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  1. BarnacleBob
    My sister is stuck in Las Vegas just now cos of the flight ban and is getting bored. Trouble is she knows nothing about vintage Fender basses! Then again i don't know anything about assassinating foreign dignitaries. BB
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    Not exactly Triggers broom but Interested cos its a birth year bass - Damn my blasted decreptitude!! Is £3K way too much?? And how genuine is it overall?? BB [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1962-Fender-Jazz-bass_W0QQitemZ150433369075QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item2306870bf3"]HERE[/url]
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    Ha Ha! Good point, this is 2010 isn't it now? Shouldn't skim thru threads after a few bottles of Red Stripe. All the best BB
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    Nice bass - I have a fretless in Pommel(?) - but thought the rules were you have to state a price sorry to point this out. BB
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    If u are confident enough at stripping the bass down and just sending them the body for refinishing and then reassembling the bass yourself that should save quite a bit. BB
  6. BarnacleBob
    Simms quoted me the best part of £400 to refinish this - it was more expensive cos it was a translucent tint. I declined and sold it as is.
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    Bump for a bass that has long been on my GAS list BB
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    [quote name='purpleblob' post='807109' date='Apr 15 2010, 01:31 PM']Absolutely beautiful ! Good luck with the sale and have a bump from me.[/quote] +++++1! I want one of these so badly! BB
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    Is the neck a J or a P profile or somewhere in-between? BB
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    That is v nice indeed! Are you UK based? BB
  11. BarnacleBob
    I have borderline OCD when it comes to fret-buzz I hate it, anywhere on me board. BB
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    I would have seperate sale threads for these - both very nice but aimed at different markets. Anyone looking for a nice P might not click on something with a Wal in the title. No? Anybody? I'll shut up then. BB
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    It was only inevitable that this Pete-era Wal thing would happen - I think it was actually discussed in another thread - the same way people like to point out their bass is from the Ian(?) Waller era 'The Golden Age' some would have u believe. Any-hoo as wonderful as this bass may be i think it might be pretty subjective as how it is better than Pauls til someone puts them up against each other. If Paul is using the same woods, techniques and QC etc in previous years then the only variation will come is in the Hand made input and some would say thats what ur paying for ie no two Wals should be identical anyway. As for Arse of the month, i think it could have been worse Also If i had £3.5K I would at least make an offer on this as I really want one, but i want it NOW!!!! BB
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    Just realised i am working that Sunday would have liked the DB demo and some tasty stuff to try too. hope its a blast for everyone anyway. BB
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    Graemes site is an excellent resource, glad it's back up and running. FYI an Aria ZZB in excellent condition turned up on Gumtree for £90 today! If only I had the room! BB
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    does anyone know what guage/type fretwire was used on Aria SBs? BB Edited for crap grammar!
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    Standard Jazz body size is just a tad too big for my liking - being only a little feller. So i like the reduced size of a lot of the 'clones' - and like Bubinga5 says Fender themselves dont do a lot active/pre-amping and such so u have too look elsewere if u want a wider range of sounds from one instrument. recently found a Fender Jazz that was nearly everything clones are - actives, nice hardware, even an exotic top but it had a really annoying dead spot BB
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    seem to regularly see TE 715 combos on gumtree/eBay at great prices - and the cynic in me wonders are they any good or u wouldnt see 'so many' in good condition for sale looking for a 'compact' set up to replace ageing Peavey Databass (15" 450W) combo. I know the trace needs an ext to get the full Monty and it weighs the same as the peavey but at least it has two handles! Unlikely to go out with a band again so dont want to spend too much but would like something that doesnt clutter up my spare room 'studio' but would cut it in agig situation if the notion took me. played trace gear in the 80s and early 90s and really liked it tho it was all huge then! Cheers BB
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    Manson

    BarnacleBob replied to dougal's topic in Bass Guitars

    [quote name='Pete Academy' post='799483' date='Apr 8 2010, 09:01 AM']John Paul Jones uses them. Been going for donkeys. His dad Charles was a nasty piece of work, though.[/quote] Who? Charles Jones? BB Edit - nice thru neck older one at the Gallery in That London for half that.
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    used to own a BTB300QM it was a great bass - build quality was excellent and Eq gave plenty of quality tones and only paid £150 for it. BB
  21. BarnacleBob
    That is very nice indeed. Much prefer the 2 octave neck. BB
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    [quote name='noelk27' post='793936' date='Apr 2 2010, 12:40 AM']Afraid I'll have to burst your bubble on that one. Correctly, the B&G I and II were limited versions of the SB-R60 and 80, as these B&G versions first appeared in an APII catalogue printed in Japan in early '83 alongside the R60 and 80 models, although the B&G I and II were conceived and first put into production in '82. The R60 and 80 weren't renamed Elite I and II until late '83. There again got to cure another misapprehension you're labouring under, that the R60 and 80 and Elite I and II are different models. This is not the case. These are the same models - the R60 and 80, first introduced in '81, were renamed when APII repositioned many of its models by converting from letter and number designations to descriptor designations in '83. And when suggested that the B&G I was a version of the SB700, that was completely correct - the SB-R models, formulated for the US market, featured 18mm spacing at the bridge and a 40mm nut width as opposed to 16mm spacing at the bridge and a 45mm nut width found on the original SB models, but otherwise were technically the equivalent of the then current SB models. The bass for sale is a nice example of the B&G I from the first full year of production.[/quote] Yeah, wot 'e said! BB
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    [quote name='witterth' post='793972' date='Apr 2 2010, 01:59 AM']You have the funniest avatar on the forum!![/quote] +1 BB
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    That would have made it an SB-R60 which they didn't do in this finish, an SB1000 would have the rotary tone setting. Basically this is an Elite-I done in Black and Gold - hence the name Still very nice. BB
  25. BarnacleBob
    That is one nice bass my friend! Dont see too many 5 string XPs at all. Had it been a four........ Best of luck with the sale. BB
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