NikNik

Where's the rest of the neck?

I have only claimed insurance on instruments twice in my life: once was on personal musical instrument insurance after theft from my parents' home and secondly when I cracked the braces of a bouzouki. The latter was claimed via standard home insurance. I've never - yet! - had to claim on courier loss/damage but I shudder to think what that would entail, what with all the buck-passing I'm hearing about.

Try speaking - nay, getting through to - a human being about Brexit passport restrictions/limitations/renewals. You'll lose the will to live. I'd like to get ahold of the person who invented 'phone menus and spend five minutes with them in a darkened room.

Like those at 'Thiefrow' Airport!

Yep. Lost a Spain-bound 335 for weeks via PF around ten years back. I kept calling their international hub and was helped by a guy there who took all the deets again. A few days later he called me. They'd found it in a cage of items with barcodes missing. Think about that. The barcodes were printed anew and the buyer got his guitar.

On the subject further up about ebay collection points, there have been incidences of non-ebay PayPal purchases being sent to ebay collection points. Paypal told me this and it appears it's being done by ebay somehow. The caveat is: check your delivery addresses and your recipient addresses.

A few years ago, I shipped a bass with them (Parcel Farce). Paid the extra insurance value which their site accepted. Bass went missing so I instigated a claim......whereby they told me that guitars were not insured by them over £100 of value. Their site was like that for MONTHS before it was made clear what their insurance position was. The buyer eventually got the bass in one piece. That was the last of ParcelPhuq.

Don't touch them for anything over the value of ten Quid. Parcel Farce, that is.

Interesting headstock on this one......

AFAICR, most them were basses in Jimmy's. There were three B100s: A fretted, a fretless, and another fretted with the 6 or 7-band EQ. There were also a few of the heavily figured models that had the white DiMarzio P-bass pups and a couple of the satin finished one-pup basses. There were also guitars from each range, so I reckon there were easily a dozen instruments in JGs.

That's been me since the '80s!!!

Your tinnitus his is pretty close to mine!

This test is a good one, from good old 1Khz test tone up to 18Khz. At both 6Khz and 8Khz it begins to add what I perceive to be a second, jarring tone my left ear tinnitus. At 10Khz, the tinnitus combines and is augmented. At 11Khz, I am not sure if I can hear it but at 12Khz and above it is gone. N.B.: tinnitus initially caused by me standing close to my decoupled Trace Elliot stack at rehearsals and gigs. The rig was sat on a pallette to increase height, not because I knew anything about decoupling cabs back in the be-mulleted '80s!

Anyone remember when ParcelFarce would allow you to add on incremental insurance values yet buried away on their T&Cs page was a section that said musical instruments were limited to a £100 insurance limit?

Cheers, guys. Mine was the one with the two Bart buckers and herringbone binding. IIRC, Jimmy Grant had the full range of these basses, inc a B100 fretless with an unlined ebony board and a B100 with what looked like an MXR 6 or 7-band graphic inside it. Dunno if my one's still in the Lothians. As mentioned in the Grants are Pants thread, I'd like her back!

Speaking of overpriced gear, there's someone been trying to sell a Ricky 4003 Blue Boy for £10k these past few years.

Thx, Jon. Not looking to hassle anyone, anyway. A copy? Never knew of an Odyssey copy.

Bugger it. Decades later and still call it Tales of, instead of Tales from. God knows how many times Ive made that error.

TOTO was panned by critics when it first came out. I bought a pristine s/h copy along with GFTO when the latter was released. I mainly bought TOTO for Ritual but my fav piece is TRSOG.

That beast isn't the same as the G77/G77B combo. I don't recall the V-Bass needing a special pickup? I thought it was a modeller you just plugged straight into?

A Deko is sold for 'decoration' purposes only, i.e., for hanging on your wall. There will be usually a defect in such models

Hey, guys. Jumping onto this an zombifying it! I had a B100Ws back in the '80s like the one below. If anyone knows of its whereabouts, I'd like to buy it back!

Ahh..... Jimmy Grant's shop in Tollcross. He did have some good kit there. Indeed, I bought my first expensive bass from that shop, an Odyssey B100WS, just like the attached. Bought it on tick - £600!! I flogged it in '86 when the mortgage rate started to rocket and if anyone knows of its whereabouts, I'd love to buy it back. I spotted it, briefly, in 1999, and it had seen a bit of abuse but I began to hanker after it. So, bass sleuths, get your gumshoes on...... Grant EBO copies were ten a penny in those days. Back then, just prior to buying the Odyssey, I played a fireglow Ibby 2388B-DX with a Bill Lawrence rail-bucker where the single coil mud-bucker copy would have been. It was in getting work done on it when I answered an ad for a bassist. I told them mine was in for repair. 'Oh, don't worry', said the geezer on the other end, 'We have a bass here you can use!' Off I went, galloping like a Spring lamb, wondering what delight awaited me. My heart sank when I saw it was a Grant EBO. It sank even further when I began to play it. Effing useless POS. The shop went tits-up sometime in the early '80s. I heard later that Jimmy had busted the place (and his suppliers/creditors) and ran off to Spain with the coin. PS: does anyone from that neck of the woods remember Side Street Music, just over the road from Jimmy's?

Custom fkd, more like (check the headstock) and no, I don't need to try it! Custom made bass guitar