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SOLD Rotosound Swing Bass 66 ‘SM665’ Stainless Steel Rounds 5 String 40-125, long scale hybrid gauge. New in unopened pack. 40-60-80-100-125 RRP is £36 so save yourself a tenner. £26 posted to mainland UK. Will post same or next day as payment received, depending on my work shifts.

Price drop to £550. I could do with this out of the way, it might have to hit eBay soon

SOLD Price drop to £475 For sale, absolutely no trade offers whatsoever please, and yes I really mean that. 2021 Fender Player 75th anniversary Precision bass, in black / black / maple, 34” long scale, right handed, with upgraded pickups, knobs & wiring, and gig bag. Before I go any further as I know how important this can be, it weighs 3.9Kg / 8.6lbs on my digital luggage scale. It’s still a big ol’ chunk of wood, but lighter than every USA P I’ve had and balances well. It’s in excellent condition as you can see from the photos, has been well looked after (always in hard case when not being played) & is very shiny! There are no dings, paint chips, chunks out of the neck or headstock nibbles. The only minor cosmetic blemishes are: some scratching on the pickguard, 3 longish scratches on the back of the body below the cutaway (very hard to show well on photos as the body is so shiny that it just acts as a mirror!), and some small scratches looking down from the top of the body towards the pickguard, where I tried a trick I read about, which was to slightly unscrew 2 pickguard screws and slide a pick into the gap. I put a Tortex wedge in there, then when I slid it out, that powdery coating stuff that’s on them when new left these scratch marks on the body (I won’t be doing that again!). I’m guessing these may be able to be polished out by someone who knows what they’re doing, but if you know anything about black basses, these marks really aren’t that bad compared to the battle scars than can and do end up on them, and only really noticeable in certain lights / angles anyway, but I’d rather mention these minor blemishes as I pride myself in honest descriptions. It has a really lovely gloss poly maple fingerboard with nice fast satin urethane finish on the back of the neck. Usual 1.625” P width nut. The neck profile is fantastic, and always felt ‘just right’ to me. It’s not scrawny, but far from baseball bat territory, very comfy on the hands. Front to back, with digital calipers, it measures 0.825” at the 1st fret, and 0.905” at the 12th fret. I’d say it’s the nicest Precision neck I’ve ever played, and this includes USA models. The fretboard edges are nicely rounded and smooth. I know this isn’t always the case with Mexican Ps, but it genuinely feels as smooth and round as a USA neck to me. I’m actually quite sad to see it go generally, but especially for how nicely the neck plays. It has a Fender 75th anniversary logo on the back of the headstock, which is a nice touch. It’s strung with GHS Pressurewound M7200 (44-106) rollerwound ‘Alloy 52’ strings with plenty of life left in them. They are smooth and really sing. If you don’t want them, I can keep them & put some nickel rounds on instead, just let me know. Stock open gear tuners & bridge. Pickups have been upgraded to the excellent Fender Custom Shop CS62s. Box included. Wiring upgraded to USA specs via a Northwest Guitars Precision bass wiring kit: 250K CTS pots, 0.047uf orange drop capacitor & switchcraft jack. Great full range of tones compared to the stock pots. Knobs upgraded to Fender Tele / P chrome, knurled flat top knobs (099-13600-000) to fit the 1/4 inch pots, as the stock knobs were slippery & not very good. It has a non Fender 3-ply BWB pickguard. Please note I no longer have the stock pickups, wiring, knobs & pickguard, so these are not included in the sale. Feel free to check my Basschat feedback & PM me if you want to buy it or need more photos. It’s set up with a nice low to medium action & the truss rod turns as it should. It’s sold as seen and described, with the inspection tag but otherwise no paperwork or tools. Serial number shows 2021, I’ve run it through the Fender serial number lookup, and it shows as registered May 2021, see photos for spec sheet. I bought this bass in person from an eBay seller in January 2023, her son got it new & had barely played it as ended up with a different bass. They even kept the tag, which is included here. I paid £480 for this, and have spent £145 on upgrades (pickups 100, wiring loom, pots & knobs 45). It hasn’t been heavily gigged, so I think £575 is a fair price for a great condition P bass with top upgrades (& a free gig bag). I’d go as far as to say that this upgraded beast with a delightful neck and relatively light weight (for a Precision) is an outrageous bargain considering the price of a new American Pro 2 these days. I’ve owned this for a year and a half, which is quite something given the basses that have ‘passed through’ the last few years. Every time I tried anything (including dabbling in short scale), I always came back to this one. I’m a little sad to be selling it, as it’s easily as good as any USA P I’ve had, but my holy grail bass has finally come up, so I have no choice. If money wasn’t an issue (it is), I’d love to be keeping it. I’m certain that someone will be very happy with this bass. I have no box or packing materials, so am listing this as collection only from Southport. I work near St. Helens, so could meet up in that area too, or somewhere in the North West within reason. There is no hard case included in the sale, but I can hand it over in a basic padded gig bag, which from doing a lot of googling I think is a Traditional Strat / Tele bag, it fits fine, but has no straps even though there are clips for them, just carry handles, 8mm padding and a pocket. No timewasters please and absolutely no trade offers whatsoever. Hoping to sell this to an established Basschatter. Edit: Sorry must have missed this when posted the ad, think I caught this partially on one pic, but forgot to mention it, there is a 1cm scratch / scrape mark on the floor-facing edge of the lower horn, just added a final pic showing it. Not visible when playing unless you plan on playing it upside down!

What a beauty! Lovely bass in a stunning colour and great shaped hard case. A owned the maple version of this same bass for 6 years, chrome red looks fabulous in photos and sensational in the flesh. Someone will be very happy with this. How is it still here?!

I know times are hard, but how is this beauty still here?!

OOF! That orange, black & maple Shuker is almost too nice to play. Wow!

*SOLD* For sale only (no trade offers please), Tech 21 VT Bass DI (VTDI). Excellent condition with box & instruction manual. Velcro on bottom corners. Card box is a little tatty from storage. Really versatile & reliable preamp / DI, with 3 band EQ. The magic lies in getting the right mix of the blend, character & drive knobs for the sound you want. Plenty of demos online showing what this magic box is capable of. It can do everything from clean, through light grit to nasty aggressive drive, and lots in between. Defeatable speaker sim switch, bite switch, ground lift, -20dB XLR pad switch & +10dB 1/4” boost. Input, output, parallel output & balanced XLR out. Takes phantom power, 9V battery (not included) and 9V center negative power supply (no power supply included in this sale). I’ve been really happy with this, but just fancied a change of flavour & have decided to go all in on my Tone Hammer. I wouldn’t mind keeping it but I have bills to pay and don’t want stuff lying around not getting used. Trackable / insured post to mainland UK only included. From a smoke free home. Will post same or next day payment received depending on my work shifts.

*SOLD* £23 posted to UK. Genuine Fender Precision 13 hole scratchplate / pickguard taken from a Player P bass. 3 ply White / Black / White (Parchment). Usual minor scratching on, which is barely noticeable on a white plate anyway. Holes are big enough to take the likes of CTS pots, if you are wanting to use it with an upgraded loom you already have. Selling as I prefer black plates.

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*SOLD* Fender CIJ Mustang 2004/5. Fiesta Red. Sale only, absolutely no trade offers please. Asking same price I paid which seems to be the going rate for these, with £23 of new strings thrown in. Short scale 30” right handed. Think the finish has faded slightly and is really special in person, more of an orangey red than a pinky red. Freshly strung with D’Addario EXL160M medium scale 50-105 nickel rounds, but I will also include the worn in flats that came on it (thought to be La Bella 760F-MUS 43-104. Strap buttons installed, original strap pins included. Weight is 3.5Kg / 7.8lbs (digital luggage scales), and I didn’t notice any neck dive. 1.5” / 38mm Jazz width nut & 7.25” fretboard radius. For those of you who appreciate these things, the neck thickness front to back, as measured with digital calipers, is 0.835” at the 1st fret and 1.005” at the 12th fret. Certainly not chunky & easy to navigate due to the shorter scale & narrow nut. Excellent condition for a near 20 year old instrument, just a couple of small bumps (nothing I’d consider a ding / chunk, and no paint removed), and a small, very shallow indent on back of neck under 4th fret which I didn’t even notice when playing. I’ve tried to show all these on the pics. There are no nibbles on the headstock. This is a very well cared for bass. Lovely fast non sticky gloss finish to back of neck, and a nice dark rosewood fingerboard, lemon oiled in the last week before restring. It looks beautiful with the white pearloid plate against the gorgeous body as you can see from the pics. It was a bit of an impulse buy but I’ve decided to stick with my P bass & so need to return money into my GAS fund in case something comes up that I can’t resist. Due to lack of packing materials, I am listing this as collection only for now. I live in Southport and work near St Helens so collection in one of those, or meet up in the North West within reason is possible, around my work shifts. I will include a basic gig bag for protection on collection or meet up. This is a top quality bass as anyone who has played a MIJ Mustang can vouch for. It has been owned by at least 2 Basschatters that I’m aware of, and they’ve clearly looked after it, as such it deserves a good home.

Absolutely beautiful bass, and I share your pain in realising that a 9lb bass, however much I love it otherwise, is not good for my back / neck / shoulders. GLWTS