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[quote name='pumkinkin' timestamp='1328373821' post='1526178'] to me it appears to be still available?!? (unless you called the seller and were told it's gone, that is) [/quote] I emailed him, by which time it was gone.

I've had a play on a couple (at last year's Moffat bash, in the presence of Mr May) and I was impressed.

Unfortunately it's gone. Was going to take a slight detour on the way to Moffat to have a look.

From the "Room places" page: [size="4"]The B&B's will have a copy of this plan so just turn up and give them your name... [/size] [size="4"]This page will be updated nearer the time with the room plan[/size] I hate to seem churlish, but I think it would be difficult to get much nearer the time than this... Or do we just get the details from the bald bloke in the Balmoral?

fenders are so dreadfully boring, it would have to be a Fodera. Although they're a bit boring too, so it would have to be a custom special witha great big top horn (Flamboyant/Marseer/Roya). And spikes. And one of those scratchboards with a Mexican bandit on.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1327480314' post='1511806'] Crying about something like an 'overpriced' guitar is pointless and self-indulgent unless there is an alternative. [/quote] Don't you mean "unless there is [b]no[/b] alternative"? We're not forced to buy Foderas [i]et [W]al[/i], the market is brimming over with basses at all price points. We do have the option to point at people with fretless Foderas and laught because they've paid an extra $500 for Fodera not to put any frets in, or ask whether a Ritter bass has a secure enough neck joint. And if we want a luthier built bass, as the OP says, we can go to a luthier and get one made for a fair bit less than a Fodera would cost.

A bit like the word "Squier" being on the headstock of every [s]Squire[/s] Squier.

Hi Heath, glad to see you on here. You might want to post in the Affiliates Market, that would be the best place. And you make jolly nice basses (for those as don't look in the ebay links, I've played one of Heath's Ruachs and it is a high quality instrument).

[quote name='woodyratm' timestamp='1327023714' post='1505477'] Oh? Whats that tuned? [/quote] With patience. Might bring my 7-string up too seeing as there appears to be a lot of 7-string love going on.

Having contacted the seller (after missing seeing the auction in the first place) and going and having a play on it, this is a very high quality bass. Nice sound, with lots of control (vol, blend, treble, bass boost, mid with sweep, coil-tap switch) but the neck was just a bit too chunk for me. I think it's a similar sort of chunkiness to a Spector (but I haven't played one of them for a little while).

Even that JB is still there.

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1326285916' post='1494890'] How about basschat+1, so we can join in with particularly heated exchanges we just missed out on? [/quote] Bah, ibtl.co.uk has gone.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1326415240' post='1497101'] Somebody needs to play that bass. Because, looking at the lack of wear and tear, it hasn't been played for a very long time. [/quote] Alternatively, it's been properly looked after rather than being carried around in a bin-bag and used to hammer tent pegs in. The blowtorch-and-sander "professional" relickers should be forced to take a good hard look at what a 50 year old bass can look like.

Just realised, it's very local to me. Can't think of any local bassists who own it though.

Nine days to go and the R-word in the auction title? That's a gonner...

Currently at £1-50, that would be a bargain.

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.