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Yeah that was my advert! You can buy them on Amazon (see link above) if you don't fancy trudging around Ikea.

I used one of these, someone on here linked me to it when I was in a similar situation: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GMM74T0/ref=asc_df_B00GMM74T051942047/?tag=googshopuk-21&creative=22146&creativeASIN=B00GMM74T0&linkCode=df0&hvadid=214462264766&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17959555060353432343&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046574&hvtargid=pla-421630808123 Cheap and cheerful, does the job admirably and weighs nothing. I no longer have the rig but you can see it in use here:

Tbh with those 7 string conversions I think if he did the alterations on some spare saddles and included the original ones (along with the accompanying tuner and saddle screw) in the sale he wouldn't get as much stick. As it stands he's devalued a perfectly good 7 string that someone could be learning on, mind you perceived worth is an odd thing depending on who you talk to, some of his guitars do sell for those inflated prices so maybe he's adding value...... In my eyes that's a perfectly good Korean Peavey/Saein (I assume any Korean guitar is a Saein, Samick or Cort with the odd exception, anybody know where this was made?) that is hideously overpriced and will take effort and more money to put right.

He's not in the entertainment business, he's a hobbyist guitar seller/bodger/converter with limited skills and some odd ideas, there are worse eBay sellers who set out to deceive, at least MDP takes close up pictures of the ugly bits of the guitars he sells. Almost with a sense of pride in fact! And yeah those converted bridges are pretty standard practice in the world of MDP, I suppose even though they look odd they work to some extent - until the G string slips over the end of the crudely cut saddle anyway. Not sure what the deal is with the electrical tape over half the pickup though:

I think he's mainly a guitar player, perhaps criticising his playing isn't the ideal thing to do. The moment he sticks a single gold machine head on it and swaps the pickup out for a slanty single coil I'll be right here though!

The old Cort Curbow was luthite with an ebanol board, just sounded like a bass to me when I had one. Ibanez made the Ergodyne out of luthite also, although they're probably Corts in disguise. IIRC luthite and ebanol are both resins of some sort. The board on my fretless is ebanol and it's fantastic to play, I sold my old fretlesses with a Pau Ferro and rosewood boards when I got that.

Just sounds like a Jazz to me.

I no longer have an EUB but I use the Fishman Platinum Pro with electric fretted and fretless bass, it's certainly a very clean sounding pedal if that's what you want. Doesn't seem to impart any particular voicing on your bass which is what I was after, sounds excellent with a fretless. Has lots of handy features for upright players like a notch filter, phase invert, high pass filter and brilliance control as well as a great tuner and a quality DI. Not particularly compact though.

We picked up our 735A cabs for £900 the pair in mint condition, that included quality covers and a pair of pricey winch stands (£115 each online), we also got our matching Art subs for just over £500 for the pair, again with quality covers. Surprisingly we found them on a PA selling page rather than a bass forum, they tend to be more popular there! I dare say you'll find quite a few for sale on PA/DJ forums and probably on metal guitar forums too.

For some reason guitarists really do like MarkBass gear, I think the bright colour confuses them.

We have the RCF 735 cabs as tops, however they are full range and before we bought subs they handled a full 5 piece band with bass and keys without breaking a sweat. Serious full range sound at high volumes from two compact speakers, I don't think a band can do any better for £1.5k. I would be happy just using one as a FRFR cab on any stage I play, in fact you would barely get them ticking over. Trust me, most bass cabs won't touch a single 735 for low end at volume. The QSC I use is configurable to cross over at different frequencies (or not at all) as well as having DSP presets for different usage scenarios.

I always liked the sound of my bass through a PA anyway, in fact bass straight into the desk is probably my favourite bass tone! Pros and cons of swapping an amp out for an FRFR (for me anyway) are as follows: Pros - Can carry the entire thing with one hand. - Loads of better placement options on stage especially if you're tall, points at your head and can be put anywhere down to small size. - Sounds similar to what the audience hear, a clear representation of my bass. - Works very well with existing DI/EQ pedals and pedalboards. - Was £100 better off after selling my bass amp. - Takes up much less space in the house. - Set up in a couple of minutes. Cons - Doesn't look as nice as my old Markbass rig. I can't emphasize the placement part enough, I've always struggled with hearing myself due to being tall which was corrected when I got the MarkBass Club cabs as they tilt back. However that posed a new problem as I either had to find space where I could have 3ft of bass cabs on the floor or have one on top of the other in a wedge position. The small size of the QSC completely eliminates this, it fits in between the legs of our lights stand so even on a tiny stage there is always room for it, I can have it at the front of stage pointing back and it doesn't look out of place too. Worth noting that my amp is purely for stage monitoring, we have a decent RCF PA which does all the donkey work and I was using compact DI/EQ boxes like the Fishman and MXR M80 to DI directly without any amp sims. Swapping my amp out for an FRFR was the logical step for me, should have done it years ago.

Although the listing does mention "Easy for brick layer and farmer fingering" so maybe he has a different audience in mind?

I remember a lot of them from the last time I looked, that Washburn bass has been listed for a while. Browsing through those sold listings I see someone has paid over £300 for this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wide-neck-electric-guitar-for-big-hands-Peavey-PCGC-/192440230917?hash=item2cce54e405%3Ag%3AuC4AAOSwYVlaRShi&nma=true&si=ti6zvM5%2FcFms5S4QvWcmVDLZgN8%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Difficult to say anything without seeming mean spirited (and MDP seems like a nice enough bloke) but I hope the buyer doesn't ever need to resell that at any point.

Dave Pybus wasn't it, not John? You're probably looking at around £200 tops value for it, weird shape and defunct off-brand doesn't help it. A little shop near me had a ton of Maverick stuff in when they came onto the scene, mighty fine instruments but they look very dated now and hold little appeal. Unless you want it yourself or are prepared to hold out for a sale then value it very low in a trade deal, chances are you'll be stuck with it.

Amazing how close Tokai have got to the original Gibson design, the headstock comes broken off as standard! That's attention to detail right there.

Bit disappointed it hasn't had any tuners swapped out for odd coloured ones, no inappropriate pickups wedged into existing routs, no random volume or tone knobs from a different guitar and most imprtantly no strings removed to make it a 2 string bass for men who do manual labour (and obviously all have huge fingers with no hand to eye co-ordination). Missed opportunity there methinks, still it goes without saying that the action will be within the breadth of a gnats hair of a nun's mantlepiece, or something. Rather sadly a lot of the guitars he has up for sale are the same ones he had a year ago.

This annoys me too, surely the cost saving can't be that much? I bought a pack of two for a few quid inc delivery a while ago, they're only marginally more expensive for the end user to buy than a regular Speakon. To the OP I would just use Speakon, it's a much better way of hooking up cabs to amps and can't be pulled out accidentally.

Crikey:

I'm picturing this with a drum kit sat next to it:

Probably some outside the box maverick idea like PA facing the audience and monitors firing at the musicians?

Well, that's the MarkBass rig sold and out the door, I'm now officially ampless.

That actually looks better than my Behringer one as it has a 3.5mm output as well as phono, mine has a headset mic input instead that I'll never use. That's annoying!

https://www.reddogmusic.co.uk/catalog/product/913281/citronic-qmix3 This looks strangely similiar to the Behringer Xenyx302USB that I use only with battery power as well as USB. You can use the USB as a line in on channel 2 as well on a Windows tablet/laptop, don't know if this would work on an iPad but you could always just use the phono inputs.

Quick update on the QSC K10.2 - done about a dozen gigs with it now and it's been fantastic, no lack of grunt and handles an active 5 string with no issues playing motown, soul, disco, pop and a bit of old rock. I'm using it on the default setting at the moment although the bass amp setting was also great, both give lots of volume and clarity. Input B is configurable for a high impedance input so it doesn't matter if your preamp pedal can't drive a regular powered monitor properly. I just use it with the Fishman Pro Platinum, leaving most settings flat apart from adding compression and backing off on the brilliance control a little. Get a go-to sound without any fiddling, just gives a faithful representation of my bass. The real revelation has been placement options with it being so small, having more room on stage while still being able to hear myself clearly is a massive bonus for me as I'm pretty tall, don't think I'll ever go back to using a traditional amp. My MarkBass rig is being picked up by it's new owner on Wednesday and my BFM Omni 10.5 is also up for sale. Keeping the little EA cab though, that thing it too cute to sell although I no longer have an amp to power it.