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mybass

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  1. This is a U.K. dealership in the south of England...https://theguitarden.co.uk
  2. I just saw this poster for the new Guildford Jazz Festival happening this March and thought it was pretty cool.
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  3. Yes ..... I can package as best as poss. but where to?
  4. Whoooo me......well not an avid fan but the Ox, who I did meet, was a thunderous player, no prisoners taken, marvelous.
  5. SOLD... As per the title, mine since new, replacement power section by MarkBass’s U.K. repairer Real Music. The usual chassis marks from living in its zippered bag. This is the wholly Italian produced amp. Price is for the amp and carry bag. I don’t know what post charges would be if needed. I have a limited time to sell due to journeys forthcoming. I am in NE Hants. Come and try it out, cabs available to play through.
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  6. Thanks Alembic....its got all the 'parts' and sounds meaty beefy big n bouncy!
  7. Yes Monkey, I thought their refret price looked good.
  8. Many years ago Knight Guitars replaced a total new long scale neck for my Gibson Recording bass, absolutely spot on, colour finish to using the headstock facia, fretwork was superb. I would think they will still have that high standard of work going for them.....well this chap thought so ... "I smash them into a thousand pieces, knight guitars put them back together again and make them play." - Pete Townshend, December 2005
  9. Sold Now at £650 I've held back about this sale for a while but as two other of my basses take precedent for gigging, this one is up for selling. It has a beautiful Claro Walnut book-matched top over a flamed Sycamore body. The neck is a three piece figured maple. Fingerboard is Macassar Ebony. The backplate has magnets holding it on. The bridge is a Hipshot. Tuners are Gotoh GB4. Pickups are Seymour Duncan stacked jazz. There are four control knobs seen but I never fitted an active pre-amp for them so it currently has Volume/Pan/Tone controls, all passive. The metal knobs have abalone tops with a bit more abalone added to the body and headstock. The strap buttons are large so better to hang the strap onto. The neck is bolted to the body with brass inserts. The finish on the body has about ten coats of Tru Oil ( Gunstock oil) and the neck is finished with danish oil. The scale length is 33" and it has great string tension responding well to harmonics. It is a 'PS Bass' made by me and as seen and heard at the 2019 BassBash in Chertsey. This bass was built around 2014 and did a series of gigs with me before I returned to my all ash bodied fretless. Well set up, plays like a charm! It is lightweight @ 7lbs, a small body and almost 43” / 112cm long. Nut width is a slither under 1.5"/38mm and it is approx. 0.75"/19mm thick. At the twelth fret it is 2.12"/54mm wide. Side dots are black 3mm, easy to see! It has a few minor marks but is in overall very nice condition. All the wood and parts are top grade, the Claro Walnut cost a fair bit to import from the USA. and the sycamore wasn't the cheapest block for that wood. I have a soft case on hand for it. All of the above define this as a great smaller bodied bass to play and the wood combination sounds excellent. I welcome any serious potential buyer to visit and play through your own or my (MarkBass) bass gear. (The first picture on the red chairs is from the Basschat day last year taken by 'SivliaBluejay'....hope you don't mind Bluejay.....Please note the clear 'scratchplate as used on acoustic guitars has been removed).
  10. Yes, that could well be another cost to get a luthier to route the body out more.
  11. This may be an easier option for you and the post shows £130, on Basschat. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/396012-fender-jazz-pick-up-model-75-marcus-miller-preamp-knobs/?tab=comments#comment-3972352
  12. Where are these from krispn ?
  13. Yes, many moons ago I took a 70s P Bass to Kent Armstrong who was rewinding pickups using a breadboard with a rotating arm and clock to count the windings. He took my P bass pickup(s) off, uncovered them and used a blade to cut through the black magnetic cotton type windings. They immediately frayed up as they weren’t potted in wax or other stuff. He explained what was happening with Fender pickups at the time using cheaper materials and how they weren’t producing good tone. He rewound the P Bass (and a subsequent jazz pickup) with proper job wire and potted it in wax.
  14. Its also a case of making certain before installing a bridge, that the base plate is flat for the best contact to the body. I've had bridges from two well known companies that needed grinding work to flatten them. One company advised I screw down hard on the (thick) plate to help flatten it when installing. Give me a break!
  15. I’ve sold stuff on gumtree to local area people.
  16. I'm not sure what the 'latest' version is but this may help though you are likely to have checked Thomann...https://www.thomann.de/gb/markbass_new_york_121.htm
  17. SOLD PRICE IS £50 I have a very tidy Fender Guitar amp, practice or even small gig amp at 30 watts 8 ohm, great small amp for doodling about with, built in effects and second channel overdrive type input....switchable with a footswitch that I don’t have for it, comes complete with a cardboard case! ive had it about 6/7 years and bought it from a guy who had never used it on stage, like me, but it’s in nice clean condition. The only thing I’ve had to do was replace the internal fuse some years ago as they do occasionally 'wear down' a bit. I’m based in NE Hants....sometimes travel to Evesham Vale.
  18. And your doctors is ...? 😄 Glad you got through the gig okay if not ‘over the top’ a bit. Maybe still have a good look at positioning etc in playing, I just hate hearing of an operation going to happen before a non invasive technique could suffice. A simple change of elbow position pointed out to me by my teacher when I was learning double bass stopped an ongoing wrist pain.
  19. The alternatives of finding a top osteopath may benefit before surgery as the last resort. My U.K. practitioner immediately asked me how I held the bass, height and angle. I see him once maybe twice a year and it is quite amazing how a problem in the wrist may be sourced from a shoulder or elbow misalignment. I’m not saying that’s what your problem is but, it may well be coming from another part of your body and not the actual wrist.
  20. Maybe the sound guys gear wasn’t working correctly?
  21. Sometimes it’s the sound of fretted bass that isn’t ‘right’ on the night. Im told by my bass friends and punters alike that my fretless basses have the ability to be heard with note attack and clarity, no matter what flavour song the band is playing. I used to struggle with this level of clarity with fretted basses, that was my ‘thing’ about fretless over fretted. I can use fretted on some songs but on other songs the fretted bass sound seems to disappear on stage.
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