Jean-Luc Pickguard

Leo finally got it right for me with the last bass he designed for Fender [attachment=32043:SDC10053.JPG]

Don't recall ever seeing a fender jazz like that with an unlined fingerboard. It may be an unusual Japanese model, but I'd guess its likely to be a bitzer. The neck looks similar to my brandoni precision neck & the decal could be an eBay job. If the bits are decent quality it could be worth a punt if its cheap enough. As its being sold as a fender you're covered if it turns out to be a customised argos bass, but probably too much hassle unless a pickup is possible.

No. If anyone wants a better look they'll click on it. As an alternative host your pic elsewhere and embed it.

[quote name='DanOwens' post='584977' date='Aug 30 2009, 10:14 AM']How do you find the lipsticks? How vintage is the voicing? Dan[/quote] To get it more Danelectro-like I think I'd have had to move the neck one forward and the bridge one back - like the Lakland Jerry Scheff. Its hard to say how vintage the voicing is as I have a set of very old (ie totally worn-in) TI JF344 on the bass and a J-Retro which I guess kind of work against each other. With the J-Retro in passive mode it still sounds like a Jazz - maybe warmer than most jazz basses I'e played, but I could be imagining that and it could be down to my string choice. I'm thinking of taking the J-retro out and rewiring the original passive gubbins with a series/Parallel switch, but I probably won't get around to it. With all the chrome my jazz does look more like a motorbike now.

[quote name='happychappy' post='583526' date='Aug 28 2009, 01:29 PM']Hey everyone I'm new here so please be gentle! I was trying to post a picture in the dog thread using attachments and the pictures were all incredably small with black borders no matter how much I resized them the black box wouldnt change size. I read another post that said to use picasa or other image hosting sites.I uploaded the image to picasa and copyed the html link and put it in img codes and it wouldnt accept the html link for some reason any help would be most appreciated.[/quote] Those are thumbnails - clicking on them opens up a new window with full size versions

I want one - I want one - I want one.

I have Thomastik JF324 flatties on my CIJ reissue mustang. They only come in a floppy light guage so they are very fast & easy to play. They sound perfect - deep and huge. If anything the short scale makes them slightly darker sounding than comparable 34" strings on precison as far as I can tell.

I have a pair of Kent Armstrong jazz lipsticks in my j-retro equipped highway 1 jazz. Great pickups.

[quote name='mrcrow' post='583556' date='Aug 28 2009, 02:01 PM']they are lookalike gimmicks which retro freaks like to have they add weight and get in the way[/quote] [s]utter bollocks[/s] I beg to differ. I'm most comfortable if I can rest my hand on the cover and play in the same way James Jamerson did (but without the virtuosity)

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='584093' date='Aug 28 2009, 10:08 PM']Have you seen my avatar bass? I get enough of those already![/quote]

At that price its worth putting up with the stiffy/viagra jokes that will be inevitable when playing it.

the irons from maplins are OK but the crappy lead-free solder they sell doesn't flow. I'm in south london if anyone needs anything melted.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='582519' date='Aug 27 2009, 03:08 PM']Nice neck though.[/quote] That's what I though until I saw the back was painted black with a brush Those tuners look a bit aftermarket to me as well. Fcuk me! it looks like it could have been David Blunkett's junior school woodwork project

[quote name='simwells' post='583006' date='Aug 27 2009, 10:45 PM']I've always liked the idea of having dockable pedals so they'd mount straight into a docked pedal board (or single dock enclosures for indivdual units) that connected up just through docking.[/quote] Line 6 did something along those lines I think

[quote name='Stacker' post='579806' date='Aug 25 2009, 07:45 AM']Wow, interesting. I've been wary of their spam ever since I encountered their sales guys in the Leeds shop back in the early '90s. That aside, I wonder how much they actually pay for the goodies they seem to acquire; they can't all be commissions.[/quote] Offered my £200 for an '85 MIJ tokai flying vee (inc flight case) which would have sold in the shop for £600+ without the case. iirc I sold it privately for £550 the following week via loot

I had an uberhorn once. After going to a works party where I was drinking pints of red bull all night.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='582938' date='Aug 27 2009, 09:34 PM']Call that a pink bass? Nah - [b]this[/b] is a pink bass: [attachment=31747:pinkstarbass.jpg] And yes, I would. Hell yeah. Jon.[/quote] I'm supposed to be thinning out the herd - not getting gas for new basses. I love daisyrocks - I bought one of these for myself after my daughter refused to let me borrow hers - I was surprised to win it after placing a lowball bid though. She wants to put her purple heartbreaker bass on eBay as well, but I don't think its worth doing for the meagre price they go for at the moment.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='582501' date='Aug 27 2009, 02:47 PM']That is awesome. seriously.[/quote] Cheers Wayne. Imagine the possibilities... [attachment=31739:the_powe...ggestion.jpg]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Full-set-of-Olympia-top-quality-Double-Bass-Strings_W0QQitemZ270412161960QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Sting_Instruments?hash=item3ef5d223a8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14"]these[/url] should do the job if they do a five string set - send them an email, or look at a set of weedwackers if you want something even cheaper.

It'll hurt to see it go, but apparently I 'have too many basses'. Whatever that means. My lovely 1997 Shell Pink Squier Vista musicmaster bass isn't getting much use since I got my mustang, so its up on eBay. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270447923050"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=270447923050[/url]

Another one then - a new model in the Little Mark range with a growl control to add some valve-like grit (but not necessarily from a valve) also with a limiter built-in.

[quote name='Hot Tub' post='582132' date='Aug 27 2009, 08:11 AM']RBI for under £100 would cook my noodle! [/quote] RBI? Wossat?

[quote name='iamapirate' post='581498' date='Aug 26 2009, 03:33 PM']'Lead guitar' ..hmmm, look closer[/quote] Its Peter Hook Smurf

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='581934' date='Aug 26 2009, 09:49 PM']Any music software on a MAC, probably because of the smug git sitting behind it [/quote] Smug 'cause he's getting his tracks down rather than running virus scans, rebooting because of updates & defragging I've been there.