NancyJohnson

These two owe me peanuts. This is off a '70s Aria Primary Bass; it was truly knackered when I got it, so there's been a load of tinkering. I put a knock-off Jazz neck on it earlier this year as it was cheaper than a refret. It's gnarly. Bolted this one together this summer. Cheap MIM Jazz body, Precision neck from the same seller as above. Filled the bridge pickup rout, installed a reverse P pickup. Owes me about £200.00. Also gnarly. I have a brace of very expensive basses, but I adore these.

Filmed my piece for this about ten months ago, but disappointingly was cut from the final edit.

I used SIT strings a while back. Didn't think there was anything particularly different about them to any other budget string, although I did like that they felt kind of rough/gritty. Been using Elixirs for years. No reason to stray from these.

I've had the horn for an Explorer for as long as I can remember and have considered building one from a kit; I just know in my heart that the expectation will be higher than the finished realisation. It's not in my nature to just go with the stock kit, I'd be putting different hardware on it to somehow elevate it to something better, but end of the day I'll be stuck with a finished kit guitar of very little value, which I'd probably end up breaking for spares. I check all the usual outlets and to be honest, I'd be happier just sourcing a Tokai one for less ££ than I'd throw at a kit/updates.

Today the deluxe of Kiss Alive! God, it's like being 13 again.

While I appreciate the GH auction wasn't mentioned the auction itself was in early 2024, so anyone questioning the accuracy of the listing and authenticity of the bass itself could easily (easily!) have done a search off google and found the GH listing within a few minutes, tops.

General consenus and 'the rest could be anything'? People do change their pickups - just look at this site - there's hundreds of people swapping out pickups. If you have a look at the photos of the Gardiner Houlgate auction and compare to the Gumtree bass, I'd say everything matches except the Gumtree bass has - for some reason - P90 pickups in it. As I said in the original thread I posted, that seller doesn't seem to stock junk. He's had some spectacular kit through.

I honestly wish they'd have put the Epiphone logo in the same orientation as the Gibson one.

I have 6 x1GB and 2x8GB RAM boards if anyone needs to update their PC. The 8GB boards are new (I bought them mistakenly thinking the motherboard of our old PC could handle 16GB of RAM), so they were never used. Eventualy just had a new PC built. Just shoot me a PM.

I'd find a D,E and F and start a new band with them. Maybe get a horn section in with G, H and I and find a couple of backing singers (J and K). While you're at it, decimalise the music scale and create two new notes, H and I. Sorted.

Like Amazon.

Always find it weird reading these threads where someone takes this moral stance and says they're not going to purchase through <insert site here>, then buys through eBay/AliExpress and doesn't get the product described. It's eBay/AliExpress/etc. Honestly, life's too short. Whether you like Amazon or not, it's generally a one stop shop. Convenient, generally cheaper and quick. My old employer sold into them extensively; if you're buying direct (and not using a third party seller, you're pretty much assured you're getting as genuine a product as possible.

What bass is it? If it's Fenderesque, save yerself a few £££ and take a punt on (more or less) any Chinese seller on eBay.

On the OP, for as long as I can remember I've tinned the bare copper when I wire a plug. Always felt a well tinned cable end will be stronger than splayed copper strands. Doesn't really make any difference to electrical performance, does it? Also, I'll tin the ends of speaker cables for the hifi as well.

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