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OK guys (pause for drum roll / trumpet fanfare): And here she is!! Arrived this morning, since when I've looked, played, looked again, and played a bit more - and I'm over the moon with this! [url="http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1738_zpsnd4ee8xm.jpg.html"]http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1738_zpsnd4ee8xm.jpg.html[/url] [url="http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1742_zpsy7cgygr6.jpg.html"]http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1742_zpsy7cgygr6.jpg.html[/url] [url="http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1743_zpsgebstu6w.jpg.html"]http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1743_zpsgebstu6w.jpg.html[/url] [url="http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1744_zpsyc3hnrrz.jpg.html"]http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/DSCF1744_zpsyc3hnrrz.jpg.html[/url]

Well done Rob - better upside-down than not at all, which was how my first attempt at forum posting went! Not seen these basses before, but I like them. What's the scale length?

We need pics!

I got bitten by the bug, bought the bass, and joined a band - pretty standard stuff in the early '60s!

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1475169160' post='3143741'] Now the waiting by the windows begins. [/quote] Certainly does!

WOOOOO-HOOOOO! Guess what I just got? [url="http://[IMG]http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o598/scrumpymike/Cazpar%204%20Mike_zpsq8novrlc.jpg[/IMG"]http://[IMG]http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o598/scrumpymike/Cazpar%204%20Mike_zpsq8novrlc.jpg[/IMG[/url] Shipping next week

What a beauty is that! Question: did you know in advance from the way you spec'd it that it would look like that or was it a pleasant surprise?

Didn't realise the 'sofa shot' was part of every buying experience - [i]really[/i] can't wait now!

For me and others who are counting the weeks down to Maruszczyk Christmas, could you lucky owners tell us how good he is at keeping to his delivery promises?

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1475056314' post='3142612'] Having no awareness of, or interest in anything to do with music. I can clearly remember having strange, new & interesting feelings towards a girl called Pauline Webster, though. Yeah - "should [i]of[/i]". Get with the times, Daddio. [/quote] After all these years I find out that Pauline has been two-timing me - bitch!

Bit quirky that - even for a Scott Whitley shortcake lover like me!

First year at Rochdale Grammer (OK, OK...), where 3 years on I would start playing bass and form a band with my mates Steve and Jim. And here I am/was (shadowy figure in the background, i.e. typical bass-player) last Sunday with the very same Jim (big dude on the left with baseball cap on wrong way round - or maybe his head) playing with the Coolers at the Clevedon Tides Fest! [url="http://[URL=http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/IMG_20160925_165443[IMG]http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o598/scrumpymike/IMG_20160925_165443030_HDR_zps5fcuac4a.jpg[/IMG]"]http://[URL=http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/scrumpymike/media/IMG_20160925_165443[IMG]http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o598/scrumpymike/IMG_20160925_165443030_HDR_zps5fcuac4a.jpg[/IMG][/url]

Those Minotaur straps look really nice - not too expensive either IMHO.

These guys are pretty much switched on - now rush me my Cazpar 4P!

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1473968778' post='3134644'] Interesting. I read somewhere that the noise is because the wrong resistors have been fitted to these basses but It didn't explain why and what a remedy would be. I have managed to get a great action with almost perfect intonation on my bass so really happy with that aspect. My E is tight with maybe the harmonics my only grump. I have looked at an active EMG PJ set as someone also wrote that you tend to get less noise issues with an active bass. No idea about this either. Considering that a good set of pups will cost almost as much as the bass itself I didn't want to buy ones which need major mods. I shielded the cavity and replaced the plastic knobs with black anodised ones. The lightweight and size is great. The neck is quite flat and wide even though it is short scale with good access. I still have the strings on it that it came with. Will need to borrow a micrometer to determine what gauge they are although its possible it won't be standard. I did contact Ibanez on their website but never got a response. [/quote] Measured mine at 040/060/075/095"

Gigged a couple of LP Triumphs through the '90s followed by 2008 SG re-issue. Loved 'em all to bits but they all went because their user-unfriendliness was starting to cause me physical problems: the LPs were as heavy as the proverbial millstone, and the SG had poor strap balance and positioning. Much as I love Gibsons, Leo's the man who got it right and if I had bigger hands I'd be playing nothing but Fenders or their clones.

The Duostrap makes a lot of sense but does it let you vary the position of your bass slightly while you're playing? I get the feeling that it holds it rigidly in one position. Mind you maybe the reason I have to move mine about is because it keeps shifting from where I put it in the first place - and all I'm doing is just moving it back to where it started.

Got a Gibson Fatboy strap recently - absurdly expensive at £79 but it's top-quality leather with thick memory foam padding. Actually saw/handled one in-store at PMT and was hooked (we were on holiday at the time so I just thought "WTF, treat yourself".)

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1473448665' post='3130404'] At the moment I've got GAS fro a Marusczcyk Jake P JJ, I heard a Fender Modern Jazz with twin humbuckers the other week sounded great but they don't do lefty's, in fact they don't do them at all anymore, I started a thread at the time [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/290951-fender-modern-jazz-any-equivelants/page__fromsearch__1."]http://basschat.co.u..._fromsearch__1.[/url] The Marusczcyk seem to fit the bill as far as a bridge humbucker is concerned but I've never heard one, I shouldn't be spending a grand on a bass I'm not sure will fit the bill should I? [/quote] Why not? That's just what I've done.

[quote name='markstuk' timestamp='1473347975' post='3129398'] Thought this might be of interest.. :-) [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5Pg7KIEks"]https://www.youtube....h?v=dG5Pg7KIEks[/url] [/quote] That's our Eduardo - taught him all he knows!

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1473343442' post='3129340'] You won't be sorry. [/quote] I'm not, trust me!

OK, I've just ordered the box. The good news is it comes with a bass inside it