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[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1399889315' post='2448574'] £50?! Yikes. What happened to it? [/quote] Dunno, probably still sat in it's case at his parents' place, we're talking about 15 years ago now! My mate left the country but his dad is an active musician so it's probably getting some sort of use.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1399800869' post='2447684'] Nearly 11lbs, sadly. I had the matching 'Falcon', too. A brace of black beauties. [attachment=162434:raven1.jpg][attachment=162435:wash1.jpg] [/quote] My mate's was suburst and came in a fitted hard case for £50, he didn't like it at all but I thought it was pretty decent.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1399638087' post='2446134'] Makes my back twinge just looking at it! I love these, still miss my old one but they are just too heavy. And that is a cracking price. [/quote] My mate had the guitar version, tiny little body on it but it weighed an absolute ton. Don't wanna think what the bass version weighs!

£400 is a top price, well done bud! Why does my local Crack Converters never have anything like this in?

Personally I would have a gear clearout go for the best of both worlds! I would sell both basses and get one that is very light yet sounds the way you want it to. Does Prosebass still make those tasty little short scale headless basses? Maybe the little Promethean/Harley Benton/Redsub combos would be a good fit too, .small and pretty light yet capable of providing suitable backline at moderate volumes. There was one for sale for around £200 recently IIRC.

I poured orange juice on my cereal once.

I like that! You would have to stick it through one of these though:

Yeah, now that is a total wreck!

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1399032318' post='2440200'] It may not even have been a bass. The seller refers to it as 'a usable historic timepiece'... which is probably a wind-up. [/quote] It certainly seems like the mechanism for some sort of joke....

Plus we don't know what it was like before the refin. It may have had an extra pickup rout, an active conversion or a previous refin. Maybe from the 80s when people weren't so concerned with alleged pieces of musical history!

Also important to remember that those spotty youths who just come in to try out gear don't stay young and penniless forever. It's no coincidence that the local shops that offered the best service when I had little money got a lot of my custom when I had lots of disposable income.

I think they advise only using 3 of their "8ohm" cabs as other manufacturers' 8ohm cabs might cause problems. Again it's numbers trickery to acheive a USP. I wish they'd stop doing stuff like this, just being honest about specs and letting the product speak for itself should be enough. All the BS just makes people not trust them, myself included.

I think some of their amps run down to about 2.6ohms too, not sure which so don't qoute me on that. I've pretty much given up on TC and their numbers games! Other manufacturers do it though, my EA cab was meant to be 8ohm (1x10 with tweeter) but when I replaced the driver I found that it was labelled as 4ohms, might explain why some people had problems when running two with 4ohm minimum heads.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1398761309' post='2437234'] I'm gonna take a guess that to allow 3 cabs to be run, the amp can either run to a lower Ω than the 4Ω they state, or the cabs are a higher Ω than the 8Ω or 4Ω, or (most likely) both. [/quote] BGM tested the RC cabs and found the 2x10 to be about 10ohms and the 2x12 to be around 11ohms. No magic involved, just TC playing around with numbers in order to sell stuff again.

Why not? It's just another P bass, nothing particularly special about it.

Probably the same process as the other finishes they offered, I had a gold leaf one. I'd imagine it's like the Photo Flame finishes you see on some Fenders and Yamahas.

I didn't have any problems with my Cort version either, in fact it's a really comfortable bass which is lightweight and compact.

Just spotted this TSB on Gumtree, £600 but a lush colour: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/1980-aria-pro-ii-tsb-550-32-medium-scale-through-neck-bass-guitar/1059039522#photo-content

Oh dear! When I see these I actually feel compelled to buy them and sand them back, kinda like when you're buying a pet and you take pity on the sickly runt so you can take it home to nurse it back to health. Then I look at the prices and think "f**k that".

There's something else I have my eye on too which isn't helping! Gonna have a pedal sale soon to raise some money.

I got a reply from the seller, the dealership was A&C Hamilton in Preston and apparently they said it wasn't a Fender too. It's up as a replica now, she actually seems honest enough and not really in the know.

Yeah it's getting to be more than I'd want to pay too with 5 days to go. I bought and sold my Cort Curbow for £180 and I think this will top that.

That's the answer to the question about where it was made, MIA, MIM or MIJ. In the other question about whether it was a factory fretless or not they say this: [i]"Fender do make them though, and the dealership authenticated the neck, saying it gives a more jazzy sound,almost like a double bass "[/i] So apparently a Fender dealer has authenticated the neck.

This looks wrong to me: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Jazz-Fretless-Guitar-/171313712649?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27e317ce09 The headstock seems to be entirely the wrong shape, dunno if it's just the angle or from a certain era but it looks odd, far too skinny with the logo obscured. Also the truss adjustment is at the headstock end, seem to remember the odd MIM being like this but may be wrong.