mcnach Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 (edited) [quote name='paul h' post='980246' date='Oct 7 2010, 09:47 AM']In that case I now have Jim Deacon gas! [/quote] Hmmm, I actually have a Jim Deacon P/J type bass in excellent condition I was thinking of selling... maybe I should start a thread on the "for sale" forum... [color="#FF0000"] [b]EDIT: now for sale, thread under "Jim Deacon P/J bass"[/b][/color] Edited October 7, 2010 by mcnach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 7, 2010 Author Share Posted October 7, 2010 That's a nice looking thing! What's the playability like? Plus how much you looking to sell it for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 [quote name='4StringFortress' post='980948' date='Oct 7 2010, 08:55 PM']That's a nice looking thing! What's the playability like? Plus how much you looking to sell it for?[/quote] It's nice to play, but I haven't done much to it at all (it still has the plastic sheet on the pickguard!). It's set so that it plays cleanly with normal touch, and if you pluck it hard you'll get some nice (or I think so!) fret rattle. I bought it because it looked nice, played well and sounded quite powerfully "P" to me... but I just don't play it, I'm drawn to the Stingray and similar ones, and ocassionally my Jazz. I guess I'd be happy to let it go for £65 plus postage (around £15, I think, with ParcelForce) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthestuntmen Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Not entirely sure about the model, but I think of her as a 'CBS' as she came from a Car Boot Sale. My dad found her one sunday morning and brought her home, not sure what he paid, but she was in pretty bad shape before Mark worked his magic so it wouldn't have been a whole lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 7, 2010 Author Share Posted October 7, 2010 Hmm very nice and a very fair price too! I may have to keep my eye on this one if a thread is made =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloshchenko Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 (edited) I did own an SX Pbass for a short time which sounded quite nice but the neck felt a bit like a log! Far, far too chunky for my liking. Well put together basses though. The school I currrently work at have loads of Jim Deacon, didn't realise they were UK SX basses! Sound and feel pretty good and have stood up to 2 years of unruly teenagers playing em! Edited October 7, 2010 by Soloshchenko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 7, 2010 Author Share Posted October 7, 2010 [quote name='kingofthestuntmen' post='980966' date='Oct 7 2010, 09:12 PM']Not entirely sure about the model, but I think of her as a 'CBS' as she came from a Car Boot Sale. My dad found her one sunday morning and brought her home, not sure what he paid, but she was in pretty bad shape before Mark worked his magic so it wouldn't have been a whole lot.[/quote] Sounds a bit like the beginning of a love story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 [quote name='4StringFortress' post='980967' date='Oct 7 2010, 09:12 PM']Hmm very nice and a very fair price too! I may have to keep my eye on this one if a thread is made =P[/quote] You just got me in motion! I'll put it "officially" for sale later tonight. If interested, you know where I am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raslee Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Just seen this thread. Yeah i recently sold my SX bass having been told it was short scale, however i'm clueless about this and have been rightly informed by Derren that it is indeed a 34" P bass so i refunded him as it was not what he was after. It's on en route back to me now - soooo if anyone is interested in a sale here's the link: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=102211&hl=sx+bass"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...&hl=sx+bass[/url] However i am seriously considering keeping it because i have missed it whilst it was on a little holiday...so if you want it get in quick before i change my mind haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 7, 2010 Author Share Posted October 7, 2010 Oh wow even more choice! Yea these basses seem to be very good and yet not really anyone knows of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillbilly deluxe Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 See...........it pays to try all price ranges in the shops.Brand snobbery can be an expensive waste of cash,especially if you're looking for something as basic as a P or J type bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 [quote name='hillbilly deluxe' post='981339' date='Oct 8 2010, 10:36 AM']See...........it pays to try all price ranges in the shops.Brand snobbery can be an expensive waste of cash,especially if you're looking for something as basic as a P or J type bass.[/quote] Yea iv never really been into buying the really high end makes I gota be honest i don't like the looks of most of the really top end brands I think they are trying to hard to be better if you get me? I like brands that are a bit unseemly and are quite cheap but are able to kick the big brands in the nuts with their quality and sounds and upgradability (I know its not a word but it is now! =P). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrenleepoole Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 So, if I've read this thread right, are Jim Deacon basses the same as the SX basses then? Just the UK equivalent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 Pretty much I think so =P But they don't produce all the SX models in the Jim Deacon brand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul h Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Which is a shame because of this beauty...and [i]that[/i] headstock. [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/URSA2MNHUM3TS.HTML"]http://www.rondomusic.com/URSA2MNHUM3TS.HTML[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derrenleepoole Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I don't like the Ursa headstock either. Ironically though, I think it works okay-ish on the five string models though. Not perfect, but seems to 'fit' better.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 (edited) [quote name='paul h' post='981441' date='Oct 8 2010, 11:48 AM']Which is a shame because of this beauty...and [i]that[/i] headstock. [url="http://www.rondomusic.com/URSA2MNHUM3TS.HTML"]http://www.rondomusic.com/URSA2MNHUM3TS.HTML[/url][/quote] Wow....iv just had a crisis. That's a very handsome looking piece of wood! *edit* apart from that headstock which looks way to small for the bass! Edited October 8, 2010 by 4StringFortress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul h Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 (edited) Rondo and SX just offer the best range at that price range bar none. It's even truer of the guitars. Where else can you get maple fretboarded Les Pauls? Edited October 8, 2010 by paul h Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 If SX and Rondo had been active when I was living in the US... I'd have returned to Europe with a nice crate of guitars & basses I think! I bought a SX guitar when there was barely any mention of them in the net (2004 I think? maybe 2003 even), a Les Paul type with P90s. I got it from a shop in Germany who were importing them directly and I paid something like £120 including delivery. I had some spare cash and I though it looked fantastic, so even if it were crap I could hang it for decoration... but it turned out to be an amazing guitar and I didn't even replace the pickups! A year later I took part in a... ah! that was 2004, so I must have bought it late 2003! As I was saying I took part in a guitar meeting (from uk.music.guitar) and got to play it onstage with a nice amplifier.. and I got lots of compliments about the tone, and people asking what it was. Once they saw it near they noticed the small cosmetic details that betrays its origin (not a high end guitar at all), but it felt and sounded great and many preferred it to a Gibson Les Paul Junior reissue that was there at the same time. I ended up selling all my guitars except for two, when the bass bug bit hard... I sold Ibanez, Fender, Gordon Smith, Yamaha, a lovely japanese 80's Squier and many more... and I kept my Fender Stratocaster and the SX! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jezzaboy Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 CC Music in the West end of Glasgow do the Jim Deacon models but I have never played one so I can`t comment on them. Here`s a link. [url="http://www.ccmusicshop.com/electric-bass-gid-EB.html"]http://www.ccmusicshop.com/electric-bass-gid-EB.html[/url]? Jez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BASainty Posted October 9, 2010 Author Share Posted October 9, 2010 [quote name='jezzaboy' post='982892' date='Oct 9 2010, 08:47 PM']CC Music in the West end of Glasgow do the Jim Deacon models but I have never played one so I can`t comment on them. Here`s a link. [url="http://www.ccmusicshop.com/electric-bass-gid-EB.html"]http://www.ccmusicshop.com/electric-bass-gid-EB.html[/url]? Jez[/quote] Just checked out that site and wow there are some cool basses and nice prices on there! check out this one: [url="http://www.ccmusicshop.com/electric-bass-spear-s2-trans-satin-red-pid-945986-gid-EB.html"]http://www.ccmusicshop.com/electric-bass-s...986-gid-EB.html[/url]? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Oddity on eBay. Got an SX neckplate and those stickers on the back of the neck look familiar, but the headstock shape is more Jim Deacon. Looks nice anyway. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320599258498&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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