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Agreed mate. Mrs Beedster doesn't know about the drums yet BTW

Marc, keep it mate, too good to sell at any price

My spiritual home Ped, went there in the '80s and fell in love, jumped at the chance to work there in 2012 and stayed in love. If Mrs Beedster had liked it we'd still be there, but whilst I loved life in a Welsh Longhouse on the side of a Cambrian mountain, she was less keen. Still do the occasional lecture there by invitation, and love every second of it - the train journey itself is worthy of a Michael Portillo documentary. Met some great people there, Julian (from whom I bought the SVT) among them. This was where we lived, 25 miles outside Aber, and about a mile to the nearest neighbour

Thanks mate, replied

Thanks Nik, the times really are! It's an emotion machine for me, when I play it live it reorganises a whole lot of neurons and organs for the better. When I'm not playing it, even looking at it makes me feel better. But....... I really want to get more into recording, especially with my family and with close friends, it was a nagging thing before Covid, but Covid has really made me more aware that time spent with friends and family playing music for nothing more than the pleasure is a privilege, and contrasts substantially - at least for me - with gigging when all too often I'm spending time away from family and friends. I'm in an occasional band with two very close mates (one of whom you've met, Robbie), and these days - well, lockdown permitting - it's just more fun to sit around in the house, play stuff, and if it sounds good, record it. I'd love the SVT to be a part of that but, well, it's kinda overkill, and if I sell that I could buy my youngest a small acoustic drum kit, which would take things in a whole new direction Do I want to sell it, hell no

I gigged with two Bagend 15's for a while, and looking at this thread I cannot think why I sold them. Band at the time was doing a lot of 60's/70's stuff - Who, Cream, Free - and the tone from these cabs just nailed it, I was using a Mesa M-Pulse 600 and Walkabout at the time which helped, but I think both those heads sounded at their 100% best through the Bagend cabs. Wish I could justify that 2x12

Thanks mate, likewise defo the bass sound in my head. Dome the right thing by listing it, won't be too upset if it doesn't sell

Hi mate, all us good thanks, just a torn ligament in my foot. Hope all’s well with you and all is good in Aber, still miss it

Bit of a sad decision but I think it's going to be while before this gets used again, in part because of lockdown, in part because I need to focus on things other than bands/gigs when lockdown ends anyway. I guess it's a bit of a long shot that anyone will want it right now, there's no way it can be posted and there's no collection possible for what looks like a few weeks anyway, but I thought I'd list it just in case as a couple of guys have mentioned here and there that they were looking for a new big tube amp when lockdown ends, and this unit kinda meets that criterion It's number 006 of 250 Premier Editions made. How does it sound? Let me know a time and I'll take it into the garden, plug it in, turn it up to 10 and you should be able to hear it. Photo is form Julian (Soulman's) original listing here I'll take some more when I can get down to the studio - long story but on crutches at present (whilst I don't think these things are as hard to move as people say, I suspect the combination of crutches, icy garden path and the SVT might be too much at present) Chris

Lovely instrument, I've got two and that's probably one too many given the current financial climate. Hard to fin since Breedlove moved production to the far east. Please get in touch if you'd like further details and photos Cheers Chris

This is not getting much use, the kids have showed no interest and my plans to gig with it came up against lockdown. Please legt in touch if you're interested and would like more details/photos Cheers Chris

Here's a close-up of the board. It's Macassar (tiger-striped) ebony. It started life as a fretted neck and has been defretted, which I guess is why the lines are significantly fainter than those you'd usually find on a factory lined board. Note that the side dots are where they would be situated on a fretted bass, that is between the frets (which oddly is where they are also situated on a fair few factory fretless necks as well). And the nut/headstock

Crikey, I'm losing my touch! Just had a PM asking what PUPs are in the Jazz, which is the kind of thing you'd have thought I'd have mentioned. Answer is a rather nice set of Wizard '64s

To clarify the Warmoth neck is classic Jazz width at the nut, 38mm. Very fast and very smooth, but still a bit too thin for me

No worries Brian, too many basses

Hey Brian, hope all’s well, it’s the lined fretless bass in the pics above. Cheers. Chris

Hi Nik, good to hear from you mate. I can certainly do some for you tomorrow, they will however likely be quite out of tune given the amount of playing I've managed to get done since lockdown however. The below seems appropriate

So, bass Number 2 sold a while back but for a number of reasons it never left Beedster Towers. I was going to keep it but I think I'm going to see if I can survive on just the one bass only for 2021 (I have a rather nice Warmoth Black Korina body that I was thinking of building this neck/components onto, but I will probably sell that separately to be honest or I'l end up tinkering again!) . Quick reminder below of the details below. Bass number 2: £300 Noname body Warmoth fretless neck, tiger striped ebony board Gotoh vintage tuners Badass bridge Kiogon circuit This is NOT a a bass for those of you with delicate backs, it is however a powerful sounding and articulate instrument. It's been the go-to in my studio for a long time.