prowla

I've been working on the fence in my Rickenbackyard.

I got it from someone at work (actually, it was £50 and included the tuners). It lived on a Precision body for a while and then I swapped it to a Jazz; it's also got a Badass bridge, Geddy pickups and control panel, and a Hipshot eXtender/D-tuner.

An update - I spent ages looking for a 2nd original pickup, but in the end a pair of EMG 40Hz 5-string pickups came up and now they're fitted to the Spirit 5; I did have to do a bit of surgery with my Dremel and now need a couple of surrounds to cover the gap either side of the pickup bay, where the EMGs are just slightly narrower. The bass sounds really good now - surprisingly good, I'd say!

Aye - not to be confused with...

It's snuck up to £1,130.00 - somebody's going to get stung!

Every time I look at a for-sale ad of a de-fretted bass, my heart drops. I've got a Jazz with a Mighty Mite fretless neck which is really good and cost me less than £100. Cheaper than stuffing up a decent neck...

I reckon he's Havant a laugh!

It says location is Midlands, but AFAIK, Wilko Johnson (the famous and rather excellent guitarist) lives in Southend. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jun/08/wilko-johnson-musician-on-life-in-lockdown-i-feel-grateful-to-be-alive

It'd look great with fanned tuners.

Shill bidding didn't pan-out, then...

It’d just be a rumour.

I’ll just leave this here.

Thinning the herd.

I’d rather keep the £200.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audition-Teisco-Rare-Vintage-Retro-Electric-Strat-Guitar-Great-Condition/164439173403

People selling computers with RAM or HDD size in grambits. There is no such measurement as a "gb"; it's a "GB"!

I think it is one of those.

Out in the car yesterday I switched on Planet Rock and it was playing Jailbreak, by Thin Lizzy. The "breakout" bit features a siren and I remembered that I had a had a Shaftesbury wah/squall/siren pedal I used for that back when we played it in the band I was in at school; I've still got the pedal somewhere. Well, I took a look on ebay and there's one going for £275 - crikey! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-rare-Shaftesbury-Squall-1970s-guitar-pedal-wah-siren-volume-surf-tornado/254701368522 Are they really worth that much?

I considered one of them, but would've ended up playing "Whiter Shade of Pale" and then shrugging and putting it to one side. I've got a Synth9 and a B9. The Synth9 is really quite good and its Oberheim voice can provide a high sustained voice to accompany a chugging bass line, a bit like if you were holding a note on a MIDI pedal. It is also spot-on for playing "Subdivisions". Similarly to the Synth9 and my comment re. the Mel9, I've found that one sound on the B9 grabbed my attention and I've stuck with it; it's great for playing "Lazy". So overall, my thoughts on the range is that they are good for getting the canned sounds, but as per comments, they are flawed in that they don't go down to bottom-E. I've also got a Markbass SS, which is very good at tracking, but doesn't go deep either. And then I've got a Future Impact, which I've had a while but haven't quite got fully to grips with; my initial familiarisation and enthusiasm turned into solving a technical issue with it and MIDI and I ended up spending nearly as much again to solve it.

I've just fitted a pair of EMG 40Hz pickups to a 5-string Steinberger Spirit. I did have to do a bit of surgery with my Dremel to make the pickup bays longer and there is a small gap as the original holes were slightly wider; I think I need a couple of surrounds to neaten it all up. My impression is that they sound rather good, though I've not given them a good tryout (several jobs on the go at the same time...). My intention is to make it into a doubleneck, partnering it with a Spirit guitar I acquired last month. I've also got a Spirit 4-string, my Rickenberger, to which I've fitted Rickenbacker bass pickups.

So, the reason it's a "super rare fender Telecaster bass guitar" is because it isn't one!

Add a couple of hundred to get the right pickup.

It’s getting close to absolute zero.

It's a no from me, anyway.