Paul S

My first bass - a Peavey Milestone III. I bought this about 7 or 8 years ago, played it every night for a fortnight then ignored it after buying a 'better' bass to keep my interest and relegated it to the loft. I brought it down again last year and discovered that, actually, it isn't too bad after all. I considered defretting it, decided my cackhandedness would destroy it and therefore still have it here, surplus to requirements. Obvious stuff - 4 string passive bass with individual volume controls for each pickup and a master tone control. Lightweight wood, no idea what, with a rosewood fingerboard. I've probably played it for less than 50 hrs, it's been out the house 4 times, never gigged. Bodywork is still in pretty good nick - a few little dings and scratches, mainly from using a pick. The bridge pickup volume knob is a bit wobbly but works ok. Fingerboard could do with a clean, strings are ancient but still ok, other than that no major issues that I am aware of. It would come with a secondhand padded Stagg gig bag that has some spare strings in one of the pockets. £60 - I would prefer collection or meeting halfway for petrol money to hand over, rather than posting. Edit - that would be from Benfleet, near Southend, in Essex. [attachment=39310:peavey1.jpg][attachment=39311:peavey2.jpg] [attachment=39312:peavey4.jpg][attachment=39313:peavey3.jpg]

Thanks but I think they would all be even heavier than something that is already too heavy! [quote name='Thornybank' post='683293' date='Dec 13 2009, 07:39 PM']You are in luck! The only 18-ish ones I have are: An 18+10 (see last summer's famous everlasting thread for the flightcased one for £200 that I didn't buy only becasue I have this one - but now I have an AH350 which is designed to biamp one or a brace of 'em and I am kicking myself, except that where is it legal to even sound check the things?) A 12+15+18 full flight Mark 1? Mark2? silly huge thing that completely does bass beyond bass. A 15+18 which is the partner to the 12+15+18 (he had two?!?!?! what for????) with teh 12" section off it (but still full flight and face off and handle and wheels and all that) so that a single human can shift it. Sorreee....[/quote]

Oh dear. I most definitely do not want, nor am I even vaguely considering, acquiring an 1818 cab. No sir. Not me. Far too heavy. It would be like taking trying to lift a bus in and out of my car. A bus with a black hole sitting in it, in fact. A black hole that had just swallowed a herd of overweight elephants. Even if they have the absolute tone from heaven and makes my humble bass sound like everything I have ever wanted it to. No, at my age I should be thinking of changing to sensible things like Mark Bass or Phil Jones, not adding to my Trace Elliot rig. If, however, you possessed such a thing, er, what would be the relevant information - price, condition etc? Not that, as I said, I am remotely interested, you understand. It is a purely hypothetical question driven purely by curiosity.