Happy Jack

As documented here: ... and with a great deal of help from @Woodinblack and @stewblack, a suitable location was chosen for the final handover to me. Unfortunately a nearby 5G mast distorted my brain as I was setting the satnav and ... erm ... I drove to a different location. Not to worry because Stew had his entire family in the car with him, and they had no problem driving an extra 25 miles to find me and @Silvia Bluejay (who handled my faux pas with astonishing equilibrium) and the handover was accomplished anyway.

Good thing you have an avatar of Ronnie Barker ...

Really excellent YouTube documentary, well worth watching.

IIRC this is absolutely right. If you buy "shortscale strings", they'll be too short.

Wrong Andy, mate ...

Bring back Andy!

Nor me! I can send them anywhere in the UK using a cheap, local courier (Hermes) for about £3. As soon as I send something outside the UK, I have to switch to a far better - but far more expensive - courier such as DPD. Sorry I can't help you this time.

Sorry, but I don't think that works. You could probably buy a new set there for the price of postage from London - likely cost would be £20!

GONE.

GONE.

From a genuine 1980s US Fender, this is obviously an after-market replacement. The previous owner had added an extra pickup by the bridge, so he'd also replaced the p/g with this one so that he could have an extra knob. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

When I was messing around with my old Orange Terror Bass head, I tried out a number of valves. Here's one that didn't get used. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

When I was messing around with my old Orange Terror Bass head, I tried out a number of valves. Here's one that didn't get used in the end. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

One of the first FX I ever experimented with was a Hughes & Kettner Cream Machine. It was too fierce for my tastes and lived on a shelf for a couple of years. Then I got my Orange Terror Bass, discovered an urgent need to re-valve it, and lost my fear of valving. This is the high-gain valve that I swopped out of the Cream Machine. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

There was a period when I was experimenting with having two very different microphones on a single stand, so I bought a couple of these cheapo Skytronics units. This one just never actually got opened. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

No clue. Absolutely no idea where these came from or why I still have them. I haven't owned a Jazz in a very long time, probably the thick end of ten years. I can tell you nothing about them, NOTHING you hear? You'd best assume that they came from a 1962 stack-knob owned by John Entwistle until he sold it to Chris Squire. Or something. £3 to cover P&P and they're yours.

I like to do weird things, like buying a bass notorious for its weak electronics (Westone "The Rail") and then dropping into it a really smooth high-end pickup. This is what was removed. Presumably the original pickup from the 80s but I have no clue as to who it's by. £3 to cover P&P and it's yours.

When I bought my @Chownybass shortscale fretless, it had these pickups in it. Steve Chown then kindly sent me the upgraded versions for testing, leaving this original set surplus to requirements. I came across them today and thought "time to move them along". £3 to cover P&P and they're yours.

I seem to remember that these were taken from a genuine 1980s US Fender to be replaced with a pair of Seymour Duncans. That of course is no guarantee that these were the original pickups, but they could easily be. They were working fine when last in use about six years ago. Yours for £3 to cover P&P.

The first time I saw one of these Caddys up close and personal, the one thing that genuinely astonished me was how little space there was inside. As the song says, "I got me a car that's as big as a whale", yet you can just about fit two full-sized adults in the front, the back only has room for a couple of (small) children.

Can you show me a Mink De Ville in Candy Apple Red? Asking for a friend.

Aaaaaargh! Daphne and Sonic ... no Lake Placid.

Yup, I posted a Cadillac to point out that it wasn't actually Ford colours that Leo used, it was DuPont colours and they were used across the industry AFAIK.

The Bubinger ones are better.