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[quote name='Bassassin' post='874938' date='Jun 22 2010, 10:55 PM']Cheap mudbuckery Tele japes: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bass-Guitar-Fender-Squire-Precision-/170503924985"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bass-Guitar-Fender-S...n-/170503924985[/url] Jon.[/quote] Yeah there's something really fishy about that. I was the highest bidder at £115.39 up until someone bid £118 for it, there was then a winning bid of £120. The bass was suddenly relisted later on with the BIN at £100 & the person who won it at £120 then won it at the BIN price. Dodgy!

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='866679' date='Jun 14 2010, 01:25 AM']This was me - woop woop! Didn't realise there was a BC thread going about it, as soon as I saw the listing on ebay I pulled the virtual trigger, didn't think twice. We'll have to see if it's any good or not, but unfortunately not for a bit as I live in Edinburgh - got family down there though who'll hold onto it for me. I also bought a rather funky looking black mexi classic 70s that was listed, thought it'd be cool to compare the sounds of different pickup positions. And now I have to sell things or I shall face ruin, sigh...[/quote] That's great news - good for you. It just shows though that if you are going to sell on Ebay, research how much previous auctions have reached for the item you're selling, take the time to write a good clear description & add good quality pics - this bass would have fetched more money for the seller had they just taken the time to do it properly. I hope it's a good one for you!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Bass-Guitar-black-/180518957006?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2a07c4afce"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Jazz-Bass-Gui...=item2a07c4afce[/url] Great pics & description - must be a bargain!

[quote name='Johnston' post='850317' date='May 28 2010, 01:55 PM']I haven't. It's one of the reasons I usually use snipe-it. That way no one can bid you up and you will never go over your original value. I usually will put the snipe-it on near the last day and I have walked away from a few collection only listings. Mainly because I reckoned if it did go cheap then the buyer would likely back out. I keep the items in my watch list mind and quite a few have come back on with a decent minimum bid or reserve set 2nd time round. I've even seen a few re-listed on a different account in the same location and the same pics and the same 'this is my favourite bass selling it but keeping the other 2 dozen etc etc' bull. I reckon they should show locations of bidders that way it would be more obvious if it was or wasn't dodgy bidding. Like if someone with a low feedback keeps bidding up an auction and the location is the same as the sellers then there's more of a chance its dodgy compared to a bidder doing it from 100 miles away.[/quote] It was better when they used to show bidders ID's because you could then check out their feedback. Now you only see the feedback score they have, you don't know how much that has been reduced by negative feedback. For instance h**c's feedback score is 26 yet the positive feedback is showing as 0% - why?

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Original-1970s-Burns-FLYTE-Bass-Electric-Guitar-/360263840505?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item53e165f2f9"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rare-Original-1970s-...=item53e165f2f9[/url] I haven't seen one of these for years!! I began to think I had imagined them. I believe Geddy Lee used to play a white one during the 70's.

[quote name='Gareth Hughes' post='840701' date='May 18 2010, 11:55 AM']And anyway - it's not pedant, it's pedant.[/quote] Isn't that somefing you ware rownd yore nek?

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1962-FENDER-PRECISION-BASS-signed-Leo-Fender-/300429183131?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item45f2f9889b"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1962-FENDER-PRECISIO...=item45f2f9889b[/url] If this is genuine (& on the face of it there's no reason to doubt it is) it looks to be a good buy for the future. Nice authenticated history to it, although I would have thought for that amount of money you would want to try to put some clearer pics up because the main pic makes the finish look a bit too shiney shiney for such a used instrument.

[quote name='JMT3781' post='840340' date='May 17 2010, 11:00 PM']give it too the drummer, may be of some use to him [/quote] Nah - you know they can't tell the time!!

[quote name='Metalmoore' post='833931' date='May 11 2010, 08:42 AM']Ah go on, buy it If i could get my hands on it i would be grabbing it, but i am about to buy a Aria ZZB off of another BC'r.[/quote] DONT!! - I don't need any encouragement. It would be the best of both worlds for me because I prefer the smaller width Jazz neck but I like the sound of a Precision. I would have to sell one or two of my others to be able to buy it & I think it will be gone before I manage to do that.

This seems to be a bargain for the price. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300426119422&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT[/url] The last two I could find in completed listings on Ebay sold for £136 & £140 repectively. I was sorely tempted but I've got no money so I'm hoping that one of you will buy it before I do!! (PLEASE - I can't afford to buy anything else)

[quote name='Bassassin' post='821261' date='Apr 27 2010, 09:58 PM']Well, if you insist: [attachment=48413:l6s1.jpg] Just flung it together this evening, no strings, not wired it up yet - but I'm quite pleased with this, so far. Hope it doesn't play like a pig! Anyway - back to Rickenbuggery! J.[/quote] Wow! That's a fantastic job! How did you get the chromeware to come up as good as that? I seem to remember that Columbus did a copy of these too.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='818418' date='Apr 25 2010, 08:25 PM']Coulda had it for £100 if you bid earlier today. Temptation crossed my mind. Might be worth watching and dropping a bid in late (cause in this case, early bidding will just annoy anyone willing to BIN).[/quote] I was watching this too & forgot it ended this morning, doh! I don't need another bass though so it's a good thing I did forget else I would have bid the £100.

[quote name='Bassassin' post='818121' date='Apr 25 2010, 03:36 PM']Hell yeah - I wouldn't deny it for an instant. However a good part of what I do aside from buyin' & sellin' is renovation & refurbishment - and I absolutely [i]love[/i] pulling some horrific old relic apart, finding out what makes it tick, and doing my best to get it back to the way it used to be 35 years earlier. I'm currently pretty close to finishing some light cleaning & buffing to this (excuse guitar content): [attachment=48236:l6sorigcond.jpg] And I have to say I'm quite happy with how it's looking now - pics to follow if anyone cares. This will go back on Ebay (probably) when it's done - I doubt the original seller would recognise it, and any profit I make won't reflect the hours & hours I've spent on it. I really wouldn't feel happy about picking something up & just trying to flip it the next week for a lot more than I paid - I'd at least wait until the listing I bought it from had expired! J.[/quote] And fair play to you, it's good to see someone saving old abused guitars & basses. I'd like to see more pics!!

[quote name='Bilbo' post='814786' date='Apr 22 2010, 11:08 AM']To be fair, I suspect many of us are forced into selling gear by our personal circumstances as opposed to any deficiencies on the part of the gear. I have got three guitars and 2 basses but, in order to finance a double bass and associated accessories, I am going to have to let some of them go. Nothing wrong with them, I just can't get what I want without raising capital. So my reason for selling them is, surprise, surprise, because I need the money! Nothing wrong with them as instruments, perfectly good quality kit, but, in the overall scheme of economic things, I need to prioritise. So, 'great bass' can easily apply to something we have to move.[/quote] Yes I know what you mean, unfortunately you can't be honest & state that you need the money because some tw@t will then offer you 50% of what it's worth.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='816777' date='Apr 23 2010, 10:13 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ibanez-Vintage-Early-70s-Bass-2388b-Japanese-Project_W0QQitemZ140401840155QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item20b09a101b"]Ashdigits strickes again with this nice looking Ibanez.[/url][/quote] I hate the way he infers that he's not a trader & that they're all his personal basses. There's nothing wrong with being a trader just be upfront about it. His stuff is always well overpriced & a lot of it has some kind of issue. I wouldn't touch any of his stuff with a barge pole.

Hi all I have various amp heads with two speaker out sockets. I also have a Trace Elliot 2x10 8ohm cab & an Ampeg 1x15 8ohm cab. Both of the cabs have two jack connections. With my Laney DP150 (which has a minimum 4ohm impedence) I usually connect one of the speaker outputs to the Trace cab & then link my Ampeg cab to the 2nd connector on the Trace cab (I'm not an electronics expert but is cabling it this way wiring in series?). The reason I do this is that the output volume seems to be higher this way rather than cabling to each of the outputs on the amp. I'm wondering now though whether I will cause any damage doing this as when I've tried it with my Marshall 3530 head (also minimum 4ohm) I experienced the sound breaking up then cutting out completely after a few minutes. This happened a couple of times & I assumed at the time that the amp had a problem. Have I damaged the Marshall doing this, if so, is it because I've gone lower than the minimum impedence? Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Cheers Tazza

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='804326' date='Apr 12 2010, 10:39 PM']Can't believe anyone is bringing in Korean basses at £20-£30 these days, but then again, £169 for a bass from there sounds very low with everyone moving production out to Indonesia, Vietnam and China as Korea is too expensive.[/quote] What's worrying though is firstly that the factory allowed that through their "quality control procedures" & secondly that Gear4Music actually state that it's a "factory fault" - oh that's OK then!! Doesn't inspire confidence to buy a "top-of-the-range Gear4music bass" from them if that's the type of crap that gets turned out by the factory they deal with does it? One thing to note though is that they don't actually state that the bass is built in Korea - it just states Korean hardware. It's probably shipped in bits to a Chinese sweatshop for a load of poor exploited 6 year olds to assemble (mind you I think even kids could have done a better job on that!).

[quote name='BassJase' post='793704' date='Apr 1 2010, 08:34 PM']AMAZING bargain for someone.... [url="http://www.gumtree.com/london/52/56419352.html"]http://www.gumtree.com/london/52/56419352.html[/url][/quote] I had a T-Max combo as my main rig for a few years. Massive sound & so powerful it kept blowing the Black Widow speaker. I sold it after the band split & I didn't have the band van to tranport it in. It was just too heavy to get around in a hatchback. I'd love another one though - sound engineers loved it!!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESTONE-THUNDER-II-BASS-LEFT-HANDED_W0QQitemZ320508868455QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item4a9fd13767"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WESTONE-THUNDER-II-B...=item4a9fd13767[/url] It looks nice but is it worth this much?

[quote name='Johnston' post='786763' date='Mar 26 2010, 11:23 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/teardrop-style-bass-guitar-body-with-pickup-for-project_W0QQitemZ230452938532QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item35a810c724"]my turn [/url][/quote] Bloody hell - has someone been releasing something into the water supply or have B&Q had a 99p Jigsaw sale. I think we should form the RSPCB - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Basses. I can just imagine the scenario: I must pop to B&Q and buy one of the jigsaws in their sale. Mobile phone rings..... "coming out for a drink later I fancy getting wasted" "Yeah I'll be there". 15 pints & a bag of grass later "I bought a new Jigsaw today what can I try it out on"? (unfortunately the only wooden item in the room is standing neglected in the corner) - "Aha" plug, switch bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Oh f@ck I think I've made a bit of a mess of that. Every Friday night it's the same story all across the country, just £2 a month would help the RSPCB to stop this - please help.

[quote name='Musicman69' post='785397' date='Mar 25 2010, 01:27 AM']Just wondering.. is any of this fine-crafted firewood worth anything? I know yis love it but any monetary value?[/quote] As I've mentioned in another thread somewhere on here, a lot of the stuff is selling at the moment for silly high prices just because it was "Made in Japan" in the 70's. Not all Japanese built guitars were good quality, stuff like Jedson & Zenta guitars & basses which were so badly put together that they were unplayable are now starting to fetch up to £100 on eBay. My first guitar, a Jedson Tele shaped guitar, used to cut my hand on the bridge adjustment screws everytime I played it. You couldn't set the intonation & the action was horrendous, Avons were slightly better but as lads we all aspired to getting Antorias or Kimbaras with the hope that one day we'd have enough money to buy a Gibson or Fender. At least these days [u]most[/u] beginners guitars are at least playable. I remember buying a Kimbara strat brand new for £100 - you can get a decent guitar for that now too.

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='783811' date='Mar 23 2010, 06:50 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1976-Antoria-Les-Paul-Bass-Guitar-Japan-Fuji-Gen-Relic_W0QQitemZ260574013293QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item3cab6be76d"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1976-Antoria-Les-Pau...=item3cab6be76d[/url] Antoria Les Paul-ish bass. How well respected are the 70s Antoria basses and guitars? Being Fuji-gen, I'd expect good quality. But, someone who was a guitar shop worker in the 60s was reminiscing on the MLP forums, and he said that the CSL instruments, when they came out, were a real step up from the Antorias (etc.) that were being sold before then. So, how good does that make the Antoria instruments? Edit: What an unusual looking bridge: [/quote] It's got a string dampener fitted - you can just make out the foam at the front of the bridge - you push the lever one way to make contact with the strings & the other way to move the dampener away from the strings. I had a Kasuga EB3 copy (made in the same factory as Tokais were I believe) with one fitted & I think they were also fitted to some Gibson EB0 & EB3's.