Mrbigstuff

Or bills turn up that can’t otherwise be paid and the need is instant. Legal bills as one example that’s hit me hard in the past!

Love the finish

IIRC there was a pawn shop with two foderas a few years ago. Wonder if this is one of those?

I might be wrong but I thought Will at Bassbris had previously worked for bass direct. It’s a convenient mid-point in the country, I’ve stopped by on the way to elsewhere before.

Mostly because it’s involve a trip to Leicester! These victims have suffered enough already…

It’s well known to my browser history too 😅

Plenty of other fantastic basses out there for much less!

Proper investors have an abundance of cash but the everyday player with an interest is having to make adjustments to pay the bills. There seems to be more stock than ever but the crème de La crème still sell fast!

Let someone else take the hit. Some anonymous hero took the fall for me when I missed out on an amp on eBay by £5!

Those he had in were collector grade so a premium is expected. I’ve not seen many in such as new condition and they seem to have sold well.

I’m sure you’re red faced about the whole thing

There was another one on here that had issues some years ago but I’m sure it was fixed by Jon in the end

An interesting comparison vid for Fender reissues vs vintage: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BpWRmNVe7/?mibextid=wwXIfr I’m interested to know which of them BCers think sounds best to them. For me it’s the vintage bitsa. Same top end but thicker/ creamier lows

Maintenance on a vintage instrument (replacing parts/ rewinding pickups) devalue the originality and the value which is why I doubt they’d use them unless they were just better. Otherwise they’d sit in a case.

I’m either a fool or have a special gift then! It’s a debate that reminds me of that dress during Covid that could be either blue or white depending on people’s eyesight.

Do they rehearse? Let them get better in their own time. That way you don’t ruin the relationship and they still have fun doing it. If they came to you and said we can’t get gigs, do you know why? Well then you will have to drop the truth bomb.

True around the pickups although still an old model of EMGs. The same pickup in the Bass Centre reissues don’t come close to his real deal though. There was a tutor on here I had lessons with who had a 70s jazz with old Seymour Duncan’s and it still sounded like a typical 70 s fender jazz. Yes the same model will sound a bit different but will have the same characteristics. They love the bass because it sounds good, not because it’s old. The sound to the audience might be no different (depending on scale of gig and chain involved) but the sound in the in ear mix will pickup on the nuances of a bass’s direct output. I’ve played enough basses to know owning a vintage fender would be worth the money for me over a modern bass.

I disagree because I believe i can hear a difference, even on the clips Andy Baxter puts out. If there wasn’t, are all those professionals who play them live and in the studio putting up with the maintenance and potentially devaluing their asset for nothing? if you do believe it’s a placebo, more power to you because you can buy a much nicer instrument or custom shop copy for a lot less.

If that were possible surely someone else would have done? Alleva Copollo, Moolon, Olinto all try but miss the mark. we can discount the ‘aging process’ as being a reason for “the sound” because the jap lawsuit stuff doesn’t sound as good, neither do similar period Gibsons or rickenbackers. But are the same materials available? Where do the trees grow and the wood cut? Are they old stored timber or grown in the same climate as what Fender used at the time? Tree felling is more strictly regulated now than it was in the 60s and transportation across continents more expensive. What about the pickup copper or magnets? Can they be produced the same way now? I assume nobody will ever know?

Only saying that because £18.5k is still a lot of money for a bass guitar!

Sounds silly saying this. But given it has a period correct case as well it’s not a bad price compared to others.

If I’d won the jackpot last night AB would have had all three of those P basses sold!

Very nice. Laurence Cottle certainly gets a good tune out of his.

Often someone just went at the top 7 frets with a bit of sandpaper leaving an awful mess. But then even if it was done well, the painted headstock then looks odd.

I missed out circa 2007 but I’ll have one of these one day!