alyctes
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I suspect this is quite unusual - no doubt someone with actual knowledge will be along soon I'm not going to go and see it, because I already have too many basses (one in, five out rule now in effect ) https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/vantage-bass-guitar/1183007152
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I understand the desire to do it, and I shall watch this one with interest My guess is that the back edge of the body might be uncomfortable? I say this because I have an Ashbory. Its strap is tied to the headstock just above the nut, and the strap goes round my neck so that the instrument sits nearly vertical with my left hand up by my jaw and the right hand about level with my diaphragm. I had to remove the upper strap button as it was too uncomfortable to play. So I'm thinking the neck fillet of the uke might be unpleasant.
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I'm selling my NS Design WAV 4, because it's not getting used and it's just gathering dust in my living room. £380, plus delivery. Pics here: [url="http://postimg.org/gallery/iiv75wl0/"]http://postimg.org/gallery/iiv75wl0/[/url] Electrics are fine. There are a few minor dents and scuffs; I've tried to take pics (though the finish is very glossy; it's quite difficult to get pics). The side dots have been added, not very elegantly (there is a halo of glue around each one, but this is glossy and transparent and not visible at any distance). They are luminous. There is a crack in the end of the FB, unchanged since chaypup's pics were taken two years ago. Original gigbag is included. The stand is held together with tape but is solid. The original stand adjustment is missing but has been replaced by a nut+bolt arrangement which takes a bicycle spanner (included). Not desperately elegant, but it works. It's quite long, so I'd rather not courier it if possible. Delivery by me inside a sensible radius of Poole is possible, and I expect to be in North Wales in mid-October. Other options open for discussion. Bought from chaypup here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/242218-ns-design-wav-eub-sold/"]http://basschat.co.u...n-wav-eub-sold/[/url] He had it from OldHorseMurphy here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/238745-sold-ns-design-wav-eub-and-gigbag-for-sale-l425/"]http://basschat.co.u...-for-sale-l425/[/url] I've also got a fibreglass bow, with slight cosmetic issues (needs repainting at the tip). Available for an extra £40 (or I'd sell it separately, plus £5 carriage). Trades possible but I'm not interested in EUB, sorry. Electric cello? Interesting bass guitar, preferably fretless? -
Try it. If you can't get the sound you need, flog them on here - relatively cheap way to test the water.
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I'd forgotten I saw this - posted about it in the [i]eBay Weird + Wonderful[/i] subforum. Hofner S7B, Berlin, earlier this year. Not clear whether it sold. Not identical to Barry Gillum's bass either - possibly a different model? [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hofner-Bass-S-7-B-Razorwood-Model-/142026206269?hash=item21116bec3d%3Ag%3An0MAAOSw2GlXGPDn&nma=true&si=XYFpA5daW3UHPyoMrEPsxt8%252FqwM%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=p2047675.l2557[/url]
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How many times have you broken a string?
alyctes replied to PaulWarning's topic in General Discussion
I've snapped a couple when trying to restring a bass with strings from elsewhere, but that doesn't count. -
It won't sell unless you post pictures... (or link to them). Just saying
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ShonKy Firewood Special No6 Bass Guitar. Aged rustic
alyctes replied to tony_m's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
We've had a thread about this one before. I liike it; if I had a use for it, I'd give it serious consideration. (I'm not a fan of relicing, but this is not pretending to be an old bass... -
I have acquired a second-hand Epiphone Jack Casady case from paulmcnamara of this parish (thanks Paul ). It fits perfectly (at least for my definition of perfectly). So, question answered and problem solved. Thanks to you all for your input
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Not as rare as the Hofner, and not complete, but... I bought (from this very forum) the battered remnant of an Ormston-Burns EUB. It does play, and the neck, pup, tailpiece and bridge are original. I knew it was a bit unusual at the time, but I thought that it would be one of maybe 100 originally made. Nope. Apparently, they made maybe six or seven - nobody is quite sure.
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Quite bizarre. I'm never sure what scratchplates are going to look like on the right paintjob, though... it is (just) possible that that might look good. (From a long way off, in a darkened room, through sunglasses... obviously.)
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[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1471524299' post='3113655'] Same guy does a triple J too, and also sells bodies separately without control dillings: [url="http://stores.ebay.co.uk/guitar-alliance?_trksid=p2047675.l2563"]http://stores.ebay.c...=p2047675.l2563[/url] I'm disturbingly tempted by the idea of building a Triple P with a maple/pearl blocks J neck. Possibly with inverted Tele-style headstock... Better not, eh? [/quote] Oooooh... that could be a [i]plan[/i]...
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I'm more of a 'Hazy Shade Of Winter' person myself, but it's hard to argue with
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Okay, attic time.
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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1471122520' post='3110723'] This neck has a 42mm nut [/quote] Thanks. Not my choice, sorry. GLWTS! -
***SOLD*** : Ibanez SRF700 Portamento Fretless
alyctes replied to Edenburgh's topic in Basses For Sale
I can't see this hanging about here for long. I'd love it, but no funds and no prospect of them. So, good luck with your sale (anything to stop me drooling over it - so unseemly... ). -
Could you post the width at the nut, please? Thanks.
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I agree with TheGreek; not a particularly good combination. I do like the greenburst Tele though.
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[quote name='alyctes' timestamp='1471119983' post='3110707'] Don't try playing that sitting down... [/quote] Or at all, frankly.
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Don't try playing that sitting down...
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I've had both an acoustic bass guitar (an Adam Black, now sold) and a Ubass (fretless Kala, now sold) (and I still have an Ashbory, with an O). I got rid of the acoustic because I couldn't get used to the bulky body and because it was too quiet not to use with an amp - so it was relatively hard to carry around, hard to play, and I still had to bring an amp as well. The Ubass was much better, for me. I sold that because I wasn't in a band which needed it. The intonation was a little tricky but not impossible, and the noise was fab
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Postage of how much?! I've never paid that much for a [u]bass[/u] ...
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Defretted Tbird (an Epi would do). Mostly I just want to know what it sounds like, but I'm beginning to have a vision of a tobaccoburst one with no scratchplate... Also the neck from a Vox Standard I could defret. It's the pickup position - the fretted one sounds great, even though the neck is too big for me. My bandmates won't let me defret it