Geek99

Just watch “call the midwife”…

Goodnight John Ross, goodnight Mary Ellen?

Neck thrus are more complicated, I get that they cost more to make still 1950s tech - a biblical lifetime ago would you trust your life to 1950s medicine?

It’s mostly 1950s tech rather than rocket science

Totally agree. I’d pay for someone with a mortgage to make something that only I wanted. No mass manufacture bass is worth north of £1k IMHO

I’d find an Indonesian fender easier to shift in a hurry than an Indonesian squier, so the extra outlay might pay off

We demand pictures documenting this quest (by proxy, in our case)

Agreed but it’s not three times better, and I object to paying three times as much. The average punter is going to look at these basses, vaguely recognise the shape, maybe read the headstock and take a another slurp of beer above 700 it boils down to “I want” no one else than a fellow bass player is even going to notice and that is where vanity starts

I actually think some recent fender items have been quite brave

Looked at from the other side of the coin, if you don’t mind paying a smidge more for the name you’re actually getting an acceptable bass with enough financial headroom to turn it into what you want, and I don’t buy the argument that a U.S. jazz ultra is three times better to justify the £££ uplift

Vintera 70s jazz please buy it before I have to sell pets for scientific experiments https://www.mannsmusic.co.uk/b-stock/fender-vintera-70s-jazz-bass-3-colour-sunburst-pau-ferro.htm

Just to make it clear for new readers I asked my colleague chaz to update his website for the benefit of hot sauce fans. It then emerged that he was a player of real basses as well as the lesser “fun sized” variety and so totally eligible to join despite his ownership of toy basses

Glad you could make it Chaz, there’s a fair few low-end players where we work.

Yes, cunningly concealed where you’d never find it under the name “hot sauces” - kindly linked above 👍

If you get luminous stickers off eBay you can trim them into strips and so mark fret lines. just give them a blast with your phone torch and you’re good to go

Thank f*** you came to your senses and swerved the toy bass.

I’ve played it. Very taken

I wish we had such fine CrackConverters stores around these parts

Glow in the dark stickers from eBay

Maybe it was a typo and he intended to write “I really need at least two jazz basses” and we can put the D cap back on the shelf

Yes I’m not saying that it is logical but people pay less for a Skoda built with identical parts to a VW so it’s not just fender

Disagree, sorry there’s nowt wrong wi’ a squier even the affinity ones are quite good

Yep, those NBD threads are a honeypot for “those-who-watch” 😱