Beedster

Good for you mate, no view on the basses, but shout if ww can help. DB is of course the monarch of instruments

Thanks for the comment re my two FLs folks. To add to the above I much prefer a good wooden FL neck to graphite, but if you need to play FL with low and reliable action, the latter is a winner every time, especially if you're moving around a lot and temperature/humidity are issues. TF is a great instrument but the retail price is ludicrous, you can build a bass of equal quality using off the shelf or custom components from the likes of Warmoth for far less money, the only downside being the resale value is rarely as high.

Lovely, thanks, dare I ask how much you paid? Perhaps PM me if you'd prefer?

Very nice, could you talk me through the Shuker neck?

Could you not offer it for sale here as well?

Duplicate post?

Both very nice and cheap by the standards of similar quality basses at retail price. Need a hybrid of the two however

Funny thing but the P/J thing has the same effect on me. I like JJ and I like P, so @walshy will (I hope) soon be building me a JPJ body so that I only need the one bass.

Yes, and building our own is the way to go, my two FLs are the match of FCS but both cost IRO £500

Our guitarist tried to pick up my SVT-II. He's shown me far more respect since

It's Mesa, it's 80's, it's got tubes, it'll weigh much the same as a truck. Either works for me mate

The thing about eBay is that once a few folks have placed bids and are starting to believe that they are getting a bargain, the price will go up very quickly and the seller will likely get more for it than had s/he listed it at a reasonable BIN (by reasonable BIN price I mean one at which the unit would have sold fairly quickly given it's condition). It's hard to tell sometimes whether the seller is innocently getting rid of some old and unused gear that's been lying around for years, or is cleverly setting up the sale knowing that there will be a bunfight among the bargain seekers (especially as the price started so low) and that s/he will get a lot more cash for it than is probably warranted (and that there is very low chance that the winner, even if they did bring along a US-UK transformer, would leave without buying it, still believing that the fix might be easy). My guess is the latter, so I'm staying away

The pics don't scream 'well looked after and regularly serviced' either. Worth a punt, but an informed one

My read of this is 'It doesn't work but the only way you're going to find that out is by bringing a US transformer'. I've seen a couple of similar listings over the years and always wondered how the seller found themselves with a 120v amplifier but no transformer? Could work fine (doubt it), could be an easy fix (point to point wiring), could be completely uneconomic to repair. Your guess is as good as mine mate

And a truck Man, I'd take a punt on that

Thoughts are with you mate, please stay on here and continue to share your wisdom and humour with us though 👍

Not the bottom one

Agreed. I line it all up, drill the centre hole (assuming Fender fit 5 screw hole bridge), then get strings on and check alignment with PUPs and neck before drilling all of the bridge holes. Sometimes no amount of accurate measurement and maths can make up for a bit of trial and error

Ah, you can't beat building, sorry putting together, your own bass. It's a great feeling when you've finished and realised that you have the bass of your dreams at a fraction of the cost you enjoyed building it so much that you are going to sell it and do another bitsa ad infinitum. Some nice bits there mate, it'll be a cracker

4th gig in 6-days today, outdoors. Pubs were rammed each time, very lively audiences on their feet who were getting quite close. Luckily I was able to retreat behind the two guitarists and hide at the back with the drummist. I was a bit anxious as there were some very very inebriated people wanting to get in with the band, but we managed to keep our space 👍

Martin Simms for you mate, just down the road and you will not get a better job done, he's done two for me and both were extraordinary glass-like finishes 👍

Many genres, far from being less biased against older performers, are biased against the younger. Who wants to see an 18-year old singing real blues, even Jazz. There is a sense that, even if the performance is outstanding, the emotion and experience underlying it is lacking, that the performer is going through the motions. Of course, this isn't always the case, plenty of 18-year olds have had enough emotional upheaval to last most of us a lifetime, and there's probably a few rugged and rusty old blues performers who've actually had very little, but either way there is a perceived authenticity that come with age and the absence of youth and beauty in some genres. I am currently working very hard on losing my youth and beauty, and am going to take the blues world by storm in about 7 years. Watch this space 👍

Yes, all good points. Another problem with 4ths is that you lose so much of the range of the cello, and that's one of the things that makes the cello such an extraordinary instrument. So if you're tuning an 8ve up from DB you're losing most of the lowest pitch string in standard cello tuning, which would be an odd decision if you're looking for it to play a bass-like role? Will it sound good? There's plenty of stuff about the more common use of violin tuning on viola and vice versa, and the jury is very much out, the idea being the dimensions/volume of the body is optimised for the normal range of the instrument and moving too far away from that reduces tonal quality. Looking forward to hearing how it goes 👍