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He's put an amendment on the listing which seems reasonable, although the original description (but not the title) says it's Fender. I think it would have been more reasonable to pull and relist, but there you go.

iAmp 800 purchased from John - all very painless, he sorted out the packing and I sorted out the courier, good communications, and kettle lead included

Get an Ashbory, pair of headphones, and a 1/4" jack to 3.5mm jack lead to plug into the laptop for your practice amp.

PMT do the Peaveys, which is handy for your credit note. I preferred the neck on the Grind to that on the Cirrus (just) when I did a mammoth 5-string comparison at PMT in Brum a while ago.

Got about as far as learning that middle C is the note by the keyhole on the piano that we had in the house (my dad was a reasonable pianist, probably influenced by my grandfather having been an organ builder). Got about as far as learning that Twinkle Twinkle Little Star played the way I did it on vioin sounded more like a cat being tortured. Then my brother got an acoustic guitar and I kept borrowing it and learnt a bit, then got my own electric (a Vox Stroller) and learnt a bit more. Started playing rhythm guitar with a band at school, playing Glenn Miller stuff. I'd got as far as a Les Paul copy when I went to university, and joined up with a few others in the same hall of residence to form a band. As the other guitarist was a bit better than me and we needed a bassist and the Fender Soundhouse had just had a fire and Hayman had gone out of business, I bought lots of bits of Hayman 40/40 and put it together. Played a gig that actually got us some money then dropped out of university. Took me a little while after that to restart musically, and I finished up on bass as my main instrument. I still play guitar too, and own a keyboard (which I am by no means proficient on, and there isn't a keyhole so I don't know where middle C is).

He's selling a motorcycle lift as well. Does anyone fancy asking if it would lift a 2004 Ford Focus?

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1325767486' post='1487274'] I guess that's possible, but in that case the bass is sold, according to their website. But would an established US firm really be selling a bass on the London craigslist? With a price in Sterling? [/quote] Perhaps they thought they were advertising in London, Minnesota. The old birmingham.misc newsgroup used to attract an awful lot of Yanks who assumed that it was for Birmingham, Alabama.

Right... Happy Jack's (which was subsequently mine, and is now with another BCer) is a Guild Mk I. De Armond/Fender went on to re-release the Mk I with better tuners (not the friction type of the Guild Mk I). The Guild and De Armond are very similar, and are the Mk I. Ashbory went on to produce the Mk II. This is what's being auctioned off - it's 22" scale, a different body shape, 2-a-side (and different again) tuners, and there were something like 73 made. However, there doesn't seem to be a huge demand for them despite their rarity - mine (good condition, a couple of small chips to the paint) cost me around a third of what this auction is starting at, and I was the only bidder. I have seen a neck/body sold a little while back (I think for somewhere round £100). They have been known to fetch silly prices though. I think there are a very very small number of natural finish ones, and I think they'd go for a lot.

I use a 5 with the covers bands and a 4 with the ceilidh band. I also use a 6 now and again with one of the covers bands. I do occasionally have momentary string confusion, although I'm more likely to get confused when playing on the D and G of the 6-string if I forget I've got to move down one more string than normal.

Another vote for the Thumb NT for me. At nearly £40 a fret back in 1987, they had to make it so you could use all of them.

I was watching Fifth Gear earlier, and the bloke with the Hitler moustache on his chin was going on about the rugged good looks of Landrover's concept replacement for the Defender, so I think there's a target market for taste-impaired twats with Hitler goatees. As evidence, I present the concept car in question:

[quote name='simon1964' timestamp='1324207166' post='1471707'] I'm probably being thick, but how can you tell it was ended early? I read it as the winning bid being £67? [/quote] I don't think it would have been £67. It's ended because the item has been sold - so the offer to buy (which would have been for more than £67) was made through That Ebay and accepted through That Ebay. Er, I think. PS. If the auction had gone through to completion, the orange bit would have said "Bidding has ended on this item".

And me.

You'd have thought that he'd have thought to mention the J pickup which has mysteriously materialised, possibly as part of the defretting process (who knows what rituals professional defretifiers go through to achieve their aims?)

That's so annoying, I completely forgot about this - only remembered a few minutes ago, which is a few days too late really.

"For J pegs contact [email protected]" Ah, the curse of fonetik spelling...

Looks like someone who'd once seen a Gordon Smith was drunk in charge of a bandsaw.

A couple of weeks ago, my old club band got in touch to say they'd had a falling out with their bassist, and could I help out? So I said yes, and went along for a couple of rehearsals. They'd recently amalgamated with a female vocalist, so as to speak, who had brought along two further female backing vocalists. Then on Thursday night, two days before the first gig, a keyboard player who had seen an advert they'd put up also turned up for rehearsal - very good he was too, also plays with Steve Gibbons and Trevor Burton and the like. So our first gig was last night (though we were down one backing vocalist as she was otherwise engaged) at a WMC local to me, and it went really well. Some fluffs but the audience didn't seem to notice. It was also the other backing vocalist's first gig and she acquitted herself really well, taking lead vocals on a couple of songs. It's always a good sign when the club secretary comes up to you in the interval and says he'll give you more bookings for next year.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1321626540' post='1441378'] You got a problem with that? [IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Just%20Stuff/bride-of-frankenstein-boris-karloff-1935.jpg[/IMG] [/quote] There can be issues though, that bass is pretty depressing to look at.

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1321276129' post='1437157']Any old Tom, Dick or Barry could turn up and destroy a lifetime's labour in just a few minutes. [/quote] Arson's good for that.

Rather annoyingly, I couldn't make it in the end - some rather urgent work prevented my getting along.

It's something I've brought up in the past, to be met with resounding silence. I suggest that if items went onto That Ebay, they could be advertised in For Sale as long as they also had a specific sale price, but that an auction-type request for bids in For Sale should (as at present) not be allowed.

[quote name='lemmywinks' timestamp='1321227951' post='1436830'] [i]"who claimed he recovered it from the loft of John Entwistle's old home, better know as the Ox. Can't verify that"[/i] Why bloody mention it then? It really gets my goat when a provenance is hinted at with no effort or intention to verify it. As if namedropping a famous deceased player and alluding to a tenuous link between them and the instrument in the listing somehow adds value to it. [/quote] I'm not convinced that John Entwistle's home was known as the Ox. It's a very strange name for a house.

I've bought a variety of things from China and HK - electronic components, Arduino stuff, clothing and jewellery. The only issue I've had is with one of the purportedly B C Rich piezo bridges, which it's impossible to solder wires to in the way that they say (ebay complaint opened).