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  1. Hellzero
    Warwick Corvette Standard 2003, made in Germany, black hardware (changed as it was originally chrome) and turned into passive by a previous owner. NO TRADES! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom: €800 Euros (£675 GBP is an approximation and I will only accept payment in Euros)!!! Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible and included in my asking price, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. Here are the specifications : Body: 2 pieces bubinga Neck: 3 pieces ovangkol Fingerboard: wenge Positions: 24 bronze frets (slightly marked) Headstock: 2 + 2 Tuners: Gotoh GB7 Pickups: 2 original Warwick Dynamic Correction Jazz Bass type Preamp: none Controls : volume, blend and tone Bridge: original 2 pieces Warwick Strings spacing at bridge: 19 mm Nut: original Warwick Just-A-Nut Strings spacing at nut: 10 mm (width 38 mm) Scale: 34 inches Hardware colour: black Truss rod: one, dual action, 100% functional Finish: natural oil Country of origin: Germany Serial number: E-099509-03 Year: 17/05/2003 Weight: 4.475 kilos Action : from 1.5 mm under the G string to 2 mm under the E string at 12th position (can even go way lower, but was perfect for me) Will be delivered in a used and worn Warwick Rockbag Deluxe (Musik Produktiv Edition). Non-smoking environment as usual. The bass has been fully set up professionally. It has received a new set of Warwick Red Label nickel round wound strings (45 - 65 - 85 - 105), which really serve this bass. What you see is what you get! Look carefully at the photos taken from different angles and lights to see the real condition, which is very good, with the usual very light scratches and a few very small dongs. Due to severe back problems (67% officially disabled because of it) plus left and right shoulders injury (it's really painful to reach the tuners), I'm selling all the basses I'm not using like this one as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. Don't hesitate to ask for more.
  2. Hellzero
    I've owned and sold Jazz Basses and Precisions from each year between 1964 and 1983, except for 1965, which is quite strange as it was the one I was looking for, you know YOB... All I can say is that the 1964 models I owned had flamed maple necks with Brazilian rosewood fingerboard, my only 1968 Jazz Bass had Lollipop tuners when it was supposed to have the new non ® Fender models, one 1966 Jazz Bass had dots with binding and that the Precisions were totally coherent all over the years. Now, yesterday evening I checked a lot of 1965 and 1966 Jazz Bass models on the internet and saw a lot of 1965's with Lollipop tuners and none with a binding as @Belka said which is quite strange to me and all the written history of Fender, but it would be even more strange if all these were fake... So, from now on, I'll believe that indeed Leo Fender mismatched these two features when interviewed and there must be some corrections done in the books. Thanks @Belka for this as it's really important to me for accurate dating. @Burns-bass : The 1965 is described in the title of the video clip as a late 1965 early 1966 model as Andy Baxter was certainly in doubt too... Not having a rear headstock strap button on CBS models from the messy 1965~1968 years is not that unusual, don't worry. 😉
  3. Hellzero
    This must be it. 😉
  4. Hellzero
    Les guitares et basses électriques.doc
  5. Hellzero
    Nope, you should also read Klaus Blasquiz's book "The Fender Bass", who, IIRC, is the only author to have met and interviewed Leo Fender himself as well as a lot of people involved in Fender's history. So the Lollipop tuners were introduced in 1966, first on the P-Bass and the binding was first used in mid to late 65, but as usual with Fender this does absolutely not mean that the new features were used immediately as they also used existing parts first... Noel Redding joined the Jimi Hendrix Experience in September 1966 and switched to bass at that moment and seemed to have used any bass available at the beginning, including a Dan Electro in Evreux France on the 18th of October 1966 for their first official concert. He then switched to the Jazz Bass for a while, but according to all footage not before 1967, so maybe he bought his Jazz Bass at the moment and it's a 1966, not a 1965, with Lollipop tuners indeed and no binding, but that's absolutely not unusual if you know Fender history... The Noel Redding Signature bass based on his main Jazz Bass is a recreation of a 1965 Jazz Bass with Clover Leaf aka Elephant Ear tuners.
  6. Hellzero
    Phil Jones amongst others have this luggage handle on a few cabs, so no it can't be patented. 😉
  7. Hellzero
    Superb work and I like the luggage handle that I had on a few cabs, it's very useful. Congratulations!
  8. Hellzero
    And Jimmy Haslip who simply took a righty (sixer) bass and played it as a lefty with everything reversed.
  9. Hellzero
    Nope, the new versions of Precision Bass and the Jazz Bass introduced in early 80's with the white pickup cover(s) didn't have any of these ashtrays anymore. The pickguard was white and became even a single ply after some time around 1983. The Jazz Bass ended up with a single ply white integral pickguard around 1983, so no more metallic control plate and the knobs were white too. The colours proposed were Black, Brown Burst, Sienna Burst (reddish Sunburst) and Ivory, that's it. But the quality construction was back after years of sloppy made instruments: thank you Dan Smith!
  10. Hellzero
    This just appeared in Germany and it's really cheap for what it is: https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/sushi-box-fx-c2c-electronics-bassdude-bassman-inspirierter-preamp.52735/
  11. Hellzero
    Check this (my review): And this (another testimony): Link to this combo: https://www.guitarsoundsystems.com/combos-c102x4030036 And the battery pack: https://www.guitarsoundsystems.com/gss-7s35v2-intelligent-lithium-battery-pack-for-guitar-sound-systems-mini-bass-amps-c2x18346407
  12. Hellzero
    You're welcome @Robert Manning. If the seller is willing to let you use a screwdriver, check the pots code. I'm pretty sure these are CTS pots as Fender was using them at the time, so starting with 137, the two next digits being the year and the last two the week, so something like 13781** There should be a stamp too under the pickup, the last 2 digits being the year. Check this ad for all the necessary information in photos: https://www.andybaxterbass.com/collections/fender-precision-bass/products/1979-81-fender-precision-cherry-sunburst
  13. Hellzero
    Also it looks like the seller needs some money very quickly hence the super low price If you decide to pull that trigger, meet the seller and check the bass before buying, don't do a distant deal.
  14. Hellzero
    Lots of crossed messages here. 😉
  15. Hellzero
    The pickup cover is original, Tony. 😉
  16. Hellzero
    Quite cheap for a Fender P-Bass from that period. Everything seems period correct from these photos, including the white pickup cover that was introduced in the early 80's. The S9 serial number is not reliable at all and this bass could be from 1978 to 1981 and as it's got a white pickup cover, I may date it to 1981. To date it more precisely you need to check the stamps, the pots code and other internally hidden clues. At this price tag, I truly think that you can pull the trigger as as fast as you can.
  17. Hellzero
    Can't agree more. GLWYS.
  18. Hellzero
    In fact, officially, it's late 72, early 73 for the transition from 4 to 3 bolts on the Jazz Basses. I don't know why this 1974 is always put upfront. When in doubt, this website is a goldmine, with, sometimes, a very tiny minor "oversight" in the text itself: https://www.guitarhq.com/fender.html
  19. Hellzero
    Here's a link to the stacked linear 50 kOkms with center detent: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alnicov-Guitar-Stacked-Concentric-Potentiometer/dp/B08MPK9Q4J/ And the stacked logarithmic 500 kOhms: https://www.allparts.uk.com/collections/potentiometers/products/stacked-concentric-pots-500k-500k-metric They both come from the same manufacturer. 😉
  20. Hellzero
    I just checked the pot values of your two favourite preamps. The Darkglass has 50 kOkms EQ pots, so a stacked pot is easy to source and a stacked volume 500 kOhms is easy to source too, so 3 pots with the stacked volumes, stacked mids and separate bass or whatever ever configuration you want. For the Spector Tonepump, a stacked volume 500 kOhms is again easy to source, but a stacked 100 kOhms/10 kOhms is quite hard to find, so again 3 pots with the stacked volumes, the separate bass and the separate treble. A killswitch is very easy to implement. If you can use a soldering iron, it's a very easy job.
  21. Hellzero
    I did this to my Acacia Custom 4 and some other basses @NancyJohnson: a stacked knob with two volumes (originally I intended to use a stacked volume and blend, but the cavity is not deep enough and can't be deepened anymore), a stacked knob for bass and treble, plus a Delano stereo pot for the mids and passive tone (so a single knob). As it had two switches, one is active/passive and the other is the mid frequency selection. The preamp is an Aguilar OBP-3.
  22. Hellzero
    You forgot the broken truss rod... 🫣🤪🤦
  23. Hellzero
    Thanks @Cliff Edge, but you don't seem to know that it's something I'm known for and that I also wrote a mémoire (in French) about vintage instruments, which has been shared here. 😉 It's as hard to date a pre CBS, CBS or post CBS Fender than a Dan Smith era model and you have to take everything into account including stamps, known facts and the absolutely non reliable serial numbers. The instrument has to be disassembled to asses its origins and to be able to date it even if some are reluctant to do so. Check with my pseudo and you'll see that I've done this a lot of times just to help when others would have asked for money.
  24. Hellzero
    And to be totally complete, just in case, the Precision Bass never received the 3 bolts tilt neck with the bullet truss rod (introduced in June 1971), but the Telecaster Bass second version introduced in early 1972 was immediately fitted with this new "improved" system. That said 1974 as the transition year for the abovementioned system on the Jazz Bass is just a TalkBass statement... And there are certainly early example of 3 bolts Jazz Bass in the wild as usual with Fender.
  25. Hellzero
    Indeed, but I was simply giving the correct year of introduction of the 3 bolts tilt neck and bullet truss rod, not mentioning at all it was for the Jazz Bass. 😉
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