Just bought a bass for £35

[adam87]

A cheap squire mb 4 bass which I found for sale on a facebook group.

It was bought to leave at my friends pub so when ever we fancied a jam out of the blue I wouldn't have to go home to get the corvette. I've put some old warwick strings on it for now, the 3 strings it had on there were completely dead. Also had to re-solder the tone pot wires as the pot was loose and they had snapped off at some point.

Next it is going to get a good clean and setup once I've found a small enough allen key. Body is ok, few light scratches and dings but nothing too serious. Lovely metallic black colour. I valet/detail cars for a job so I may take my machine polisher to it and make it really shine. Couple of pics next to the Warwick...


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Not bad for £35 I think. Even came with the strap!

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[HowieBass]

Bargain!

[MikanHannille]

£35 for a bass? Not bad at all!

[gary mac]

Good score.
My daughter had one of these a couple of years back and it played well, nice and light.

[adam87]

So I've had the squire for a few days now. I've given it a polish, cleaned the fretboard, polished the frets and lowered the action. I've been playing it more than the warwick. [size=4] Maybe it is just because it is a new toy, or the fact I can play a 4 string again. But it plays really nice! I run it just on the jazz pick up and it doesn't sound bad at all. Pleasantly surprised. Would be cool to get rid of the P pup and stick in a humbucker or another J but that would be a big project. Maybe one day.[/size]

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[adam87]

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My cat Simba wanted in

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[namefail]

Cool score.

[sblueplanet]

A cat just make a bass look ten times as cool :-)

Maybe have a look on here for some cheap hot replacement P+J pups.

[Westie9]

Good luck to you with it!

[madshadows]

Bargain