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Nice job Not my colour, though. GLWYS!

Monster! Thank heavens it's a four-string!

Winchester, according to his sig.

No, that's 13 minutes IIRC... you'd have to get a mod to check though.

And sold pending the usual

Westone Thunder 1. This is an old passive four-string bass, with a single P-style pickup. I bought it from FinnDave three years ago (?), but it's not being played - which is a shame. I was surprised by how comfortable the neck was - I'd expected a treetrunk. The neck is 41mm wide at the nut. The nut is brass. It's quite heavy for a four-string at 4.5kg (10lb). The truss rod turns smoothly but stiffly both ways. One of the three trussrod cover screws is missing. It sounds nice, at least to my ear. It would be a good bass for festivals and gigs where you didn't want to risk something more expensive. It's not exactly mint - plenty of scratches and dings, though quite hard to take pics of. The worst, IMO, is the thumb-mark above the pickup. It comes with a heavy, functional but not very tidy hard case - evidently with some history to it (does anyone know who Earthworks might have been?). The two halves of the case are quite dissimilar and it may be a bitsa. £100 plus carriage; I'd rather travel than post it (I live in Dorset, I'll be in Bristol at some point in February). More pics here: https://postimg.org/gallery/oyywj6eo/

I'd never dare gig it

I'll be in Bristol some time in February. :whistles nonchalantly:

It does dive a little, but nothing dramatic and nothing my right hand doesn't deal with just from being in playing position. I don't have any trouble with it. I was pleased when I came up with the name

Hm... Octave pedal?

Yeah, the colour isn't for everybody Thanks for your good wishes, and good luck with your resolution :snickers:

This is an unique bitsa originally built by BCer hamfist. It's a nice bass in its own right, but it's also an excellent pickup-tester, having been routed for various pickups and with an extra P-J scratchplate. The components are: - Westone body, hand-painted green, extensively routed under the scratchplate. - No-name humbucker; I don't know where it came from. - Many controls and switches. At present it's passive and only two of them do anything. It's routed and wired for a battery, but the current setup is passive. - J+D jazz-type neck, maple board, blocks and bound. - Custom scratchplate; it also comes with another, cut for P-J pickup arrangement. I've been calling it a Hamstone. Mostly I'm playing fretless these days, and it's not getting the love it deserves. £100, plus carriage at cost; it will come in a cheap+nasty gigbag, adequate to ensure it doesn't get scratched in transit. (I can pack basses properly, as a look at my feedback will tell you.) But I'd rather meet/deliver, if possible.