan out any of my equipment. You get the idea. I'd prefer to sell this as a complete unit as it will be easier and safer to post in its rack. Given the great condition of this equipment I am looking for £350 plus postage. For the Scottish contingent- I could probably deliver this to you this week within reasonable distance for the cost of petrol there and back.

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I would say that you'll be selling/trading about now----