LukeFRC

With a neck with nice new frets too

Did you have the bass and move to north wales because people reacted well to it. Or the other way round?

Probably the best bass if you cover this song

not at the moment!!

https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/kawai-ajb-555-pj-bass-mij-1983/1399502596?utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_campaign=socialbuttons&utm_content=app_ios&utm_medium=social&utm_source=sms Try that

One in the middle looks tiny compared to the other two

https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/kawai-ajb-555-pj-bass-mij-1983/1399502596 £200

There was a red one on eBay earlier this year, bassassin and I were both saying it is a shame it was so far south.

Yeah I think so!

damaged in that it was destroyed below the 15th fret?!

I've read around this subject and the science behind it enough to know that the easiest way to a good result is finding some proven plans and following something when someone else has poured their time and expertise into!

sorry

Now I know Alex is really really passionate about what is probably some of the best basscabs on the market... but the presence of the Big Baby and Big twin in their lineup would suggest even he would use a horn on some cabs. Someone will be on to explain better but I think it's down to dispersion....

ACG and Wishbass are easy to get confused?!

I would too. But if I were in the @bassmansam position I would spend the cash secondhand and buy a secondhand ACG and a Secondhand Shuker and then have more concrete ideas to base an opinion on... and then sell them to fund the custom build if that's the thing. 24fret 5 string Jazz though... It depends how traditional it needs to sound? I'm not sure with the brief of instrument, I would have ended up narrowing it down to ACG or Shuker.

In the defence of underwealming.... sometimes amazing tone in an instrument jumps out straight away... other times the evenness of the tone, and flat response tonally accross the fretboard sounds underwealming and it lacks colour. It does, but that's it's strength.

You may say Al and I are dreamers But we're not the only ones I hope someday you'll join us And the world will talk about Yamaha BB basses for 308 pages as one...

Won’t that be the same? What would work is some kind of single market for basses across Europe…

Well just be happy in what you end up with through auction and don’t find out what it’s really worth. I missed a few items cos I emailed to ask questions and then the item got pulled cos there was a price he would finish the auction at so if I really want something I ask anyway so I know if I’m going to get gazzumped

Yeah but fender in 1961 wouldn’t have done a custom colour with a tort guard, it would have been mint. I’ve a feeling that John keeps fairly close to vintage accurate. (Hence why @owen isn’t showing off his 5 string Bravewood) - the main difference in what John made me was that the neck is about 41mm at the nut rather than the vintage accurate 44-45mm … cos my hands aren’t that big!

Yep. It looks lovely. When he was building it John kept stressing it would have a mint guard… almost as if most people would want tortoise or something.

Really hard to photograph, it’s not as royal blue as the photos make it look, it’s like a rich lake placid blue - have fiddled with the colour values on my phone so it’s kinda like what I see… obv your screen will be different too! should I pick up the Pantone swatches from work 😜