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  1. Beedster
    Yep, if I had £3k I'd buy another Wal, superb instruments, and one of the few that a) you can't recreate more cheaply (i.e., you can build something every but as good as the best Fender from Warmoth/Allparts and aftermarket hardware, but you ain't going to get anywhere close to Wal) and b) will almost certainly have gained value should you need to sell it.
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    Thanks mate, it's a lovely instrument. The real pleasure of playing around with Fender-alike bitsas is that you can keep chopping and changing parts until you get the perfect bass. And then sell it for about what it cost, and start again
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    Active in a Precision, get a P-Retro (used as discontinued). But passive is also pretty versatile if done well, speak to John/Kiogon about versatile passive circuits, he's just built me one for a P/J bas that does pretty much everything I need from a bass. Wood? You can pick up Warmoth and Allparts bodies and necks for £100-£150 if you keep your eyes open I'm getting the feeling I've got most of the parts you might need!
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    There you go mate
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    Simon and I shared a brief few moments at an undisclosed central London location today, during which a rather well engineered item hailing from Petaluma CA changed hands. To say that Simon was patient, accommodating and a thoroughly good egg would be an understatement. He is also a man who knows his gear. One of the good guys
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    I put together most of the below basses, all high spec by factory built comparison models (Fender etc), for around or under the O/Ps budget. Most are Warmoth or Allparts necks/bodies, which are generally a step up from standard Fender quality (IMO of course). All are outstanding players and solid as a rock. You'll see a theme......
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    Looks like that might well be the case as I've interest from a few guys in a passive version, I'll let you know as soon as I do Cheers Chris
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    Ha ha, love it
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    At this rate the bass will be done by Friday and cost about £300
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    I’ve always wondered why so many bassists use slap in demos etc when it appears to be such a little used technique in the real (recording and public performance) world? It’s a bit like a demo for a lawn mower showing how well it can be used to carry the shopping home. I suspect however that it is a convention so hard-wired into our collective consciousness, that even if we are never going to use it, deep down we need to know whether a prospective purchase is good for slap. Just in case.
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    I concur
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    I’d recommend buying all parts used, you’d be amazed at what you can find
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    Great stuff! Keep your eyes on eBay and Basschat, and prepare yourself for a few weeks at least, sometimes months, of trial and error. But it’s great fun and really satisfying. Putting together a bitsa is also very easy if you’re sticking to Fender-type instruments because 9 times out of 10 things fit, or can be made to fit with a little tweaking. It allows a lot of customisation. For example, I love the sound of Jazz Basses but hate the skinny necks. I have two bitsa Jazzes with Precision necks, and love them both. I have also built my perfect bass, a P/J fretless that feels like a Wal to play, and even looks a little Wal-sequel! Some necks resonate beautifully on one body and not on another, sometimes a high-mass bridge improves a bass, sometimes not. The list of combinations that can influence either tone and/or playability is pretty long. Possibly the best bass I have at present has a huge gap at the heel/pocket, a crap lightweight bridge, cheap PUPs, and a couple of misplaced bits of hardware, but it just works, certainly as well as instruments costing 3-4 times as much. Trial and error is king, and there are many surprises to be had from relatively unpromising sources. Have fun mate, give me a shout if you need parts Chris
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    You can run two cabs and it makes quite a big difference if you’re looking to use it live? Great amp, great tone, great price
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    I have done a couple of times, at least I've put together a few Fender-alike bitsas to the specification of the buyer, some feedback below
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    Oh man, stop it, I so love that bass, beautiful instrument, and TWO Dimarzio Model Ps!!!!!
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    Ha ha, thanks Dave, I love building decent quality basses, gives me a real sense of achievement when I put one together that just works, as this one does. Main problem for me is that I enjoy putting them together more than I do playing them these days
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    Hi mate, I've added the details above, it's a shallow depth 43-44 mm width nut (I can get an accurate depth at the nut, will post a little later), weighs 4.3kg, perhaps a tad under. Cheers Chris
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    Bump
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    For sale is another of my quality bitsas, something of a necessity following the purchase of a Fender PBAC-100 recently (and the complete surprise that, having fallen in love with the East P-Retro a few years back, Fender were doing something very close to it, albeit without the mid-sweep, back in 1991!). So, this is a quality bass, albeit a no-name/no-brand instrument. To my mind the price reflects the no-name/no-brand issue and not the quality, but I guess I would say that. I may part this out as the components sold individually would probably fetch me about £200 more than the asking price for the bass, so please feel free to enquire. I could also sell the bass around £150 cheaper if supplied with a BBOT bridge and a passive Precision harness, replacing the Badass and P-Retro respectively. The bass as is weighs in at a respectable 4.3kgs. Parts Body: No name lightly oiled alder (I think). Has Ferrari written in the neck pocket. I was going to spend some time rubbing it down and oiling it, I may still do if it doesn;t sell quickly! There's a couple of dinks in the wood, please see the photos. They're not major, but I know there are some perfectionists out there, so if thing like these worry you, please don't buy this bass Neck: Warmoth, figured rosewood board, lightly oiled, 43-44mm at nut, shallow profile, lovely fast player, especially if you like big necks. No dinks, just lovely PUPs: Dimarzio Model P Circuit: East P-Retro, now discontinued, one of the great Precision accessories! Charger will of course be included https://www.east-uk.com/index.php/bass/p-retro/p-retro.html Bridge: Badass II, You know the score. Tuners: Gotoh Lollipops Currently strung with some rather lovely old nylons that I will keep and will stick a set of either flats or rounds on as per buyer's preference. No trades please. I can courier and will split costs with buyer, or you can collect from Canterbury, Kent Cheers Chris
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    I sold a bass on here a while back (there's a surprise) and the buyer came back to me and complained about fret buzz, which he said was all the way up the neck. He demanded a refund. It was a top-end Jap Yamaha, and was so well made that the action was almost a case of strings sitting on the frets, no effort to play, but lovely tone nonetheless. I'm guessing he was used to a rather more agricultural approach to technique. He didn't take well to my suggestion that he simply raise the action a little either
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    Offers before I put this lovely little unit at the mercy of eBay........?
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    In response to a few questions the weight is 4.2kg/9.2lbs, lightish for a Jazz and almost a whole kg lighter than my fretless!
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    In response to a few PMs, yes I still have this, and yes it is still for sale
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