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very nice but that's not it. I'll try and find a picture of my friend with the left handed one

Many moons ago there was a bass guitar for sale in an east end of London shop. I think it was a 'Concert' series bass. USA made and specially ordered but It was actually supposed to be Left Handed. Jackson made it the wrong way round but then made another left handed for the original purchaser. The shop the right handed one ended up in was, I think, possiblly in Brixton. It was for sale for ages at about £699. I was wondering if anybody here has it or has seen it. Only 2 were ever made and a friend of mine and former music shop owner has (and is still gigging ) the left handed one. The paintwork has star wars ships on it, X wings, TIE fighters etc and the bass was fitted with a Kahler bass trem

I'm with Dad3553. HA3500. A VERY good workhorse. I've had one since about 2002. It did hundreds of gigs but it developed a fault that was so intermittment I couldn't be bothered with it, so I sold it as faulty and I managed to pick up another HA3500 cheap from DV247 which I still have. Currently I'm using an ampeg pf-500 but the Hartke is in the rehearsal studio as is still used whenever we rehearse. There's plenty of them about. good luck

I like the international colours

Any one tried this. I have been doing it with a hofner jubilee strung with flats. Amazing thump. I sometimes do it on 'Police' gigs but only when doing 'modern' Sting with the beaten up '57 P bass. It's a totally different sound to fingers. What are your thoughts fellow BCs

I defretted a US 62 P bass reissue back in 1990. Didn't even do the soldering iron thing. Just pulled them right out and filled the slots with some plastic wood filler. It worked a treat. I was carefull pulling the frets. Used it for a while and, yes, refretted it before I sold it. You could get a replacement fretless neck and swap it over

[quote name='itsmedunc' timestamp='1410281850' post='2547810'] I think the models with the patent on the headstock were something like 68-76. I can't ever remember seeing a more recent model with the same style decal? They were patents pending. I think the serial should be on the back of the headstock. I would be asking for some more pics especially of the truss rod access, the butt and the back of the head. It doesn't look right to me though... [/quote] with that logo, serial number would be on the neck plate. The serial number went to the headstock when they started with 76 or S7/8. Truss rod would adjust from the body too and there would be a plug in the headstock

3 here. and I help out my mates blusey outfit from time to time. Although I am shelving one of my Police bands.

any flat blade I would have thought. Something quite stiff. Maybe the back of a Stanley knife blade. Then a good dose of lemon oil. Spread it on and watch it sink in

I've only played a few spectors. A local shop had a couple of rebop basses which tbh I thought felt cheap and didn't sound very good. Then at a gig I was at I was invited up to play a bit of bass and the chap was using a Euro4. It played beautifully. Full of growl and sustain. Recently I bought a white Euro4LX from bass direct. A special edition SE5. It's a wonderful instrument. Beautifully built. It's got a real quality feeling to it. I think it's one of the best quality basses I've ever played maybe even better than my Aria SB-R150 Which is just over 30 years old yet stills feels almost new. Good luck with your quest (older Warwick Streamers are nice too)

First gig with the new bass last night. It sounds fantastic. I was amazed just how good it was. More sustain than my MIJ Fender 70's reissue f/less and plenty of that classic thump. Need to adjust the pickup height as the bottom E was a tad louder than the rest and apart from a few acoustic rattles (the fingerboard isn't as flat as it could be) it was really good. I'm really pleased and that's 6 Sting basses in the tribute armoury including 70's natural, maple board fretless '57 Bravewood replica of Sting's really beaten up main bass White Spector Euro 4 SE5 Ibanez MC940 fretless Steinberger XL2 (Sting's was an L2, but hey it's close) and this Red bass. Still to source, a 60's era jazz bass finished in shellac to look like his old Jazz from the old days A hamer Blitz 8 string in Red (not that he liked it) Maybe an Ibanez MC924 (the fretted one) Don't you just love guitars

I saw him (and ended up sound engineering the gig) at the launch of the Cornford RK100 at the yacht club in Whitstable. Paul Cornford was trying to do the sound but he's useless at it so I did it. Ritchie was very drunk and played a blinder. Amp sounded good too. Designed by my good friend and band mate, Martin Kidd. (Mart also is designing the Victory stuff)

Cleaning..........? nope not yet. Lemon oil the board from time to time but that's it I'm afraid

[quote name='TheSiberian' timestamp='1409907749' post='2544441'] Nice project, but I'd rather put your name on the headstock than the Fender one. This is what many "luthiers" do after copying Fender basses in order to charge us triple... Lol Best [/quote]

Should have posted this here first but for those that don't really bother with the general discussion forum, here's another Sting styled bass, from the 1980 world tour. It's a Bravewood body, Genuine 1975 Fender bridge, Fender '62 re-issue pickups, Gotoh Machines, CTS pots and a switchcraft jack, with a neck from EYparts in Hong Kong. I've stuck a Fender logo on it because the bass I've tried to recreate was a Fender. It's is not and never will be for sale. Hope you like the Fiesta red and maple board. I think it's a lovely colour combo especially with the black guard

I reckon I could gig with the Chimaera. The boot is really deep and wide. I almost did a gig in it 2 weeks ago. I reckon I could fit my markbass Cl115, ampeg pf500 and QSC PA cab. My bags could go behind the seats on the sort of rear parcel ahelf and the guitar in the passanger seat. Next sunday afternoon gig, I'll try it

ambient, you need to assemble a nice project. you cant have bits lying about lol

basses didn't fit in the boot of my alfa GT, but they do in my TVR Chimaera. Sorry that doesn't really help. Could you go to a dealer and try it?

Finally got my bitsa back. We have a Bravewood body, EYparts neck, Fender '62 reissue pickups, Gotoh machines, CTS pots, switchcraft jack, original '75 bridge. The body was fiesta red but John thought it was the wrong shade, it's not been buffed out and had been hanging around so it's not mint either. The idea was to recreate the P bass Sting used on the 1980 world tour. Fretless maple looks so good. Please, no moaning about the logo, it needs to be there to look right. (and I like it that way)

+1 for a rewind by Aaron Armstrong. Son of the legendary Kent Armstrong

it sounds, to me, that your band thinks that they are important. In my books, no one is that important. It's probably time to move on and let them continue playing album tracks. Give them notice but I would give them 3 months. That way they have to get their fingers out and get it sorted.

gigging with my band, The Policed. Police tribute. If you're about, please come and say hi. I'm the one playing the bass and singing.

+1 for fretfx. Fitted them to my wife's bravewood bass. Clay dots don't show up so well, so I ordered blue fretfx. easy to fit and haven't changed the battery after about 30 gigs. One led died (5th fret) so I emailed them and sent the whole thing back and have just received a replacement and it's now fitted. A good inexpensive solution.

I think the split pickup gives a little more bite to the sound. And it's a bit thicker. I have both and love both

Hi Paul, I'm near Dover. Welcome and enjoy