LukeFRC

Wow - looks amazing well done - looks like such a nice bass!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1360167479' post='1966030'] Ha.. Sorry about that. Amp isn't here yet - I'll post when it lands. I'll be hanging on to my Walkabout for a bit just in case... As for the videos... I don't really bother any more. I can't record them well enough and my playing sucks. :-) [/quote] whatever! I know you feel pressure to start slapping all over the shop when making a video for youtube but you don't have too! I've found both your and kjung of talk bass's videos really helpfull (before he took all his down) - yes you can't hear exactly what things sound like - but you can hear differences between things!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1360160347' post='1965851'] I did! [/quote] good stuff. How is it? Will you be making lots of nice videos for your youtube channel? You know I can still hum the baseline you normally play on them and havn't seen one for months and months

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1360157174' post='1965734'] Whoa... looks like I got myself a bargain. :-) [/quote] you get one then?

About being "too busy" - it can happen- I was selling something on ebay, and the week when it was going to be posted I got work in the next city, leave house at 6, back at 7.30pm - short breaks etc. Now I wouldn't have been able to get a courier if it had requiered that but was able to go to the post office. The thing is I made sure the seller was informed at all times about the ETA and why. He understood. On basschat I have a policy, I won't take money off anyone till I have the thing ready to go. I got a seller or something and had to ask them to wait a wee while so that I could get a bike box to post hte thing in. A bit odd but I feel that unless hte thing is ready to go then I shouldn't take money. [quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1360008166' post='1963540'] Unfortunately only too common...I had somebody come down to buy a bass, along with his girlfriend, I picked them up from the railway station, took them to my home, made them a coffee. He played the bass for an hour or so, "[i][u]Definitely[/u][/i]" wanted it. She went through my CDs and music books for suggestions for a birthday present for him before I gave them a lift back to the station. The following day he posted on here to see what else was available, before telling me that he couldn't afford to buy a new bass...just goes to show that even BC isn't immune to time-wasters and tyre-kickers. [/quote] That's shocking! Like turn up and decides he doesn't like your bass OK - but have the balls to say that. Mind you I picked up my streamer that way - it was on gumtree and I was way down the queue, the first guy who went to see it went with his GF and, it was a bit dirty and she didn't like it, and the seller was apparently wanting him to pay more. He passes, the seller goes to the computer and sees that I'm just around the corner and 1hr later I own a streamer stage one at a price even warwickhunt was impressed with! [quote name='juliusmonk' timestamp='1360059704' post='1964053'] If you are not prepared to take pictures, answer questions, etc. then you shouldn't be selling, maybe. That said, I always try to be transparent. There's many factors involved in a purchase decision, we all have our own obsessions - some are hard to explain. And, in the end, there will be a time when I've sent the money and I am completely in the hands of the seller - so easy to rip someone off. That leap of faith surely deserves some patience in exchange? [/quote] on the other hand if you're actually going to buy the thing then as a seller I'm half thinking you may go to the trouble of typing the name of the thing into google and finding out something about it rather than battering the poor seller with inane questions. I'll quite happily tell the potential buyer about my bass, all it's faults and failings, what it's good at, comparisions to other basses, weight, history, specialist knowledge on the model I may have and so on. Asking me how many frets a fender P bass has?

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1360112964' post='1965170'] Simple solution is to go for the single channel version [/quote] Good plan. In fact I've just been looking and bassgear have a secondhand one. Winner

[quote name='basskit_case' timestamp='1360104295' post='1965016'] Me too, and the damage to the gig bag makes me wonder if something has happened to the bass either in the shop or in transit that might present further problems down the line. I don't know what and I may be worrying about nothing, but just think I would prefer either swap for a new one or get a refund and try to make a purchase in person somewhere. [/quote] well you can check most things so it's up to you to work out. I'm more interested as to how a saddle screw can fall out, ive not heard of that - unless it's been shipped without strings? Also depends what value the bass and case is - if it's a £100 bass with a £10 case- maybe not worth it, if it's a Fodera with a top of the range padded case....

I would wonder how a saddle screw had fallen out

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1360087360' post='1964672'] I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on the dual channel AG. I had one and found the second channel unusable, the thinnest nastiest distortion I've ever heard. At least 7-8 people I knew all tried it and between us none of us could get a tone we'd ever be able to use. The guy who sold it to, and the owner before him, said they never used the 2nd channel and both are top gigging pros. There wasn't even a mildly pleasant low level grind option to add a bit of grit to a classic funk tone If you want distortion then the TH500 has a much nicer tone - either that or get a decent pedal to put in front of the clean channel. [/quote] ahhh thanks for this Molan! I've tried the amp in a shop and been impressed - but I couldn't for the life of me work out why I would want the buzzy channel- I thought it was something wrong with me! It is the one negative I have for this amp.

Just a quick note to say that I've met David when we did a trade - and he's one of the good ones on here - a really nice guy and if I were getting lessons I would happily go back and say hello.

[quote name='Fuzzbass2000' timestamp='1360070192' post='1964290'] A tricky situation... an interesting set of discussions (and diversions) and a happy ending - not quite up there with the Talkbass "Shell Pink 1962 Jazz Bass" episode... but still, what more could you ask for. Well done to everyone involved - especially the BC members responsible for getting an amicable resolution. [/quote] I think we would all have to take lots of pills and chain ourselves to our computers or something to get anywhere near the shell pink thread!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1360008745' post='1963553'] Ha ha - I think I preferred your first answer, because it's exactly what will happen. I'm just in 'that' frame of mind at the moment - everything's in flux. I have a feeling that in three or four months' time, only my two Precisions will remain, and everything else will be different. And I'll probably regret it and buy another Walkabout (it's happened before!). Hearing other people playing my Beck and Jazz at the bash yesterday (both with rounds) was fab. They sounded great but... they ain't a P with flats. Anyway. I digress... [/quote] you have one of the nicest Jazz basses I've seen (in pictures) Just saying.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1360061283' post='1964092'] Who wouldn't want a 60s Fender over a 70s Fender? It's about affordability. I played a 70s Fender for decades and it was very good indeed - but there were certainly some dogs made in the 70s, it's true. Care needed. Try before you buy, etc. C[i]aveat emptor[/i]. [/quote] I'm not saying you can't find great Fender's from the 70's (or any era really) - more that there is nothing really heritage about most mid-late 70's basses that mean you would be committing some sin to mod them if you wanted too. I used to have a Cimar 1905ash model Jazz bass from 1975 - awesome player, older than the OP's bass, rarer too, never seen another one since- would it be wrong to mod that?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1360058244' post='1964029'] Yes, 70s Fenders are now considered to be 'heritage' basses. Whether you take that seriously or not depends essentially on whether you're into Fenders - which you most certainly are not - an opinion you like to put forward at every opportunity. [/quote] I think that there are plenty of fender heads around too who would say that a mid-late fender isn't that special aswell. 5 years ago on this here forum the consensus was that the 60's ones were good but avoid the 70's ones like the plague. Just cos it says Fender on it doesn't mean it's some kind of holy relic.

sorry. that may have broken some Basschat rules there.... lets try again oh they are possibly amazing, you should defiantly get one. My mate got one and he went from playing in his bedroom to wembley just after. Amazing tone. More power than a superbowl lighting rig and just amazing tone. Will make you play like a pro. Give into your GAS, go on I can feel the wanting rising inside you. Never underestimate how strong the power of the dark side of the force is!

[quote name='wateroftyne' timestamp='1360006485' post='1963492'] Cheers, folks. Any more for any more? [/quote] What was it that you liked about them? My guess....you'll buy one. Play it for a while and then decide you like the valvey walkabout tone more and go back to that. So if you are thinking of spending money on one, why not not spend the money and keep your roscoe beck?

My suggestion.... be more verbious in your PM's find out what music the fella plays, what he plays currently and so on. Not only is it nice chatting to folk and friendly but it also lets you work out the idiots from the non idiots.

surely the question should be... will you like it more than the walkabout?

a fun project... 5th ??

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1359733248' post='1959583'] If that finish is brown burst (which I think it may well be) then there is every possibility that this is a genuine 83 P Bass. The white pup covers are also a clue. However, the butchery that has gone on here diminishes my soul to the extent that I am now going to have a lie down in a darkened room with a cold compress pressed to my brow. [/quote] I've no doubt it is a genuine 83 P bass, it's just been butchered!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1359815746' post='1960678'] In my punk covers band, The Daves - before I joined - they played a pub, and there was a bloke who kept booing after every song. At half-time, the singer went to the khazi, and said bloke was in there having a pee. So our singer goes "Boo, that`s a rubbish c*ck, boo". Said bloke took it in jest, and explained "I boo everyone". We now address him, to his face, as Boo Man. [/quote] why would people do this?

[quote name='rk7' timestamp='1359836342' post='1961058'] The master at play! [/quote] I've never really got overwater's shapes... seeing how the body shape fits in with the player I do!