My BB 1025x

[LowB_FTW]

This all came about rather by chance than anything else.

 

I was working (I WFH) one night and during a quiet moment I had my personal laptop open browsing the BassChat Marketplace (idly browsing, I was not in the market for any new purchases) and I was looking at this BB 1025, and The Wife came in to say good night and she saw me looking and rolled her eyes at me 😂

I showed her some more images and said I'd always like the pickups on these, so she said good night and turned to leave the room and pointed to the screen and said get it and I'll give you the money and it'll be your Birthday present.

I was a bit shocked, but not enough to argue with her, so I contacted the seller.

The sale was going well, until it wasn't.

Nobody stepped forward to offer assistance, but I contacted that seller again and suggested I arrange the courier myself. The seller was onboard with this, until I asked for the packaged bass dimensions … and then he stopped replying to my messages.

 

The Wife said "just look for another bass!" 😂

Like it's that easy!

 

Turns out, it actually was!

Following her advice, somewhat downheartedly, as I'd set my hopes on the 1025, I happened upon this marketplace add for a BB1025x!

Contacted the seller, they were happy for me to arrange courier, provided packaged bass dimensions and weight, and the sale went through, with the resulting obligatory NBD post.

 

I love this bass. I love the black and chrome aesthetic of it. I love the sound of it. My Ashdown has been put in its case and into my wardrobe and the Yamaha has taken over use of the stand.

I've changed the strings for my usual Rotosound Flats and I've added strap locks. I really want to change the cloverleaf tuners, but can't find any direct drop-ins that aren't also cloverleaf as I don't want to be drilling extra holes in the headstock.

But this bass is ace.

I had my heart set on the original 1025 I linked above, but after having this for almost a month now, I know this was the better choice of bass for me.

 

 

But you probably didn't come here for stories, and as I'm a firm believer in PoiDH, I have some new photos to share …

 

 

 

 

 

(Apologies for the slightly fuzzy nature of the images, it turns out I now need to be wearing my glasses for photography 😟)

There's more images in my Flickr Album.

 

Shoutout to @david1711 for being a fine gent to deal with and putting up with all my messages to get this posted to me.

 

Mark

[Jerry_B]

Yamaha BB's are awesome bits of kit. Not a huge fan of the scratchplate and metal they put on them now but either way they sound good and play very nicely.