It's him, again....

[chrismuzz]

I haven't got enough pedals

[Talon]

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EB3-MIJ-1970s-bass-by-Columbus-restored-and-set-up-/190712689223?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c675cb247#ht_826wt_1186"]http://www.ebay.co.u...7#ht_826wt_1186[/url]

Interesting choice of Pick up!

Edited August 9, 2012 by Talon

[yorks5stringer]

[quote name='Talon' timestamp='1344535782' post='1766197']
[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EB3-MIJ-1970s-bass-by-Columbus-restored-and-set-up-/190712689223?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c675cb247#ht_826wt_1186"]http://www.ebay.co.u...7#ht_826wt_1186[/url]

Interesting choice of Pick up!
[/quote]

Clearly an imposter as he did not file 4 4" gouges out of the nut....

[chrismuzz]

[quote name='Talon' timestamp='1344535782' post='1766197']
[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EB3-MIJ-1970s-bass-by-Columbus-restored-and-set-up-/190712689223?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c675cb247#ht_826wt_1186"]http://www.ebay.co.u...7#ht_826wt_1186[/url]

Interesting choice of Pick up!
[/quote]

Judging by that picture it looks like the action is so high you could drive a car under it!

[noelk27]

And it's got one of those really exotic nyatoh mahogany necks (even if nyatoh isn't actually in the mahogany family). But hey, at least he isn't claiming the body is mahogany this time. In the world of MDP that's a development of seismic proportions.

[jonsebass]

Nobody has even mentioned the fact that the acoustic guitar he is selling doesnt even have a battery cover! Try beeswaxing that you bloody pleb!

[yorks5stringer]

[quote name='jonsebass' timestamp='1344551444' post='1766461']
Nobody has even mentioned the fact that the acoustic guitar he is selling doesnt even have a battery cover! Try beeswaxing that you bloody pleb!
[/quote]

True, but can I be the first to mention he name-drops Eric Clapton on an electric guitar with a tremelo which he has "blocked"?

[Ghost Rider]

I have watched this "MDP" on eBay for a while with his crazy Guitar fixing antics but has nobody thought that he may have a slate off?

[noelk27]

[quote name='Ghost Rider' timestamp='1344555500' post='1766529']I have watched this "MDP" on eBay for a while with his crazy Guitar fixing antics but has nobody thought that he may have a slate off?[/quote]
If only it were that simple.

[yorks5stringer]

Any slates would be filed and ground to an inch of their lives....

[bartelby]

I love his Hendrix USA type guitar!!

[Dave Vader]

I saw his doppelganger at the market today, selling beeswax polish. I chuckled more than I should.

[Bassdriver]

Glad I read about this guy. On every guitar or bass I've ever had that was fitted with a zero fret the fret was flat. I never knew they were supposed to have grooves in them. I'm off out now to buy a set of nut files.

Seriously though, is this guy for real? I mean is he so inept he's actually convinced he has a clue what he's doing or is he laughing up his sleeve at the unfortunates who purchase his mangled creations.

[Bassdriver]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1344770700' post='1768875']
His Zero Frets aren't Zero Frets. They're nuts.

Which makes it all the more worrying
[/quote]

Fortunately I knew that. I'm no 'gluethier', whatever that is but I know what a zero fret is meant to look like.

I think one giveaway about this guy, if one was needed is how he signs off some of his listings with the admission 'Master guitar Bodger'. Perhaps his understanding of the word bodger is equal to that of the usual profile of a zero fret. Lots of zeros going on there.

[silentbob]

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1344770700' post='1768875']
His Zero Frets aren't Zero Frets. They're nuts.

Which makes it all the more worrying
[/quote]

Heaven forbid he ever gets his hands on a Status.

[KingBollock]

[quote name='silentbob' timestamp='1344801160' post='1769343']
Heaven forbid he ever gets his hands on a Status.
[/quote]
Do I say it's Mahogany or Maple? Mahogany or Maple...Mahogany or Maple...Mahogany or Maple...head 'splodes!

[jonsebass]

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1344590747' post='1766706']
Any slates would be filed and ground to an inch of their lives....
[/quote]

or beeswaxed..

[thebrig]

Did I see on another thread about this guy, that he is actually a BC member?

[noelk27]

He is a BCer, yes.

[thebrig]

In that case, he must be aware of all these threads about him.

[yorks5stringer]

Only if he has the time and inclination to read them.
His adverts and their claims speak for themselves and close scrutinity of the accompanying photos shows he has scant understanding of the setting up an instrument. Sledgehammer and Nut(!) are phrases that spring to mind...
Stil,l he has become a legend to many of us on this thread and we eagerly await his next offering!

[tazza1]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Still, he has become a legend to many of us on this thread and we eagerly await his next offering![/font][/color]

& here it is.....

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SG-1970s-MIJ-by-Avon-Rose-Morris-restrung-set-up-restoration-of-a-classic-relic-/190716525471?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item2c67973b9f#ht_838wt_1186"]http://www.ebay.co.u...f#ht_838wt_1186[/url]

[size=4][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The one guitar h[/font][/size]e has that has got a zero fret & he doesn't even mention it!!!

[size=4][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][color=#000000]"This was utterly unplayable when I got it recently, though I could see it was going to be a superb guitar if I could devote the time to it." - & it probably still is looking at that re-cut nut.[/color][/font][/size]

[size=4][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][color=#000000]"This one was like the many now that are kept in the loft as a memory of someones band back in the 1970s." - & that's where it should have stayed.[/color][/font][/size]

[color=#000000][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Look at that scratchplate too WTF[/font][/color]

Edited August 21, 2012 by tazza1

[Dave Vader]

Oh dear, it's nuts like that that make you need a zero fret.

Equally...
[quote][color=#000000][font=Arial][size=1]when you move up to performing at Wembley I will sell you a Gould etc![/size][/font][/color][/quote]

no you ****ing won't, you will **** off, I will go somewhere else and buy a decent guitar you murderer of instruments.


(Grrr.... old Avons piss all over goulds/shecters/esps any day of the week, but sadly not this one now...)

[Dave Vader]

oh and..

[quote][size=5][color=#000000][font=Arial]save me the job of splitting the coils on the neck humbucker... that is my standard change to all twin humbucker guitars[/font][/color][/size][/quote]

why!?!? Neck humbuckers are lovely, you talk to Peter Green you twat.... utter twat...

[yorks5stringer]

[b][sub][font=Arial][size=4]"The truss rod worked nicely to bring the neck concavity to a few microns off dead flat, and the tonality adjusted easily with the bridge adjustment."[/size][/font][/sub][/b]

[sub][font=Arial][size=4]No, a "few microns off flat" is not what a neck should be , it should have relief or a slight curve to allow the string to vibrate without choking[/size][/font][/sub]

[b][sub][font=Arial][size=4]"Tonality adjusted with the bridge"- [/size][/font][/sub][/b][sub][font=Arial][size=4]I think you mean INTONATION, a totally different word.[/size][/font][/sub]

[sub][font=Arial][size=4]EPIC FAIL![/size][/font][/sub]

Edited August 21, 2012 by yorks5stringer