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Re: Year end audit.
« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2018, 08:55:49 AM »
I remember hearing a TV celebrity (I cannot remember who) telling the story of how him and two mates all lived in the same cul-de-sac, and one bought a brand new car. It was back in the days before locking fuel caps were standard. The new car owner, like me, was OCD about his fuel figures and, like me, boasted about them at the least opportunity. What the celeb and the other mate did was pour an extra gallon in, once a week or so, for the best part of the first year. Then they stopped. The poor owner suddenly found his mpg tumbled, and repeated visits to the dealer did nothing to solve the issue. Eventually, for the dealers sake, they told him what they had been doing!

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« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2018, 06:15:58 PM »
Nice looking Telecaster, what year did you build it and what have you built since ?

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« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2018, 06:44:26 PM »
I built the Tru-caster back in 2011.



Since then I built a Walnut bodied Tru-squire (single humbucker - a nod to the original Fender Squire) in 2013.



then a Mahogany bodied Stratru-caster in 2014.



The finish is Tru-oil, hence the names of the guitars.

Since 2014 I have not been able to indulge my passion for building, so I have only done repairs and mods, for other people.

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« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2018, 07:32:07 PM »
Very nice Jocko.

10 years ago my son wanted me to help him build a Tele lookalike, I agreed as long as we bought the neck.

We then bought some ash and ordered a neck from a place in Manchester but they went out of business I think so we ended up building the whole thing. I spent ages reading the TDPRI forum.

It turned out quite nice but a few years later he decided he wanted to build a paisley pattern Tele with a Fender neck and took the pickups and bits off to build that.

Since then then he's got into building classical guitars and built a few of those, some quite nice although he's not built any for a couple of years now.

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Re: Year end audit.
« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2018, 09:41:20 AM »
Nice guitars.
Just got me thinking I have another Jazz from Japan.  :D




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Re: Year end audit.
« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2018, 11:15:07 AM »
I haven't seen many Japanese Jazz basses.

These two US basses have passed through my hands in the past couple of years.



This is my current bass.

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Re: Year end audit.
« Reply #21 on: August 02, 2018, 10:24:21 AM »
Nice to see more musicians on the forum :)

I also got a 'Chris Squire' Rickenbacker.
Haven't got the black Rickenbacker anymore.




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« Reply #22 on: August 02, 2018, 10:43:44 AM »
Always fancied a Rickenbacker, but never got round to owning one.

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« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2019, 11:08:07 AM »
That is the third anniversary of owning my Jazz so it was a fill up and numbers crunched for the Year End Audit.
Mileage this year was high at 11,077.
I used 201.3 gallons of petrol, giving me an average of 55 mpg for the whole year.
Running cost worked out at £0.20/mile and £42.53 per week.

These figures include everything. Tax, Insurance, Fuel, Repairs, Servicing, Parking, and polishes, accessories and gizmos. If I buy it for the car it is added to this list.
Not to bad a set of figures.
« Last Edit: July 22, 2019, 02:19:46 PM by Jocko »

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Re: Year end audit.
« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2019, 12:40:55 PM »
Incredible figures. I wonder if they are a UK record for a Mk1 Jazz.

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« Reply #25 on: July 22, 2019, 02:08:29 PM »
Years ago I was living in Southsea, as a student and I had an old car. Every now and again the fuel consumption would drop sharply, I had no idea why. Then one morning I found the fuel filler cap on the pavement, somebody had been syphoning my petrol tank. A locking filler cap solved that problem.




The swine, enough to make you fume. Pardon the pun.
you were taken by a Sucker.

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« Reply #26 on: July 22, 2019, 02:22:00 PM »
Incredible figures. I wonder if they are a UK record for a Mk1 Jazz.
This got me thinking, and I rechecked my figures. I had missed a month's numbers in my spreadsheet tally so I have corrected this morning's post. Sorry about that.

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