CamdenRob

[quote name='Ticktock' timestamp='1381324280' post='2237572'] I shall be making a "Y" speakon cable to use both cabs. [/quote] Ah I see... bit technical for me.... hope it all works out though.

My Mb200 only has one output? can you chain the cabs together or something? how are you going to run two? I only ask as I'm in the same boat! might get one of those hartke 112s with the switchable impedance they look like a solution...

Essex police finally got around to looking into this today... having had the details passed on from the met a few weeks ago. Although they are satisfied that the bass was mine, apparently as I didn't go round the guys house myself at the time and demand he give it back, this counts as 'transfer of property' and not 'theft' so they can't do anything about it. I did think it was a bit of a long shot with all the time that has passed and to be honest I'm not surprised at this outcome. Its my own fault really for not making more of a fuss at the time. Still on the plus side I'm guessing there will be a 5 string stealth missing a tuner going cheap on ebay sometime soon.... Thanks for all your input and support with this. BC came through for me... the police didn't... alas. Anyway I've bought a new jazz bass Rob

Are those genz cabs 4 ohm then?

Can't get on with the look of PJs...

I reckon four strings... it'll have a broader appeal.

[quote name='bh2' timestamp='1381304513' post='2237089'] Are those DiMarzio model J's on there... I have them on mine and they sound great, although I've pre-amped mine with a J-Retro. [/quote] They are the stock pickups apparently... I kinda like the sound as it is at the moment. I've got other basses to do the more modern scooped sound. I wanted this for a more organic sound [quote name='bh2' timestamp='1381304513' post='2237089'] Off topic... did you watch the CLT20? [/quote] I never really got into that after they stopped having English teams in it! Always follow the domestic T20 though. Been to finals day a couple of times with Essex.... Moved to London a couple of years back and I have a season ticket at Lords now, after being an Essex member for years.. Its a bit different to the Country Ground in Chelmsford! [quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1381304772' post='2237095'] Rob, nice score! I adore my '83 Jazz, it plays and sounds like a dream to me. Hope you enjoy it mate! [/quote] Thanks man I'm very pleased with it overall. Yours has a much stronger bottom end than mine. Have you got the stock pickups?... I need to have a mess around with some EQ tweaks tonight.

Had a good blast on the new bass last night After the initial disappointment of the case being cracked and bent... thank you fedex... I replaced the oldest strings known to man had a bit of a set up tweak and plugged her in. First thing I noticed was the weight, surprisingly light compared to my 50th anniversary jazz. Not having much experience of slightly older basses I was expecting a similar sound to my 50th... not so... very different indeed. A much more woody sound, far far more burpy and clear. Took me a bit of messing around to find a sound that actually contained any bass frequencies, finally settled on a slight roll off on the bridge pick up and everything else full up. When Mrs CamdenRob came home she said it was the best sounding bass I've had and I'm tempted to agree with her. What especially rings true is the higher notes. I'm finding the low notes a touch twangy but the higher register stuff rings clear and true with a tone I can't find in any of my other basses... Bit more tweaking to be done tonight but over all very pleased. Apologies I know these NBD posts are a little self indulgent but humor me... Rob

Received my new 83 Jazz yesterday in a mint original case... Bass was packaged in the hard case and then an extra outer cardboard box filled with packing and all sealed up in fragile tape. Fedex have somehow managed to crack the plastic all the way around one of the corners of the hard case from front to back so a section of it has fallen off and bent all the metal so the last clip doesn't close properly... This was a solid case and I'm not sure I could actually cause this type of damage if I tried. It must have been dropped from a considerable height or perhaps had something dropped on it. I could claim it on the posters insurance but they are not going to find me a replacement are they? I am never shipping anything again and only buying in person. Fortunately the bass was fine... more by luck than any diligent care on behalf of Fedex. Rob

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1381237073' post='2236173'] Thanks, I'd forgotten the term... Still can't quite understand the need for them though.... EDIT: I assume they aren't set quite a deep in the fretboard as the other frets.... [/quote] I'm not entirely sure to be honest, someone with more knowledge than me would be able to explain it.... I would think that you would end up with all of the strings aligned at their bottom edge as opposed to their central cores aligned as you would with a nut? Then again I may be wildly incorrect

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1381236830' post='2236167'] I recall seeing a cheap, terrible bass with an extra fret, just behind the nut - this acted like a nut in itself, and I could never work out why there was ever a need for this additional fret.... A guitarist pal reckons every guitar he's ever played with this "feature" has been awful Any ideas why manufacturers would have put this in place? Is it just maybe because the nut they fit can't take the string tension? If so, why not just fit a better nut? Bizarre really [/quote] Its a zero fret... some top end basses use them too.

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1381233833' post='2236087'] Doh. Forgot to say, lovely looking bass. [/quote] Thanks Gary, I don't know whats wrong with me lately, I never used to like Fenders now I have two... does this mean I'm a grown up now?

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1381230133' post='2236004'] I`d take a half-day Rob, for a cracking bass like that you need to get to it now. [/quote] I'm very tempted... Meetings I can't get out of this afternoon sadly. Who knows about tomorrow though, I mean, I'm fine at the moment but maybe I'll be feeling a bit peaky and I'll need to stay at home? Perhaps I should start dropping in the odd cough this afternoon to authenticate any sudden illness I might develop overnight.

New Bass Day today 83 Fender Jazz... Just been sent this image by Mrs CamdenRob along with the following "It's Brown, has four strings, the neck is attached to the body and the case smells old and musty... Need to try and concentrate at work for the rest of the day until I can get home and give it a whirl... Apparently that packet at the bottom contains the original strings.... 30 years of finger gunk.... nice....

Maybe he could have told everyone that a bit earlier rather than just letting build times pass without comment? Everyone gets issues and running a business isn't easy. That's not however an excuse for poor communication... Rob

[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1380819402' post='2231095'] the standard walthamstow !!! Fantastic venue [/quote] [quote name='Mudpup' timestamp='1380899001' post='2232162'] I played there many times back in the day......i just remember going a bit weird when i stood and played in exactly the same spot as Phil Lynott had stood when i saw him a few weeks prior playing with Grand Slam at said venue. Had a great fight in there once too - real barroom brawling that John Wayne would have been proud of (the singers 50 year old dad was barred for life for trying to strangle a Hells Angel that night). Happy days �� [/quote] I remember our guitarist had an early wireless system.... kept picking up the cab office next door... put me off using a wireless for life.

Apologies for replying to my own post again but a guy on the Fender forum called 'brotherdave' has written a superb reply to someone asking a similar question to mine, I've posted some extracts below. "This serial question comes up a lot. It is possibly an export instrument and that is an export serial. An E+5 numeric serial doesn't compute based on any online serial tables. However most online serial guides for USA made Fenders address domestic distribution serials almost exclusively and that makes them useless in evaluation of export instruments." "CBS Fender used different serial number formats on instruments produced for export to foreign distributors. The oddball serial format locked export instruments out of the Fender warranty in North America. These are "orphan" instruments that Fender/CBS sold to offshore distributors who operate their own support systems independent of Fender's. It is the same instrument as one with a USA serial in every detail except the serial format is different and they are excluded from the Fender warranty. That is still the case today as foreign distributors must maintain their own support and warranty systems. There is no Fender warranty on export instruments, but the distributor instead assumes the administration and expense of warranty service. The different serial format also prevents an instrument made for USA distribution from landing in an overseas service center for warranty service at the expense of the foreign distributor. Also export models were almost always shipped to the distributor without a case included and the distributor either cased them in their own cases or left it up to the consumer to buy one at extra expense. Anytime you see an export serial instrument being sold as coming with the "original" case it probably should not be the same case that came with USA instruments of the day. This is for sure true for instruments imported through the UK by Selmer for Europe. Selmer had their own domestically produced cases that they used instead of the ones Fender included with instruments sold in the USA. I'm extremely skeptical of an export instrument with a Fender USA case the seller claims as coming with the "original case." It probably isn't the original case. It might have happened, but export instruments were shipped without any case so far as I know." "These instruments should also have the deluxe Schaller tuners with the "F" logo on the back, which I can not see. It should also have a "Fender" angled script logo engraved on the 4-screw neckplate which I also can not see. Between the bottom two holes on the neckplate (under the script) there should be a tiny hole for micro-tilt adjustment access. When the neck is removed, on the neck paddle facing the neck pocket there should be a rectangular sticker with 6 ruled lines and blanks numbered 1 through 7 for inspection marks. Often there will be a neck code stamping across several of the lines and initial marks on one or two lines. The paddle should also have the round metal micro-tilt device contact insert. There may be a single code stamp along with inspector initials made by a black marker in the body neck pocket. Sometimes the initials obscure the stamping characters. The metal stop device for the micro-tilt should be mounted in the neck pocket area also. I can't see the electronics but I know the knobs are wrong which bothers me a bit. The one piece pickguard/control plate design with headstock truss-rod adjustment access is correct for 1983 and was carried over along with the push-on Stratocaster type knobs labeled either "VOL" or "TONE" into the first Ensenada plant instruments while the micro-tilt was not carried over to Ensenada." The bass I'm looking at conforms entirely to everything said in the last paragraph.... Its a shame this guy doesn't actually work for Fender then I'd be 100% after all it is just an opinion on a message board... still if it's true it's a good bit of info for early 80s Fullerton Jazz basses. Rob

After a bit more research and googling... Someone on TB suggested adding a 0 after the E in the serial number. I've put the serial of the bass I'm looking at, the Andy Baxter bass and a serial number from someone asking a similar question on TB with an extra 0 into the guitar dater project website (how reliable a resource this is I do not know?). The results are all the same indicating an early 80s Fullerton plant Fender... Another obvious angle is that its a fake... although if you were making a fake would you not make sure that you were using the correct serial number format? seems a bit of an obvious oversight. This research is just me flailing around on the internet though, a real expert opinion would be greatly appreciated. Rob