Clarky

Elvis' bass player, Bill Black, was an early adopter of the Fender P - he had a sunburst early/mid-50s one and these came as stock with flats on

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='872117' date='Jun 19 2010, 08:31 PM']Thanks, I bought the bass from Beedster and then had to have plastic surgery and dye my hair to match the photo. Do you like my sofa?[/quote] White velour sofas are timelessly classy

New pickup covers look horrid and cheap PS you seem to be at one with your p bass in your avatar Dave

I predict a FS ad soon for Shaggy's old fretless P/J Hope build goes well mate

BC'er Gareth seems a bit of an expert on Fullerton era 57 RIs - I would drop him a PM. I watched a couple on eBay, one went for (from memory) about £1100 (it was an ex-Beedster bass) and the other for a couple of hundred more

Listened to Satisfied - very good mix (at least on my laptop) and pretty catchy slice of good ol' rock!

Oh, and this Custom Shop Fender 55 Precision is my other unaffordable ($3.5k) bit of web porn I frequently stare at: [attachment=52498:Fender55...llage_md.jpg]

I neither need nor can afford this (its a cool £3.5k at The American Guitar Centre in Kent). But I can't help going back and gazing lovingly at this custom Alembic Orion 5'er [attachment=52496:alorion.jpg]

Would it be worth putting up a summary post that tells us timing, venue, events planned and (like last year's SE BassBash) a list of those attending and what gear they are bringing (which can be updated individually as and when people decide whether or not they are coming)? TBH there's 15 pages of this thread and it would be easy to miss important info. Thanks Edit: I am not yet sure if I can make it (I would like to do so as I could hand over the lefty short-scale SX bass to a teacher mate of Tino's). If I do make it, I will probably bring along my Nash Jazz and Walkabout combo.

Calling all teachers .....

[quote name='thepurpleblob' post='868782' date='Jun 16 2010, 09:58 AM']I don't know if anybody else mentioned this but *if* the finish has a clear lacquer and *if* the scratch is through the lacquer then you're knackered. If you rub out the scratch you'll remove a patch of the lacquer and it will look even worse. A light refinish is probably much less trouble (especially if you are keeping the same colour).[/quote] If its worse than on the photos I will definitely go the light re-fin route as its too nice a bass to screw around with! Hopefully the less extensive (and cheaper!) options discussed in the previous posts will be sufficient

Well I've gone for it. This Metallica-esque rock machine is on its way from California via USPS (so I might get it in a few weeks if I'm lucky ). Will assess how bad the scratches are before deciding on what to do. Thank you everyone for your helpful advice. [attachment=52360:alembic02.jpg][attachment=52361:alembic05.jpg]