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Would magnetic fixings have been better ? Just a thought

What does mrs Nancy Johnson think ? Have you let her play it yet ?

It’s not .... very convincing , is it ?

Could you wire the pickups to the rails themselves? Live down one rail and earth down the other ? That would remove the cable problem and you just need a trench in the pick guard for the pickup to move along its rails

By now, @basskraut will be having serious second thoughts about the chances of learning anything useful around here from wichsers like us I worked in a Vienna warehouse for two years; I know more and better slang than this

She’ll probably send you to bed early, with no schokolade. Let’s face it, the EU has tried everything but undercover hobbyist bass player to achieve vaccine theft

Me too. I did much better on my own

You can move it on for similar money if you don’t get on with it. I’ve played the 4 string version and they’re very nice even in stock condition

He know about GAS... already ...he’s been here on basschat for about 15 minutes ... you’re at home already ... Second thoughts - this is too good to be true. Is he perhaps on a secret mission from Mutti (Frau merkel) to steal COVID vaccines from us in order to inoculate the German government apparatus and so allow her to rule forever ?

What about the squier vintage modified jazz 5? They regularly come up on eBay for not much

I had one agree totally

Frankly I’m impressed that you tracked down what a marlin is, from a standing start in a world that you (probably) know little about. These pages are filled with topics that amount to “what is this bass, and is it any good?anyone ever had one?” Do well done I was young when Marlins came out and quality has improved a lot with budget instruments. They really weren’t great and I’m not sure age will have improved them I’d be looking at Harley Benton clones of the fender precision and jazz basses. they cost pennies and are so good that many members on here gig with them (back when that was possible) or as a basis for small improvements https://m.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_electric_basses.html they ship to UK for nothing (I think) and you can send it back if you don’t like it. Get your son to join once he has found his feet. If he grows out of an HB you can shift it on here for a good price

I was one of those around when U2 released that album, I was in the US when the Joshua tree came out from which tour much of the rattle and hum movie footage and tracks came. I still watch the extended version occasionally now I recall that I’d never heard BB King play, and I had no idea about billie holiday either. It was like they opened the curtains onto a works I never knew was there. I did realise that I really liked the way that Adam was playing on those two songs though - angel of Harlem and When love comes to town

I believe some were, but that’s only a person turning a handle making a bobbin move back and forth in a well-controlled way - same as scatter-wound now

True - it wasn’t picked out by magic pixies using their special ears

You can quote me, @ezbass

Used sparingly it’s acceptable IMHO I wish I was better at it

So what is the difference between actual 74 jazz basses and 75 models that they get a separate avri model ?

So almost exactly two years on, I got a second look at this bass. Had zero practice time since that build and it moved from car to garage. The crazing is just amazing - it looks about 100 years old - amazing stuff nitro pics tmrw ...

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Why not ask if you can hire it for a week for a minimal sum plus deposit ?

I had an MG car once, it was acceptable to replace old with new provided it looked like the OE part and the OE part was beyond repair; it was generally advised to keep the OE part just in case - maybe we should apply that logic here

Need pictures really ....then someone can probably identify it and you can find it’s value