NickSpector

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Hey guys, time to sell this bass. It's a great bass, but I use my Spectors more, and I've got a new race engine to buy for my TVR. So time to sell the trusty steed. I'm located near York, and would prefer pickup in person. The bass includes hardcase and tool kit. £850 ONO.

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My mate Ed is selling a couple of his geetars. The first is a Washburn N4 ESA (Nuno Bettencourt Signature) plus Washburn hardcase. £1000 ONVO. [url="http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss314/Nickthebassist01/?action=view&current=wash1.jpg"][/url] [url="http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss314/Nickthebassist01/?action=view&current=wash2.jpg"][/url] [url="http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss314/Nickthebassist01/?action=view&current=wash.jpg"][/url] Here are the specs: WASHBURN N4 ESA NUNO BETTENCOURT SIGNATURE MODEL ELECTRIC GUITAR Built in the USA to Nuno Bettencourt's design, features a Stephen's extended cutaway Ash body for excellent access to upper frets. Seymour Duncan 59 neck pickup and a Lawrence® L-500 in the bridge. The Floyd Rose tremolo with locknut keeps this machine within Feiten intonation specs. Buzz Feiten Tuning System Swamp ash body. 22 fret maple neck with ebony fingerboard. L500 Bill Lawrence® bridge pickup. Seymour Duncan® '59 neck pickup. Schaller Floyd Rose® tremolo. R2 chrome locking nut. Stephens extended cutaway 5-bolt neck joint. Spanish Luthier's headstock joint. 14" pitch-angled reverse headstock Grover 18:1 tuners. Buzz Feiten Tuning System. Now for the Ibanez: [url="http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss314/Nickthebassist01/?action=view&current=S6000814.jpg"][/url] [url="http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss314/Nickthebassist01/?action=view&current=S6000811.jpg"][/url] [url="http://s587.photobucket.com/albums/ss314/Nickthebassist01/?action=view&current=S6000813.jpg"][/url] Here are the specs: JEM7DBK - First JEM with the Breed neck and bridge pickups. Unlike the original PAF PROs, the Breed (and Evolutions) come with a "neck" model and "bridge" model. The neck has a bubinga "skunk stripe" truss rod reinforcement. The headstock is plain black paint and does not have the "textured" finish. The neck profile is a bit thinner (front to back) than the traditional JEM neck as requested by Steve Vai. Colour - Black 70% gloss texture Body - Basswood Pickguard - Mirror Knobs & 5 way tip - Black Inlays - Screw Head Fretboard - Rosewood Neck type - 1-pc maple / stripe Neck joint - All Access Hardware - Chrome Pickups - DiMarzio The Breed Tremolo - EdgePro Years made - 1999 to 2004 (this guitar was made in 99) Truly a beautiful guitar, with a great tone and excellent playability! Price £1250 OVNO, including hard case.

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[quote name='molan' post='536921' date='Jul 10 2009, 12:24 AM']There's lots of stuff on YouTube - it's way more versatile than a lot of people think. Here's some jazzier stuff from Andy Irvine, both slow groovier in places & some faster syncopated stuff. A clutch of different people at NAMM '06 You really can get all sorts of sound from one of these it's not just some sort of heavy rock or slap bass only instrument. In fact probably one of the most 'heard' Spector players must be Gary Tallent from Bruce's E-Street band (although he uses a bolt-on rather than a neck through).[/quote] Spectors really are versatile basses. They can go from thunderous slap tones, through grinding grunge/metal tones, right into jazzy fingerstyle tones.

[quote name='molan' post='535311' date='Jul 7 2009, 11:52 PM']I currently have a pair of NS5XL's and after taking them to a recent gig I realised I had £6K worth (insurance valuation for new replacements) of instruments sitting on a pub stage just waiting to be stolen. So I've kinda decided one of them has to go & be replaced by a lower value Euro Spector 5 as my back up bass - thanks Phil I can't really justify three Spector 5's & I have the Euro & a Ken Smith heading my way soon so it looks like the redwood one is probably the most likely candidate to sell as it's the one I'm least likely to gig with. It's a tough call though and I don't desperately need to sell to fund the incoming basses so I thought I'd see if there's anyone out there really interested in owning one of these limited edition water cured redwood beauties. I'm in this for £2K so that's my 'firm' price for it. This has been up for sale here on BC once before so there's a fair bit of history kicking around. Simple summary is that it was originally sold, not all that long ago, for £3,200 and lists at around the $4,500 mark in the USA (which would take it up to well over £3K in the UK). Compared to the previous listing it now doesn't have a hard case but I do have the signed certificate of authenticity to prove it's one of the limited run of 24. Here's some sales 'guff': [i]The Spector Limited Edition Redwood Burl NS-5XL is crafted with 75-to-100 year-old, water-cured redwood burl. The burl rests on a platform of Spector's legendary hand-selected, premium exotic woods: maple for the neck and black walnut for the body wings. Water-cured redwood is harvested from the stumps of redwood trees cut down 75-100 years ago that fell into streams. These trunks were submerged in water the entire time, which washed all the resins out of the wood and replaced them with dissolved minerals. This natural mineral enrichment process is what gives the wood its unique color and density. This natural water curing is very similar to the method that has been used for curing violin woods in Europe for hundreds of years. The Spector NS-5XL 5 string bass guitar is constructed with 3-ply maple neck-thru construction with graphite stiffening rods and a heavy-duty truss rod. It has a 35" scale rosewood fretboard with Spector's abalone crown inlays, dual USA EMG-40DC humbuckers and Spector's Tone Pump pre-amp.[/i] Those of you who know your Spectors will know that it plays like a dream, super low action & very easy to zip around the fretboard. Personally I love the sound of Spectors and it's absolutely become my #1 gigging bass sound. It's in damn near 'as new' condition, I can't see a single mark on it anywhere! I have had some tentative dealing around my asking price & it's possible that this may still come off, so apologies in advance if I list this & then have to remove it quickly. I'm not really looking for trades but if anyone has a 5 string of a similar value then let me know, I could always be swayed by something like a nice NYC Sadowsky as I still miss my old 4 stringer Anyway, enough prattling, here's some pics:[/quote] Infact, after reading that, you CAN justify all those Spectors. A man can never have too many Spectors.....ever. Best basses in the world!

Omg I need some tissues. That is stunning!

How about a bit of money my way and my Fender Jazz Deluxe USA 5 string in trade?

Very cool bass!

That Spector is awesome! Have a free bump!

BUMP! [size=7][b]SQUIRE SOLD[/b][/size] [size=7][b]MIJ JAZZ SOLD[/b][/size] [size=7][b]FENDER JAZZ DELUXE USA 5 STRING STILL AVAILABLE!!!![/b][/size]

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BUMP! The Squire and MIA have got very little interest and they're both at bargain prices? Weird!

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[quote name='Troy_E' post='524293' date='Jun 25 2009, 11:35 PM']pm sent![/quote] Replied!

BUMP! Come on biatches, make me some offers I know some of you guys want these basses!

That looks mean!

Come on folks someone out there wants that Squire! It got a ton of attention at first, now nobody is interested? It's a bargain too, I've seen these go for £300 on Ebay.

The Deluxe Jazz includes the hard case, and also the tool set.

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