BobVbass

check out www.gedo-musik.de as well - they have a good reputation apparently, I had some replies to my post on here a few weeks ago about them - and they say they're luthiers although you'll probably need some stuff doing to it when you get it

If this is still around in a month's time once I've sold my PA and lights then I'll be giving you a shout - lovely bass; exactly what I'm looking for!

fender deluxe bridges have string through holes - you van get them on ebay - or warmoth do all the bits as well - axesrus in the uk used to do them as well

Hi all,

found this on ebay and had a chat with the seller - I think it's beyond my skills to restore but it's a Kay - by the looks of things maybe a 50's one, so if anyone fancies bauying it then selling to me when they sorted it.... Doesn't actually look too bad....maybe!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160441974243"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=160441974243[/url]

Bob

Honestly wish you all the best with the sale - I think there's a difference between Thomas Martin playing it, saying it's great (which it undoubtedly is - they're good basses) and putting a finger in the air estimate of £1200 on it and it actually being worth that - It'd be a rare product that you can buy at retail prices and make a 50% markup on secondhand even spending a few hundred quid on improvements.

Supply and demand though etc etc - hold out long enough and you may find the person that's looking for exactly this at this price -

all the best

Bob

[quote]bobs your uncle[/quote]

No matter how long you boil your strings we're not going to end up related.

I take the Bilbo approach although I normally change guitars quicker than that and get new ones when I set them up the first time

thomann do the tool - no idea how it works though - guess you tighten it till you here a cracking sound - hmm maybe not

Well, inspired by all you lot I've just bought Old Slappers EUB and I'm going to convert to acoustic Upright in my 50's Rock and Roll band.

I've now gone from "how hard can it be?!" when I got it last week to errrm "oh....pretty hard then!" already have blisters on my right hand fingers from a couple of hours practice over the weekend but I'm slowly getting to grips with the scale - as mentioned before it's very strange though going from playing lines without even thinking (gazing around the room etc) to really struggling to get anywhere - I will do it though and we've twenty gigs lined up at the mo so I can jump in whenever I feel ready - seems a long way off at the mo.

Just bought some weedwackers to see what they're like and see if they're any better for the rock and rolly slap type thing I'm trying - hopefully easier than the cheesegraters I'm using at the mo - or maybe I'm being a wimp.

Anyway the plan is to get used to the scale and get started on the EUB then after a final gig with my other band at the end of July sell all my PA equiment, stands, lights etc and get myself a decent acoustic.

So lot of pain at the minute and not much gain except for a tiny few sparks where I could just see what things might turn into.....

yes completely agree they add value but probably not a huge amount - I always go with the 2/3 rule of thumb when selling new bought stuff for the first time, you get 2/3 of what you paid for it, added extras are difficult though as people tend to see the case etc as something they should be getting for free which obviously isn't the <cough> case.

I'll be in the market for an acoustic probably in a month or two and things like an adjustable bridge are definitely something I'll be on the look out for - to be honest these are things that make the bass more appealing rather that hugely more valuable - fact is I'll probably end up getting it set up anyway.

Just comes back to the old argument of do you spend your money on a new bass or an old one - I still don't know; I guess if you aim to keep it for 25 years then it doesn't matter but if you're selling it after 3 then a decent secondhand one is the way to go.

Anyway, apologies for hi-jacking the thread and apologies for the brutal honesty about the price!- these Basses have a good reputation especially the 22's and 33's and if this one has been professionally set up I bet it's a corker - price depends on what people wnat to spend I suppose but I reckon probably around the £700-£800 mark is where you need to be aiming - or hang onto it for a few more years! If it's still around at the end of Aug I might give you a shout although I have my beady eye on a 1960's B&H as well!

yes sorry - looks that way -

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_kontrabass_33_02.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/thomann_kontrabass_33_02.htm[/url]

Hi All
just seen this on the work notice board - don't know the chap but it seems a great price for some decent mackie stuff to me - it'll be somewhere in london as work in Docklands - if anyone's interested drop me a PM and I'll forward his number to you.



28 May 2010
Full professional Mackie PA system - £1000 ono


I'm selling 2x Mackie SRM450 PA speakers, with Proel speaker stands, and a Mackie VLZ3-1402 mixer. Some cables thrown in. All in either mint or very close to mint condition.

Phone me / email me to discuss. Price is negotiable.

What a great bloke - just bought his EDB from him - nice price and met him halfway on the motorway. Hopefully with some more sales he'll be able to upgrade his Ford Probe to something better. A Proton perhaps or maybe some sturdy boots

Thanks mate!!

Thanks John, the bass seems exactly what I need and fair play to you for driving a Ford Probe without feeling the need to wear a paper bag over your head - it's exactly that brave and unorthodox approach to life that lets us celebrate the results of letting 6 year old design students loose on a ford mondeo

All the best buddy & thanks again!

Buenos Dentes!

soy de barcelona no entiende nada !

my first bass was one of these - brilliant guitars - matsumoku made and I wish I hadn't sold it. If you come acoss on ewith Asterix and Obelix painted on it - it's mine and I want it back!!

I can't help wondering (just about to start playing DB in a 50's RnR band so I'm sure to have trouble) whether some kind orf removable spring loaded rod that you can clip onto the front through the f hole and poke through to the back of the bass to dampen things might work - that way you could remove it when you wanted to play acoustically...

Start the generators! I feel an afternoon in the garage when my DB arrives!

pm'd!

I had a wireless a few years back so used to do the wandering off into the crowd. I also used to spin my bass as well - you have to put a straplock in the centre of gravity just behind the neck plate and put both ends of your strap on it then kind of tilt your right hip into it while giving it a damn good spin downwards. Only problem is I'm 5'10" and there's about 4" spare as the neck goes whizzing past the floor - well I say the only problem - hit the guitarist once and smacked myself in the head when I was practicising it! 34" of maple at speed hurts!

Tried the spin over the shoulder after seeing the guitartist of Saxon do it in the eighties but a bass is too heavy - I reckon they must use balsa wood guitars. Other than that just the playing over the neck and grabbing the drummer's cymbal just before he hits it to mute it and twiddling the guitarist's tuning peg when he's busy soloing - how we laugh...

...and time for a quick plug of my band! [url="http://www.Vinyl-Tap.co.uk"]http://www.Vinyl-Tap.co.uk[/url] - you want o know how to play it I'm your man

Exactly! they have good feedback as well and I can't help wondering as I'm pretty handy with a spanner.....

Hi

Anyone tried any of those basses from eth german company on ebay at all? They seem to be from www.gedo-musik.de? Seem fair value...?

Yeah!! Peavey Firebass Fan 700 here! Awesome Amp

[quote]I thank my lucky stars for being able to go out with several hundred Watts of power through a fifteen and a couple of tens, otherwise there'd have been dozens of those gigs I'd be struggling to hear myself![/quote]

+1 for that! I much prefer controlling my own destiny - I play rougly the same stuff as you (vinyl tap tribute) and I've finally settled on a Peavey Firebass 700, 2x10 and 1x15 BW's - awesome amp - superb - these go for seriously silly cheap money these days as well - make sur eyou're backs up to lifting it tho!

but......surely this would mean I'd have to own less basses????!!!! That's a major disadvantage!!!

duck dunn, danny thompson and alan lancaster!