Paul S

Bit late with this - sorry! Last year I bought a Mesa Boogie amp from Dave. Couple of weeks ago he came upon the manual so offered to post it to me. I took advantage of this and ordered a speaker cable whilst he was going to the post. Once again, top chap!

Mine was 21 weeks in all, including holidays over xmas and new year. Worth every second of the wait.

Thanks Jon. I knew you'd know! I do like these double cutaway basses and still miss my boat anchor Scavenger. The best thing about only playing 5 string basses now is that temptation like these last three is so much easier to ignore. My 5ers might have been expensive, but think of all the money I've saved on impulse buys!

Lotus through neck, looks nice - £150 start -anyone know about these? clicky

Sunny day so out came the camera. I never learn - in the event an overcast day would have shown it better. hey ho. Ladies and gents, meet my new Jake 5! 3.6kg of 5 string Precision goodness. I ordered BBM to sort of make it a 5 string brother to one of my Squier JV Ps, which is BBM and has some figuring in the neck. So I opted for figured maple all round - yum! - with graphite rods, 45mm at the nut, zero fret. Chambered basswood body, Hipshot hardware, 17mm spacing at the bridge. Passive electronics. Delano PC5 AL/M2 pickup - which has turned out exactly how I wanted with more bite and growl than the Aguilar I had fitted into my MM Sterling 5. I like it so much, in fact, that I have bought one from Adrian to stick into the Sterling to replace the AG-5P 60. For me this was a big deal. I don't spend a lot of money on basses (although I manage to lose a lot - how does that happen?) and after a slightly gone wrong experience importing a Yamaha BB5000 that cost me dearly was a bit wary. But I couldn't be happier with this one. If I were given the opportunity to order another one i would spec it out exactly the same. So probably not worth doing... Anyway, £1500 for the bass, £100 for an SKB hard case (which retails at £130!). Big grin on my face every time I pick it up. Or just look at it, frankly.

Wahsburn Force 4, starting at £50 collect only Edgeware. clicky

Isn't it! What a great colour.

It works for one song and I can see that. After 60 minutes it got wearing plus he got too knackered to perform properly and the whole thing went to ratshit. I went there to listen to the music, not watch some badly timed gymnastics. Maybe I am just too old to see stuff like this anymore!

Nope - I saw them at the O2 Forum Kentish Town year before last and he went through this entire repertoire of annoying gymnastics nearly every song. Singer concentrates so hard on the athletics that everything else suffers - he ends up too breathless to sing properly, his timing goes way off so all the gymnastics end up at odds with what they played. I think he thinks he is James Brown - in his dreams, I'd say. I was massively disappointed and actually left early.

Quest Attak 2B on eBay, low start. Don't recall seeing one before - looks nice in a weird kind of way. clicky

Paul is certainly leaving a massive void in the local music scene!

Sounds like a grin. Which 8?

You are all heart, Dunc, really you are Doesn't it just. Bet it sounds fab, too.

Black/black/maple one is back. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Vintage-Modified-Telecaster-Bass-black-mint-upgraded-and-rare/232695776821?hash=item362dbfc635:g:EeIAAOSwrU5aoUXx If I didn't already have too many redundant 4 string basses sitting in their cases this would be on its way to SS7 by now.

There, Marc, fixed it for you

I am getting fed up of these riddles...

I'll pitch a Yamaha BB424 into the ring for consideration, too.

Come on, tell us - I didn't expect to have to grille you about it.... Sorry.

Just remembered another bass I had with an uber skinny neck - one of the CIJ Fender Jaguars.

There was a black/maple one on eBay a few days ago but it must have been sold. He'd modded it a bit, too - black pickguard, 3 position tone switch. Looked very nice.

Thinking about it, the Fender Precision Lyte I used to own had a super slim neck, too. Both that and the Fury were similar to the Geddy Lee neck.

Looks to me like the loser in the 'Great British Bake Off' bass guitar biscuit challenge. Hand cut from ginger bread dough and then baked.

Peavey Fury had the slimmest neck I have played, both nut width and depth. A lot of other Peaveys would be there too, though i don't have first hand experience of them.

On the small off chance you haven't already thought of it or it just isn't appropriate, we had the bit under the stairs blocked in with a folding door at the front. I use a wheeled dolly thingumajig to slide the second cab and least used stuff to the back and the regularly used stuff at the front.

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