Soloshchenko

I built a Warmoth tele thinline. Nicest guitar I own. The build quality is unquestionable, as nice as I've seen on anything. As a Fender man my ultimate dream bass is a Warmoth Jazz rather than a Fender custom shop or vintage one. That's how highly I rate them.

That is just absolutely stupid and awful. I just vomitted looking at it.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KAY-RICKY-STYLE-BASS-GUITAR-BLACK-V-NICE-PROJECT-/110637765347?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item19c28652e3"]Very rubbish Kay [/url] You've all not mentioned this because you;re secretly bidding for it aren't you? Pretty horrible in every way but a Faker, kind of. 3 hours left!

Yeah, the shipping and import duty is a bit of a lottery. I can't remember the exact amounts but I remember being shocked at how little I had to pay on what is now Muzz's black one. By the way Muzz, why don't you get some pics of the upgrades you've done? They sound cool and I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd love to see what it looks like.

I had one, in fact it's the same one Muzz is on about I think because he bought it from me! Glad you like it Muzz. My only concern and from what Muzz is saying, he's the same, was the neck on the precision I owned was a bloody log! It really was too thick which was why I sold the bass. It was, in fact, the fattest neck I've ever played or seen on any bass. If you can deal with that, go for it because they're very cheap. Personally, I replaced the SX with a Classic Vibe Squier Precision which was far more comfortable for me to play.

Mexican basses are inconsistent. I got lucky mail ordering mine because it's a beaut and has the slimmest neck I've ever played on any Jazz. Perfect for me and I'll never sell it despite it being heavy as a log. Regardless which route you take I'd fully recommend replacing the pickups with Wizards. I put some 84s on mine, haven't played a Jazz that sounds anything like as good as my MIM and I've played a lot of Fenders. Wizard pickups are simply the dogs bollox and they aren't expensive. ALSO, a good setup is hugely important with all Fenders. It seems most guitar shops have given up giving their instruments proper setups! Bizarre. You wouldn't show someone round you For Sale house without having a clean up first.

Ricky GAS is a hard urge to kill. As someone else said, if you're a pick player you might be half way there. You possibly have a greater chance of getting on with Rick basses than fingerstyle players. I find that as unbelievably cool as they look, they are a terrible design for us finger style bassists. I know Geddy played them brilliantly but the thought of woodshedding for 500 hours just to stop me resting my thumb somewhere close to the strings seems a big price to pay for having the best looking bass there is! One possible route might be to get yourself a faker for a fraction of the cost, see how you get on and then if you like it, sell it for a real one, and if not your bag, get rid and you'll be over your GAS. You WILL be able to sell it, I find there is a big demand for good fakers. I'm actually talking from experience, I bought myself a beautiful CMI faker. The sound was awesome, the look was awesome, my band absolutely LOVED that bass but going back to my Jazz just felt so much more natural and I knew it had to go.

Think someone has disbanded a beatles cover band.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1100590' date='Jan 24 2011, 11:32 AM'][url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=119556"]This one's a much better deal[/url] - and no, it ain't the same one! J.[/quote] Aye, apparently the guy selling his on BC is a really nice bloke as well! Can confirm that the ebay one is not me.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Anniversary-Replica-Bass-Guitar-/180613679083?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a0d6a07eb"]Anniversary[/url] I like these for modern versions. Anyone know what they are like quality wise? (Jon, I'm looking in your direction).

[quote name='mcnach' post='1097460' date='Jan 21 2011, 01:21 PM']what's your budget? For less than the price of a new Ray34, and around teh same price of a used Ray34, you can get a MusicMan SUB4. The SUB4 may not be as pretty as some of the Ray34s (some are trully stunning, I must admit). But you get the correct pickup and the correct (2-band EQ) preamp. In other words, you get a Stingray. The body is not contoured, and the paint job is peculiar: textured, matt. Colour choices are just black, dark red, blue, and a couple of very rare others. I have a SUB5 (5 string) in black and I do love the finish. The pickguard is weird... it's metallic, like the floor of buses, that sort of pattern... I don't like it. I replaced mine with a black one. [see picture below, mine had a SD Basslines pickup when I bought it, but I put the original back in it and I prefer it] They come up frequently here in the forum and on eBay. [/quote] I'd agree with this. In fact I thing my next project is to acquire a decent sub 4 and re finish it.

[quote name='tauzero' post='1097620' date='Jan 21 2011, 02:57 PM']I think I'd stick in an active preamp as well. Looks like a neat job, the routing for the J pickup isn't gappy and the battery box looks OK too, as well as one can see it. WTF anyone would want to put this considerably improved P back to something like original appearance beats me.[/quote] Because quite a lot of people hate the sound of active pickups?

I dunno, personally, I'd love to work on that bass and I doubt it would be too much graft to get sorted. I'd get rid of the stupid active PUs and replace with some Wizards or something passive, sand down the finish and possibly re-fill before spraying a solid colour as I don't like sunbursts. As for the battery hole (the biggest crime in my opinion) you could either use another piece of wood to glue in or even a ton of wood filler.

Without having extensive knowledge of vintage basses, back when I was more of a guitarist I was always under the impression Fender and other big makes like Gibson got sloppy in the 70s. This has been backed up by most of the 70s instruments I've played, I remember a particularly awful fender tele a friend once letme play. I swearto god that a Squier affinity would have sounded far superior. I'm sure loads of 70s Fenders sound brilliant mind you, like the OP though, I don't understand the premium. Maybe 50s/60s bass prices are so ridiculous this is now the only way vintage fans can afford old insruments.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1089819' date='Jan 14 2011, 08:38 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1979-Ibanez-Roadster-Bass-VINTAGE-/120671862647?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item1c189a7f77"]Ibanez Roadster restoration project.[/url][/quote] I quite fancy that. I think the starting price is bloody stupid though.

I've seen these, they look lovely although I don't know if I'd get bored of something so fancy looking after a while.