gapiro

Looking for a buyer still. Desperately need to sell this as my car just got written off after someone hit it whilst parked outside my home...

Going on evil bay.

This needs to go soon or its going on evilbay...

Bump/feeler around £220

Price reduction to 175.
Bumpity

Just getting a feeler for my BB615. Its been delegated to backup use for quite a while now and just isn't getting played.
I have just taken it to the luthiers for a new nut and a setup so will be in a very nice shape when back.
Fraid as its at the luthiers, I cannot put any pics up until next week, hence feeler. No damage to it as far as i'm aware and would be looking for about £250 quid as they are around 400 new and It will be perfectly setup . No hard case and would prefer collection.
(The bass is the same as this one : [url="http://web.mac.com/thepoptarts/bass_guitar_specialists/Yamaha_BB615_RR.html"]http://web.mac.com/thepoptarts/bass_guitar_specialists/Yamaha_BB615_RR.html[/url] )

Morning Bump

[quote name='Bobby K' timestamp='1317060800' post='1386224']Love my old B bass. They're very underrated I think. Was also my first attempt at a de-fret and I still use it today; sounds great! The de-tuner can be very handy too. Have a fellow owner's bump [/quote]Cheers for a bump.
It is a quality instrument, straight as an arrow. Nice sound. I dont know how to tell if its a defret or not, not something I would know how to tell! As i said though, I'm a big guy and it just doesn't have enough meat for a guy like me to hold

Good Oh!

i aint sure if pictures are showing, its playing up a bit for me!

EDIT : PRICE DROP 175 £
Up for grabs here is a Fretless Hohner BBass4 .
It is lined, and has a reasonably fresh set of d'addario lights on it.
Features :

Has a D-Tuner at the bottom which enables easy flick down into drop D (very useful)
Has 2 band EQ (on same knob, the double one)
Has Passive/active switch
Fretless + Lined

I am selling this as I just cannot get comfortable with it. The neck is quite simply too thin (front to back) for me that it hurts my wrists after about 5 minutes. Prolly fine for a Jazz player, but I play fat laklands / precisions
I have no idea how much to value this at so i'm going to say that £200 is probably a fair price. I have no hard case so would prefer collection (cambridge), but happy to arrange a hard case + courier at buyers expense.
pics below

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the back has a piece of sticky tape on. Not sure why, has been there all the time i've owned it.



Update:
Previous buyer pulled out as I hadn't realised there was a slight paint chip on the top of the neck.
I'll post a picture shortly.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1316967305' post='1384952']
Here's one on ebay: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sunn-Mustang-Bass-Guitar-/260858235006?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item3cbc5cc87e"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item3cbc5cc87e[/url] - £40 with 21 hours to go.
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I meant a real fender

I emailed him asking for clarification earlier and here is what he said :
It's from the management buyout of 1985. Fender sold it to them but took all the machies away, so they couldn't make new stuff. they had all the parts, which were sent over to Japan and put together there. All the parts are from the USA, but at that time they couldn't use the word Fender, but there is FMIC on the headstock making a real Fender.
This only happened for about 2 months, I think, all other Sunn guitars or basses were made in other parts of the far east and many of them are not so well put together and use lower cost parts.
The bass comes from parts made in 1984/85.
sounds vaguely plausible

Yeah i thoguht it was a bit iffy when he said it. I trust the guy normally but just seems a bit odd. It was a sunn Mustang neck indeed jezzaboy. He was after £400 for it at mates rates so dunno. For that I wonder if I can pick up a real deal

Bit of an odd one.
A friend whom I regularly jam with is selling a P-Bass that he claims to be from the CBS takeover of fender, made out of parts from the spares, and thus does not exist as far as fender is concerned. Im a bit out of my history on P Basses, I played it, it weighs a ton, has a neck with a "SUNN " decal on it. Bit lacking on info, but just wondering if this plausible? (I'm a bit behind on fender history!)

ugh dont let me near the for sale forums, I have my eye on a very nice lakland P if i go near that...

The problem with the tuner is that the previous owner sheared the bolt on the E string tuner somehow. and thus there is a chunk of metal lodged into the tuner hole. The chance of me finding an identical tuner is low, and I would find it far more aesthetically pleasing to have matching tuners. It has a bsolutely no sentimental value to me, i'm merely looking to fix it up and pass it on either to a friend who is just starting on bass , or to sell .

Hi chaps.
I'm looking at this bass I picked up from gumtree super cheap (40 quid). Realistically I need to get a new tuning peg. But being me, I would want to replace the entire set. Therefore, I am wondering if its worth spending the value of the bass again on a new set of keys?
Anyway, its an Aria Pro II fretless RSB Special.
I can't find anything about it on the internet, not even on the matsumoku project page. as far as the internet is concerned, it doesn't seem to exist. The colour doesn't seem to exist either.
Its in mostly good nick, for an old piece of japcrap.Lots of MWAH sound.

Ps, there is only two strings on because I was playing with the tuner pegs trying to see if they were fixable.

So i guess if i replace the set of tuners, how much would I reasonably expect it to be worth? Not sure If i want to keep it as I have my super sexy mwahy hohner fretless I also find it bloody confusing to play as the Dots are at fret positions as opposed to in between.
http://imageshack.us/g/718/img07341.jpg/

As a further to the previous post. I am thinking I need to get a set of new tuning keys. with the key as it is now, I can not remove the lodged metal, and I cannot make another hole there suitably. So im thinking that instead of having the tuning keys with the screws below them, is there any way I can put a set of tuning keys so the screw for them is towards the end of the neck, instead of towards the bridge?

Upon examination, It appears the old screw has sheared and is half in the hole.
This leaves me more a problem. I managed to get some similar sized screws from the local ironmongers but do I drill another hole? or what?

bleh, attaching files failed on me.
try this link
http://imageshack.us/g/199/img07261.jpg/

Good Afternoon BC.
I have two problems that need fixing.
First I'll start with the Aria Fretless.
I picked this bass up for about £30 on gumtree, As far as I can tell, the only damage is as the pictures show. The e string tuner has cracked the wood.

Would you agree that the simplest fix would be to chuck some pva wood glue in, and put a new screw into the hole? Would that work sufficiently to hold it together?

The second thing is finding a nut for my yamaha BB615. When I went to my local music shop, they said 3 months for a replacement from yamaha. Originally then, i got it remade by a luthier but it doesn't really work particularly well and thus need a replacement. Without the original, would a luthier be able to make a new nute that would fit perfectly? The problem i'm having is that the E String does not intonate correctly, even at the extremes of adjustment. The B string is also too near the E string on the new nut.

HAts are the mark of a bass player. I totally concur.

I have 5 basses in my possession, plus two my brother owns and i can use when I like.
The lakland 55-01 gets gigged almost entirely every gig. I have a couple of songs I use a Hohner Fretless (cool little beast) on, and my Ibanez Gio (first ever bass) gets used as a Backup. I then have 2 basses that need repairing. I have an old Aria Pro 2 RSB Special (The cat or something i think its called) that has a tiny chip where one of the tuners goes. So that needs a little bit of work on it. The other is a Yamaha BB615 where I got the nut replaced by a luthier in cambridge. Only to find that said nut does not work on the E string (it doesn't contact well, and thus the intonation is also horrible) He refuses to reply and thus i need a new nut cut.

so so soso so so tempted, but can't afford until next month