gareth

Great looking bass - well done!! Interesting about the pickguard I have a 74ish p bass that has been refinished in pink and has a white guard much like yours - I always thought the guard may not be original but now I think that it may infact be original I would keep the white guard on it

Colin bought my Wasburn Status 1000 Easy transaction and nice bloke Cheers again Gareth

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1317511160' post='1391496'] What an awful position to be in! Lucky bugger. What year is the other one? [/quote] 1977/78

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1317508607' post='1391482'] Because that radio knob one was a steal love em Gareth! [/quote] [quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' timestamp='1317493748' post='1391304'] OMG double vision - what a lovely pair!! Nice radio dial knobs on the bottom one. Did you buy them both at the same time or one first then the other? Interested to know why you went for two the same colour? [/quote] I am gonna get rid of one - just deciding which one!

Pre-EB epoxy preamped rays enjoying the autumn sunshine

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1316249072' post='1376200'] Sorry. I don't agree that this is always the case. I think that many are wrongly impressed that an instrument will be better if it is so-called 'vintage'. They therefore pay a lot of money for something that isn't necessarily better than a new instrument. We have been conditioned by this whole, old instruments are fantastic crap, way of thinking. It verges on propaganda by those who would seek to sell at inflated prices just because of age. I have taken a 'vintage' instrument and played it through an amp. I have then taken a much newer instrument only a couple or years old and played it through the same amp with the same settings. One bass was a pre CBS precision with the other being my AV 62 precision. Of course there were differences as no two basses are the same. Were the differences huge? No. I actually preferred the newer instrument. Ok, you may say that was only two instruments and therefore cannot be used as an argument. However, the 'vintage' instrument was selling at several thousand pounds more then the newer bass. Would I have bought the 'vintage' instrument. Yes I would have - if I had been a collector who had to have a precision of that era! Old instruments are exactly what they say they are - old instruments. Call them vintage if you like. Just don't think that they should be worth what some poor souls pay for them. [/quote] I have told this story before, but when i got back into playing bass about 10 years ago, a friend of mine bought me several precisions to try There were several 60's and a vintage reissue. The vintage reissue was vastly superior to the very tired 60's precisions in all respects and this is the bass i bought and still have - subsequently I realised that its a fullerton vintage reissue