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[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1385231937' post='2285944']
I still don't understand why that would bother anyone. Who cares what other people buy? Do these 'advisors' stand in shops all day (when they not trawling auction sites that is) and give advice to prospective customers there?
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Sometimes they're ar**eholes or "chancers", but some have good intentions I believe. And some maybe just want to make a good use of their otherwise irrelevant knowledge about early 80's Japanese lawsuit basses made of ash in FujiGen?

Edit: Well, look at you. We were both thinking 'bout FujiGen.
[u]Buy FujiGen basses, people. [/u]

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1385228365' post='2285872']
I'm sure that the salesman in my local Ferrari dealership can see my frustration when i look at those gleaming cars in the showroom at what i see as unrealistic prices but guess what? He won't reduce those prices.
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Yeah, but a guy who sells second hand bass with wear and dings at a new one's price may become worried that he won't sell his merchandise and maybe he'll do some research.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1385219366' post='2285728']
Hypothetically, if I borrowed the steel mesh from the front of my speaker cabinet and used it to support food on top of my barbecue, would it be both a grille and a grill?
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One moment you discuss peacefully about a amplifier grating and barbecue, and suddenly the philosophers come, parachuting out of a clean sky...

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1385215365' post='2285688']
Squier/Squire.
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[b][u]THAT.[/u][/b]

Plus the Behringer/Amplifier difference

I hate the opposite situation I usually get on basoofka.net (polish bass forum) - there are no rules that force the seller to state the price he wants.

Usually sellers just post: "PM about details" or, at best, "PM me for a price". And, when asked about the price, they most often say "Offer something!" or "How much can you give?".
You're selling the stuff, for God's sake, you know how much you value it! If you want to sell it to the highest bidder, use eBay or Allegro*, dammit!
All comes to finding [s]a sucker[/s] an unreasonable and unaware person: "Maybe he's dumb and he'll offer an above par price?"...
No, siree! It is mine, as a buyer, privilege to hunt an offer that will turn into profit, now isn't it?!

[size=2]* sort of Polish eBay[/size]

Really cool! Somehow I think it fits a climatic bar. It'd go really cool with card playing, maybe?

...aaand bought it. I got a good feeling about this bass

OK, I mailed the guy who owns this bass and he wants to sell it for equivalent of ~60 quid.
I guess that's a fair price for an India made Encore? Worst case scenario: neck's busted and I'll end up with a set of tuners, decent P-Bass body and set of nice PU's for project at a fair price, right?

[quote name='Myke' timestamp='1385045364' post='2283794']
I have my eye on that Jazz kit!
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Me too. If I will not win the Encore P-bass auction, I'd consider buying this set for some serious custom work

Try using a small dose of putty applied on the dings. Then paint the body thoroughly. I know some Star Wars cosplayers making sets of dented battle armours used that method. After painting in colour, they simple removed the putty, revealing the metallic painted underlayer.

Cool lookin' amp, bet it has a a lot of punch.

P.S. The "NAD" abbreviation makes me laugh every time

Sorry for digging up the fossil, but I have a question for someone who might know a bit more 'bout Encores.
I found this baby:

up on an Internet auction, fairly cheap and in good condition, minus some rust and minor dings it's really nice. Is it made in India (as it has the Fender-style headstock and square string tree)? I know those MiI were the best ones.

I have an identical (Encore made as well) PU in my drawer and I wonder about buying this baby and fitting it with this second PU in the bridge position (Fender Precision Elite II / Blacktop J-Bass style) and changing the pickguard to something more lively and less boring.

Was I too slow? I had to do other stuff, I'm at work

How 'bout postage to Poland?

At first I disliked used and vintage gear, thinking it's used and bruised. Now I value it the most, as it's well seasoned plus has survived world's hostilities and is still kickin'.
Another thing must be the whole idea of a bass with one passive pickup. When I was a newbie, I thought it's limiting. Now I know that more PU's, knobs and switches limit my creativity and the will to try some other fingering/muting/etc. techniques.
Third thing will be midrange. In Polish slang, we call the Eq set on lows and highs boost as "Roman's Smile" and Eq set on mid boost as "Sad Roman" (Roman's a common man name in Poland, I don't know the genesis of this term) and as a newbie I used Roman's Smile all the time, thinking it'll be cool. Now I boost only lower mids (~200Hz) and use "brite" switch.

As for the non-bass stuff, well... red beans, brie & camembert, spinach of any kind and many other things.

[quote name='Chiliwailer' timestamp='1383172597' post='2261291']
I won't dare to start a new topic though, being 'Am I a real man?'
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Whenever in doubt, make sure you have a beard and 'stashe.

I'd go with black... or better, 3-ply b/w/b.
3TS + Tort looks horrid in my book. Black/white/black pickguard looks cool on 3TS, both my 3TS basses are fitted with b/w/b pickguards and never will this change.

There are some forum members who did decent refinish jobs. I guess the best way is to simply put "refinish" in search window and to try your luck in contacting guys whose job impress you

Real man is a real man even with pink bass with bunny stickers all over it. As a matter of fact, proper combination of style features make you look awesome with a bass like that. Look at the bass'es namesake guy: Flea. He always has a style, however ridiculous.

P.S. With that said, I'd love to have Squier Badtz Maru Bronco Bass, goes really well with beard, leather jacket and torn jeans...

Once I tried to do this, but then I developed my preference in sound the other gear could provide, so I went for it.

[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1378742732' post='2204053']
I quite badly want one of these. Shame I'm skint at the moment.


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Oh, and I'm GAS-ing for this, too, after reading the topic.

Dusty Hill signature P-Bass.
A white P-Bass body with black pickguard. I have all the other parts required to build a new P-Bass with two split coils.
Oh, and Fender Greta amp to be used as bass preamp/drive.

I also GAS-ed for some oldie-but-goldie mojo bass guitar and seemed to hit the jackpot with a P-Bass styled instrument made of ash, with dual Schaller Humbuckers and Schaller 3D bridge at silly price.

Like others said - if you don't feel well with the bass, why keep it? It takes room for something that suits you better.
I did it with my Ibanez ATK310 - great sound, but something was off with it, so I traded it for cash I bought Tele bass with. Now I have three basses you can see in my signature, but I like the Tele best. While she has only one, muddy humbucker in the neck position and theoretically is least versatile bass of the three, she's my favourite: she's most comfy, has my favourite Roto 88 Tapewound strings and my, she's a looker. And when tempering with the tone knob, I can get a lot of her, much more than her looks would say to the one who has basic understanding that bridge PU = ring, neck PU = mud.
What I'm trying to say is that you have to listen to your gut. And who knows, what a lovely axe you'll get for the quid you'll earn for that Sandberg?

Hello and welcome, Andy! Nice gear over there.

Wojtek

Hi, I dare to bump the topic.
What would you say about GHS Pressure Wounds? I need flatwound strings with a quite bright sound but with a little less tension than Chromes. A long lifespan would be nice either.