Beedster

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

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

Oh man, stop it, I so love that bass, beautiful instrument, and TWO Dimarzio Model Ps!!!!!

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

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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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

Offers before I put this lovely little unit at the mercy of eBay........?

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!

In response to a few PMs, yes I still have this, and yes it is still for sale

Up for grabs is a rather nice Jazz bitsa, put together from very high quality parts. I've been playing it a lot since putting it together late last year, but having bought a nice old Fender last week, you know how it is It's got a nice vintage feel. The neck is a stunning Musikraft (NYC), that's a little wider than a Jazz and a little thinner than a Precision. It is a stunning player, fast, comfortable, and feels like it's been played in for 40 years. With a little tweaking the action on this will go very low indeed. Body is an old Warmoth, lightly oiled and well used, feels very 1960's to me (it isn't, just feels like those old stripped 60's Fenders). There's some pen on the back (no idea why), I'm going to have a look at how that might come off other than using sandpaper but it doesn't worry me, in fact I quite like it. There's also a compartment for two 9v batteries should you want to use an active circuit. Bridge is vintage style, I think Fender RI, with the threaded/grooved saddles that allow a range of string positioning (which is probably why, having just looked at the photos, the string positioning over the PUPs looks a bit odd to my eye). Tuners are Hipshot. Body to neck fit is pretty much perfect - there's the tiniest bit of damage to the neck pocket wall on the treble side (see photo) - and the bass resonates very nicely. Vintage Dimarzio PAFs (I assume 1970's/early 1980's) are wired into a standard VVT circuit with series/parallel option (push/pull on front PUP tone control). You can have either pick-guard (I prefer the tort myself). It's pretty light-wight, especially for a Jazz, and feels very solid and, perhaps an odd word to use given it's a bitsa, authentic, probably a function of the nicely worn body, the beautifully made neck, and old PUPs. A steal at £400, but times are hard and bills need to be paid Collection from Canterbury or I can courier at buyer's expense. Chris

Re volume, yes, this is a gig-able unit, and a very nice sounding one at that. It's not going to provide the same earth shattering lows or trouser flapping effects as a 300w SVT, but I've used it comfortably with a Mesa 2x10 with a loud drummer (and even more than comfortably with two Mesa 2x10s with the same loud drummer), and have even gigged the 20w version of this a few times quite happily in quite a decent sized room.