Clarky

[quote name='Marky L' post='861615' date='Jun 8 2010, 10:58 PM']Yes, it is ALL of the neck I am thinking of. I'm sort of getting the impression that after sanding down, which worries me a little, then just spray away (frets included) and then clean them down afterwards. I'm lurching between "ahh just get on an try it" and "uh oh, here's a hug rod for my back". Thinking further, what does it actually matter if the frets get varnished too and I leave it? Would it drastically affect the sound and maybe feel? I guess after a playing for a while, the action of fretting a string would wear the varnish off the frets. Just thinking aloud (and hoping to be lazy...).[/quote] Hi Mark, I don't suppose you have a great local luthier/guitar repair shop who will do it for £20-30? I'm afraid that what I would resort to as I would be too cowardly PS, did you manage to get the action just right?

He's technically very proficient (the bassist of course) - not heard this lot before, seems like half way between modern punk and early Metallica/Megadeth type thrash metal. Interesting. And yeah, the 'Ray actually sounded pretty good on this clip

The Jazz in your original post is awesome looking B5 but NOT with gold hardware. Takes it from a lovely 60s retro thing to pure bling IMHO.

Station-Music does have the most jaw-dropping collection of basses of any website I've come across. Is that a Custom Shop 57?

[quote name='Tee' post='861242' date='Jun 8 2010, 05:17 PM']Simple. Have both. [attachment=51684:2ps.jpg] (my 2 US Precisions)[/quote] Show off! Very nice. Ramones fan IIRC, Tee?

[quote name='Marky L' post='861204' date='Jun 8 2010, 04:50 PM']Yeah, this is replacing a funsome "lively" neck and I don't want to end up cooking and twisting from too much hot sun.. but I do like the concept. I was actually thinking of doing the fretboard too (*runs and hides) and was wondering about coating the frets with wax instead of little strips of masking tape prior to varnishing. I do have a very clear and disturbing image in my mind of me blubbing, holding a buggered neck and mumbling "Why the f**k did I even think about doing this..."[/quote] So the L in MarkyL doesn't stand for Luthier then?

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='861119' date='Jun 8 2010, 03:41 PM']My bad Clarky. As soon as I clicked the post button I realised that it was presumptuous of me to have used the word "purely". To be fair though your poll was mostly about appearance. [/quote] To be fair, you are right! I am impressed by appearances, sort of the bass equivalent of Hyacinth Bucket [attachment=51680:0205kua.jpg]

Predictably, here's Sid, my 1993/4 CIJ 70RI (back with original rosewood neck, after a BassChat-documented dalliance with an after-market maple neck): [attachment=51679:clarky_basses_004.JPG]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='861096' date='Jun 8 2010, 03:25 PM']That's a bit rum Steve, nobody said that to Clarky in his poll thread about this very neck... which he swapped back purely based upon appearance.[/quote] Wasn't just appearance, it was also feel. The rosewood neck (like Sid) was 17 years old and worn in, whereas the maple neck was very new feeling (as well as looking). Had I been able to spray varnish it (I am scared of anything other than slight tinkering, eg, truss rods and basic soldering) it might have been a different story though.

Just sold Gus a Wizard 51 P-bass pickup. Friendly comms and paid super-fast. Nice one!

Mrs Clarky is listening to "Island Life" by Grace Jones, some dross but also some really great songs Her version of the Pretender's "Private Life" is fantastically atmospheric with a great (and very simple) reggae bass line* Edit * think its Robbie Shakespeare as Sly 'n Robbie are credited on the original album

Cool retro collection you have there! The 57 looks surf-tastic

Mark just bought a maple P neck off me. As before with the Shuker JJB, a pleasure to deal with!

Just stick at it. Something else will come up and - as others have said - you now have a much expanded repertoire, so its not been all bad I endured a nutter drummer in my last band who at various points broke his hand very badly (practising martial arts on two would-be robbers in the Woolworths in which he worked, who turned out to be not robbers at all but quite handy in a fight), then as he finally recovered 3 months later decided to stage dive and missed everyone (I spent the evening with him in casualty) and eventually quit after our 'big gig' at the Underworld to be a teaching assistant. A year later after various rubbish potential replacements we killed the band and I started on the quest for what is now my current band. So it ended up as a happy story. Don't know how the kids at our ex-drummer's school fared though

[quote name='Cairobill' post='859578' date='Jun 7 2010, 09:43 AM']My old Nash (which is the one that stacker now has?)[/quote] It is indeed, the lovely candy apple red one which I sold to buy a 'real' vintage Fender Jazz and then discovered too late that I preferred to the real McCoy. As Stacker (rightly) wouldn't sell it back to me, I ended up with the s/h sunburst JB-63 from BassDirect

[quote name='Prime_BASS' post='859478' date='Jun 7 2010, 01:39 AM']Too pricey in my opinion though.[/quote] They are definitely not "cheap". I was lucky enough to pick mine up s/h, so considerably cheaper than listed on the German website. That said, they are hand-made in a small workshop and are superb instruments. Lots of reviewers on the web seem to think they are better put together and playing than Fender Custom Shop basses (which generally cost more than this amount) and often better than the vintage Fenders they were originally designed to replace (as I understand it, the initial demand for these came from musicians with very valuable old Fenders who were nervous of taking their basses on the road). My Nash (and the one I sold to Stacker) is the nicest playing Jazz I have ever had in my greasy mitts and I doubt any Sandberg/Sadowsky etc would play any better. You pays your money, you takes your choice ....

I am thoughly enjoying my recently acquired Nash JB-63. Such a great, worn-in feeling instrument. BassDirect are going to stock them (4 on order) but until Mark gets them in, here's another site (a German one) which stocks some nice examples for you to peruse. There's a very Pino-ish 63-PB amongst them. And for the anti-fake Fender brigade, they are now using 'NashGuitars' as the headstock decal. [url="http://www.station-music.de/index.html"]http://www.station-music.de/index.html[/url]

[quote name='molan' post='858892' date='Jun 6 2010, 02:22 PM']Negotiate hard on the price - I don't think he qualifies as a celbrity, that wouldn't add a thing to the value of it anyway.[/quote] +1 I got £200 off the fretless even though it was a commission sale (they implied they could have gone lower if it was from their own stock)

You could get away with just buying a pair of cowboy boots [attachment=51539:nakedEPA..._450x589.jpg]