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Some guy wants $250 for a "low impedance" mudbucker "designed by Les Paul" with a DCR of 1.175k (so obviously a shorted coil).
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292901484083?hash=item443249f633:g:LgsAAOSwj91cLkL0

What kills me is the same seller has a working mudbucker with a DCR of 29k in another listing ($495) so he should be aware he's holding poop.

Another dude also asking $250 for a mudbucker with a 14k DCR.  But fair enough 14k seems like a reasonable DCrR for a humbucker, just not a mudbucker in particular.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/202643617423?hash=item2f2e80368f:g:9isAAOSw5cNYknLG

And my favorite is this guy selling what I believe is a Marauder bridge pup as a LoZ LP Rec pup. At least he's only asking $140.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/174809144811?hash=item28b36fddeb:g:btMAAOSwGAZgonvJ

One honest  guy who did the most basic research:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/202843558204?hash=item2f3a6b113c:g:gi4AAOSwpUtd6W8U

Bloody caveat emptor

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Gibson Basses / Price Check - Mandibird
« on: May 30, 2019, 06:48:05 AM »
You rarely see these for sale so hard to gauge what the pricing should be.  I've wanted one for a while and a local shop has one (4 string) but I think priced too high maybe.  A dude messaged me when I commented on it (not ab the price) that he has the 8 string version (which is what I really want).  All local so good opportunity maybe.  So what's the going range for these guys?

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Other Bass Brands / Lackland Skyline (semi)Hollowbody
« on: March 01, 2019, 07:06:44 AM »
Lacklands used to be all the rage but I  haven't heard much talk about them lately.  This one is local to me and seems like a good deal (CA$1k, about US$760, which seems a bit under the top end for the solidbody Skyline on ebay, so might be a good price especially if the hollows are rarer or more desirable - not sure).

https://guitarscanada.com/index.php?threads/lakland-skyline-hollowbody.234254/

Don't know the seller at all - he doesn't wanna ship, but if it don't sell quick (I don't think it will, but that forum surprises me sometimes) you could probably twist his arm... or I could facilitate if someone's really hot for it.

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Other Bass Brands / Nice Greco EB2
« on: June 15, 2018, 11:27:50 AM »
Forgot they did these; there's hope for me yet, though this one is waaaay overpriced (seen real ones and Rivolis cheaper recently).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Greco-SAB-100-1980s-Electric-Basses-with-Soft-Case-Free-Shipping/163098763668?hash=item25f971a194:g:pYkAAOSwg8taMNMS

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Gibson Basses / Good price on vintage EB0
« on: April 13, 2018, 07:00:03 AM »

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Gibson Basses / Interestiong (Epi) EB3 variant
« on: April 09, 2018, 09:49:26 AM »
Apparently exclusive to the Canadian market (first I am hearing) here's the Epiphone Ltd Edition Custum Shop  "EB-3 Negative"

https://toronto.craigslist.ca/tor/msg/d/epiphone-ltd-edition-cs-eb-3/6553982626.html

I'd be interested but for the maple board.  I expect some to be tempted by the black hardware. 


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Other Bass Brands / Millimetric Instruments
« on: January 30, 2018, 01:47:54 PM »


http://www.millimetric.ca/#instruments:#mb4

I like the idea (not so much the price - yeowzers).  The body shape of the bass is not to my liking but I do like the shape of their single cut guitars, especially the offset one:


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Bass Amps & Effects / I am building something ambitious
« on: January 30, 2018, 01:05:59 PM »
Moving on from pedals to something else I have always wanted.... and then I had to make it even better/more what I want. So it's a total scratch build.  Because I did not have quite enough projects on the go.

Here's a teaser (I might be a bit with this one; about halfway done):



^ DIY acid etched BTW (sparkle clearcoat - looks better IRL)

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Gibson Basses / weird problem
« on: January 26, 2018, 04:41:24 PM »
So the other week I went to bust out the RD Artist to lay down a track.  No signal (tried new battery).

Took it home to fix it.  Worked fine (old battery).

Took it back to the studio.  Still no workie.  Tried no pedals; diff Amp; diff cable; third amp.

Took home again.  Works there with cable fro the studio into solid state Peavey, but nothing when I plug into my Bogen (tube).  The amps at the studio are tube.  I swear it used to work fine with my Bogen and Garnet at least.

The only thing I can think of is that the output jack went bad and I replaced it (proper long bushing Switchcraft TRS); maybe I wired the 9V and signal backwards; or 9V and ground and somehow this works on the Peavey but no go on tube amps.  But then why doesn't this work when I use a bufferred pedal (figured same as solid state Peavey but maybe the Peavey is just a brick shithouse vs everything else)?  Can anyone confirm for me by wire colour (e.g. which colour to tip, ring and sleeve)?

Incidentally, after the RD didn't work I busted out the Victory; also problems (intermittant signal due to the jack (which freaked me out till I giggled the cable) and in 1of 2 switch modes the D and G strings made no sound (also freaked me out until I realised that it was the series/parallel switch - did we know that was a split pickup in there?  It's even more like a P than I realised).




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Gibson Basses / Very cheap Series II Eb3
« on: December 17, 2017, 06:17:14 PM »
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-view-details.html?adId=1321459319

CA$900 =US$700. 

3 way switch vs varitone mod might explain the price a bit, but still a bargain (if no surprises) IMHO.  Not close to me or I might have to consider it on principle.

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Other Bass Brands / Old Gretsch
« on: November 17, 2017, 08:50:49 AM »
For some reason we get a lot of these (and similar modles) locally (usually at 12th Fret, but this is a private sale).  Looks nice and reasonably well kept.  Price seems not too bad either (CAD2.1K - which is about US$1.6k); but still out of my range.  Nice to look at tho.
















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Gibson Basses / 3-Point Abuse
« on: November 06, 2017, 09:55:34 AM »
Oh the humanity; the comedy of errors; an object lesson in measure-twice-cut-once.

On first glance (from the front) I thought it was just a more arched knock-off 3 pointer... but when you look from the rear the sad truth becomes clear.  Looks like somebody measured wrong and drilled the rear post holes too close together... so instead of fixing that they bent the poor 3 point until it fit (I doubt that high arch matches the fretboard radius, which would be the only other reason to do this, but I did not check at the time - this was in one of my fave local junky used gear stores).... which made the action too high so they had to route out the body underneath it (hard to see in the pics, sorry). Forget what the bass was but it was a popular Japanese import brand (not Aria, the other big one.... why does my brain suck today).  Nevermind the action must be crazy on the middle 2 strings and either the bridge is too far back or the person also has no idea how to intonate properly.  He coulda have at least swapped the E+G with the A+D saddles to compensate for the crazy arch.  It's just one thing after another here.





Naysayers be damned, it's a fine bridge and it deserves better then this.

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Gibson Basses / The Unmudbucker
« on: October 29, 2017, 06:36:53 AM »
Came across this Mudbucker replacement from Sentell pickups while looking around for that random project I have goin on.  He has some vids on youtube, but I haven't found one for this guy.  The name does not bode well, and I'm not into the clear cover, but maybeit's good.

http://www.sentellpickups.net/bass.html

Scroll down, there's a few other things that caught my eye (e.g. the various sidewinders, some with blades, and the EB4/Wal style coil-per-string jobby).

Prices are good too.  In tha ballpark as this guy I've used from NewFoundland (great Firebirds pickups - just asked him if he does a TBird).

Anybody use any of these before?

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Gibson Basses / It's in my back yard and it's killing me
« on: August 30, 2017, 12:44:59 PM »
local guy has this for sale:



.... but his price is CA$3.8k, which despite the vintage and the (apparently) immaculate condition, still seems rather high (currently approx US$3k).

Le sigh.

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