Beedster

It has that potential yes But...... Sometimes these things happen, and letting them become a 'cause' just costs you more time and money. Then there's the stress, which can make life miserable for a while. Your credit card company refused the payment, that's the first good thing, so to date I assume this has cost nothing and I imagine will continue to do so, you have the money, UPS don't, possession is 9/10s of the lax and all that. Of course, getting money back from UPS had your card company obliged would be a completely different scenario. So then there's the cab itself. I assume you have insurance that will cover this. If not perhaps it's worth looking into for next time; there are companies who insure good while in transit, they're generally cheaper than the insurance offered by the couriers and unlike those aren't poacher and gamekeeper at the same time. It's f***ING bad luck for a first delivery to the US, and it's appalling service by UPS. But they're a courier company not a Swiss watchmaker, they f*** up with a regularity that defies nearly all statistical models of human behaviour. I remember David Hockney doing the Grand Canyon photomontage thing, he spent thousands on films and days shooting it section by section, only for the lab to expose one of the films meaning there was a big hole in the artwork. He just shrugged, and IIRC, put the letter from the lab front and centre of said hole!

Likewise mate, I'm very please to have landed this one, while I prefer an oiled neck to the heavy varnish on the SUB, this one's quite nicely played in, while the body - by coincidence being finished in the same stuff the Socients used to paint their subs in - still looks like it rolled out of the factory yesterday. Thinking about an East preamp. The sweepable mids are a bassist's secret weapon for when the guitarist thinks they've won the cutting through the mix war

No such thing as bad advertising

Glad I could be of service 👍

I can't tell you the answer to why, but there are loads of Stingrays for sale at present and none of them interested me, I saw this and my eyes almost jumped out of my head Tom and Jerry style.....

Sell the '64 and buy two 71's with the proceeds. Problem solved '75 goes to a charity shop 😀

Wow, just wow. I was looking for a Modulus Flea for a specific project, ended up buying a Jazz with graphite neck that was coming close but not quite, and then saw this. I owned one in the mid 2000s and it was a cracker, frankly this is even better. Still getting to grips with it, but there's something magical about the whole Stingray shape and orientation that really does help me do the Flea/RHCP thing 👍 And the board is so dark it could be ebony, on which basis a black pickguard is also going on at the earliest opportunity

Neck’s coming off mine tomorrow just to check it isn’t in fact a ‘63 😆

Indeed I did 👍

There is this 60’s = magical/enigmatic/craftmanship versus 70’s = poor QC/heavy/lottery thing, I’m guessing early 70’s has more in keeping with the former than the latter 👍

It does feel very 60’s, far more like a ‘69 I used to own than my old ‘73

Serial suggests '73, receipt in the case dated '71. Dare I say Fender QC......... Bought from The Gallery in June after months of looking for a 3TSB/dark rosewood 70's Precision. Have to admit I didn't play it before I bought it, largely because the last time I waited to play a bass at The Gallery it sold before I had the chance. It's hard to say what makes a bass talk to you, but this one has done so more than most; it appears to require very little effort to produce a glorious fat PBass tone, even with rounds it's far more 60's than 70's to my ear, think Motown/Stax not JJB/Simenon. The body and neck have just the right amount of playwear to suggest that it was gigged a lot but otherwise well looked after as opposed to abused. We have a 60s/70s project in the early stages at present and played through the rather lovely Ashdown Drophead 200 that I bought to go with this bass, all is sounding nicely retro round theses parts. There will of course be a few basses listed for sale in the very near future to pay for this one. The cycle of life

Some more.......

Ah, that’s a good idea and one I missed 👍

Re clingfilm or plastic, this is what I received from UPS when I did it….

That is the absolute bottom line, like many large organisations, they are characterised by a systematic absence of care for or responsibility towards their customers, they are largely unregulated, cover every possible example of professional failing on their part in small print, and make communication and complaint almost impossible 😡

Worm meet can 👍 Completely agree but aware others don’t 😆

What bass is it Jay?

….by which I mean the item was seriously damaged, not the box, their argument is that the box is there to soak up the damage and not to arrive in pristine condition!

They generally won’t reimburse unless it was fully insured AND it didn’t arrive or was SERIOUSLY damaged 😡

My heart sinks when anyone sends me anything via any courier these days 😕

Thanks Steve, it’s a nice one, price was right for a bass I can gig without too much stress but which is a truly vintage instrument in age, look, feel, and tone. It came with some VERY old rounds that normally wouldn’t be my thing, preferring flats on a Precision, but which just work so well on this. It’s one of those basses that I just want to pick up and play, and for whatever reason I haven’t found that with most of the basses I’ve owned. I won’t say it’s a keeper because experience dictates that’s an elusive quality, but I’m certainly enjoying having it 👍