AndyTravis

That is beautiful!

This is going on ebay at the weekend Bump

This is going on ebay at the weekend Bump.

This is back up as the person i'd provisionally sold it to has messed me around too much.

Fender Mexico, Classic 60's Reissue, Limited Edition Burgundy Mist.
Bought 2009 From Basschatter in Manchester.

A great Bass. Basically the same as the much praised Roadworn Jazz, Without the Relic Job.

I saw an original 64 on Ebay, and started chasing these around. Having sold them in a shop in 2003 i felt a bit of a dunce for not buying one when i had the chance.

Still, found one on here, slightly modded and turned into my '64'.

I removed the Badass it came with, using an original BBOT Fender Japan bridge i had spare.
I changed the control knobs with real Fender ones, they were chrome.
I added the 'middle' pickguard screw.

I've added the Ashtrays, and thumbrest, and it's great.

The mod's i've left alone are the Hipshot D-Tuner, as it's great fun, and the controls are set VOL/Pickup Pan*/Tone. *Pickup pan is set reverse, so towards neck is for bridge pickup, towards bridge is neck pickup. Sounds odd at first, but really makes sense once you use it.
[b]I'll chuck in 2 CTS volume Pots i'd planned to re-wire it with...If you want to change it that is.[/b]

Original 'E' tuner will be included, will arrive in a Merchant City Music Gigbag i got it in.

There are a few small indents on the back of the bass, and an under the laquer stain near the 'G' tuner, this must be buffing compound, not noticeable but worth a mention.

The colour changes from champagne shades to nice dark burgundy. Or, just call it 'Pink' and have done with it.

I paid £500, But will now accept £475.

There are also some Nordstrand NJ4SE Pickups i'll let go for £100 plus postage. I'd planned on Keeping this and adding these.

And there should be a USA 62 Reissue Jazz Shell Pickguard arriving at my work tomorrow...£25 plus postage.

Bass + Pickups for £550
Bass + Pickups + Pickguard £570
Plus the two posh Vol pots for nowt, seems fair enough.

NOW GOING AHEAD WITH THE NORDSTRAND PLAN, TOO GOOD A BASS TO LET GO...

Owing to an unexpected Ken Smith related Incident, i've dropped to £600 is the final price i'll take for this.

Trav

haha,

just sang 'under the bridge down town...' word for word over the top.

Interesting.

"The Next One" - Yup, so it seems, i didn't think there would be a 'next one'.


But....I think this is it until a lottery win for a Smith Black Tiger 4.

On it's way from Jsixties...Burner Artist 1991, been after one for a while, and just when I didn't need it...pop, one lands on here!

I now really need to shift the three basses I was keeping hold of after the big selloff, will wait til i'm back from holiday to sort them.

The pickup at the neck - Aria Cardinal?

Best Ever Yamaha colour!

Nice personal touches - what type of paint were then done with, just out of curiosity, should you ever sell it on.

yeah...looks that way.

If it's any help, Hagstrom have just done an innacurate reissue of this, and i dare say it will be more expensive than this. Beautiful bit of kit.

"We don't have Burner bridges in Gold. The Smith Bridges might fit but will need a good professional to put it on and not mess up the bass. That Bridge is $160., 4-string gold. The Tuners are $64. for 4 of them. These will go up in price soon as the Dollar is weak to the Yen. The Tuners are made in Japan, not the Smith bridge though. The Burner bridge was made in Japan in black only but that was over 10 years ago when we stopped making that model. Shipping is additional.

Thank you,

Ken Smith
President/Owner
Ken Smith Basses, Ltd."

I've E-mailed Ken Smith about a Gold Bridge and machineheads...

I bet they're ultra expensive.

haha, well, the Burner will be more than enough for the next few years!

[quote name='lee650' post='991802' date='Oct 17 2010, 11:29 PM']Cool congrats on a lovely bass!!! me, you and matt (overwater#1) will have to form the northwest Ken smith apprecialtion society he,s got a black tiger 6 and ive a BSR5 MW, should make for some interesting comparisons
great bass mate- [/quote]

I really want a black tiger 4...but this will stop the gap until i win the lottery.

Something like this next....
[url="http://www.thelowend.net/gallery/viewtopic.php?t=4572&sid=1bc3001e84798c1b5debbe571ca979ca"]http://www.thelowend.net/gallery/viewtopic...debbe571ca979ca[/url]

If Paypal sorts it's head out in the morning, the Burner is mine. I thought long and hard, but the decision was made for me by the lucky bugger who got this.

Wow - nice work, glad someone did it before i sold a kidney.

[quote name='lee650' post='991669' date='Oct 17 2010, 09:37 PM']You got the smith bug then your burner is cool would like to see more pics, stick em on my smith thread in the gear porn.
this burner is bloody gorgeous and probably not a million miles away from my USA model in terms of build quality, more hats off to fantastic japanese bass building [/quote]

Fingers crossed, i'll be adding pictures of this to your thread.

Seriously didn't think i'd see one of these come up, just as i can't realistically afford it, we'll see, haha.

If i had my way, i'd be having the 86 USA Smith Jsixties has for sale too.

Andy

mobile bump f'tweekend.

I'm happy with our band at the moment, it's fairly dark country/indie stuff, but i'm allowed to play however i wish, i don't overplay whatsoever, but i'm often encouraged to play things a normal Manchester indie outfit would hate.

Luckily, the lads are open to me using whatever i need to do to add my 'layer' to the song, wether that be Cliff Williams root note pumping, or Brian Ritchie style chordal acoustic bass.

Slap is banned however, not that i would, but i've been told once during a jam, and i won't be doing it again, haha.

I'd love to have a go at a modern British soul/funk band, but Jamiroquai (amongst others) cornered that market and now it's a bit old (cat in a) hat.

So that shall remain a pipe dream.

out of interst can you buy ken smith bridges and machineheads direct? I'm thinking Gold Hardware...

shouldn't be thinking at all!

edit...yes you can. oops.
All kinds of trouble, Javi can you get the pictures to me as discussed and we'll take it from there.

My Trumpet building friend Pete Pollard knows these chaps well, i was supposed to send them a design a few years ago to have a bass made, never did.

I know they're well thought of on TalkBass...

The Unicorn isn't to everyones taste, but if you love the Harris, then it's a must!

That looks like a Peavey Brian Bomberg sig bass...

Why on gods earth are you doing this to me?!

Going off to have a think, maybe some Californian white will make me more susceptible!