karlfer

You might find that some folk on Basschat live close to you. You might want to put up your area and ask if anybody, relatively close to you, has any of those basses and would they let you come and try them. I notice you are still in education, so you might like to take mum, dad or big brother with you. Most bassists will be happy to encourage new folk "into the light". Good luck and enjoy the journey. Karl.

Could I afford a 1963 Fender jazz, Sea foam Green with matching headstock? No (could I ever find one?). Could I afford a tribute bass by Mark to the above spec. Yes. Did I put a Fender decal on the front? Yes. Why? Cos I wanted to and where I gig a lot less than one in 100 make comments about anything bass related. Do I feel guilty about it? Not on your nelly. It's feel, sound, looks and desire by me, for what I want to gig with. And I gotta tell ya, I got lucky with the tribute bass Mark made for me.

Naff off taunting me with that Dolphin Pro 11 Martyn

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1418396707' post='2629903'] Unfortunately the over-inflated price of concert tickets is the cost of not wanting to pay for recorded music any more. [/quote] Bang on. We have a cd coming out in January and had a conversation about exactly this on Wed night. I remember queuing for nearly 36 hours, outside Newcastle City Hall for Zep tickets. I still have a ticket, price £1, for Floyd at City Hall. I just wont go to big gigs anymore. We have techno progress

Really sorry to hear that, will keep an eye on Gumtree just in case.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1418079750' post='2626764'] I just take spare pants. [/quote] Flash git [quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1418090252' post='2626819'] I accept that most of us could probably rectify most of the commonest problems we're likely to encounter, but personally speaking, I wouldn't want to be breaking out the soldering iron in the middle of the set. The whole point of having a back up is unplugging the duffer and picking up the back-up without breaking stride. I don't want to be stopping things for even as long as it takes to wind a new string on. [/quote] Nail, head!

[quote name='GRAHAM SG1' timestamp='1418079961' post='2626770'] Thanks all, I am only really concerned about the fit of a different neck, I would not want any gaps between body and neck at the body pocket which could arise from tolerance differences between the Jazz and Precision, at the same time I would not want to buy a neck that is too tight for the pocket, it would also need to be a Deluxe USA Jazz neck to keep the Deluxe spec of my bass . [/quote] If you need to keep the spec of your bass original, you will need to keep the original neck, because if you sell it people may consider it a bitsa, as in non production model .

I had an Arbiter branded one Tommo. It did actually weigh enough to have it's own gravitational pull!

[quote name='BetaFunk' timestamp='1417553724' post='2621726'] I'm not sure how you would know what a bass ACTUALLY sold for here on BC. Lots of people have made offers for basses that i've had for sale but no one apart from me and the buyer would ever know the actual price paid. [/quote] Quite right, but it's unlikely that somebody with a bass out for say £600, has sold it for a great deal less without reducing the price on the advert? Guess the point I was badly trying to make is that if half a dozen basses of X brand/model/rough year have been advertised at £600, and appear to have sold at around that price, it's a bit ambitious putting the same kind of bass out at £800.

Oh slap me silly and call me Mable