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Having a family shifts priorities for spending time and money. That said, some of my basses have to go; by taking your pick, you'll tell me which to keep. On the block Acacia Custom, this I'll keep Clover Slapper, £ 900 gone Hanewinckel Custom, £ 900 sold Jerzy Drozd Excellency IV, £ 2000 sold Tobias Classic pre-Gibson, £ 2000 sold Overwater Progress III Deluxe fretless, £ 1200 gone Cliff Bordwell D-Bass, £ 1200 sold All instruments are in great condition - well, the odd miniscule ding, superficial scratches - and necks are slim and adjustable for very low action, which I'm partial to. All the basses have been with me for a minimum of 10 years and have lovingly been looked after (and, though not as often as they deserve, even played). Time for new strings on some. Price includes basic GLS shipping to your doorstep, provided the address is within the European Union. Anywhere else, or any other shipping services, lets talk. For those that count their coins in €, please assume 115% of the £ price. Since I know how risky it is to buy a bass unseen, unheard, unfelt, I'll accept returns within 3 days of delivery. Full refund minus shipping costs, given undamaged/untampered condition. Easy to offer, they're keepers. Not looking for trades please, as it wouldn't quite answer the purpose.

NOW SOLD For sale is a rare Parker Fly 5. I bought this on a bit of a whim last year, but I'm finding the string spacing is a bit tight for my gorilla mitts, so it's not getting the use it deserves. A huge tonal range from magnetic and piezo pickups, specs are below. A few small dinks, shown in the photos, but in very good overall condition. Specs: Sitka Spruce laminated body with Quilted Maple front and back, the neck is Mahogany wrapped in carbon fibre, the headstock is Curly Maple. The fretboard is glass and carbon fibre with stainless steel frets. Fretboard radius 10"-15", 34" scale. 24 medium size, hardened stainless steel frets, lightweight aluminum locking Sperzel® tuners. GraphTech® nut, width: 1.8". Mono-Rail II bridge with individual Fishman piezo pickups, gain of each adjustable from within the control cavity. 17mm string spacing at the bridge. 2 Custom DiMarzio Ultra Jazz™ hum-cancelling pickups with active Fishman EQ. Controls are: master volume, magnetic pickup volume, magnetic pickup pan, stacked magnetic active 2 band EQ, stacked piezo tone and volume.

Fender JV Squier 62 Precision (made in Japan early 80s) £850 with fender soft case £900 with fender vintage style hardcase (as pictured) Collection preferred - cash in a brown paper bag. Courier possible, or preferably meet up within 75 miles of KT2. Demo any time - it lives in my smoke free studio. This is a fantastic bass, only a couple of small dings to the body and general very minor scuffs & bumps - see pics - and has a great vintage authentically worn mojo. I have not had the neck off so not sure of the year - 82/83 I expect. 3.85kg (8lb 8oz). Reverse tuners, threaded saddles with slotted grub screws, strap button on rear of headstock. The neck is great, much better players than me have remarked how well it plays and I think you really need to play it to appreciate it, so please drop in (PM me to arrange). All original apart from frets and jack socket -refretted at Charlie Chandler's Guitar Experience a couple of years ago at huge expense but they did do a top notch job Strung with DR Sunbeams 095 Treat yourself, it's Christmas 🎄 and Santa can't fit it down your chimney Questions fire away!

NOW SOLD Selling this beautiful MTD 535-24, sad to see it go, but needing to make room for other gear! It's an incredible example of one of Michael Tobias' 535-24, it's one of the most comfortable basses i've ever played in my life, with an incredibly multi timbral sound. £3400 NOW £3200 (open to sensible offers) Collect from West London, or shipping at the buyers expense. The only trade i'd consider would be a Fender American Elite Jazz Bass V (Champagne) + cash.

NOW SOLD I'm offering for sale my very rare Lakland 55-76 Deluxe. This bass is the holy grail for Stingray fans who would like a wider string spacing and 35" scale. It has a Teal burst finish over a flame maple top, maple neck with ebony fingerboard, and 19mm spacing at the bridge, with thru-body or bridge stringing. It also has a removable Stingray-style see-thru scratchplate. Weight is 4.3kg. I bought it a while back from a guy in the Netherlands as a fretless, and had it fretted by a very skilled luthier who has the distinction of having re-fretted some of Peter Green's guitars, so I knew it was in pretty safe hands. The result was astonishing - the ebony board has such a sheen on it you can literally see your face in it. Not surprisingly, it also plays beautifully, and has that big, fat Stingray sound in spades, with the legendary Lakland B string. The oddity about this particular bass is that it has no serial number - the assumption is that it was made very early on, perhaps even the first or prototype of the model. This would place its date of manufacture at somewhere in the mid-90's, when Lakland was still in its infancy. Although it will certainly be US made, it also doesn't have the usual 'Made in the USA' stamp on the back of the neck, giving more credence to its early manufacture date. The tuners are Hipshot in design, but with no markings. (I have a Lakland 55-94 whose serial number dates it to 1998 that also doesn't have the USA neck stamp, and has the same style of tuners.) It's in excellent condition for a 20+ year old bass. There's a small crack in the lacquer next to the neck pocket, and a couple of tiny dings on the body that I've tried to show in the photographs, but otherwise it's in extremely good shape. Now we come to the colour. I've tried photographing it with three different cameras, but it always comes out more blue than it appears to the naked eye - in reality it's closer to a Teal Green. Any interested parties are very welcome to pay me a visit to have a closer look at it. Social distancing will be observed, obviously. I'm near Woking in Surrey, a few minutes from junction 10 of the M25. The pickup is wired to a 3-way coil tap switch (parallel, single coil, series switching) with a Bartolini NTMB-L918 3-band preamp with a push/pull volume pot for active/passive switching. I fitted the chrome knobs, but the original black rubberised ones are also included. The bass comes complete with a Hiscox Liteflite case. I believe that you can still get this model from Lakland as a special order, but with the build cost, deluxe burst finish, ebony fingerboard, Bartolini electronics, custom pickup, shipping and import duty, it would take several months and you wouldn't get much change out of five grand. Also (and I say this as a huge Lakland fan) in my opinion the older ones are just better made. Taking all that into consideration, the price I'm now asking is a steal. Payment by cash on collection or bank transfer/Transferwise. Sorry, but I'm only looking for a straight sale, so no trade offers please.

NOW SOLD For sale is my MTD Kingston Super 5, bought new from Bass Direct for £949 about 18 months ago. It has huge amounts of tonal range from twin MM-style pickups with dual 3-way coil tap switches and 3-band eq. It had a shade of neck-dive due to the tuners it came fitted with, so I upgraded them to USA Hipshot Ultralites (£125 for the set) and now it sits on a strap or the knee beautifully. The original tuners are also included in the sale. It's 35" scale, 19mm string spacing at the bridge, with a great low B. Satin Black finish, Laurel fingerboard. There's a bit of finger swirl in the finish below the strings, but otherwise it's in excellent condition. Here's a link to the specs: http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/MTD_Super_5_Black_maple.html

SOLD !

I went "Bass GAS' over the past 18 months, but have now moved back into Guitar mode again, so I'm selling my Ashdown amp and Berg Cab (see other listing) Ashdown CTM100 100w of KT88 valve power and dynamics with loads of tone shaping options and a great switchable DI Original owner, never left the house, totally mint Sounds great! ..went through a number of amps before settling on this I'm in Dorking, Surrey and I have the original shipping box for the amp - will ship at cost to your preference of service

edit : price revised. Next up for sale is my Cioks DC5. Boxed in great condition. Full disclosure, there is a small nick out of the kettle lead but it’s all been tested and makes zero difference. £100 £85.00. Add £5 for postage unless you want to collect. 😃

SOLD

The Clover Slapper, gone almost instantly:

These are great pedals. I have one. Sound even better if you stack them with a bit of overdrive or distortion before it and a phaser after it. Try it. You can thank me later.