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I have a set of Redwood bookmatched facings for sale. Extremely nice looking once sanded n sealed. These originally cost me USA $70 + about $30/35 post. Each board measures: Length 23 & 3/4 inches... 650mm Wide 7 & 11/16 inches 196mm Thick .38 of an inch ... 9.6mm Asking £45 with postage to be added. My post office told me about £4/5 postage UK but I'll have to re-check if that includes insurance though I seem to remember it should do up to £50. I pic is the actual wood for sale. The other two pics as to how redwood on a current instrument looks part way through a finish in Tru oil.... the colour changing slightly with different light and angle.
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[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1319719349' post='1417677'] FRETLESS CUSTOM 4 STRING BASS…….. £850 ovno … no case. Specifications:… Lightweight 6 lb 12 oz. SINGLE piece Swamp Ash body wood finished with eight coats of "Tru Oil". Three piece rock maple wood neck. 34" Scale. Nut width @ 1.5+ inches/almost 40mm. ( A little over a Jazz bass width)... 12th "fret" @ 2.1"/55mm. Neck depth: Nut … almost 1"/ 25mm …. 12th fret..almost 1 1/8th" 27mm. Ebony fingerboard @ 6.5mm middle thickness. Approx. compound radius of 10" nut end to 15". Fingerboard has had a coat of Yamaha Bore oil. Large 3mm side "black" abalone dots. Note..side position dots are where the fret(s) would have been. The 1st and 2nd octave positions have double dots to be played centre of these two dots. The neck is a bolt on design, joined by four recessed alan key head bolts that thread through the body into brass threaded inserts into neck heel wood. Maple neck and headstock rear finish is Danish oil. Headstock front finish is "Tru oil". Headstock rear has a Walnut veneer. Seymour Duncan "Active Jazz AJJ" pickups. (Single battery power quoted on SD site as approx. 1000 hours battery life). Tone and Volume controls for each pickup. Stereo barrel jack output, engages battery when the jack plug is inserted. Schaller black "3D" bridge used for string width, height and intonation setting. Currently approx. 19 mm string spacing. Schaller black machine heads. Currently strung with "Galli" nickel strings of 105/85/65/45 gauge. (I do have an mp3 soundclip but will not try to load it here, please PM me for it. Too difficult at present to load anything above 1.3Mb onto Basschat). (I have another fretless bass in UK Rippled Ash/same hardware etc slight change in string height/neck to body setting). The bass was initially requested to be made for a shop selling new, custom and cheaper instruments. My custom built basses have usually sold from £1150-£1250. The instrument can be seen in NE Hants/Bordon/Farnham/Hindhead area. I play fretless bass as a pro player and have designed - built my own basses for many years. I have usually only built basses for other players on order. [/quote] bump
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FRETLESS CUSTOM 4 STRING BASS…….. £750 … no case. (Was £850) Specifications:… Lightweight 6 lb 12 oz. SINGLE piece Swamp Ash body wood finished with eight coats of "Tru Oil". Three piece rock maple wood neck. 34" Scale. Nut width @ 1.5+ inches/almost 40mm. ( A little over a Jazz bass width)... 12th "fret" @ 2.1"/55mm. Neck depth: Nut … almost 1"/ 25mm …. 12th fret..almost 1 1/8th" 27mm. Ebony fingerboard @ 6.5mm middle thickness. Approx. compound radius of 10" nut end to 15". Fingerboard has had a coat of Yamaha Bore oil. Large 3mm side "black" abalone dots. Note..side position dots are where the fret(s) would have been. The 1st and 2nd octave positions have double dots to be played centre of these two dots. The neck is a bolt on design, joined by four recessed alan key head bolts that thread through the body into brass threaded inserts into neck heel wood. Maple neck and headstock rear finish is Danish oil. Headstock front finish is "Tru oil". Headstock rear has a Walnut veneer. Seymour Duncan "Active Jazz AJJ" pickups. (Single battery power quoted on SD site as approx. 1000 hours battery life). Tone and Volume controls for each pickup. Stereo barrel jack output, engages battery when the jack plug is inserted. Schaller black "3D" bridge used for string width, height and intonation setting. Currently approx. 19 mm string spacing. Schaller black machine heads. Currently strung with "Galli" nickel strings of 105/85/65/45 gauge. ( mp3 soundclip available, please PM me for it. Too difficult at present to load anything above 1.3Mb onto Basschat). [color=#0000ff](I have another fretless bass in UK Rippled Ash/same hardware etc. slight change in string height/neck to body setting). [/color][color=#ff0000]THIS ONE NOW SOLD.[/color] The bass was initially requested to be made for a shop selling new, custom and cheaper instruments. My custom built basses have usually sold from £1150-£1250. The instrument can be seen in NE Hants/Bordon/Farnham/Hindhead area. I play fretless bass as a pro player and have designed - built my own basses for many years. I have usually only built basses for other players on order.
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Excellent comms with 'Brick' and all went well with his arranging courier service to Dundee from Hampshire. Nice one 'Brick'.
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[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1315418698' post='1365602'] SOLD ............. £300. Markbass 2x10 sitting in my garage that I haven't used for a while. Originally asked £330. It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. This cab is loud and lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. I am now using a 15' and 2x10 Traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. Easy reach of A3/M3/M25... . [/quote] SOLD
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[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1315418698' post='1365602'] £300. Markbass 2x10 sitting in my garage that I haven't used for a while. Originally asked £330. It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. This cab is loud and lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. I am now using a 15' and 2x10 Traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. Easy reach of A3/M3/M25... . [/quote] Bump
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[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1315418698' post='1365602'] £300. Markbass 2x10 sitting in my garage that I haven't used for a while. Originally asked £330. It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. This cab is loud and lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. I am now using a 15' and 2x10 Traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. Easy reach of A3/M3/M25... . [/quote] Bump
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[quote name='stephent' timestamp='1316761601' post='1382390'] Hi I am having problems uploading my images into the amps and cabs marketplace. If I use the basic uploader method it seems to do sit around a while but nothing happens. If I use the flash app it gets to about 2mb and then comes up with 'error in IO' or similar. I have done it before (before the facelift) on the site from the same computer etc. Has anything changed - anybody any ideas to help? Thanks [/quote] Similar problems for my 'Headless Bass' post. I also tried both upload types with the flash app. working but it would only allow 3 picks to upload. After 50 mins I had to give up. I've also noticed today that I had to edit my post as many words had been 'interupted' with other 'computer' speak terminology.
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[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1315418698' post='1365602'] As stated for Basschatters, make a decent offer, all considered. I have a Markbass 2x10 sitting in the garage for sale. Haven't used it for quite a while. I put it out for £330 recently but if anyone on Basschat makes a decent offer they can collect (or arrange courier). It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. It is a very loud cab, lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. It became redundant when I bought a 15' Traveller with a 2x10 traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. . [/quote] BUMP
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[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1315418698' post='1365602'] I have a Markbass 2x10 sitting in the garage for sale. Haven't used it for quite a while. I put it out for £330 recently but if anyone on Basschat makes a decent offer they can collect (or arrange courier). It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. It is a very loud cab, lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. It became redundant when I bought a 15' Traveller with a 2x10 traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. . [/quote] Bump
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[quote name='mybass' timestamp='1315418698' post='1365602'] I have a Markbass 2x10 sitting in the garage for sale. Haven't used it for quite a while. I put it out for £330 recently but if anyone on Basschat makes a decent offer they can collect (or arrange courier). It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. It is a very loud cab, lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. It became redundant when I bought a 15' Traveller with a 2x10 traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. . [/quote] BUMP
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[quote name='mybass' post='1365602' date='Sep 7 2011, 07:04 PM']I have a Markbass 2x10 sitting in the garage for sale. Haven't used it for quite a while. I put it out for £340 recently but if anyone on Basschat makes a decent offer they can collect (or arrange courier). It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. It is a very loud cab, lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. It became redundant when I bought a 15' Traveller with a 2x10 traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. I WILL BE TRAVELLING TO THE ESSEX/ BILLERICAY AREA THIS SATURDAY 17TH SEPT. AFTERNOON...M25 FROM GUILDFORD AREA .[/quote] BUMP
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[quote name='mybass' post='1365602' date='Sep 7 2011, 07:04 PM']I have a Markbass 2x10 sitting in the garage for sale. Haven't used it for quite a while. I put it out for £340 recently but if anyone on Basschat makes a decent offer they can collect (or arrange courier). It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. It is a very loud cab, lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. It became redundant when I bought a 15' Traveller with a 2x10 traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas.[/quote] Bump
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[quote name='mybass' post='1365602' date='Sep 7 2011, 07:04 PM']I have a Markbass 2x10 sitting in the garage for sale. Haven't used it for quite a while. I put it out for £330 recently but if anyone on Basschat makes a decent offer they can collect (or arrange courier). It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. It is a very loud cab, lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. It became redundant when I bought a 15' Traveller with a 2x10 traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. On Saturday 10th Sept I'll be driving from Hants/ Surrey to Corby /A1M for a gig if anyone on route is intere.sted[/quote] BUMP
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SOLD ............. £300. Markbass 2x10 sitting in my garage that I haven't used for a while. Originally asked £330. It is the older style with 'black face' and twin front ports. This cab is loud and lightweight with plenty of bottom end for its size. The cab is in good condition, no fabric tears or dents in the front grill. 400watt/8ohm cab. I am now using a 15' and 2x10 Traveller. Based on the A3 NE Hampshire areas. Easy reach of A3/M3/M25... .
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what do you do when your guitarist breaks a string mid set?
mybass replied to skidder652003's topic in Gigs
[quote name='skidder652003' post='1298705' date='Jul 10 2011, 01:53 AM']So there we were, in the middle of "just got paid" / "American woman" by ZZ Top/ The guess Who - in the pub tonight when the guitarist busts a string, goes out of tune and stops playing. What would you guys do in that situatiion? Me and the drummer improvised into a dodgy jazz funk thing for a couple of minutes whilst said guitarist fumbles for new strings, restrings and retunes. We discussed it after the gig, and as its happened before and likely to happen again we think we should have a standby "question and answer" thing going on between myself and the drummer to cover the guitarists ass. Its really panicky when it happens in a room full of punters! Any ideas, experiences? Dont suggest he gets a standby axe cos he hasnt got a pot to piss in [/quote] DRUM SOLO!!!!! -
[quote name='Mod_Machine' post='1312392' date='Jul 22 2011, 09:41 AM']Hi, Ive changed the neck (electrics, paint work, pickups, etc etc) on an old jedson to make it something else entirely.(photos going up on build thread soon) I played it last night for a few hours and have a real prob with longer term playing. The neck ive used is a short scale from an epiphone eb0. Its lovely to play BUT ive retained the large elephant ear tuning pegs and they weigh a ton. Look lovely, but weigh a ton. This is obviously resulting in neck dive which the old epiphone EB0 also suffered from. So other than replacing the tuning pegs for a lighter set (which i dont want to do based on purely on looks!) what else can i do? I was contemplating couter balancing the bass by adding some sort of weights to the other end of the bass which may increase the weight of the bass but ultimately make it more playable? Any advice about doing that and best way to achieve a nicer balance to save my fretting hand from substantial cramp?[/quote] The top 'horn' of your bass comes to the 15th fret area. Fender 'style' basses come to the 12th fret area. This helps maintain balance of the instrument and for many players is a little easier to play the bass down the low end (F F* G) than modern balanced basses where the top horn only reaches to the 15th fret area. Have you tried the old acoustic folk strap idea that goes from the bridge end strap button and ties onto the headstock (or even move the strap button to the back of the headstock if this balance works). I seem to remember some years ago a company, probably American, bringing out an 'extension' top horn that was fixed somehow to the (back of) the bass and extended to the 12th fret area.
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[quote name='fretless' post='1310393' date='Jul 20 2011, 03:06 PM']arco 5 string (e to high c) bass for sale supplied and made by luthier Toby Chennell and owned/played by me since last year bass has proved very helpful in making the transition from bass guitar to double bass as the Arco scale length is the same as bass guitar scale length but the sound is probably as close as you are going to get to a DB without playing a "full sized" instrument - plus the arco can be bowed just like a full sized version. The reduced body size also helps transport issues. I have gigged the Arco for swing band work and concert band work - I have fitted a fishman full circle pickup and the amplified sound retains the acoustic nature of the unamplified instrument. please see Toby's website (enter Toby Chennell into search engine)for full details of these basses and sound samples bass has soft cover and will include fishman pickup or reduce price by £200 if you do not want this pickup. looking for £1200 with pickup or £1000 without pickup towards my next double bass ! prefer collection - but happy to travel reasonable distance to facilitate same.[/quote] Could help if we knew where you were...nice instrument, I've never seen these before.
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[quote name='ash' post='1288097' date='Jun 30 2011, 06:57 PM']Looking to move this on it's a Squier JV P bass from around 1984, it plays and sounds great and appears original with the exception of the control knobs/extra pot, a couple of replaced screws and a Seymour Duncan Basslines Jazz pickup at the bridge. The neck is lovely with a nice amber vintage patina to the laquer. There are dings and scuffs but nothing nasty, the electrics are fine and there is play on the trussrod. The neckplate is stamped with the JV serial. It has a lovely tobacco sunburst and off white scratchplate, no case included. JV prices are going crazy for totally original basses so I guess with the extra pickup this isn't a collector's piece but a proper player's bass, 520 anyone? [attachment=83769:IMGP2135.JPG] [attachment=83768:IMGP2128.JPG] [attachment=83770:IMGP2132.JPG][/quote] The full pic of the bass is 'wobbly' so can you tell us about the bridge please? Looks like a quick string release type.
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[quote name='Danbass7' post='1286804' date='Jun 29 2011, 06:52 PM']Ive got a Peavey Mk 8 head on two 210 TX cabs, both of the cabs instantly stopped working recently during a practice and the sound now being emitted is clear but extremely quiet. I know the head is still fine and its the cabs that are the issue due to the head having a full service earlier on today. What will the problem usually be in this situation and is it going to be worth fixing them? Cheers[/quote] Some amps also have fuses inside the casing, that is, not accessible unless the amp is unscrewed and slid out of its case. The fuses simply look like clear glass fragile mini tubes with fuse wire visible inside and I think they are quick blow ones as in, sudden voltage peaks and they will blow to protect the rest of the unit. These can blow! IF you decide to investigate, make sure the amp has been switched off for 24 hours and remember the circuit can hold a surpise charge for quite some time. I've experienced it! Also, the tweeter units/crossovers can also 'blow' but it would be unusal for both to go together.
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[quote name='bozzie' post='1257684' date='Jun 5 2011, 07:58 PM'][b][/b]i'm looking to trade my MB 1x15 cab (never been gigged) , bought new Feb 2011, still have the original packaging. for either a MB 2x10 cab. Or maybe a Little Mark amp. Thanks for lookng. please note i would consider selling this for [i]around[/i] £325[b][/b][/quote] PM'd @ 6,53pm
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[quote name='tommorichards' post='1276090' date='Jun 20 2011, 05:16 PM']Hello. At the moment, i am making an explorer type bass, and i was originally planning to paint it a colour, but after seeing it taking shape, im deciding to clearcoat it. Question is, the woods used are yellow pine and sapele, and i was wondering what can i use to bring out the grain. And heres a picture of it unfinished to help you answer. [/quote] I use "Tru oil". Basically gunstock oil and purchased from gun shops. (There is a grain 'filler' coat available pre the main coats). Its only about £5 a bottle so maybe try some on the offcuts first.