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Bassassin

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  1. [quote name='largo' post='732086' date='Feb 1 2010, 07:21 PM']Nah, i'm with Jake on this. Should really just put it in your profile. If it's in the same place for everyone then it's easy.[/quote] Plenty of people (including me, clearly) don't and aren't likely to, though. And children - [i]that's not the point[/i]. Pretty much everyone who's selling something has typed something into the little sub-heading box - what's so outrageous about also saying where the thing you're selling actually is? I'm not interested in having an argument, certainly not about this. It just seemed like a good idea. Still does, as it happens. Bye. J.
  2. [quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='731976' date='Feb 1 2010, 05:52 PM']But it's alot easier to just have you location on your profile. You only have to do it once, and you'll never forget or have to write it in any title[/quote] You're missing the point. Go & read my initial post - it's not hard. J.
  3. Not sure what postage from the Czech Republic would be, but they're somewhat cheaper new, direct from [url="http://www.bachmusik.com/en/p101036/rbb-2-trd/"]BaCH[/url] That's about £240. I like these, quite a lot... :brow: J.
  4. [quote name='RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE' post='731936' date='Feb 1 2010, 05:16 PM']Well, on the left is where I live. When I sell something like an amp/bass over say £100.00 I prefer to meet person,they try out, like it,deal done. No whining afterwards.[/quote] So you'd put "Collection only from Twickenham" in the box under the title of your thread. Easy, surely? J.
  5. [quote name='davidmpires' post='731833' date='Feb 1 2010, 03:37 PM']I'm pretty sure that behind your sofa is not miles away so why not collect it. And in the same way that you want the sellers to put the location on the title why not dropping them a pm if you are really interested and want it delivered. Although most people would prefer not to have the hassle allowances can be made.[/quote] What exactly is this "it" you're talking about? I am making a general suggestion which I thought might be of benefit to anyone browsing the Amps & Cabs For Sale section & trying to find something that was reasonably near to them. "Behind My Sofa", since you ask, happens to be Edinburgh, which broadly speaking is a motherf*ck of a lot of miles away from about 95% of any of the gear being sold on BC. I have no problem with collecting things if they are within a reasonable distance - however since my modes of transport are either a pushbike or a 2.8 litre 4x4, driving 300+ mile round-trips isn't exactly cost-effective. All of which is irrelevant because it's actually [i]not[/i] about me. [attachment=41625:christonabike.jpg] J.
  6. [quote name='MB1' post='731688' date='Feb 1 2010, 01:35 PM']MB1. ...I believe Jake has you there! [/quote] I don't believe he does, for the following reasons: If your location was in the listing sub it would appear on the forum topic list. I'm not presently selling an amp or cab so it doesn't apply. I [b]am[/b] behind Jake's sofa. J.
  7. Maybe. Best place for it to be seen, though! J.
  8. A lot of the gear being sold here is bulky, heavy and not-at-all Postie-friendly, so understandably is collection only. It would make it a lot easier - and less heartbreaking - to know where the gear is first, without reading through lists of mouthwatering specs & insane bargain prices - only to find the amp or cab is 460 miles away... So go on - tell us where you are in the topic sub-heading. Jon.
  9. I think it looks like most people see themselves as equally enthusiastic about both - and I'd include myself there. It's interesting - for about the first 25 years of my bass playing life I'd owned a total of 7 basses, and for 16 of those used just 3 - two fretted 4s & a fretless. It's only in the last 5 or 6 years that I've developed much more of an interest in the actual hardware than previously, and because my area of interest (predominantly vintage JapCrap) is very affordable I now have more basses than is in any way reasonable. Unless you're a bass shop. I'd also say that I've immersed myself in playing much more seriously than before & my technique - and also the desire to play for playing's sake - has increased & improved hugely. Like 4000 though, I am predominantly a writer and my band exists to play the music I compose. I never, ever buy a bass without a view to using it live, and therefore on that level the music validates the gear-hoarding - to me, at least. If for whatever reason I permanently stopped gigging, I think I'd probably want to get rid of most of my basses - having all these redundant tools sitting around would be depressing. I've always been a very hands-on bodger and my gear fixation has developed my guitar tech skills immensely. Most of the vintage JapCrap which comes my way is in a very sorry state & I get a huge amount of satisfaction from making a playable & (to some) attractive instrument out of what comes to me as a dilapidated piece of junk. Over the last few years I've bought & sold a ridiculous amount of instruments - mostly skinny-string guitars - and learned a vast amount about what is a pretty mysterious area of guitar-manufacturing history. Jon.
  10. [quote name='drewm' post='731355' date='Feb 1 2010, 08:53 AM']Which is why someone should snap this up [/quote] You see even fewer black & white ones. Which mine is. J.
  11. [quote name='numptydumpty' post='731037' date='Jan 31 2010, 08:26 PM']BC member rapscallion apparently has one and is most impressed.I cant believe there is something fundamentally wrong with the bridge position so maybe it is a short scale?[/quote] I think it looks more like the body's an odd shape / oversized - it looks like there's a couple of inches of extra wood at the back & the end of the body is less elliptical than a proper J. The bridge & control plate look in the right places relative to one another. Jon.
  12. [quote name='ialma' post='730336' date='Jan 31 2010, 10:13 AM']Unm... my active B2A did not have a batteries compartment nor the XLR output Are these aftermarket mods ?[/quote] No - this was standard on the early ones, from about 1985. Mine (which was bought new in '85) has both of these features. You don't see many red ones. Jon.
  13. These are fascinating & I'm surprised the styling hasn't been "borrowed" more than it has over the years. Last time I was in D*nm*rk Str**t (probably about 5 or 6 years ago) I got a look at one of these in one of the not-at-all-overpriced shops. It hadn't had a dodgy refin & wasn't any 8 grand! Jon.
  14. [quote name='bh2' post='730330' date='Jan 31 2010, 10:03 AM']Ahh... got the wrong end there, thanks Jon. Didn't clock the dates... FWIW I've a Jap Squier Silver Series Precision that my wife bought for me in 1990 (ish)... It's a superb bass, my son has it now. Bob.[/quote] There you go then - that's the era & build quality of the Jazz in question! J.
  15. bh2 - that's not a JV Squier. JVs were the very first Japanese-built Squiers & Fenders, from 1982/83. The "JV" (Japan Vintage) refers to the serial prefix, they were accurate reissues of specific 50s & 60s Fenders. However, despite not (yet) being collectable like their 80s predecessors, 90s MIJ Squiers are very good & well regarded instruments, and likely built by Fujigen, like all pre CIJ Fenders. £175 sounds like a decent price to me. Jon.
  16. I suppose technically not - it's a Jazz built with Geddy parts. Quite pretty though, that. Jon.
  17. [quote name='BottomEndian' post='728907' date='Jan 29 2010, 04:41 PM']Sorry, done deal. Actually, one of the nicest-feeling basses I've come across was a beaten-up CSL Jazz (with blocked maple neck). Trouble was, I couldn't judge the tone at all because the pickups had gone completely microphonic, so every tap of my wedding ring against the neck was just a massive CLONNNNGGG through the amp. As I said to the owner (and he agreed), with a bit of time and effort put in, it could be a really sweet bass. Hijacking my own thread here, Jon (well, it's sold anyway ), but what do you know about CSL? I've heard they were based in Newcastle/Gateshead, and were one of the many companies importing Japanese copies (from the Ibanez factory?) in the 70s/80s. Is that about right?[/quote] In a nushell, yes. CSL was Charles Summerfield Ltd in Gateshead. At the time (70s - early 80s) they were UK importer for Ibanez & sourced their own-brand guitars from Fujigen Gakki, the factory which made Ibanez, Greco, Antoria etc & subsequently built MIJ Fenders & Squiers. My CSL Jazz is an absolute delight to play, pickups are maybe a bit lacking in output but sweet-sounding and will do until a nice set of cream-cover vintage DiMarzios comes up... It remains the one I'd rescue if my house was being attacked by alien death robots. J.
  18. [quote name='BottomEndian' post='728788' date='Jan 29 2010, 03:08 PM']Take the cheapy way out: grab that CSL Jazz of yours and a pair of pliers... [/quote] Sacrilege! Apart from anything else, de-fretted maple/blocks boards look [i]awful[/i]! I've got a very nice old fretless Yamaha BB400 (which I picked up between missed VMJs) but the downsides are it weighs a ton & I'm not 100% sold on the limitations of the single P pup. I suppose if I do get the chance of a well priced VMJ it makes sense to grab it & flog the one I like least... So give me a shout if the sale falls through, won't you! J.
  19. I couldn't have really anyway - I'm supposed to be saving for a new rig. Doesn't stop me looking & lamenting every one I miss, though! J.
  20. Missed another one. I think that's 5 now. Arse. Jon.
  21. For about the last 7 years my No.1 has been a scabby old 70s jazz copy that I picked up from a local pawn shop for £60. I buy other basses (with monotonous regularity), play & gig them for a few weeks, then pick up the J & wonder why I bothered. It's simply Got It - everything just feels [i]right[/i]. Jon.
  22. Keep watching the "For Sale" sections on RickResource - both C64s & stray horsies do come up fairly often. You'd probably get a decent deal, as well. J.
  23. [quote name='The Twickerman' post='726690' date='Jan 27 2010, 06:44 PM']If one of these replicas included a replica of the horseshoe bridge pickup, then I'd be interested. Especially if it had a stereo output. Know what I mean?[/quote] None of them had horseshoes, although many have stereo outputs. The earliest ones are like the Ibby in copying the early 70s 4001 features - it has full-width inlays (sparkly stuff, rather than crushed pearl) and checked binding, but the pups are completely unauthentic - they're chrome "mudbucker" copies (actually single coil), suggesting that the factory simply used what was in production at the time. I think the Fujigen Gakki - built basses, like this Ibby, were the first Rick copies, none of the others have full-width inlays & only a few feature checked binding. I don't think any 4001 copies pre-date 72/73, when these features were phased out of real Ricks, so horseshoes wouldn't have been on the basses the Japanese factories were imitating. J.
  24. It is a Rickenbacker 4003. Not a 4001, because it doesn't have a skunk stripe, and not a copy, because it has the correct short-shaft Schaller tuners. You can just about see the "Rickenbacker" logos on the tuners - compare it to this big version of the pic Marvin posted: [url="http://www.soundmeout.com/store/images/Rickenbacker%204003%20Tuners.jpg"]http://www.soundmeout.com/store/images/Ric...03%20Tuners.jpg[/url] Jon.
  25. I am fighting the temptation to send him a message saying "HOW MUCH SHIP TO ESTONIA THX". Jon.
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