Mr H

Boll*cks - I just clicked all three of these links, now eBay will be sending me notifications about this sort of thing every week. Cheers!

Forgive me for resurrecting a thread I started, but here's a quick hardest-working-bass update: It died two nights later.

Catch 'em at the start of October in London, Liverpool and Leeds, folks. Silddx, perhaps he'll let you have a go, providing you don't wear your gloves. I'm with BassBus. It [i]is[/i] a pretty horrible picture, though. Made me larf.

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1347636516' post='1803448'] Filthy ****. [/quote] You ought to see Rob at the end of a Hanson Brothers tour!

Taken a night or so ago in Stuttgart by fellow NoMeansNerd Cubehead: Wonder when the Rob Wright Signature relic-ed Precision is due out! I'm going for a bath now...

[quote name='TommyK' timestamp='1337466312' post='1660599'] Dingwall....fanned fretless.? [/quote] I laughed. But I know somebody is going to tell me that these do, in fact, exist...

Thanks Paul - I've had that site bookmarked for well over a year, and haven't remembered to look at it since the Concord landed. D'oh. Neck and headstock hardware cleaned up nicely, though the neck/fingerboard is showing its age.

Found that bridge for sale [url="http://www.guitarfetish.com/Oversized-Top-Mount-Bass-Bridge-SUSTAIN-Black_p_579.html"]here[/url]. $25-ish. Well, there are cheaper bridges I suppose... Thanks for the above, chaps. I can get rubber O-rings of about the right size from work, but in my experience they're usually splitting after seven weeks, so are probably not the ones for this job! I'll look elsewhere.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1336907090' post='1652516'] Must not buy any more 4-string basses... [/quote] Funnily enough, I was thinking of you when I started the thread!

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-RARE-VINTAGE-70S-JOLAN-BASSO-IX-BASS-NATURAL-ORIGINAL-GIG-BAG-/170840971945?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27c6ea5aa9"]Here[/url] £60 as I write this, wonder how high it will go?

In a moment of madness I picked up a badly listed (weak description, one poor photo) Westone Concord II bass of eBay. It was described as "for spares or repair", so fair enough... The packaging caused merriment and apprehension in equal measure: The cardboard was packed with the contents of his bin by the looks of it - a load of dirty plastic bags and bits of paper and strips of plastic. The neck section and the headstock section could be turned slightly away from the adjacent bits, which was a bit alarming - felt like the neck must be knackered. But it wasn't. Not by the journey at least. Several bits are not original. The only identifying marks on the bridge are a capital B on the bottom of the inner part of each saddle. I'm fairly sure all of the electronics have been replaced. The P-pickup at the neck looks fairly new and bears no manufacturer's name or logo. There's no bridge pickup, though the serial number and headstock logo on the bass indicate it's an '84 version which ought to have had a J-pup there, and there's the ghost of a filled cavity: The pots can't be original either, that being so. No numbers on them (250K, that sort of thing), just an angular S-shaped logo. The blue refinish has been spoiled somewhat by seemingly being rested on bubblewrap, having the neckplate screwed on, and the scratchplate replaced with loops of wire trapped at the sides before the finish was dried. And the sparkly replacement scratchplate looks very homemade, with untidy edges and a cockeyed pickup cutout: The neck's been on and off a few times by the looks of it, so much so that I think the original holes have been filled with some sort of cement before the screws were put back in at an angle to grip some wood. Thanks to this forum I've a good idea how that can be fixed. The washers on all four tuners are squashed and split: So there's a lot to do before I can get this working. Amusingly, my woodwork and wiring skills are zero. Easiest job seems to be fixing up the tuners - are those washers pretty bass-tuner-specific, or will any plastic/metal combo of the same size do? The bridge seems fairly solid, but if anybody can identify it as something a bit crap I can replace that somehow. Sorting out the boltholes in the body and neck could be exciting, but definitely needs doing. I'll probably replace the pickup, but not bother refitting a bridge pickup because that seems like an awful lot of work. The main work, I guess, would be a refinish. I've had a search of this forum and got some ideas to be thinking about. If I ever get that far then a replacement scratchplate would be called for. Should keep me busy (or feeling guilty about not being busy) for a year or two. Thanks for reading.

£50 postage too! "Economy delivery"? Don't think so...

It's got Fender strings on it. If he'd had real balls he would have listed it as a Fender Jazz. And still not significantly changed, though apparently three revisions have been made today.

[i]"Approx. weight 11kg"[/i] How big are these things, anyway?

Pulled. I saw this horrible item earlier, and had an idea I'd be seeing it again here sooner or later.

[size=2]I really like it...[/size]

[quote name='bluejay' timestamp='1328464808' post='1527504']And thank you, Mr H, for starting this fit of GAS in the first place! I'm very happy with my purchase. [/quote] Lovely!

[quote name='1970' timestamp='1328898257' post='1534652'] Just realised it's not europe - geography fail. [/quote] Do tell...

There's [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Overwater-Active-Electric-Bass-Guitar-taken-part-exchange-but-new-condition-/400275907872?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item5d324da520"]another one[/url] this week. Odd indeed.

See - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/41208-flying-with-instruments-my-guide/page__st__60"]http://basschat.co.u...de/page__st__60[/url] - from post 73 onwards. And then possibly the entire thread, but steve-soar's recent posts there seem very relevant.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1328243645' post='1524328'] This won't last long, lefty 'Ibanez': [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ibanez-Left-handed-Bass-Classic-german-design-Feckin-C-nts-/320841834440?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4ab3a9dfc8"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item4ab3a9dfc8[/url] [/quote] Pulled, and the seller's outraged reaction is very amusing.

[quote name='Gust0o' timestamp='1328192410' post='1523349']Am unsure of the differences in the line - are they claiming there's is a US model?[/quote] The Fort Worth, Texas neckplate continues to cause confusion, deliberately or otherwise. I only recently found [url="http://audiozone.dk/"]this site[/url] which has lots of old Charvel information. I knew there'd be plenty of Basschatters who'd like my new old bass - thank you all for the comments.

[quote name='mep' timestamp='1328135172' post='1522617']What did you pay for yours? Check mine out... [/quote] Got it for £180 inc. a nice hard case. I've seen yours in the pointy thread. This one is very similar, but still has the Jackson passive pickups. Come to think of it, I've seen that [i]3B for-sale[/i] thread, too - I had a good look around Basschat for Charvel basses some time ago, after I got a white one from Skezza.

I spotted a listing that looked too good to be true on eBay last week: new user, no previous sales, three small images, short description inc. "only been out of the case about five times," and he couldn't give me a definite model identification. However, it was listed under Everything Else > Other, so nobody looking through the bass guitar listings would have seen it. I was the only bidder, I made the reserve price and won the auction. Then I waited, not expecting too much, until the van pulled up this afternoon. Bloody hell, it's a 1987 Charvel and... looks like it's only been out of the case about five times! I swapped the old strings for a set of Overwaters I got from tayste 2000 in the marketplace, messed with/up the intonation, tightened up a loose pot and it's a little beauty. [attachment=98922:BlackCharvel.jpg] Grubby fingerprints and clumsy photography all mine.