1960's/70's MIJ bass for £99...

[solo4652]

Here you are:

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1960s-70s-Grant-Bass-Guitar-JAPAN-99-RARE-FIND-/360255383135?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item53e0e4e65f"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1960s-70s-Grant-Bass...=item53e0e4e65f[/url]

[Ou7shined]

Ha ha good luck.

[Delberthot]

That's a nice 'clean' example

[Bassassin]

That - absolutely identical in every way, bar the filth & grime, was my first bass. It cost £59 brand new from Unisound/Melbourne Pianos in Chatham High Street, in June 1978.

It was [i]awful[/i].

Jon.

[grumble]

[quote]It was awful.[/quote]

It still is awful, 99 beer tokens for something pulled from a skip (where it belongs) is extracting the urine.

[Bassassin]

[quote name='grumble' post='824531' date='May 1 2010, 01:20 AM']It still is awful, 99 beer tokens for something pulled from a skip (where it belongs) is extracting the urine.[/quote]

Well - truth is I'd happily pay £15 for that at the car boot, scrub it up nice, make it playable (I can do that these days!) and Ebay it. It would probably fetch £70 - £80 in good order.

Or I could burn it, as catharsis.

J.

[Ou7shined]

Unless you have original spares (which wouldn't surprise me ) or your own electroplater I think there's too much rust and pitting there to bring it back Jon.

[BottomEndian]

I was just about to mention the fact that the G-string's completely unplayable at the dusty end... but then I realised that there isn't a dusty "end" as such.

What the hell happened to this thing? Why would someone not even go to the effort of dusting something before putting it on eBay?

[Bassassin]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='824628' date='May 1 2010, 10:09 AM']Unless you have original spares (which wouldn't surprise me ) or your own electroplater I think there's too much rust and pitting there to bring it back Jon.[/quote]

Most of the chrome's history, but the whole thing could still be improved massively over what it is now - like I said, if it was £15...

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='824635' date='May 1 2010, 10:20 AM']I was just about to mention the fact that the G-string's completely unplayable at the dusty end... but then I realised that there isn't a dusty "end" as such. [/quote]
Like I said, [i]exactly[/i] like my old one! Easy fix if you know what you're doing - but I didn't have a clue back then.

Bollocks, I'd just burn it.

J.

[tauzero]

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='824635' date='May 1 2010, 10:20 AM']What the hell happened to this thing? Why would someone not even go to the effort of dusting something before putting it on eBay?[/quote]
That'll be because they've seen one too many Antiques Roadshows and confuse dust, crap and grime with patina.

[RhysP]

If that dust had been glued on by a Fender "Master Builder" plenty of people would pay thousands for it.......