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  1. Clarky
    [quote name='benbastin' timestamp='1402598094' post='2475223'] Another endpin in action shot. [url="http://youtu.be/gAM7FeqYSS4?t=4m55s"]http://youtu.be/gAM7FeqYSS4?t=4m55s[/url] [/quote] The bassist in that clip is occasional BCer Emlyn whose 1880s DB I bought a couple of years back. FYI, Ben, you asked for photos of the very bass and I have sent you a PM with links
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    Can't you return it under the distance selling regs, and lose no money at all?
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    Steve bought some DB strings off me. Super fast payment and great, friendly comms. Happy to kick off his feedback thread with a cheery comment
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    [size=5][sub]B8gger - just spotted that Thomann does these £40 cheaper than BassDirect, so my new price is £160 + post[/sub][/size]
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    This is the new all-bells-and-whistles Headway EDB-2 preamp which is possibly the best double bass preamp with two channels (for mixing mic and piezo/mag pickup inputs). I got it from BassDirect a few months back at £255 including post (link here: [url="http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Headway_preamps.html"]http://www.bassdirec...ay_preamps.html[/url]). Basically its overkill for me and a simple one-channel preamp or fdeck HPF pedal are all I need, hence moving this on. Its in pristine nick, so a saving off £70 off new is a bargain (my price is £[s]180[/s] £160 + post)
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    Thank you Ben and Bilbo. I will need to get measuring. The endpin on my Kolstein travel bass is a real PITA (rattles away if i don't keep tightening the rubber encapsulated metal end-thingummy [technical term]) so a wooden endpin would probably work really well on this. Its quite a bass-y/boomy lttle instrument and I only do pizz - which one of the woods on offer would best suit this Ben?
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    Never having taken apart an endpin assembly, what holds your endpin in place Ben? If you lift the bass rockabilly style (not that I ever do!) would it stay affixed? And what do you need to do to instal and remove after a gig? Sorry for dumbo questions!
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    colour (sea foam green) not on your list but I would go for: [attachment=164709:Fender86_62JBV_Seafoam_4.jpg]
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    I sent back a new SG Faded Cherry bass a few months back as the frets were rough and very sharp at the edges (to the extent it hurt to slide up the neck) and as the rosewood board had obviously been split and epoxied by the nut to 'make good'. It was worse than the finish on one of those ultra-cheapo mass-market 'learner' basses
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    OK just heard from my regular trading partner (!) Beedster. Fraid it is indeed on its way to Beedster Towers
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    Sorry I've not tried the Schaller but they don't have the highest reputation (even if they are stalwarts of the scene for decades). The Krivo is supposedly the best (which is why I got it!) along with the harder-to-find Biesele and Pierre Josephs String Charger pickups. Here in the UK, a lot of people like the Kent Armstrong mag pickup Should Beedster change his mind, you will be first to know!
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    Beedster texted me to say he wanted it, sorry Pete. If he changes his mind will let you know
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    WelI I have only had the strings on my bass a few days and have not gigged them yet so its a bit early. However first impressions are they feel quite similar to Silver Slaps but narrower gauge. Very low tension. There is a distinct rich gut sound to the sound, despite the tynex wrapping but probably more finger noise than plain guts (which I expect to reduce as they break in). There is a clear LaFaro/Haden sound to them which is exactly what I was after and the low/no maintenance is a plus vs normal guts. They are still stretching but not ridiculously so - each time I tune up they are maybe half a tone out. I have an Oliv G in my string drawer and that sounds slightly richer I would say and if you do arco (I don't) I suspect it would be infinitely preferable to a Goldentone G which looks like it would be a pig to bow. Having down some more research, Pirastro also make a tynex wrapped gut (in the Pizzicato set) which you can buy individual strings from at the bassico website, but they are pricey
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    Sold pending usual
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    Hey Jamie, many congrats on the teacher training course. For those reading, I have Jamie's old CMD121P combo and he's a top seller, even if he is a Chelsea fan
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    Looks like my old white 70ri CIJ Precision 'Sid' on the back right of the cover photo
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    From a Goldentone set (I only wanted the tynex-wrapped gut D and G from this set, which are like the famed Golden Spirals played by LaFaro, Haden etc*). [url="http://www.labella.com/products/2000l-goldentone/"]http://www.labella.c...00l-goldentone/[/url] The E and A are chrome steel rapped around a rope core and - based on the A (which I put on my bass for about one minute; I haven't even unwrapped the E) - a bit like less growly Spirocores, and sort of light/medium tension. I have paired the D/G with dark-sounding Evah Pirazzi Weich E/A and they match really well, which is why I am moving on these surplus-to-requirement strings Bargain price £30 posted for the pair PS, For the avoidance of doubt, the E is unused and the A was just on my bass momentarily and so has the tiniest amount of silk 'scuffing' * discussion thread here about Goldentones and Golden Spirals, in case interested [url="http://www.talkbass.com/threads/labella-goldentone-red-label.311553/"]http://www.talkbass....d-label.311553/[/url]
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    Looks like this is heading off to one of the usual suspects
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    As most of BC membership is in the UK it might be an idea to find out how much shipping to the UK would be and post it here great cabs by the way
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    [quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1402001789' post='2469213'] Why am I thinking about Gene Pitney now? [/quote] I was thinking about Nigella but whatever floats your boat Jack
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    [quote name='The Badderer' timestamp='1401992827' post='2469073'] P.S. Clarky, your phone keeps ringing me from your pocket [/quote] Ooops apologies, I have just got a touch sensitive Blackberry from work and I keep forgetting to lock it If its any consolation, it was ringing you because I was bending over the packing box, slapping in loads of bubble wrap and surrounding it in a ton of brown tape!
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    [quote name='MB1' timestamp='1401962058' post='2468668'] MB1. Hey Clarky How did the Trial go?... The one with the bass that is? [/quote] Hi Martin, it hasn't yet. I am sending the bass to BCer The Badderer to arrive next week so a decision will be made by the end of next week. Cheers!
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    Looks great Mark. if I can make one tiny suggestion? A real tort plate from spitfire-whatever-his-name-is (check out the "wheer has all the decenttort gone" thread) would make your bass complete and IMHO indistinguishable from a real McCoy. Looks great as it is, but I think that would cap it off See here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/230297-where-has-all-the-decent-tortoiseshell-gone/page__view__findpost__p__2460800"]http://basschat.co.u...ost__p__2460800[/url]
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    [quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1401920150' post='2468443'] Clarky, you ain't not not told us two IMHO very important bits yet: - Do you play on the same spot of the length of the strings with those different basses? I'd guess this is hardly likely, and it may influence how the timbre develops. I'd suppose different strings "like" different positions of the playing hand - How do you perceive the sound? Does this influence your valuation? [/quote] In answer to your questions, I tried shifting my right hand position on the Jazz (which, as someone pointed out earlier, one tends to play closer to the bridge than on a Precision) and it made no difference. The sound (obviously the two basses differ) doesn't influence my question, its about the comfort and feel of playing on the hands. Given family/neighbours etc I often practice unamplified and it was in this context I posted my OP. I do want to try swapping the old La Bellas on to my Jazz but I am slightly put off by the fact that I will have to alter the truss rod again - I have already tweaked it several times) and I don't want to get closer to stripping the screw holes for the neck (remember its a 62 reissue so there is no convenient truss rod adjuster visible and the neck has to be taken off, at least partialy to adjust)
  25. Clarky
    Sold pending a trial run next week
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