Jean-Luc Pickguard

[quote name='Slipperydick' timestamp='1318090820' post='1398040'] Having said that, a lot of 70s copies were better than present day copies, so might not be all that bad, might be good as a project, [/quote] That's not my recollection of 70s copies.

That t-bird 5 string looks amazing. I wish I had some money

The retailer has offered a refund hasn't he? If that is the case, I can't imagine how chasing up people further along the chain can achieve anything better.

*cough* Warrior *cough*

'tis a warrior innit

sime17 - you're not Skankdelvar's Welsh cousin by any chance are you?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1318001151' post='1397166'] I don't know and I hope I never need to find out. [/quote] Look away now: C7 F7 G F# F7 C7 C7 F7 C7 G F# F7 C7

Shops will often put a bass which has been on display in any box that fits, so I wouldn't worry about the box saying cort on it. Also I doubt that anyone's making fake tanglewoods - it would be a lot more lucrative to put a Martin decal on the headstock. I have a Tanglewood TRB CE "Rosewood Reserve" acoustic bass. Mine has the full "Tanglewood" text in pearl inlay on the headstock, but I've also seen a later version with the big 'T' logo instead and a few other minor differences, so I doubt that's anything to worry about either. Tanglewood do change their ranges - the rosewood reserve link on their website is currently broken, so maybe your one is an older one which has been discontinued. Tanglewood acoustic basses are very nice instruments and seem to be priced well below other brands of similar quality I've compared mine to (although I did get mine for £230), so I don't think you've got a knock-off, but I'm sure you can get further info on the tanglewood forum: http://tanglewoodguitars.com/community/

I wouldn't use a scourer. Fender sell cleaning kits made by a company that does car cleaning products. Dunno whether t-cut would do the same job, but probably worth looking at the stuff Fender is selling.

Heres the fugly Ibanez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG6dETcyEzc

I play an NS CR5M. I doubt I'd ever want to add markings to the ebony board on my unlined fretless, but if I did I wouldn't get lines, I'd go for a cascading dot pattern like on the NS - not sure whether that would be more or less of a job for a luthier than lines though.

A Kent armstrong cool rails dual blade humbucker makes my cute little '71 daphne blue musicmaster bass sound massive and as it has a plain black enclosed cover with no poles showing it looks totally stock. I've also tried a hotrails - in my daughter's musicmaster, but that's all growl & not enough woof for me - even with dead flatwounds.

1982

I have about a dozen or so basses. Some I don't play much - and two or three I play a lot. I would like to thin the herd, but I think I'd miss even the ones that hardly get played. Most are hanging on the wall, so in a way serve as artwork. When I took my unlined fretless bitzer precision to a jam night a week or so ago - the first time I've played it for a long time, it really felt like having a new bass as it was so unfamiliar. It seems there's something about playing an unlined fretless that makes people think you must know what you're doing as I got lots of complements about my sound and playing - which wasn't far off how I normally sound or play when people don't normally give a flying monkeys

looking good on the iPhone - haven't looked at the app version yet though. one question - at the bottom of each page there's a previous & a next button - is there an option to display paged nav like the old version did?

[quote name='Delberthot' post='1376175' date='Sep 17 2011, 09:09 AM']and vice versa - the one where River Pheonix interviews him[/quote] What a waste of money that dvd was

Anything over 25 years old is considered vintage.

Pardon?

[quote name='paul torch' post='1373237' date='Sep 14 2011, 02:04 PM']What guage would people recommend?[/quote] It depends

Am I the only one who saw the thread title & thought of this: (NSFW!)

I can't recall ever seeing MIM jazzes in that colour but I've seen Squiers in that shade of metallic blue. The one I played came with domed precision-type knobs as standard, so that *might* explain the weird knobs on it. The pics aren't good enough for me to say any much than that.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1368522' date='Sep 10 2011, 01:21 PM']Look at the picture of the date on the heel. Maybe it's my eyes but is the raduis of the fretboard not look a little off centre?[/quote] I noticed that. Also the skunk stripe looks a bit pist on the pic of the heel.

[quote]Here we have an original Pre-CBS 1964 Fender Jazz Bass Neck.[/quote] Original? [quote]Looks like the headstock had some parts of it replaced.[/quote] No 'Looks like' about it - it has. Perhaps the logo part was sawn off to go onto a new neck which replaced this broken one. [quote]Don't know if it's the orginal nut?[/quote] I bet he does know & it isn't or he wouldn't have mentioned it [quote]I don't know if the trussrod turns[/quote] I bet he does know & it doesn't or he wouldn't have mentioned it [quote]Don't know if deadspots or buzzing?[/quote] I bet he does know & it does or he wouldn't have mentioned it [quote]I can say that out of all the necks I've ever played over the years this is the best sounding neck I've ever owned.[/quote] I can say I'm the Emporer of the Universe, but it doesn't make it true [quote]As this is a vintage neck please no returns and being sold as is.[/quote] I wouldn't want this piece of crap coming back either Someone with more money than sense has got themselves an ugly ornament.

[quote name='throwoff' post='1367519' date='Sep 9 2011, 12:25 PM']Why dont shops ask people to put on a dressing gown when they want to play something highly expensive for instance[/quote] Simples! [attachment=89004:simples.jpg]

are wunjo still trying to pass off a squier bronco bass with a broken & crudely glued musicmaster neck as an original '71 musicmaster like they were last time I was in there?