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SOLD: Fender Roscoe Beck Signature 5 String bass, SOLD
gareth replied to silverfoxnik's topic in Basses For Sale
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*ON HOLD* G&L L2000 E-Series 1981 Old Headstock (Wal Sound!)
gareth replied to nap's topic in Basses For Sale
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[quote name='The Hat' timestamp='1455446230' post='2979082'] Well I've bought it now. Thought the sale was gonna fall through which is why I asked the original question. However I'm now the proud owner of an Fender American Jazz. To me it's quality and feels so nice to me [/quote]it would do, that's the feeling you get when you buy something. The real time to evaluate you purchase is when you have had and used the bass a lot. Let's hear from you then about your purchase
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So it's when the blue light goes out that the battery is flat? When the light is on and blue, the battery is ok? From an active/battery hating basschater
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So am I right in saying that when the blue light is on the battery is ok but when it is not on the battery needs replacing?
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[quote name='Luulox' timestamp='1455393288' post='2978813'] Depends who's selling it [/quote] + 1
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Always get praise for my tone Always use TE
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And People Wonder Why Guitar Shops Are Closing.....
gareth replied to phil.c60's topic in General Discussion
[quote name='phil.c60' timestamp='1454939475' post='2974372'] I have broken another Fender instrument lead. No big deal, except I'm quite careful with my gear, and it's the second one in months. It's a tweedy one, which I like, and it's broken at the jack plug entry as the shrinky tube they use is not very stiff and does not support the lead terribly well. That's also what happened to the last one. "Aha" says my guitarist mate "you need some of those Whirlwind ones. They're not cheap but they are the mutt's nut's". I look online, I ring a local -ish (25 minute drive) guitar shop who advertises them and ask: "Do you have these, I want two 8' ones and an 18' one, all tweedy, all with sliver stripe" "yes" says man "I've got a whole wall of them, come on down". Sunday morning, guitar friend and I pop off down there for a look see and to spend some money. Uninterested spotty youth says "they are all there, that's all we've got, there's non anywhere else" and points to a smallish rack with a lot of Fender leads, and some Whirlwind leads but not the ones I want. "Are you sure" I ask "as I rang and someone said you'd got loads of them" "That's all we've got, there's no more anywhere else....." like a stuck record. I express my displeasure at having our time wasted: spotty youth doesn't really give a s*** makes no effort to offer to order them, can't wait to get back to whatever he was doing before we ruined his Sunday morning by wanting to buy something. I won't go there again. Ever. Even though it's the nearest one to where I live. I don't suppose my mate will go there again either. Will I miss it if it goes? Not really.I'll just order them online from Nevada or Anderton's like I should have done in the first place (but I did want to see one this time so I could make my mind up that they were worth the money) What part of "Service" don't these places get? Oh - and in case you're interested, it's "Guitar Sound" in Chichester. I don't normally "Name & Shame" but on this occasion I'm so pi**ed off I will. [/quote]it must be a miserable time for any retail shop business. They've got rent, rates, etc to pay and what do they give you that you cannot get online at the same or probably lower prices. The retail shops that will survive will be the ones yesterday are innovative and/or run a mail order/internet/wholesale business side by side. Me I hate shopping in shops but I love internet shopping. The Levi's I like are 35 waist 32 leg. These are available in usa but not here. If I go to debenhams I have to pay £90 for a size I don't want, usually 36 waist. So I get them online, often used for about £20 delivered. Who buys new musical instruments and why? I buy them used at 2/3rds or half shop price. Basses are just wood, plastic, magnets and wires. Where's the risk in buying used? "Retail therapy" it's just a trap to keep the rats on the wheel of work, you can never have enough stuff. Get off the wheel -
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[quote name='Twincam' timestamp='1454343622' post='2968751'] It is clear that within the Mexico factory there is 2 tiers of bass. There standard models and probably some of the cheaper models and then the more expensive models seem to get the pick of the woods more time spent on them and some better quality often usa hardware. As I discovered with my older mim passive p special. They had at the time made a thing about saying they used better woods etc etc. [/quote]also remember that the passive p special took over from the fender "California" p special, which used USA parts but were assembled in Mexico.
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