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[quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1336226219' post='1642794'] Ach it was just something that got started recently with a guy (forgetting how many experts there are on here) trying to over-hype a budget bass he had for sale... then as if that weren't enough he was asking more than double on here than he was on ebay and that (not to mention being against forum rules) got a few backs up. Don't worry, it'll die down in a day or two once we've got it out of our system. [/quote] AWESOME reply. I'll get me coat. .

[quote name='ash' timestamp='1336073423' post='1640611'] The tuners look like the type found on Tokai basses.... [/quote] I believe 'Tempest' was a Tokai imprint.

[quote name='Jono Bolton' timestamp='1335646282' post='1634285'] I thought the term 'lawsuit' referred to Gibson and Fender suing companies from the far east for making unlicensed copies of their designs? For example the old Tokais and Fernandes were identical to vintage Fenders and Gibsons end even had headstock logos based on those of the companies they were ripping off. I didn't think lawsuit referred to instruments that were just good instruments? [/quote] But dosn't that just typify how langauge is adaptable, and becomes adapted over time? I used to think Rock 'n' Roll was Chuck Berry and the Beatles, but apparently, these days. it also applies to over-made-up, half naked slags getting pissed-up and stupid, falling out of Brown's at 5.30 in the morning. Innit. .

[quote name='andy67' timestamp='1335551857' post='1633168'] hiya, can you explain the lawsuit bit some more please? andy [/quote] Here you go, Andy.... [url="http://knolt.com/lawsuitguitars/"]http://knolt.com/lawsuitguitars/[/url] [url="http://www.myrareguitars.com/1970guitars.html"]http://www.myrareguitars.com/1970guitars.html[/url] [url="http://www.recordingreview.com/articles/articles/187/1/quotLawsuitquot-guitars-a-little-info-to-get-you-started/Page1.html"]http://www.recordingreview.com/articles/articles/187/1/quotLawsuitquot-guitars-a-little-info-to-get-you-started/Page1.html[/url] [url="http://www.apionet.or.jp/~koiz/forsale_main.htm"]http://www.apionet.or.jp/~koiz/forsale_main.htm[/url] Hope this helps. Mark McK. .

[quote name='borisbrain' timestamp='1335530663' post='1632716'] But I'll take it off your hands for a couple of hundred quid... ; ) [/quote] I keep telling people that there are still some kindly benevolent folks left in the world I must remember in future to add that you aren't one of 'em.... .

Probably the wrong thread, so prior huge apologies, but I'll give it a go anyway.... ....thirty years ago (phew...!) me brother was toying with music, started writing lyrics, started a band ('The Spitfires', in Blackburn, Lancs), bought a guitar, then decided he wasn't that into it all after all. To my utter amazement the guitar remained under the bed until recently when he took it for a walk to a dealer in the town he now lives in (between Watford and Milton Keynes - that's all I'm saying) but sensed something wasn't all toward when the dealer wouldn't make him an offer. Me brother told me all about this and so I told him in reply that the dealer didn't make him an offer because he knew [you] weren't remotely interested in your subject and was hoping to you'd say something like "Okay, you can take it off my hands for a couple of hundred quid". We're talkng here about a nigh-on pristine [b]left handed 1976 Fender Telecaster in black with a maple neck[/b], c/w ash trays and Fender case, but no other candy. I've gone up and down for him trying to find a value for this gorgeous piece but I'm stumbling on the rough with most people trying to swing the obvious bargain out of us. They're not going to get it until we know an approximate value for something like this. You lefty's got any ideas of a ballpark value of this thing...? I haven't got any photo's but it is as I describe. I know there's a left handed player in the world somewhere that would give his sister's right arm for one of these.... we just can't find him. .

[quote name='spaners' timestamp='1335292294' post='1628833'] [/quote] There's a song on that wall. anybody spot it...? I digress.... ....nice bass, man. Good luck with the sale. Digression bump.

[quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1335195874' post='1627042'] i take it this is a non export with US pups? [/quote] @ [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/596-bubinga5/"][color="#282828"]bubinga5[/color][/url]: If those tuners are original it should have the Japanese VSP Alnicos, which in my humble opinion are better than the USA ones. @ [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/130-eubassix/"][color="#282828"]eubassix[/color][/url]: Nice job with the holes, man. Where are they? Can't see 'em. Gorgeous bass. Good luck with the sale.

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1334412048' post='1615887'] Bridge screws rusty, as is some of bridge and scratchplate screws. Wear on the G string side from frets 4/6. Nasty little dink and couple of scratches on top horn. Dink in back of neck behind 1st fret, a little buckle rash on back. Couple of dinks in headstock. NOTHING is anything other than minor. [/quote] They're all plusses man. Character I call it. Have another bump.

Good grain. Nice, that.