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  1. Delberthot
    Right, I think this is the last thing I have for sale. I've just been trying to sell everything that I don't use and am unlikely to use. This last one should be a great project for the summer for someone. It began life as a brand new Bass Collection Speakeasy 4 string bought for £299 in GuitarGuitar in Glasgow. I bought it because it has the fastest neck I've ever played but I wasn't overly keen about the sound so I planned on replacing the pickups and preamp. This was a couple of years ago when I wasn't as good with a soldering iron as I am now so after many failed attempts the end result is what you see here. You have two choices depending on how much of a project you want. The bass will come with the body, neck, nut, bridge I don't have the original screws but these seem to do the job) and tuners so option 1 would be simply to replace the pickups and electronics. Option 2 would be a complete refinish plus option 1. I could also supply a set of pickups from a Squier Precision Special, Pots and a cap for an extra £7 so all you would need would be a barrel jack socket. The body is a wee bit chipped in places but nothing major and I have tried to show everything in the pictures. It is missing the back cover but that's easily enough replaced using a bit of old scratchplate material or something like that. When I bought this, I had been around every music shop in Glasgow trying everything and I mean everything. I had a budget of £2000 to spend and I went through Warwicks, Fenders, Rickenbackers, Cheap sh*te, Tobias, Schecters and a whole host of assorted cr@p. This was the one that played the best. It didn't sound the best but it played the best by a fair margin. Bearing in mind that its never left the house since I bought it for £299 I am looking for a very reasonably £100 including postage to mainland UK which is a third of what it cost me. Alternatively I am open for trades. I don't have anything specific in mind so fire away with what you have
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    Yes. Each amp output could have a series box connected to two eight ohm cabs giving 16 ohms. do that twice and your amp will see two 16ohm loads which will make it see 8ohms
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    Compare these two pictures [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=83416"]ABM410[/url] [url="http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j135/phsycoandy/IMG_0060-1.jpg"]MAG414[/url] The ABM has 2 1/4" jacks and a speakon. I'd be more inclined to think that one of those is a link although it isn;t marked as such its more likely, whereas the MAG only has one of each indicating inputs only?
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    £150 is an outrageous price. Its worth so much more than that. I sold an ever so slightly newer one of these a couple of years ago for £360
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    Yes but you're the wrong 'purpleblob' Had you been 'Thepurpleblob' you'd be in Glasgow and I would be coming through to collect it.
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    So for my next question - does anyone have a simple, easy to read diagram so that I can build myself such a box? I was thinking about a box with 6" of cable coming out of it terminating in a speakon plug to connect to the amp with 2 speakon sockets at the other end I have seen them but they're expensive and I want cheap.
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    As far as I know, they are both inputs. One is Speakon and the other is 1/4" jack. Every speaker I've ever used has been marked 'Input' and 'Link' if it has the link capability so are these different?
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    [quote]typo ! so listing maybe over looked[/quote] Until you pointed it out to 16,620 bass players
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    Shouldn't it be a bit darker? Fender have finally given up even trying cos they know you're going to buy it anyway. Coming soon 'bile orange' and 'piss yellow'
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    I knew it was one or the other
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    I think I've found the answer already - a series lead which will give me 320w @ 8 ohms total Alternatively, I may look into getting a power amp to power the other cab. We'll see
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    Alternatively £18 delivered for the Rick strings and £13 for the D'addarios
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    OK guys and gals. I know that this has been asked before but I'll be damned if I can find the thread about it. Something like two 4 ohm speakers run in parallel will give a total load of 8ohms I think. How would I then go about connecting 2 4ohm cabs to my amp so that the total load is 8ohms - special lead, box of tricks, work of the devil?
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    That's an amazing price for a very loud and capable cab - if it had been 8ohm I would've had it myself
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    Right, nae messin about. Rickenbacker strings on Stringsdirect website for a [u][b]4 string[/b][/u] set are £39 delivered; D'addario EXL170s are £19 delivered for a [u][b]4 string set[/b][/u] so in total you'd be £58 for both sets of strings I'll sell both sets together for £27 delivered to UK mainland. That way you get 2 sets of 4 string bass strings and you can do what you want with the 12 extra octave strings.
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    [quote name='Lo.' post='1279162' date='Jun 22 2011, 10:34 PM'][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dRWnJIzgc4&lc=SlXxewHdwmJvwm0-qacFnmZkmaLGNWJQ0x2OJOXjmKY&feature=inbox"]Cheetah ABG[/url] I recommendz 'em. I'd ask them for an endorsement but it would cost me more in phone calls than buying another. £50, new. A pain in the ass to tape the neck up to finish the frets, but worth it. The preamp is (obviously) cheap, so I smooth it out with the Phil Jones Bass Buddy preamp and happy days ensue. Hope it doesn't fall apart when I put heavier gauge flats on it - the fender tapewounds are OK but the rotosound tapewounds or normal flats would be better for me I guess.[/quote] So you had to finish the frets, use a £240 box of tricks to get a decent sound out of it and you hope it doesn't fall apart. Not trying to have a go but that doesn't sound very good
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    Last bump. If this hasn't sold by tomorrow lunchtime then I'm withdrawing it to do the work on it myself then keeping it. And I may even do the 5 string mod on it myself
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    Things sure are moving fast on here. I can have this rewired today and collected tomorrow for delivery on Friday. I've also had an idea that this could be a possible 4 to 5 string conversion for people who like close string spacing - [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilkinson-4R-Open-Frame-Chrome-Bass-Tuners-WJBL-200-/110705581380?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item19c6911d44"]extra tuner[/url], change the pickup for a [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wilkinson-Lic-Bass-Pickup-4-String-MWM4C-Musicman-/110703594366?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item19c672cb7e"]bar magnet one[/url] and a [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-KAHLER-USA-Hybrid-7450-5-String-Bass-Bridge-CHROME-/290557785607?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item43a697f607"]Kahler bridge[/url]. doable for about an extra £75 I may even have a spare Graphtech nut, same as I used on my Rick 4 to 5 conversion
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    [quote name='lanark' post='1277946' date='Jun 21 2011, 11:42 PM']I thought it was Bill Wyman.[/quote] The seventh Beatle? Now that would be a story Actually Y-fronts are named after Bill Wyman.
  20. Delberthot
    William Shears Campbell is the seventh Beatle
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    [quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='1277587' date='Jun 21 2011, 07:48 PM']yes ...and I invented shoes[/quote] really? I invented the banana Interesting story actually.
  22. Delberthot
    Strings still available bump
  23. Delberthot
    So what does a choke actually do? In the old days it was used until the engine heated up enough for it to be put back in
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    The E of the serial number looks a bit wonky compared to the other numbers but then it is a Fender so its entirely possible The guy said that he had the board laquered And dates to 1988-90 according to [url="http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html"]this[/url]
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    I'm going to rewire this on Thursday with the new pots and cap. I've not decided on which wiring to use so I'll wait until then. If you're interested in this then I can rewire it and ship it with the neck off to keep the postage down for the same £110 delivered to mainland UK or you can collect it for £100. You have until then, otherwise I might just keep it
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