At last I have found a potential buyer for my Bocate Europa 5 stringer and a bass player is meeting me to try the bass out today.
I took it out of the case to practice with and clean it up yesterday and found the volume control is not working properly.
Approx the first half of movement hardly raises the volume, however once you get to the last half, it behaves like it is the start point of the sweep and goes from virtually nothing to max within that range.
I tried doing the exercising of the knob many times and that hasn't improved anything. But I did notice that when turning it fast, there is a grating sound through the amp but not when turned slowly.
I took it out on a gig towards the end of last year and used it at rehearsals last year and it has been fine.
Shame it decided to play up when there is a seller.
I will have to call the potential buyer and see how he wants to proceed. As it would be his first alembic so I would want that to be a perfect one.
I can get a replacement pot from Mica and fix it for him or knock a bit off and he can do that if he is happy that everything else about the bass is fine, which it is.
