AndyTravis

At £250 more than I sold it for - and with the old sh*tty strings on. Oh well.

Had a Fender MM for years. Loved it. Gigged it, played it daily for about 6/7 years. My ex put us in a position and I had to sell pretty much everything to get us out of it. I missed that sound - but still, years later hadn’t bought another - I wanted my original one, but the lovely guy who I’d sold it to (Nick) had lost track of who he’d sold it to. I set out to find another - and found 2. I was in a position to buy both. Now, if you were on basschat 10 years ago - I actually ran a poll on what finish I should have put on my original MM as it was a bit battle scarred. Anyhow - I’ve decided on my colour and I will reveal more later. The natural one is rough, light and plays well - but the body has multiple dinks and inexplicably a sanded area on the back of the top horn. So my plan from 2009/10 is about to come into play. Tonight was disassembly. Looks like my man has a window to do my work. the process will take 6-8 weeks.

I modify things - I’ve just done this to a Marcus Miller. The pickup polepieces dig in my fingers (Causing blood blisters) and I like the pickups close to the strings. these covers are £4 a set on eBay. reversible modifications. unlike what I’m going to do to my natural miller 😂

That’s my “dream” jazz. Sire did LPB and maple/blocks and I got excited. Then the did matched headstock, which on maple boards (in my opinion) looks turd

I didn’t find it overly harsh to be fair - I knew it was capable of it... Anyhow - it went on to fund the project I’m about to undertake.

No, haven’t got the money at minute

Need a euro lx in my life at some point. Will get this garage conversion done and start saving the pennies.

Yeah I suppose I do. Always on the lookout for a future bass I wish I’d hung on to 😉

I did wonder - cool Character, has a look of Matt Groening’s work.

I sorted the battery. 3rd 90’s Fender I’ve had the same issue with. Although with a piezo in play it was much more of an urgent issue. The electronics were ok - didn’t feel the need to mess about - there was a little disparity in pickup volumes - had this with a Yamaha BEX4c and Epiphone Zenith too. Did some nice recordings with it. It played really well by the time it left me, intonation was good. It found a new home elsewhere and I know the current owner has had one of these before - he’s made up with it.

This. Actually. To the day...can’t think of a bass which has cost me so little yet brought so much fun and garnered so much attention. It owes me £200, possibly under £150, I’ve had a few shandies, so my mental arithmetic and cost sheet are currently uploading an update of some sort...

I wouldn’t mind a 424x, had a burst 425 for a bit

It’s lush - especially with a bit of sun to set the sparkles off...

Well...my singer has one in wine red, I would like that too. this has brand new d’addarios on it and sounds like a £1500 bass - easily.

Yeah a bb414, no changes at all - I had a bb1024x pickguard in black on it and it looked fab. Then I played with a mate who had a fender strat in candy tangerine (very similar to Yamaha OM) With a Pearl pickguard. I had to do it. then I stumbled across an NOS attitude bridge - and snapped it up.

@Pete Bish I love Adore - great album. Also the album without Jimmy C on drums.

Can’t go wrong really...as long as you can make sure it works/is playing well...

Well. Sat in my garden having a bit of me time. Recorded some ideas yesterday and The Sadowsky was in another room... Cannot believe this bass. Still punching way above its weight. And the Sadowsky is nowhere near ten times as good for ten times the price. In saying that, the 1024x wasn’t twice as good for twice the price either. Happy Orange Monday.

Awesome bass. Looks great.

They’re big old units those Wilkinson’s.

A German Hofner Cavern for £180. All legit. I might add.