john_the_bass

thump (as bump is too hi-fi for a P) It's on ebay now with a £549 BIN and best offer - will pull it for cash from BCers ta

i think so or eggshell maybe. i've not got me pantone book out!

anybody?

what are the dimensions WoT?

aawwww!

I meant to add that I have added Schaller straplock strap buttons to it, but I will also include the originals.

Thanks Gareth, yeah it's a grand bit of kit alright. anyway, a couple more pics below and some more pics [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johna_le3/sets/72157603264787890/"][u]here[/u][/url]. If anybody wants any specific images, let me know. It's a bloody nightmare taking pictures without any natural light and a flash that only moves one way. Some of the pics show the stuff in the room like a mirror so i don't know if it will pick up all the detail

I have my eye on pyschoandy's 75 Precision and I need to raise some money to pay for it. So here's me Squier JV Precision. Neck date is 22nd April 1983 and the plastic Fender shim in the neck pocket is dated April 1983. Apparently (and I don't know whether this is true or not), 3TS was dumped for solid colours for basses sold after May 1983, which means that this would be one of those - although I don't know a lot of the history of them to be honest. As far as I can tell, it's all original - threaded saddles, reverse tuners, a pickguard which must be original as it's the only one in the world that seems to fit - if you remember the pickgaurd thread, I snapped this roughly in between the top of the thumbrest and screw in the top horn - you can just see the line of the break level with the 20th fret on the left hand side. I put a bit of tape on the underside and joined the two pieces together. Paul, the highlighted a JV pickguard on fleabay a while back, but i didn't have the readies at the time (it went for about £35 - about a tenner less than a WD tort one!) Pickups have cloth covered wires (apparently this is a sign they are USA pickups? Who knows), there is a strap button on the back of the headstock and the serial is stamped into the neck plate. PM me if you want it, I am at work at the minute and I've not got access to it until I get home. It's very playable - it needs a tweak to set it up perfectly, but I was amazed at how similar the feel of the neck is to my modern P, particularly after I had my 84 Jap P which had a particularly fat feeling neck. Condition is generally very good, no chips of paint missing or dings or dints - the pickguard is the only downside and there are one or two knocks on the headstock, I'll take some more high res, better detail pics later as it will end up on ebay if I am to stand a chance of getting a 70s Fender. Now the price - this is the thing. This time of year is a bugger for selling anything as people are putting their money elsewhere and I fully expect virtually everybody here to not be thinking about buying a bass (I can justify this to her indoors as I will sell the LP Studio to make up the defecit and technically, I am not spending any money ). Based on what these are going for on ebay, I would like to get as close to [b]£500[/b] (plus p and p) for it as possible, as I think it might stand a chance of hitting that at auction - obviously there's only one way to find out. I don't want you to think I am taking the piss on the price and certainly wouldn't set out to rip anybody on here off - but if someone on fleabay wants to pay that at auction, then that's up to them in't it. All questions, input, info, etc welcome [i]edit[/i]The original posting was "tentatively for sale" as I didn't know what the reaction was going to be on the asking price. However, it's properly up for sale if I am to have a shot at buying a 70s P.

and from me

So I bought a white strat and took a dislike to it almost instantly so, (because it was white i know this now because....) I swapped it for a white Les Paul Studio and, well, I don't really like it - because it's white. I thought I would keep it and use it as a backup, but I'm just not loving it. It plays really nicely, the ebony board is also very nice - I believe they used ebony on some of the earlyish studios and then white versions only (and also on some of the ltd edition standards and supremes). A white LP is just a bit too Justin Hawkins for me. I had once thought i might like a white jazz bass with a tort guard on it, but I think I just don't like white guitars full stop Anyway - 1996 Gibson Les Paul Studio, Gold hardware, ebony fingerboard (nice), been left on a stand at some point in its life and the rubber on the stand has reacted with the nitro (or whatever it does) on the back of the neck and at the bottom edges, so it's gone a bit yellow - if that makes sense - and there are a couple of marks at the bottom of the headstock where it's been on a wall hanger, but there's virtually no dings (a tiny one on the edge), a little bit of buckle rash on the back - nothing through the paint - and the white is aging now - I don't know whether that's what nitro does - I've only got one nitro finished guitar and that's my LP standard. It's supplied in a case - not an original Gibson one and in fact, I think it's for a smallish acoustic, but that's what it was sent to me in. It fits alright and I have all the bubble wrap that protected it still! Anyway pics are [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johna_le3/sets/72157603252941569/"][u]here[/u][/url]. I think my mrs would like me to sell it for cash - i'd like £500 (which is what I paid for the strat) and a few quid for shipping. I might consider taking a cheap(ish) Jap Jazz in p/ex for it or maybe swap it for an S1 jazz. I might even consider parting with this AND my JV P for a 70s precision. But I need to square that at home first. Anyway drop me a line if you want any more info.