Beedster

Prices too high? Happy to haggle.... [color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: How much? Quick.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: What?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: It's for the wife.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Oh. Uhhh, twenty shekels.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Right.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: What?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: There you are.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Wait a minute.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: What?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Well, we're-- we're supposed to haggle.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: No, no. I've got to get--[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: What do you mean, 'no, no, no'?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: I haven't time. I've got--[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Well, give it back, then.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: No, no, no. I just paid you.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Burt![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BURT: Yeah?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: This bloke won't haggle.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BURT: Won't haggle?![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: All right. Do we have to?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Now, look. I want twenty for that.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: I-- I just gave you twenty.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Now, are you telling me that's not worth twenty shekels?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: No.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Look at it. Feel the quality. That's none of your goat.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: All right. I'll give you nineteen then.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: No, no, no. Come on. Do it properly.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: What?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Haggle properly. This isn't worth nineteen.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Well, you just said it was worth twenty.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Ohh, dear. Ohh, dear. Come on. Haggle.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Huh. All right. I'll give you ten.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: That's more like it. Ten?! [url="http://www.montypython.net/sounds/lob/insultme.wav"]Are you trying to insult me?![/url] Me, with a poor dying grandmother?! Ten?![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: All right. I'll give you eleven.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Now you're gettin' it. Eleven?! Did I hear you right?! Eleven?! This cost me twelve. You want to ruin me?![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Seventeen?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: No, no, no, no. Seventeen.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Eighteen?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: No, no. You go to fourteen now.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: All right. I'll give you fourteen.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Fourteen?! Are you joking?![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: That's what you told me to say.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Ohh, dear.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Ohh, tell me what to say. Please![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Offer me fourteen.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: I'll give you fourteen.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: He's offering me fourteen for this![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Fifteen![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: [url="http://www.montypython.net/sounds/lob/16done.wav"]Seventeen. My last word. I won't take a penny less, or strike me dead.[/url][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] [url="http://www.montypython.net/sounds/lob/16done.wav"]BRIAN: Sixteen.[/url][/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] [url="http://www.montypython.net/sounds/lob/16done.wav"]HARRY THE HAGGLER: Done.[/url] Nice to do business with you.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Huh.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Tell you what. I'll throw you in this as well.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: I don't want it, but thanks.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Burt![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BURT: Yeah?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: All right! All right! All right![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Now, where's the sixteen you owe me?[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: I just gave you twenty.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Oh, yeah. That's right. That's four I owe you, then.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: Well, that's all right. That's fine. That's fine.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: No. Hang on. I've got it here somewhere.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: That's all right. That's four for the gourd.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Four? For this gourd? Four?! Look at it. It's worth ten if it's worth a shekel.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: But you just gave it to me for nothing.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: Yes, but it's worth ten![/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] BRIAN: All right. All right.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Times] HARRY THE HAGGLER: No, no, no, no. It's not worth ten. You're supposed to argue, 'Ten for that? You must be mad!' Ohh, well. [sniff]One born every minute.[/font][/color]

[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1439201745' post='2840687'] Thanks Chris, maybe the warmoth is chambered? [/quote] I think it's just a relatively light lump of wood to be honest

[quote name='ikay' timestamp='1439198459' post='2840639'] What are weights for both please [/quote] Warmoth is approx. 8.25 lbs, Jazz is approx. 9.25 lbs (both weighed on bathroom scales). Warmoth is surprisingly light to be honest, i.e., to me it looks like it should weigh a lot more! C

Now keeping this for another build project! C

Please note 'spare' tuner screw holes in back of ZZ headstock, easily filled if needed.

Pics (with pickguard) of the Warmoth ZZ [URL=http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4822_zpsvdxqyudz.jpg.html][IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/Beedster/IMG_4822_zpsvdxqyudz.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4833_zpsd05qkqle.jpg.html][IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/Beedster/IMG_4833_zpsd05qkqle.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4825_zpsumptjqdc.jpg.html][IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/Beedster/IMG_4825_zpsumptjqdc.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4828_zps0juxsfkx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/Beedster/IMG_4828_zps0juxsfkx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4827_zpsxuodawue.jpg.html] [IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/Beedster/IMG_4827_zpsxuodawue.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4835_zpsw7dutmbh.jpg.html][IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/Beedster/IMG_4835_zpsw7dutmbh.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4834_zpsv7ackcp2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j199/Beedster/IMG_4834_zpsv7ackcp2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1439053360' post='2839691'] I'd love to see some more pics of the Dusty-a-like, very tempting! [/quote] Hiya Ben, hope all's well mate, we do have similar tastes in basses don't we! I'll get some more pics taken tomorrow morning and post then. [quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1439126531' post='2840193'] P or J width neck on the dusty-a-like as a matter of interest? [/quote] Hey Bigwan, it is a man's P width! In fact, it's a baseball bat in real terms, but a lovely neck to play if you like big necks. [quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1439127443' post='2840211'] Stealth Jazz FL - do the side dots line up with the 'fret' positions? [/quote] Hiya JA, yes, dots on the lines so to speak (frustratingly not the case with the Warmoth neck I had built, which I'm not overly happy about, although as it's a lined neck it's not the end of the world, just looks a bit crap)!

Thinning the herd as i need some rather specific gear for a new gig. First up a fretless Jazz in rather fetching Stealth colour scheme (i.e., all black). Fender MIM '70s RI body, electrics and hardware, Allparts Jazz neck with ebony board. The neck is especially nice and was my main FL neck until I recently had a custom Warmoth FL neck built to my specs. The body has been well played and has a few dinks, blemishes etc. The bridge and back PUP have a few spots of rusts also. Having said this, the MIM PUPs/circuit are pretty decent - in fact to my ear surprisingly so - and do a really decent job. In short, the bass plays very very nicely, neck and body work very well together to produce some lovely fretless tone with good sustain. I'm happy to say this is pretty much as good as all but the best Fender MIJ/MIAs so at £275 this is a real bargain. As with all my deals, you don't like the bass, you get your money back. You will need new strings, those on this bass are very played in! I will of course add a string tree also! [url="http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4808_zpsjllm5mfu.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4813_zpszaxcg9xq.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4809_zpsdn84k489.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4810_zpsgednoihs.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4811_zpsjvqqcil5.jpg.html"][/url] Second up, the bass I always wanted but sadly don't have a ZZ Top tribute act to play it in. I will say nothing more than with Warmoth top quality neck and body, SD Antiquity SC Precision PUP (not the SCPB-1 in the photo below), and very decent tuners and bridge, this bass rocks and is also a bargain given how much it would cost to order the parts. It's a great bass for a 3-piece, really fills in the tone. Looks like the dogs danglies also I thought I had a few more pics of this, I'll try to take some more tomorrow. £425, again a bit of a steal and again you get your cash back if you don't like it. [url="http://s80.photobucket.com/user/Beedster/media/IMG_4304_zpstvt4ecvh.jpg.html"][/url]

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1438888152' post='2838481'] Not to be confused with the bulky Styrofoam cases, this one is made of GRP with plush lining and padding. It's wheeled. It's quite slimline inasmuch as any DB case can be and provides excellent protection. Its shape is like those old cello cases and is suitable for a 3/4 DB. It has been all over Europe with me and has flown to Lanzarotte and back - yes. Can be collected from Oxfordshire or could meet up but best bring your bass to make sure it fits. £350 [/quote] Hiya mate, after a 'moment' with my ageing blonde on my back and a rather drunk gentleman in a dark street the other night (sounds like a Tom Waits song doesn't it), I did consider buying another a hard case, but reflected on the fact that my previous case didn't permit both it and player to be in the same car at the same time! In short it was huge! Do you have dimensions for yours? I'd quite like some pics also if possible. I could get to Oxford way week of 17th if it works out. Cheers Chris

PMd

PMd John Chris

Back in the 70's when I was playing a Satellite Bass I always dreamed of having a Hagstrom. I used to sit and look at the ads in guitar magazines and imagine a world in which I could own one (keep in mind that at the same time I used to imagine a world in which I was married to Agnetha Faltskog). Seeing this beauty brought all the memories back, and the links to Abba only made them the sweeter. A lovely bass, which i could justify the fee! Good luck with the sale. PS talking of Agnetha, I was in a pub a few years back with a very good and very drunk friend, and we were reminiscing about childhood. The conversation went something along the lines My mate: "Who were you most obsessed with when you were a kid" Me: "The blonde one out of Abba" My mate: "What, Benny....?" Makes me laugh every time, but perhaps you had to be there!