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Found this 2001 Musicman Stingray bass in Blue Pearl 3EQ and I’m very pleased with the condition for a 23yr old bass ! Neck, frets, rosewood fingerboard all in a near new condition ! Fresh 45-100 strings fitted and truss rod tweeked and intonation checked and she’s good to go as my main gigging bass Plays and sounds amazing and it was a sensible price too No EB Musicman case but such is life but it came with a serviceable gig bag ( and since typing this case has arrived too .. thank you GAK )

Here is my 62 Fender, originally P but now PJ, bass modded by others and me over the years. I have owned it since around 1983. I had no idea of it's potential value back then and sent it to my favourite Luthier, Alasdair Watt in Aberdeen (now sadly no longer with us) to make it into the all round bass that I needed for the work I was doing then. He shaved the C neck down to Jazz like proportions. He added a bridge pup (I think Kent Armstrong) and put an out of phase switch in for added tonal range. It had a beat up natural finish when I got it. Alasdair painted it sunburst. It had Schaller machines added. I had the original rusty Fender bridge re nickel plated and that's what is on it to this day. The pots have been replaced but I still have the originals (see pic). I took it to bits in lockdown (see photos) and had the wiring for the original split pup repaired/redone. I replaced the perished rubber pup beds which had no spring left in them. I shimmed the neck and removed the out of phase switch which was rarely if ever used. I discovered an earlier mod where a pup had been added right beside the neck. This had gone by the time I bought it in '83. I sometimes dream that when I shrug off this mortal coil it will be buried with me. Me with the PJ in '88

Opened a three-act punk set last night at the Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh. Lovely wee venue with a lot of atmos. My new Stingray had its first outing and I was very pleased with how well it cut through. We're playing there again in September.

Here's my 4003SW. Great bit of kit. We've been very happy together since 2015. ❤️

Gibson Rippers caught my attention in my teens when I first saw one in an old Bell's music catalogue. Out of all the basses the Ripper really stood out and for many years I always wanted one. The first one I saw (and played) in the flesh was @neepheid 's at a bass bash. The second being the one I was lucky enough to bag here a couple of months ago. I love it. I had it set up professionally with new strings and it plays superbly. It's light weight too, surprising considering its size! So I guess this is a dream bass for me. p.s It fits nicely in a Hiscox Teardrop case too!

Completely off topic but If you want to hear what loud really is, stand next to a Top Fuel dragster when they start it up. You can forget 1000W amps or PA towers, or Motorhead or a Jumbo Jet engine. Nothing prepares you for how loud a v8 supercharged dragster running nitromethane is when it starts up. I was standing next to the exhausts and I certainly wasn't ready, I jumped in the air and almost soiled myself. My dad couldn't stop laughing and almost had a heart attack, along with about 100 other people who knew what to expect and had ear protection. As a 15 year old I could have died of shame and embarrassment. If there is a sound of the gates of hell being opened, this was it.

I managed to get the bass strung at 23:59 last night (still haven't packed). It looks a lot better with strings on, a hell of a lot better. Of course being black makes small features disappear in pictures, but I'm pretty happy. The neck is almost spot on. The action is a bit too low, so around 1.5mm on the 12th fret, but I simply put the headless bridge as low as they could go to get the strings on. It stayed in tune overnight, which is what I expected. A large slab of aluminium has that effect. Weight is 3.9Kg, which is just under the 4Kg I was aiming for, the last one was 4.3Kg, the strings appear to be made of lead and the knobs are heavy and chromed, there is no neck dive (no surprise there). So I suspect I can take off another 100g quite easily. It plays well, I'd prefer a lot thinner strings which will come once I finish it off, but I had an acoustic toodle up and down the neck and there's no neck buzz. Recommendations for decent thing strings welcomed. The only area of concern is the pickguard. It's basically the lid to a hollow box where the pickups sit and if you tap it, it booms. Need to think about that. Neck steps are soldering all the controls up, I'll probably reprint the control panel to move the output socket further down so the knobs can be a bit wider. Need to put strap buttons in, its all prepared but just need to do it. I'll try and get better pics, as the bass is black with tiny glitter like elements. It's not glam rock glitterly, but quite neat and I hate bling. Rob

Spied this '78 with a A neck locally a couple of weeks ago. All the dates add up, cheeky offer of £300 off asking price was accepted. Nice example for well under £2k.

I have a little practice nook at the in-laws , we care for my wife’s mother-in-law and spend much of our time there. So I have a little corner at home with a nice little practice amp , and this set up at the in-laws. At first I just grabbed a Rumble 15 and thought it was all I’d need. It sucked , I was used to having tone. I’ve gone through several amps and cabs at this point and this is what I’ve settled on. The aim was for something small. The e500 was a find on kijiji and I found that at a good price. I love it. The BigHead headphone amp was a classifieds score , I spend a lot of time on the phones learning material. I bought the PhilJones cab new , and paid full retail. It’s a wonderful practice cab but is not gig suitable. I’ve been keeping four basses in the nook , two short scale Gibsons , rounds on the Jr , flats on the SG. And a pair of Gretsches . The big orange one is 32 scale , the Jet is 30. The SG was a kijiji find for a great price , I managed to get the Jr when Guitar Center blew them out. The Gretsches were also brought in from the States , the 5123 was never sold in Canada , fell in love with it and some Gretsch fans suggested the 6128. That one was hard to find. Both bought used , but the exchange , duty and shipping were painful. Flats on both Gretsches. I was once a Pbass guy but these days it seems I play just about everything but …

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Final addition to my board adding a tuner....that's it , no more.

yep that was todays one. He/it attached the following 'payment cleared' screenshot. Clever how he screenshot the background out of focus and the letters in focus ...oh hold on quite obviously hand crafted in Microsoft paint.

I've sold basses/stuff on marketplace, just have to deal with idiots like this along the way.

Out in the wild - the V6 & cabs plus the 40th anniversary and VM Squier Jazzes..

Just makes me grateful for the ease of transactions on here

I like that a lot. May limit you to two gigs a year but...

Old thread resurrection - sorry! But when I read this I wanted to comment... My band have a mixture of old and new gear, but essentially we use a basic mixer, active 12's on poles for FOH and a couple of floor wedges for monitoring. The rehearsal rooms we use have a nice PA available, and it's easy to sound good in there, but every gig was a frustrating quest to sound as good as during practice. We automatically assumed that our cobbled together PA was just a bit crap and were debating spending out on a shiny new one, but one evening we were sharing with another band and they made our PA sound amazing... their singer knew what he was doing and in a five minute sound check had it nailed. We made the effort after that - read the manual(!), did a bit of YouTube research and spent some rehearsal time just working out how to get the sound in our heads out of our own equipment. Gig life is much better now and we can cope with most of the variables that real venues throw at you. So no answer to the vexed question of power, but a long winded way of agreeing that what you hear is not just about the PA... you also need to know how to use it effectively.

[quote/]The bass plays wonderfully though it will need a simple rewiring to repair the pickups which currently do not pass signal. After receiving a simple repair, this bass will make for an incredible instrument.[/quote] That will be why it's JUST UNDER 10K!!

I don't have one particular dream bass, as my taste and needs vary a lot. For the band I'm with I already have my perfect bass: my Status S2 Classic takes downtuning like no other and still sounds crisp and tight when tuned down a full step to ADGCF. It also feels great to play and I feel it looks great too (if a little tiny when played by someone my size). At home I play my shortscales the most, which are totally different little beasts. Deep down inside, I think I'm mostly a Jazz Bass person though - but more modern and high-end. If money was no objection, I would ask Sander de Gier to build me a Bebop 5 (maybe a Glenn Gaddum jr signature, with its slightly scaled-down body) in a cool metallic finish over alder, with a plain maple neck with a matching headstock and the most wildly grained ziricote fingerboard he could find, with white bindings and MOP dots rather than blocks as to not obscure too much of that lovely fingerboard wood from view. I would go with Lollar pickups and Sander's proprietary passive electronics with variable De Gier / Vanderkley FatBoost.

This is what drives you mad about the vintage guitar world. I want £6000 but I’m making literally no attempt to prove the age, legitimacy or originality of it. Utter, utter madness. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186382317486?itmmeta=01J3PTKS5936TZS7M2H0Z8MRC0&hash=item2b654077ae:g:AOIAAOSwVARmFAH4&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8NdZ7C4IJJAUEd0eDNZTJq%2FQEyON4sDzVdnR4YsJ33vg5Ct6rm7cUjzNQCCHTUzvqq%2Fluwrf3PIXIXvLo3J4CjsZ2X%2B%2FoSWZCkz8QqD%2B8f1XHY3UKm6ySP%2F8cW4l1J7HDvlP%2FSaSnFW4tKjAre9PkSjERd%2BRLml6i6cTmUn4FXcdxJFFDfIvmN9c05Hu56Z5KJLFkQZTemY9tovQ4rYoHEaHvRn%2FxWKYpP1tT6xHSnSkY0c%2BNVcfUMa%2FUNzk%2FOCxOOgW1eILm7hCrll%2F8g0V8VeTogMTHKFodVArDew6KkiaL1W0Y93GKRGrDi5bokgQxw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR9iSz9qdZA

Hey Basschatters! I recently uploaded another review video to my channel, this time looking at the new Darkglass DG210A combo. I was honestly pleasantly surprised by this unit in terms of its tone and functionality, hence the 'not just for metal' thumbnail Like all DG stuff they aren't cheap, but I think they are value for money when compared to similar amps in the marketplace. Have a watch and let me know what you think! Thanks Craig

My dream bass for decades was a Rickenbacker. I very happily scratched that itch in 2015, it's been my number 1 ever since, and whilst I can't see that changing I do have a hankering for an Alembic Epic. This one, actually... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166859922935?chn=ps&_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=28

Sort of own one - but it’s more of a bucket list bass. my Ripper. I really still want a Wal Mk1. just - £7k-£11k isn’t going to happen.

and with an action measured in centimeters not millimeters...

Not a build but a heavy mod so I hope I'm posting in the right forum, apologies if not and a call to the mods to move it to it's correct home if necessary. I'm new so apologies. So, I'd been a bit curious about fanned fret basses for some time now but there is no way I could afford a Dingwall or such and most fanned frets were commanding prices of £600+ even at secondhand values. Then I read about the Red Sub Coliseum which were being knocked out by G4M for around £270. When I went on the G4M they'd dropped Red Sub but carried an almost identical bass called the 972 https://g4m.com/product/g4m-972-fanned-fret-5-string-blue-burl-burst/ Which I thought I'd take a punt on. TBH when it arrived I loved it, OK the hardware and electronics were a bit flakey but the neck was sublime and a lovely player. However, I do really think that it's more of a 'metal' or 'prog' guitar than a good all rounder due to the pickups positioning. I rather like dub and reggae and was wondering how it would sound with a third pickup added close to the neck. I did some research but concluded that trying to wire a third pickup and find a switch which would allow me to adjust all 3 pickups individually or permutations of the three was well above my level of experience. Plan 'B' was called for which was moving the 'neck' pickup closer to the neck. I build a little pickup mule to find the sweetspot that worked for me; Having spent ages trying to decide I finally stumbled across this configuration which had the pickup at a different angle to the angle it was originally set at; Visually, I was not over enamoured with all the bumpy and pointy bits on the body so I decided to 'phone a friend' namely one of my old band mates from 40 years ago who was building guitars in his retirement. Armed with a set of French Curves we went to work... We subtly rounded the upper horn, and took the pointy bit off the lower horn then took quite a bit of material from the bottom end of the body. Now you will notice that this picture shows an undercoat. The original blue burl is actually a very thin real wood veneer, unfortunately because we were going to relocate the pickup then there was no way of either getting some veneer or even applying it to the original pickup position, so the plan was to respray. With the old pickup cavity blocked with a bit of wood and the new cavity cut out it was time to prep for the respray. Now in case you're confused the photo above was taken before he finished rounding off the bottom of the body he'd forgot about that, so he actually cut those bits off when he'd prepped the undercoat. Colour. What are we going to have? Well I wanted something a bit different to all of the natural or black guitars I already have. So was thinking back to my youth when in the early 70's everything was orange, Space Hoppers, Chopper bikes, Habitat wall paper and also a groundbreaking film 'A Clockwork Orange' was doing the rounds. Picked out RAL2011 and since it matched my little Orange Crush Bass 50 thought 'that'll do' and was at one stage going to call the bass 'The Clockwork Orange' even printed out the decals along with Alex Delarge's stylised eye. Nitro painting; Shielding Headstock - dropped the lettering and just went with the eye flakey machine heads replaced with Wawicks and a Glockenklang 3 eq pre added; Final assembly Neck pickup sounds lovely dialled fully on and the Glockenklang just adds a lot more richness so really happy now with the guitar which didn't start life as a bad instrument to be fair, but it's where I want it now, has no resale value at all but I love it. Cheers.

Its easy to forget that BC is a nice calm place to speak to like minded, honest bass players. But needs must and i am selling some basses. So, even though i have them here for consideration, and having been annoyed from the last experience of trying to sell on the dread cesspit of F-book, i put just one on there to test the water. Straight away...scammer. FFS online anything is just a bloomin' PITA. Not going to continue ever trying to sell on there. Probably half of the sales on Marketplace are scams. Especially the cars.....rant over

I actually saw one in the flesh yesterday. Not set up, but there it was nevertheless. Casemates rehearsal studio in Portsmouth. Only ever saw pictures up until now.

I wil gladly to buy your [item name]! Pay by paypal adn my cousin's brother will be collection OK?

I have but not those that are listed on the site. Indeed, I wasn't aware that Newtone was supplying short and medium strings - thanks for highlighting. I ordered several sets of custom short-scale strings in super-light gauge - 30-90. I've been very impressed so far. I normally use nickel but the Newtones are SS (a deliberate order). Very well constructed, lively and bright. Nice feel too. They're on hex cores so no floppiness, though compliance is excellent. I'd recommend the company overall but Newtone's standard short-scale options are too heavy for me

Thanks @Cliff Edge, but you don't seem to know that it's something I'm known for and that I also wrote a mémoire (in French) about vintage instruments, which has been shared here. 😉 It's as hard to date a pre CBS, CBS or post CBS Fender than a Dan Smith era model and you have to take everything into account including stamps, known facts and the absolutely non reliable serial numbers. The instrument has to be disassembled to asses its origins and to be able to date it even if some are reluctant to do so. Check with my pseudo and you'll see that I've done this a lot of times just to help when others would have asked for money.

Some tight tolerances and a lot of fun to solder.. after some basic tests for shorts this will go into the ultrasonic bath for a quick clean..

Anton, Bill, Murph & Victor Since you're playing covers you'll never do headline tours or sell records so the name just needs to set you aside from all other coverbands. You can replace the names with your own but if anything it'll be less rememberable (as a gimmick). Keep them in alphabetical order though, it pleases the OCD crowd.

Ok. Shuker No1 was everything I wanted in a bass. Mid-scale, Thumbchum (combined ramp, pup cover, and thumb rest), bendwell; extended fret board, monkey grip, scalloped frets at the dusty end, pink LEDs that flash and pulse, and the highest outputting pup possible. But it is also couture, as the body has been resized for me and slightly widened at the bottom to fit how I hold and play the bass, and a slim fast neck. The low action and ramp mean some people find playing difficult, but for me it is glorious. It plays and sounds wonderful.

That looks so good! Love the contrast between the warm wood and cold metal. The blocks on the neck continue the block shape of the pickup and bridge. Great choices @Happy Jack and great execution @Andyjr1515.

Currently fighting a GAS attack! I went instrument ogling yesterday, not for a bass though (nor a cello - I may write more about that and why not in another post). I plan to go and do more ogling of different instruments next week and a discussion with a teacher. I'll post more about this in due course but thought I'd whet people's appetites first...

There is nothing like great relicing, and that is nothing like great relicing. I am fully aware that proper wear is even better, but that would spoil the flow of my post.

Looks stunning, and I think the luthier did a steller job getting the dimensions of the heel that tight without having the body at hand to work with! I get that he was an original luthier for Washburn at the time and knows these basses like the back of his hand, but I still think that's incredible without having your actual body to work from. I'm with @Richard R, I would trust the luthier

Yeah that's also a thing for me: my 71 has an A neck which I really like. I have a De Gier Soulmate which has a '62 width neck (I guess a C?) that is maybe a liiiittle bit to wide for me. Ideally I'd go for a 66 or 67 as they're my favourite Fender years But...well...she is a stunner. And John Stirratt said she's amazing. So there's that.

I found the tuners. The bushes were nominally the correct size but were a little loose in the headstock holes - nothing that some decent quality plumber's PTFE can't sort. Now they are a firm push-fit With the tuners fitted, the next decision was 'which of the two sets of strings that Jack sent should I use?'. While the Thomastik-Infeld ones look very interesting, the blurb on the back makes it clear that they are intended for use with fretless. Probably best saved for one of Jack's fretless basses (maybe the Lull?) so I fitted the D'Addario XL's for the first trial fit. I will probably add a degree or so neck angle so that the bridge can be lifted enough to give a decent break angle rather than lower it any more (which it has the clearance to do) but, that said, this is one of the best 'first fits' in a long time! No signal coming through at the moment - I will investigate that before cutting a pickup ring/scratchplate just in case it is the pickup (unlikely - more likely to be just a loose connection/earth). Weight is coming at at around 5kg / 11lbs Based on that I've come across Gibson Les Paul guitars at over 13lbs, that is actually not too bad. Hangs level on the strap (again, not too bad).

NBD ! A 1970 Precision in very nice original condition. I mentioned earlier in this thread that I was sniffing around for another early 70's P bass, and someone on here got in touch. A very very smooth deal, lots of honesty and trust involved. It's more or less all original apart from a single pickguard screw and the pots are changed, but you wouldn't know unless you were told, as they are CTS pots from 1970. I spent some time yesterday with it, tweaking it to my liking. Now sporting La Bella Low Tension Flats with a very nice low action. It has more definition and a bit more top end than my '73 (which is the most mellow P I've ever heard), and they complement each other perfectly. The rosewood board on this one is particularly dark, smooth and tight grained compared with the '73 too. I'm a happy chappie. The upshot of this, is that I'll be selling my super lightweight '78 P bass soon if anyone is interested. Cheers, Rob