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On a rosewood board, the "grooviest" thing about this bass will be the fretboard..... Already looks a bit eroded.

I kind of thought that too, they were for absolute beginners before Squier took over. I have read some threads that say that the wood and build quality on the necks is excellent though, so they have become kind of legendary, a bit like JV's have hence the high price perhaps? No personal experience as to whether that's true or not, and i certainly wouldn't splurge that much on one. I'd imagine that these are only rare by dint of the number that were abused and busted up by their teenage owners, they were hardly a low production number instrument. The only reason that Planet Earth is not neck deep in Squiers by now is the number that end up in a skip every year.

Great if you need to play basslines in the key of H though.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/304671841356?hash=item46efdb5c4c:g:3~sAAOSwnPVjVGWT&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4HMpTpmPl92AIOSPFr4x2UzjwQLjG4xmOcN8J%2BninlZx9VrVbGL2f18UQAU7YATyp8WqBRnflSaBvtLz11EwJIzNHsDodiWydH48CL7zmAByxNuGWe0nGYQGQa88%2F1SezErCaPGFIPoy3S6LjfVDeeLIYnSO47C3fc%2BBb6o3OwqJJ80Bnt%2BIDWj8%2FN2Dn0ah6gly%2BVLDnzHVUgLRcLEVIngAqhyHp4UZ1mX3Uy7OARY6FIu5WOiVAVoG1gUqsQ75eIl91TPK9vCEGSuJHnQtpsI%2FYw5VfdYYtN%2FO0dd3pIjD|tkp%3ABFBMgsfV2JBh Or available from Ali Express brand new for £264.29........ https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004852788763.html?pdp_npi=2%40dis!USD!US %24328.00!%24305.04!!!!!%40211b5deb16686879616696691e8e62!12000030750261746!btf&_t=pvid%3A712f5e2e-644f-4496-ad57-73efbdefe0a9&afTraceInfo=1005004852788763__pc__pcBridgePPC__xxxxxx__1668687961&spm=a2g0o.ppclist.product.mainProduct&gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt

That's actually a different band altogether, but I think the "manager" of this one wrote something similar....

Terrible photos. Did it belong to the bassist from Blur?

I thought of that one when I was photoshopping the graphics. It's a bit cheesy, but the singer actually really does do one of the better Plant impersonations.

It's been up twice, £700 last time:

Apparently it's Nobody's Fault But Mine.....

Sure: Zed Zeppelin.

Sorry I pressed sumbit before I had finished - read the rest too. He is wealthy and has a salesmans mouth, had other band members round to dinner and briefed against me etc. I moaned a LOT about everything, not because he was now "manager", but because I could see my project being driven into the ground, and I thought I could rescue it. In the end, he made me out to be a troublemaker, so when I got Covid he took his chances.

I just got sacked and I feel great about it, what a relief! I started a Zep tribute band with a truly great singer and I recruited all of the members except keys. It was going the be a real pro outfit, and we were going to do proper justice to the material. The guitarist (a wealthy, early retired tory-boy salesman with an ego and a set of golf clubs and a limo as well as his rather expensive Les Paul) was pretty good too. I helped him out in getting all the different Page tones by lending him my Helix etc. Turned out that he had started "briefing against me" as he though he should be "manager". I had never thought of myself as manager, I had just recruited the musos, booked the gigs, named the band and photoshopped the logo and posters. I'm head of a science lab as a day job, so I'm pretty busy, and he convinced the band that he should take over as he could do more as he is retired. Also, I drive a 14-year Corsa, so obviously I'm not very seuccessful! He then recruited a keyboard player who was a 17 year old kid who had done gradings, but basically could just convert dots to finger movements and had an tin ear and no rhythm, had basic gear and no transport. Not content with the note bummery and weird rhythms eminating from the new keyboardist (who never bothered to practice), he started teaching him guitar lessons during rehearsals, which he dutifully scraped away at like any new teenage guitarist, but thought he was excellent. This did cause some friction between us, as most of our rehearsal time was now spent trying to get this keyboard player/rhythm guitarist up to a gigging standard. It also turned out that our new manager still expected me to do all of the design and marketing, he just got to tell me the obvious and take credit for it! In the end I refused, got covid and missed a couple of rehearsals and he sacked me. The moral for me is, if you are in an unhappy band, get out even if you have invested yourself a lot on it, it's not worth it!

Looks heavily shimmed - it's got quite a strong backwards break angle on the neck/body joint, which should usually result in a lower action (or choking on the higher frets). This isn't the original bridge by the looks, you can see that it doesn't fit the routing where the original bridge would have been. If the saddles are too tall, this might explain the need for the backwards break angle. Or there's a problem with the neck? Looks like you can't do a factory setup on this bass without a bit of work. I'd pass.

You'd need a giant Paul McCartney to play it though.

http://www.vintagehofner.co.uk/factfiles/ovation/ovation.html On this page also. There's an original image of a 1969 Typhoon on there too, which looks like an earlier model going by what Happy Jack says, so perhaps the ebay one is actually a little later than 1969.

7 fly sandwitch? Sounds crunchy if a bit stingy on the flies. I saw High Fernly-Whittingstall make a woodlouse omlette on TV once, so I guess he'd go for it.

I reckon these basses are Ali Express jobs with a knockoff logo. That bridge is certainly a design I have seen on Chinese sites.

In this case, custom means attacking it with a blowtorch, sticking a beermat to the front of it and screwing a piece of sack over the routing. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275244846578?hash=item4015df0df2:g:ZzkAAOSwaiZiReZ8

I remember when all my school friends had a rickety Kay, Eko or Satellite guitar or bass chucked in the corner of the room, probably bought from a catalogue by their parents. Never stayed in tune, had a massive action and sounded awful even when new, but were OK for thrashing some Stiff Little Fingers or Sex Pistols out on (usually through a nasty JHS or HH amp). Dreadful things. When the first Japanese Squiers and Tokais came along it was a game changer for us kids then, as they were actually affordable playable instruments in the days when owning a real Fender or Gibson was a pipe dream for most people! I wouldn't pay £30 for a Kay, let alone £300, but I guess they have some interesting zeitgeist.

Showing your age there fella!

I tend to price these types of things by their major components, and then halve it for used value: Warmoth neck (assuming it's basic stock and not a custom build, £413.00 upwards). Fender mex body: £200.00 Pickups: £110.00 Locking tuners: £78.00 = £800.00 /2 = about 400 quid theoretical resale value for this strat if anyone actually wants to buy it I reckon, but it's not a pretty one. Just throw this in there to stir the pot though (because (a) I love Warmoth licenced necks and (b) I have a hangover), if you bolt a licenced Status neck onto a Stingray, as many do, is it a bitzer? 😉

I think Harley Benton now use Roswell pickups is more accurate, however I take your point, they are cheap. Never heard them myself so I can't make a comment more than that. Here is the bass in question being played, but you can't hear its natural tone because it's swamped with effects.

"NOW DONT KNOW IF ITS WORKING AS NOT TRIED OUT SO SELLING AS IS AND NO RETURNS" Well he could just plug it into the practise amp on the top right of his photo, it being so valuable and all....

Can't believe these apparently well made and unique handmade basses are so well priced (check out his other items too). I believe Lucasz Chyla is a member here. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165312153623?hash=item267d5f4817:g:UREAAOSwwIxhwjGx Maybe not everything on ebay is a rip-off.......

Someone has taken a cheap n' nasty learner bass (maybe Gear4Music?) and unceremoniously stuck one of those "Overlord of cheddar" bridge and headpieces from ebay on it. There are a few tiny little issues.... There's no zero fret or nut, the headpiece looks wonky and if you look closely from the back, it looks like the headstock has been hacked off with mum's breadknife. To add to the detailing, I particularly like how the bridge has been semi-set into the body and the way the bass rests on the tuners. All for a bargain price of £180.00. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403163513671?hash=item5dde6b0347:g:Q8YAAOSwnLRhQmRZ