madshadows

Think you have been really unlucky with those HB basses and the packing procedure, my HB bass was in perfect condition when it arrived and the packaging was undamaged, looks like some oafs in the packing department got a mite heavy handed !, hope you get a decent discount John

Well done, just have fun and enjoy it and play a blinder John

Welcome to BC Si John

Welcome to BC

Nice looking bass and I like the colour also

Lovely Ric

Stellar job, well done John

Welcome to BC David

Welcome to BC Callum John

Welcome Jimbo John

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1392934584' post='2374553'] Any consensus on the hit rate for good examples of these inexpensive J&D and Harley Benton basses? I'm sending back a new Vintage V4 P bass because it was genuinely horrible, the sound didn't inspire me and the number of cosmetic flaws sufficient to make me never want to bother with the thing (shoddy finish in several places including the neck pocket, skewiff scratchplate screws, warped scratchplate, strings not evenly spaced across the neck, nut slots too high and the worst BBOT bridge I've ever encountered). I'm tempted by the Harley Benton PJ-4 HTR Bass but fear getting another lemon so maybe I should go for another Squier (like the VM PJ). [/quote] I know that at least three of us on BC have bought HB basses recently and all of us have been happy with them so I say go for it, they have a 30 day return policy at Thomann as well so you can't really miss out, I was debating whether to buy the bass you mentioned but ended up getting the slightly dearer HB Jazz bass [url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbb1975_na.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_hbb1975_na.htm[/url], the bass looks great and is well finished, the only slight negative on mine was some of the fret edges were a little bit sharp but not enough to need filing IMHO. Hope this helps a bit John

Welcome to Basschat John

Amazing player, that looks like it was a lot of fun John

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1392821482' post='2373099'] I've just placed the order for 20 off aluminium ones and 14 are already spoken for. I should have them around the end of next week. I had to place the orders for the other stuff in the batch to get the price down on these hence the urgency. Cheers, Rich [/quote] Great work Rich John

Love the two tracks I've listened to on their YouTube channel, great band John

Welcome to BC Keef

I'll take 2

[quote name='fiatcoupe432' timestamp='1392372484' post='2367827'] [url="http://alpher.co.uk/"]http://alpher.co.uk/[/url] website is under construction at the moment but you can go to their facebook page or instagram to find out more [/quote] Thanks for that, interesting stuff

Interesting bass on Ebay [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171240056789?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171240056789?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649[/url] John

Lovely looking bass, they are great aren't they, amazing value for £100, I love my natural maple neck version of it I bought a month ago, haven't stopped playing it, have fun with it John

Good that problem has been found and fixed

Loving those especially the Schecter, great work on them John

Someone just posted this link on Facebook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEmGQYCuc6M I'd forgotten what an important part TB was in the Bowie & Spiders From Mars sound, RIP Trevor, great player and those sideburns !! John