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Gorgeous bass, fabulous spec and without doubt, one of Basschat’s finest members! Stunner.

There's a decent image in the Ashdown video here - about 17 seconds in.  It looks like a short-scale (unless it's a tall bass-player - not somebody that I recognise).  Could be a standard Saint though as it doesn't look like a roasted board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jU00_VsmBw&t=17s

4 hours ago, Paul S said:

TI Jazz Rounds!  Never knew such things existed.  Off to explore, although I fear they will be expensive.

They're usually very expensive - lovely feel but very little growl in my experience.  I'm not a big growl user these days, but the TI JRs are so smooth that I removed them from one bass as I needed a little more bite.

What a lovely thing to do with the proceeds!  Thank you.

6 minutes ago, Owen said:

Snap.

 

3D goodness.

 

The SSL Native X-Saturator does much the same thing.

On no, I need SSL Native X Saturator... fortunately, not ridiculously expensive.

I didn't think I was interested in saturation.  I bought a Monique.  Turns out I am.

The more I play basses (with some kind of aim), the less I buy them.  The instruments become less important than the music (and importantly, the company in which they are played).  Funny that.  And reassuring.

Only the 350 - powerful, well built, solid modern tone with useful and well thought-through features. However, a very bright amp overall (for me). 

Stupendous cabs - my favourite 12 by some distance (and I’ve had a few!) Laughably light too

Lovely looking bass, classic tone and some fabulous playing (as ever).  Thanks, really enjoyed that.  Some great energy in the Jacksons overall, and especially some of those basslines

Really good to see this fixed (and in all its glory!). Great to see all the new images too - what a beautiful bass - the quality of work here is fabulous. The neck pocket and cavity are works of art in their own right. Then there’s the finish. I was a bit sceptical re: leds too but they come into their own in darker environments. Now I really want this

I think that Hellzero has the answer here! If you wish to have the ivory removed anyway (I would certainly understand this), I would contact the Jewellery School at Birmingham City University. The school has some brilliant jewellers and technicians and I suspect they’d be very willing to help. I can provide contacts by PM if useful.

53 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

I had a bass with SIMs LED's in the neck which stopped working after a short while. After much digging about I found that there was a small plastic connector which linked the neck and body wiring and one of the wires had come loose. The connector was in the neck pocket and could only be seen when the neck was off. If you do remove the neck be VERY careful as the wires on mine were VERY thin.

This is helpful and I thought this might be the case - using connectors in the neck pocket and heel is the only way that I could conceive of powering LEDs (other than a battery/switch somewhere in the neck itself).

Curious - do you have a pic of the interior of the cavity and can you see how the wiring is routed to the neck? I’ve only had leds in neck-through basses but maybe removing the neck would reveal any connectors. A quick mail to Sims might be helpful - I’ve always found the company very responsive. Incidentally, a gorgeous bass!

Also, are they definitely leds? Could simply be decorative markers set in a metal surround?

Moved again!

Moved!

Looks like a CV Andy. Absolutely gorgeous bags!

I suspect that Cosmo was helpfully referring to the 'Europe' (typo?) in the topic title line.  Perhaps a good idea to change this to 'Europa' to facilitate accurate searching?  What a beautiful bass.  I can imagine this sounds quite extraordinary!

Fabulous pre in a fabulous rig. I would love to hear this (and see the Alembics!)

Magnificent basses - the necks on these are in a league of their own.  Just as importantly, an original cream Lakland case - a bit nuts I know, but my favourite of all bass cases!

I had the 'plus' version of this and it's a superb preamp - I'm sure this version is very little different.  Really versatile and the twin balanced outs are extremely useful (indeed, I think that all good pres/DIs would benefit from this feature).  Very solid and sturdy units with a real quality look and feel.  I'd concur with Steve above - bargain!

Suberb basses, superb seller - this one is almost identical to my own, though with a gloss rather than satin neck (and a different bridge).  The tonal range from these is pretty staggering, and playability and comfort are perfect for me.  I can't see this hanging around

The Gallery has some lovely Wals in stock, though 12.5k seems a mere trifle. Take a deep breath… 

https://thebassgallery.com/search?q=wal

Beautiful! Do you have an accurate weight, and details of nut width and string spacing at the bridge?

Not quite symmetrical but close