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  1. scrumpymike
    This is a very rare opportunity to acquire one of these incredible basses. In the opinion of many (me included) the Gillett Contour is the most desirable hollow-bodied bass guitar ever made. The design is revolutionary, the craftsmanship literally stunning, the ergo's unique, and the sounds deeply satisfying. I am lucky enough to own two of these beauties and can't justify keeping them both as all I play nowadays is classic rock. These basses have earned many review plaudits, of which the last and best was when the guys from Bass Gear mag in the USA named the Contour 'Best Bass In Show' at the 2019 Summer NAMM in Nashville. Not bad for a brand they'd never even heard of before they visited the Gillett Guitars stand! The key features are: 31.75" medium scale; through-body stringing; active electronics with neck pick-up and piezzo under bridge; sculpted blocks front and back accommodate forearm and rib-cage/beer gut; the way the bass is designed and built produces incredible levels of sustain. Price includes hard case but excludes delivery. Happy to meet up anywhere along the M5 corridor between Bristol and Exeter or similar distance/journey time.
  2. scrumpymike
    They are, and they did 😋
  3. scrumpymike
    or cloutie dumplin'...
  4. scrumpymike
    Very nice too! What's the strap balance like - any neck dive?
  5. scrumpymike
    This was the best I could find but they're charging $40 p&p on top of the $70 cost to ship to the UK! I'm now the proud owner of one recently brought back by friends visiting his son out there 🙂 https://www.broughtonaudio.com/product-page/always-on-high-pass-filter
  6. scrumpymike
    Ha-ha, thanks Loz. This was a home-made prototype to test the principle. It would be relatively easy for anyone with the necessary design tools to come up with a more discrete, fully adjustable version to fit the usual neck-dive suspects. I'd initially considered mounting from the neck-plate fixings but that obviously rules out anything with a set neck including the SG - which is probably the most popular neck-diver of all 🙂
  7. scrumpymike
    This was my radical solution to neck-dive on a lovely pre-Chowny SWB-1. Knocked together from half of an old aluminium billy-can and 3mm strip. I decided the mod had to be easily reversible so there was just one small additional screw hole drilled into the back of the bass. The only costly part was getting it powder-coated. It was a fairly big job but looked surprisingly unobtrusive and worked a treat. Another one I regret selling.
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    This was a brilliant piece of work! An update will be hugely appreciated.
  9. scrumpymike
    Well said! The term 'short scale' is not an absolute as there are a number of significant variations on the 'short scale' theme.
  10. scrumpymike
    That's brilliant! Entrance is £13, which includes your food and tea/coffee throughout the day. If you want to avoid the usual hotel breakfast rip-off, come early to help us set up (and take your pick from the display tables) and you'll get fed on arrival*. See first post on this topic for venue details. *Same applies to others of course! A few extra pairs of hands at set-up time are always useful 🙂
  11. scrumpymike
    The distance between the bridge and bottom strap button will position the fretboard close to where it is on a standard scale length.
  12. scrumpymike
    How nice after a week away (from home and e-mails) to see that interest in 'the One Bash that rules them all' has reached Scotland (as it happens, I'm just back from my daughter's in Dunfermline). Definitely worth the trip down from Aberdeen 🙂
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    Ha-ha, don't remind me - especially given the way prices have increased since then! Seriously, glad you're still liking it.
  14. scrumpymike
    No problem, you can just turn up and pay on the day. Hope to see you then!
  15. scrumpymike
    Another? You mean the first! 🤐
  16. scrumpymike
    Certainly is, not least for the bragging rights ☺️
  17. scrumpymike
    With that 4-inline headstock and bottom strap button presumably somewhere around F15, my guess is it's a diver. Still a lovely looking thing though.
  18. scrumpymike
    Gold Medal Winner in the 2012 Olympics Neck Diving Competition - or the Short-Scale Body-building event event? Must surely be one or t'other ☺️ Very appealing though.
  19. scrumpymike
    I know, I know! I have such a soft spot (between my ears maybe?) for Gibson basses that I didn't want to complete the full character assassination of the brand 😉
  20. scrumpymike
    I gigged a pair of LP Triumph basses followed by an SG for years and still have a real hankering after one of these - despite the un-contoured slab body and upper strap button at F15 🙂
  21. scrumpymike
    Exactly! Proper period authenticity, including the 4 holes left over after everybody removed and binned the individual string dampers 😊
  22. scrumpymike
    Never been a fan of distressed finishes though. Does any of the other Mustang variants have the same spec apart from the finish?
  23. scrumpymike
    I'm heading (herding?) in the same direction...
  24. scrumpymike
    Had one, sold it on here - big mistake 😐
  25. scrumpymike
    I've had several SWB1 basses. Very nice but the neck dive was too much for me.
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