Status - Sold

[Dr.Dave]

I really do mean one or the other. As soon as one sells , the other WILL be withdrawn.

These two are doing such a similar job for me and I can't decide which I want to sell , so I'll leave it to the market.

Jon Shuker bolt-on custom , fretted 4. The body is African walnut with a 'rotten' maple top. The neck - a 5 way sandwich of walnut and maple with a phenolic board. The side dots are red LED's. They're turned on and off by the push/pull volume pot. Very useful thing to have. The pegs are Gotoh's bar the e-string which has a hipshot xtender on it. The regular peg is included though.

The Bartolini MM pup is wired 3 ways , series/parallel/coil tap , selected by the rotary switch below the vol pot. The 3 band eq (centre clicked pots) is Jon's own and you can alter the mid sweep by removing the back panel and turning the pot there. It's an 18v system - the LED's have their own battery , so 3 PP3's on board. The 2 for the eq are under their own cover , the LED one in the main compartment.

The monorail bridge means there's a brass insert beside the nut to earth everything ncely - clever lad , Jon. The strap pins are dunlop straplock ones.

It looks stunning - really does - and it's not had a scratch since the day I collected it from Jon - maybe 5 or 6 years back now. You can easily get any noise you want from it and several you haven't even thought of !!

Mr Shuker also had a hand with the Status. A series 3000 (also a fretted 4) - it's satin finished mahogany body was badly dinged on top. Jon shaved several mil off the top and made a new one of spalted beech - then gave the whole body a high gloss finish.

The neck is a headless graphite bolt on. Bar the knobs (they were nesty plastic , now they're black chrome) and the dunlop strap pins (3 so they all match) it's a stock s3000 - so 2 status j pups , clicked vol and centre clicked tone and pup swing.

It too looks a stunner - plays like a dream with a wide variety of sounds - bassy/glassy...... it's all there.


Right - money. Easy to work this out. I have just shy of a grand tied up in the Shuker and £530 in the Status. That's what I want - or something very close indeed. I wouldn't bother offering trades but I am prepared to listen if someone offers a decent deposit - though if the rest isn't forthcoming don't expect it back until the bass is sold to someone else.

If you demand it - I'll have it prepared best I can and awaiting your courier . but I'd much prefer you came round and tried it , or both for that matter. As I said - I will only sell one though. I'm in Wakefield , West Yorks.

If you've any Q's or want specific pics please ask publicly then we can all see. I'll be putting a few ore pics on soon anyway.

Edited November 4, 2010 by Dr.Dave

[Dr.Dave]

24 hrs on and it's the Status I'm getting PM's about , so here's a couple of shots and comments.

It's 100% ding and blemish free (as is the shuker for that matter) If you think you see anything on the pics it's either a reflection or a fingermark I assure you.

The first pic is a few years back , just finished and still had those horrible plastic knobs on. You can have them if you must.

The other pics are today - on my sofa by the window , no flash , so the light is as critical as you'll get. Photoshopping only to resize , nothing more. I'm no pro photographer but if anyone wants a specific pic - ask.

Here's a link to another thread about this bass - in it I talk about side LED's like I have i the shuker but I never got round to having it done.
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3731&hl=DR.Dave"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=DR.Dave[/url]

Edited November 3, 2010 by Dr.Dave

[Happy Jack]

OK - I'll go for it Dave.

PM coming.


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Later - regrettably (and embarassingly for me) I've had to change my mind on this one. NOT Dave's fault and NOT a problem with either of these two fine basses.

So ... erm ... bump.

Edited November 3, 2010 by Happy Jack

[Dr.Dave]

YOU'RE embarrassed ???!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to have to ring Madame Soixante Neuf and tell her to take the belt sander out of the microwave - how do you think I feel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



No worries matey - the rest of you are back in the hunt then , and may be worth telling you that - on my bathroom scales - the bass weighs somewhere around 4.5 kgs which I think is around 10 lbs in proper money.

[MB1]

MB1.
Whats up Doc?
That Status 3000 looks very sexiful!
BUMP!

[ltswifty]

PM Sent

[Bass_Guardian]

PM'd

[Dr.Dave]

Well - the deal is done and the Status is now sold. As I'd said , the remaining bass (being the Shuker) is withdrawn from sale.

Thanks for all your PM's , interest and the odd private knob gag !!!

One or two of you asked if I were giving up playing as I've sold a couple of basses recently and not been posting as much. Nope - gigging as much as ever but spending a lot of time on my narrowboat where the joys of the interweb are available to me but I choose not to use them!! I shall try to make a greater effort to talk utter bollocks on the forums in the future.

[Happy Jack]

Delighted to see this, Doc. I can sleep at night again.