Al Heeley Posted May 28, 2011 Share Posted May 28, 2011 (edited) For sale: £120.00 + postage: Korean Fender Squier Jazz Bass, 1998 vintage Black body, rosewood fretboard. All in good working order, I bought this second hand two years ago and had it as my working gigging bass for 18 months - never let me down. It needed a bit of TLC when I bought it, the owner had put the 'wrong' bridge on it, I bought and fitted a new replacement bridge, shimmed the neck, gave it a good set up and treated it to a nice new white scratchplate. Conventional wiring, standard JB pickups for the era, as far as I know. The Korean Squiers are particularly good instruments and great value. The neck is really nice, true, ding-free, pretty good action. Fretboard has a small indent at lower edge of the fifth fret but you won't know it's there when you're playing. The body is a bit scratched and looks to me like the original owner used something abrasive to try to polish a corner of it at one stage, dulling the black lacquer, then realising he'd made a mistake. The back has a few dings and scratches too. If you're not too worried about the aesthetiics, it plays really nicely, its a really good quality neck, very stable, good feel, and the pickups are full and punchy as you would expect. Well worth buying if you're looking for a good honest cheap dependable backup bass, a gigging starter or for carting round gigs where you don't want to risk your precious main instrument getting dinged. Pickup or check out welcomed - Huddersfield area. Postage to UK would probably be around £20 for this - there's no gig bag or hard case. Edited June 17, 2011 by Al Heeley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted May 29, 2011 Author Share Posted May 29, 2011 Don't make me sell her on ebay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted June 6, 2011 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 -*bump*- Now offering a free cadburys cream egg to the lucky bidder. And I may throw in a packet of jaffa cakes. This is a snip for a good solid bass. Is it time to get the screwdriver to work and sell it for parts on ebay? <snivel.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monckyman Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 If I didn`t already have 2 jazzes and one being built I`d love this. The Korean ones were great and the pickups suprisingly hot. Bump for taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 I don't think you can have too many jazzes. Sadly I'm out of wall space, this one has to go as a condition of me buying the new Geddy Lee JB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 Unless some kind person saves this bass pretty quickly, it's heading for the Breaker's this weekend. Parts will be dissembled and scattered over ebay. Grab yourself a huge bargain and save the bass from a shocking fate!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monckyman Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I agree that you can never have too many jazzes, but as well as 3 of them there are all the other non jazzes hiding the wallpaper. many basses v one wife=relationship instability... Good luck with it. MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 [quote name='Al Heeley' post='1262422' date='Jun 9 2011, 10:56 AM']Unless some kind person saves this bass pretty quickly, it's heading for the Breaker's this weekend. Parts will be dissembled and scattered over ebay. Grab yourself a huge bargain and save the bass from a shocking fate!![/quote] Aside from the shameless emotional blackmail why would you need to part it out? I watched at least one Korean Squier on eBay a while ago and IIRC it made reasonable money. I would have thought you'd get at least what you're asking here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Bass now passed on to be circulated within the basschat community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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