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[PlungerModerno]

You forgot 'woodworking skills'. It's not just tools and a shop that are needed and tools don't make someone a craftsman.

True. I'm out of shape as regards woodworking, but I was good at it and enjoyed it a lot... hence the desire to get a shop and make gradually improving instruments, not trying to compete with good luthiers but to hone some fair to good abilities. It'd take a few dozen attempts to get really good. That's assuming great design and other things, like training materials.

 

[JMacBass65]

Back when I was quite a bit younger, 1987 be be exact, I went to a local mom and pop shop with a friend. He was there to trade in a guitar and pick up another. As he was dealing w/ all of this, I went to the back where the used stuff lived. There was a burst Jazz bass back there for $400. Just killing time I picked it up and started playing it, unplugged. It felt like a nicely broken in pair of boots - perfect! And the sound, unplugged, was terrific - it just seemed to sing, the body just resonated a certain way.

After a few minutes I walked to the front of the store while he was finishing his transaction and said, I gotta have this! I was flat broke at the time, but he fronted me the money to hold it, and I paid it off a couple of weeks later with my tax return.

Many basses have come and gone, but I still have it, and it's my main player.

 

[PlungerModerno]

Back when I was quite a bit younger, 1987 be be exact, I went to a local mom and pop shop with a friend. He was there to trade in a guitar and pick up another. As he was dealing w/ all of this, I went to the back where the used stuff lived. There was a burst Jazz bass back there for $400. Just killing time I picked it up and started playing it, unplugged. It felt like a nicely broken in pair of boots - perfect! And the sound, unplugged, was terrific - it just seemed to sing, the body just resonated a certain way.

After a few minutes I walked to the front of the store while he was finishing his transaction and said, I gotta have this! I was flat broke at the time, but he fronted me the money to hold it, and I paid it off a couple of weeks later with my tax return.

Many basses have come and gone, but I still have it, and it's my main player.

Love.

Was it the 62 in your Username? 'Tis ok if it's personal!

 

[JMacBass65]

Love.

Was it the 62 in your Username? 'Tis ok if it's personal!

Yes, that's it. A 62 AVRI Jazz Bass, made at the Fullerton factory in Sept. '83. I knew nothing of "Fullertons" at the time, only learned about those maybe 10 years ago.

It's interesting, the Fullerton thing. Before I leaned about the factory switch, I owned two other AVRI Jazz Basses, both made in Corona. Sold them both evenually as they simply did not feel as comfortable as my Fullerton, not did they resonate the same way. They just were different, and it was yers later that I learned why.