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Orange and pink versions were a ton more than the original blue version. Limited edition colours with matching headstock.

Classic ikea. 🤪

3 hours ago, Schlippy said:

guitar that cost less than 200 new!

When were the orange version sub 200 notes???

What is the difference in sound between the two birds?

Matte clear coat?

39 minutes ago, Springywheel said:

I hear these two are quite similar

Nope, plus the gzrs have there own electrics.

37 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

 

Has that happened on here?

 

I guess you can make your money however you want, but that's properly distasteful. I think the one I had I sold for £150 (after buying it for that price). Capitalism innit.

Unfortunately, yes.

8 hours ago, binky_bass said:

Best just swerve these tryers. There's a number of regulars on here that are clearly dealers or at least semi-pro buyers and resellers that always have basses sat for years on end. We all know who they are! 

Very true.

There's a guy selling an Epiphone Explorer Bass for £550 in the Marketplace, when he brought two Epiphones (Explorer and Thunderbird) for £75. Crazy!

38 minutes ago, dudewheresmybass said:

but this is a rerelease of the old model from around 2010 IIRC

Still gorgeous though lol

That would be VM, this is CV.

You didn't look very hard.

I like the irony here, as she plays a SX copy of a Fender. Though no Chrome's or dimarzio pups, hipshot tuners, so other than the colour isn't an artist bass at all.

Great p pups. Right up there with cs 62 and 63 imo.

42 minutes ago, M@23 said:

Just picked this up recently. It’s an Am Pro I.
I’m a big fan of the first series, I love the bits lots hate 😂

The V-Mods and the low B catch some flack, but I think it’s a cracking workhorse that sounds, plays and looks superb. 
Don’t see too many in Antique Olive either?!

Great colour.

2 hours ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

Apparently not - the reviews say people have them fitted in Broncos without any modification. I think the pickup itself is the wrong size for a typical 51-style P Bass.

 

There's a YouTube video from the Tape Farm where he says the same thing about this pickup too. We'll see when it arrives.

 

EDIT :- link to the same pickup on US Amazon - some reviews at the bottom show it in a Squier Bronco without modification. https://www.amazon.com/LYWS-String-Guitar-Pickup-Alnico/dp/B01L907IV8#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor

Don't believe everything you read on amazon!

12 hours ago, YellowLedBetterBass said:

Ordered one of these for the Bronco. £16ish delivered. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XQVZG72?psc=1&smid=A1D9H82PQUNOH5&ref_=chk_typ_quicklook_titleToDp

 

Will have to wait a week or so for delivery but we'll see how it goes. Apparently it goes straight into a Bronco pickguard with no modification. There's a couple of reviews on YT of it in Broncos and Glarry copies that sound decent. And if it's crap, it was only cheap.

You'll need to get a small file, as it'll be slightly too big for the pickguard.

Don't know what you mean, this is about bass and that. Anyway, here's another Dodgy classic 

A mod classic with one of my fav basslines

2 hours ago, vbance said:

I have heard people say they've cut the silk back with a scalpel...may be an option.

I've tried that before. Sometimes the silk is intertwined into the string at manufacturing, making it difficult to remove. 

I've ordered what I hope is the correct nuts to do the job.

Some new flatwounds have fairly long silks at the ball end, which go over the saddles on my fender bbot bridge, causing them to sound very dead. I saw Duck Dunn had the same issue, and put some small nuts at the ball end of his strings which sit against the heel of the bridge, extending them enough so the silks don't go onto the saddles.

Does anyone know what size nuts will allow the strings with silks at the ends to fit through?

Like this:

1 hour ago, Rick McKay said:

I thought about Teisco too. My uncle has a Teisco 6 string (sunburst) that looks a lot like this bass. Same pickups and similar fittings.

It's as HeadlessBassist says a top twenty short scale. Kay never made a version like this, and it's not teisco, like people say it is because it bumps the value. Teisco closed in 1968, this was made after that time.

To get that properly repaired, would be to strip the whole body and refinish. White is the most unforgiving.

The alternative is to find nail polish, as it comes in literally millions of colours etc, and very carefully touch up by layering.

HB

1 hour ago, PaulThePlug said:

From the packaging i suspect Olympia, similar to Adagio 45-100 Std Tension

https://www.thomann.co.uk/harley_benton_hqs_bass_45_100_flatwound.htm

 

Nope. They're much higher tension.

Not sure how you attach the other wires to the pot with the PCB block in the way, looks tricky to solder the PCB block with the live and ground wires going to the same lug(s).

Fast and easy with these, but only as a temporary solution to test or try different pups. Think there's a hole in the center where you may be able to screw it to the body to stop it rattling.

You can get a two way terminal, costs pence. Put live and ground with corresponding wires soldered from volume pot. But unless you find a way to secure it, it'll rattle under the pickguard or control cavity.