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You mean one hundred, right?

Not wanting to add fuel to the fire, but if the email address you've forwarded moneys to is not the email address that the seller has registered on eBay then you may encounter difficulties raising a dispute that PayPal will respond to. Certainly, if you forwarded moneys to an email address using the "gift" facility on PayPal you may well have shot yourself in the foot when it comes to recovering any moneys paid (unless you can prove a link between the eBay sale and the PayPal "gift").

[quote name='chaypup' post='1179167' date='Mar 28 2011, 08:47 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aria-Pro-II-CSB-300-Bass-Vintage-1980s-Made-Japan-/170620917899?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item27b9cc988b"]Aria Pro II[/url] "Looking at the machine heads i'd guess its from 1981".......Or you can look at the serial number![/quote] At least he picked a year when the 300 was actually in production. There was a "Matsumoku" SB1200 listed recently - which would have been good going as the 1200 wasn't in production until '89, only two years after the Matsumoku factory closed.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1088462' date='Jan 13 2011, 07:18 PM']It is a bit pretty for sure. I think a certain personoftyne may like this one! Shudder to think what Fender will charge for it, mind. Edit: MRSP is $4200, which is about £2600-2700.[/quote] It'd be a lot more expensive than that in Europe. Published prices in the US exlude sales taxes. So, it'd be well over £3k here. And probably closer to £3.5k, when you factor in duties.

[quote name='witterth' post='1170110' date='Mar 20 2011, 09:52 PM']"Andy Taylor hasn't been in the picture for years." I know, I was wondering what happened anyone know?[/quote] His autobiography ("Wild Boy") is an interesting read, and he goes in to detail as to why he left (again).

My only wish is that Yamaha would return to neck-thru construction. For me, the BB2000 and BB5000 have never been bettered.

[quote name='nig' post='1134194' date='Feb 20 2011, 11:40 AM']Yes, the wunkay has a big MFD like the twokay, but its passive and mounted[/quote] It's passive in the L1000. It's active in the L1000E.

Guild. Nothing else does the job as well.

[quote name='Jigster' post='1131700' date='Feb 17 2011, 11:27 PM']And do the body and the neck go together? Body appears to all accounts to be a GL-1000? But headstock says SB-1. I thought SB-1s had a P bass like p'up?[/quote] It's the first version of the SB-1, from the early 80s. The second version that you're thinking of, with the P-style pickup, first appeared in the mid 80s.

[quote name='bigjohn' post='1130231' date='Feb 16 2011, 08:44 PM']It melts with heat, so a soldering iron to the nut, does the job [/quote] Lets hope your nuts aren't plastic!

[quote name='Macko1968' post='1128821' date='Feb 15 2011, 08:06 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rickenbacker-4003-bass-and-Ric-hard-case-/230585732092?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item35affb0bfc#ht_500wt_1156"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rickenbacker-4003-ba...c#ht_500wt_1156[/url] Why pay Guitar Guitar £1599 delivered for a Ricky when you can have a used one for just £46 more?[/quote] £1699 at Guitar Guitar. But your point is still valid.

Out of interest, how much did Bill let it go for?

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='1117213' date='Feb 5 2011, 11:59 PM']i played it when i bought the last tecamp cab they had kicking around. Possibly quite nice- confusing controls and a lot of hiss meant i swapped it for a fender jazz to test the cab. It was lovely- just not £1000 lovely[/quote] Yea, the electrics were unusually distorted for a G&L of that period. One of the pots was certainly suspect. The preamp didn't seem to operate in one of the toggled modes as it should. And it was one of the light ones - alder body?

No offence, Doug, but don't see what you can be claiming an intellectual property right in, as hybrid fretted instruments (where the fretting wire doesn't extend the full way across the touchboard) have been around since the 1500s. What you would have done in the 80s, and what Ibanez is doing today, are simply interpretations of concepts that have existed for over 400 years.

Description and artwork don't match. Description states, among other points, "Stacked Concentric Controls".

[quote name='silddx' post='1109698' date='Jan 31 2011, 04:54 PM']Do you think they are expensive then?[/quote] £1,900 for the '81 Precision? £1,500 for an '08 4003? £1,300 for an '86 Stingray?

So, this one isn't [url="http://www.billysheehan.com/gear/instruments_29.html"]hot pink[/url] either?

[quote name='Bassassin' post='1098580' date='Jan 22 2011, 12:46 PM']Mix & match finish hardware always looks sh!t. Besides, gold = tasteless, tacky & just plain naff anyway. Jon.[/quote] You're not a fan of the Matsumoku mix-and-match technique then, Jon? The brass or gold bridge, with chrome tuners, with black knobs and switches?

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