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  1. Beedster
    That’s how a Jazz should look 👍
  2. Beedster
    Well, I started taking this apart on Friday and it was clear that it is a bloody well engineered piece of kit, after 2-hours I'd only managed to get the door out. Continued for another couple of hours on Saturday managing to get the whole front wall out. But even what was to all intents just over half a side wall weighed a bloody tonne even without the door and rather heavy glass!!! So, i decided to call on a few friends to do the rest but realised pretty quickly that this is a job for pros, we left a ladder and some wood in there just in case having dislodged the ceiling ever so slightly! Today four very strong and experienced removal guys came in, and it nearly beat them as well. While I was cursing the builders at times for having used so many screws and such heavy panels, it brought home the difference between buying an off the shelf and relatively lightweight unit (I looked at a few that were all very expensive compared to this) and having one engineered by guys who know what they're doing. Even the base weighed a tonne and turned out to be, like the sides, triple ply and about 3-4cms thick! No idea how I'm going to get it back together in the new studio, but that's a problem for a couple of month's time now I guess 👍
  3. Beedster
    Thanks mate, no problem at all, appreciate the thought, and glad you got a sale 👍
  4. Beedster
    Likewise mate, likewise 👍
  5. Beedster
    if the sale falls through mate let me know and i'll have it, I've got some gigs coming up, a fretless would be nice (not gonna be playing anything from Graceland on upright bass anytime soon after all), and this old thing especially so 👍
  6. Beedster
    My 9-year old plays drums in there and I hear a muffled sound at about the same level as ants walking across a floor! An yes, please tell your friend that a simple padlock would suffice
  7. Beedster
    Hope he hasn't got a Hannover as well as a missing string?
  8. Beedster
    Give him some abuse from us also mate, he's the sort of guy who gives bass players a bad name, no spare strings is up there with guitarists forgetting a cable, drummer forgetting sticks and singer forgetting songs
  9. Beedster
    ....which for a lot of people buying gear constitutes the largest audience they're ever likely to play to
  10. Beedster
    This'll be available for about another week if you're in the market for one of these it's not only a very good price (prices have gone up hugely since I had it built) but it'll also save you quite a wait as it seems a few of the builders are struggling to get materials at present
  11. Beedster
    I take a spare bass to the Dog & Duck just in case, I'd need my own truck for a European tour
  12. Beedster
    I think the ability to use a combination of experience and perception to modify the environment to a specific state is the science. The art bit is the performance itself 👍
  13. Beedster
    You’re on tour with a bassist who doesn’t carry a spare set of strings 🤔
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    Thread
  15. Beedster
    Nice
  16. Beedster
    So, it arrived today First up, many thanks to Mark at BD for getting it to me on the day I asked it to get to me, the hardest part of buying anything these days is the courier stress. Great comms and great service guys, thanks Second, wow, this is a very very well engineered instrument, the neck pocket is more what I associate with EBMM (in fact the neck itself is very EBMM in terms of profile and playability, both the fretwork and the lovely oiled finish on the back remind me of the lovely BFR 'Ray I had a whole back). The finish really is NOS with some very discrete checking and rubbing, and the bridge in the flesh is nothing like as noticeable as in the photos. It's pretty light and the action is absolutely spot on. So how does it sound? I don't have an amp at present so will have to run run it through my desk and monitors tomorrow to get a sense. But even unplugged I can tell it's very responsive and resonant, and I doubt the Fralins are going to make things worse somehow 👍
  17. Beedster
    Exactly how a bass should look, and that board.......... At the price it is a bloody steal 👍
  18. Beedster
    Double-A side mate, just like the old days 👍
  19. Beedster
    That has made my flipping day @meterman
  20. Beedster
    Doubt this is to everyone's taste but I remember the first time I watched the film simply not being able to work out where I knew the song from. It's an interesting cover, shows what a great song it is, and for 2002 it's a little ahead of it's time given that pretty much every cover of a great 70's song these days seems to be in the acoustic guitar/fragile female vocal space
  21. Beedster
    Ah, the famous "Walshy P-Bass Diet" 👍
  22. Beedster
    Whilst I disagree with a man of your stature with some degree of trepidation @walshy, I'm going to. Saying the Precision does only trick is like saying a Ferrari only does one trick, going very fast. But.....: 2. Looks damn fine 3. Says something profound about the taste of the owner 4. Makes the world a better place by simply existing I make that four tricks. There are no doubt more 👍
  23. Beedster
    I remember a piece about them taking the US by storm in the NME (or possibly Sounds, even MM) in the late 70's, with the below picture and the caption "British rock band UFO entering US Customs".
  24. Beedster
    Great post, completely agree with all of those example, although I suspect the * could be applied to more than Kiss
  25. Beedster
    Exactly how a bass should look 👍
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