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[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='1351379' date='Aug 25 2011, 02:52 PM']Not so keen on single cut basses or the fishtail, but apart from that [/quote] Ahh but if you stare at it long enough....!

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='1351362' date='Aug 25 2011, 02:41 PM']Is this gonna be the first single cut?[/quote] Think it's the first fishtail one.

Morning all, right, work seems to be going pretty well and I now have the means so I've decided I need a new 5'er in the collection. Having admired the stuff on Robbie's thread for a while I've decided to take the plunge and go for one of these, it was originally going to be a fishtail SC but under pain of death I'm tightening the budget a tad as my wife has decided I have to take her somewhere decent on hols this year! Spec is: 34" scale bolt on with 19mm string spacing at the bridge. Body: Ash with Myrtle wood top and no pickgurard (see the pics of the wood and template shape below) with gloss finish Neck: Maple 3 piece flame/rock/flame. Board: Bird eye maple with 12" radius and rolled edges, 24 frets Side dots: blue luminlay. RIM Jazz headstock with myrtle facing, Hipshop ultralite tuners in black Hipshot type A bridge in black RIM custom wound pickups x 2 in a 70's jazz position East U-retro deluxe preamp

[quote name='steve' post='1295481' date='Jul 7 2011, 12:08 AM']Thats going to be a thing of beauty[/quote] love that wood, mines going to be a headed version of one of these, stylish!

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1287306' date='Jun 30 2011, 08:50 AM']Sounds great. I like the fingerboard wood in particular (Alan has a great selection of woods). Is the Salace body shape on ACG website? I can't seem to find it.[/quote] Only pics of headless ones on progress, this one with have a headstock so the body will be slightly different; Zebrano I love, esp with a bit of purple heart!

[quote name='Scoop' post='1222080' date='May 6 2011, 11:26 AM']Cool. I'll be watching this one carefully. Good timber choices.[/quote] book matched top.

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1275002' date='Jun 19 2011, 05:33 PM']those Bare Knuckle pps sound very nice... and cheap at 135 for the pair.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5RNc1g92XI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5RNc1g92XI[/url][/quote] Yeah, I have Shuker building me a "vintage" jazz at the mo and they're going in that, should be good, I hope!

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1274938' date='Jun 19 2011, 04:58 PM']The Fender CS pups always sounded good to me.. where are these available? Really like the Bartolini Jazz SC pickups though.. and there much more ergonomic than most jazz pickups..[/quote] Have you heard any of the "bare knuckle" pups? A mate of mine had a bass with them in, sounded like a great trad kind of noise to me.

[quote name='markstuk' post='1142306' date='Feb 26 2011, 02:19 PM']Bought a TC RH450 from Stuart, a pleasure doing business...[/quote] Just sold Stuart one of my ACG's, perfect transaction and a pleasure to do business with, can highly recommend. Cheers Stuart.

[quote name='xgsjx' post='1250316' date='May 30 2011, 02:21 PM'][url="http://www.vintagebassguitars.co.uk/2011/05/ibanez-sr-800-active-bass-1998made-in-japanvery-nice-399-00/"]SR-800?[/url][/quote] There was a bob glaub that had been converted to a passive pj in the for sale section, not sure if it's still there but maybe worth a look.

[quote name='longtimefred' post='1247519' date='May 27 2011, 08:02 PM']Ah nice one Giblett! go buy it....take us one more step to a record deal Afraid you are a little wrong, Charlie is on lead Geetar.. I take it you know him from somewhere??[/quote] Trained him as a teacher quite a while back (jeez, how old do I feel now) and he did lots of drumming with us, he's always posting about his "lesbian" band on facebook, I put 2+2 together! Great band, he never told us it was good! Bound to sell.