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  1. Happy Jack
    [quote name='njbillbass' timestamp='1486414889' post='3231638'] I'm not a salsa player...I'm not sure why the baby bass gets pigeon-holed for that type of music, but I use it on all kinds of material. [/quote] The original Ampeg Baby Bass caught on in the Caribbean and Central America with salsa players and established itself as a must-have instrument. I don't know the sales figures, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that Ampeg sold more of these in the Caribbean than in all of the USA. It's also noticeable that the Baby Bass 'clone' industry seems to be centred in South America. Kris Kedzior got the idea of making high-quality copies like his after marrying a South American lady and being exposed to a variety of poor-quality copies.
  2. Happy Jack
    http://www.aylocksmiths.co.uk/
  3. Happy Jack
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  4. Happy Jack
    Oh yes, that's going nowhere. Although I'm pretty sure it's a 64! I've also kept my 59 Sutcliffe 500/5 and my weird psychedelic 65 Club 500/2.
  5. Happy Jack
    [quote name='johnbiffa' timestamp='1490914026' post='3269100'] Hmmmmm indeed, do you still have the Hofner ? [/quote] I've had a LOT of Hofners, just three of them left. Which did you have in mind?
  6. Happy Jack
    [quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1490910801' post='3269078'] I don't need a motorbike. My other hobby is driving trains for a heritage railway. 266 Litre diesel engine this weekend [/quote] Yes, but does it have 'heft'? Are diesel litres the same as valve litres?
  7. Happy Jack
    [quote name='bassace' timestamp='1490893272' post='3268910'] 76. I mucked out three stables this morning while the Mrs swanned round the lanes with a friend. Then I got the harrows out and put everything together and in the meantime mowed two lawns. Then before supper went round half the paddocks (8 acres) with the harrows. Gig tomorrow evening so I'll take it a bit easy. But don't let the above fool you, I'm really feeling old these days. [/quote] If you're doing 8 acres with the harrows at 76, it may be time you treated yourself to a tractor or something.
  8. Happy Jack
    Hmmmmm. I don't know enough about EUB to answer that. Definitely an easy route into DB though.
  9. Happy Jack
    Weight is slightly higher than I remembered, at a shade over 6lbs. Width of nut = 1.5", i.e. Jazz width.
  10. Happy Jack
    Agreed, but you'll also notice that I'm not plucking (really hard) with the side of my fingers in quite the way that I'd pluck a DB. I'm not playing it like a fretless electric either, but the technique is a bit of a hybrid. Well, it is when I do it anyway.
  11. Happy Jack
    Nah - I just hid them when I heard you were coming.
  12. Happy Jack
    Hell no! That would take a while ... [URL=http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/General%20View%201_zpsjnlheepf.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/h4ppyjack/Basses%20CURRENT/General%20View%201_zpsjnlheepf.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
  13. Happy Jack
    Judge for yourself: http://youtu.be/GM8i0SaI4fQ
  14. Happy Jack
    Will do.
  15. Happy Jack
    Yup, slightly bigger all round so that they remain in proportion.
  16. Happy Jack
    Sold subject to blah blah blah ...
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    [quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1490861847' post='3268528'] Hi Jack, How heavy is it, please? [/quote] Haven't weighed it, but it can't be much over 5lbs (or if you prefer metric roughly 2.273 hectares). Given my own obsession with other people giving the weight in their adverts, this is all a bit embarrassing. I'll weigh it properly when I get home.
  18. Happy Jack
    [quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1490860937' post='3268518'] What's the output from those 2 pickups like? Is it 30" scale? [/quote] Output is really very high - those staple pickups were always pretty variable, and these seem to be at the upper end of the scale. Speaking of scale, it's exactly 30" (rather than the 30.5" used by Hofner) which seems to make it even thumpier.
  19. Happy Jack
    Also on eBay bump. Ignore the £60.
  20. Happy Jack
    http://basschat.co.uk/topic/300982-pete-howlett-5-string-bass-uke-price-drop/page__p__3257931__hl__howlett__fromsearch__1#entry3257931 Having bought this, it became highly unlikely that I would ever play the Harley Bentons again!
  21. Happy Jack
    Very slightly neck heavy. Any grippy/wide strap will cope easily.
  22. Happy Jack
    Replied.
  23. Happy Jack
    Blame Owen - I bought his Howlett!
  24. Happy Jack
    Don't be daft - that's a pre-CBS ironing board made of tonewood and using mustard-yellow Mullard AX7s. I'd have to be crazy to part with it.
  25. Happy Jack
    I got good mileage out of this bass for several years, at gigs where taking a 'real' DB was just too much like hard work. If you go to the KK website ([url="http://baby-bass.com/customers-of-kk-electric-upright-bass/"]http://baby-bass.com...c-upright-bass/[/url]) you'll see that I'm shown as the second 'Customer' in his photo gallery playing The Catch in Shoreditch. What that doesn't show is that we were playing the upstairs bar which is reached by a spiral staircase. Even better, I had to dump Silvia and the bass on the pavement while I went looking for parking, so the BabyBass had to be carried up by all 5' of Silvia. Had I taken my double bass (which was Plan A) we would have been in a world of pain. Then I bought a Takamine TB10 and, even though you wouldn't think they'd compete for the same gigs, I seem to reach for the TB10 rather than the KB1. Shame, but it's time to move on. [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Basses%20CURRENT/KK%20Baby%20Bass%202013%20CURRENT/KKBabyBass7_zps85c10dee.jpg.html"][/url] More pics here: [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/library/Basses%20CURRENT/KK%20Baby%20Bass%202013%20CURRENT"]http://s1128.photobu...02013%20CURRENT[/url] In excellent condition, fully functional, no defects or scratches. Comes with original KK gigbag. Currently strung with really nice Silver Slaps with plenty of years left in them. Realistically, for postage purposes this thing can be treated as a slightly over-sized electric bass. That said, I would far prefer to sell it face to face and let the buyer try it before parting with his hard-earned. I'm in Harrow, a 5-minute walk from a Piccadilly Line station. Here's the review I wrote in 2013: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/211975-kk-baby-bass/"]http://basschat.co.u...5-kk-baby-bass/[/url]
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