£45 worth of Jazz

[lemmywinks]

Scored this little beauty off eBay for £45. Worked out at about £60 including postage, it's an Aria STB

Been looking for a cheap and nasty bass as back up as i hate having to look after 2 decent basses at a gig (2 stands, 2 hard cases etc.).
Took the white scratchplate off, put some used but still good strings on it, gave it a liberal clean and lemon oiled the fretboard and it's sweet! Thin frets and quite a loose feel mean it can pull off a convincing fretless impression. The bridge pickup is great, pinched harmonics are very loud and picked notes sound full

Thing is, i want to look after it and keep it nice now!

[rOB]

cool, love it when cheap stuff sound good

[bythesea]

Bargain

[peted]

Nicely done. If it plays well and sounds good then it can't be wrong.

[sturm]

why do i never find stuff like that?

[lemmywinks]

[quote name='sturm' post='543208' date='Jul 17 2009, 02:02 PM']why do i never find stuff like that?[/quote]


It had only been on a short while.

Save the following search:

Electric bass guitars, Buy it now, Newly listed

Keep having a look, most of the really cheap good stuff goes in the first hour

Works for anything really, got my missus a P3 ultraportable laptop with XP for £20 posted!
I also remember seeing a brand new Acer netbook for £50 BIN including postage when they first came out. Clicked the button and it had gone after 2 mins!