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Could I tempt you Andy with a BB300 in Black, a cracker little bass with ££ your way...

Have a look at this post from 3 years ago. Tune Guitar Technology started the ball rolling in Japan. Kawai,SGC Nanyo,Washburn and Ibanez quickly started with their takes on the Maniac. Late 80's Tune Guitar Tech got the contract for the Levinson Blades so started importing necks and bodies from Korea. This gave them more time for Levinson. At the end complete basses were imported from Korea. Then Tune goes tits up. The Koreans keep building under the Tune Guitar Technology name. Some luthiers in Japan started using Tune templates and called themselves Tune Guitar Maniac,they claim they own the Tune brand but the Koreans dispute this saying they had a "gentleman's agreement" to produce Tune basses. Said Gentleman being dead nobody knows the truth 😃 Upshot is there's a factory in Korea building Tunes and a luthier custom shop in Japan building Tunes,up until recently the Japanese shop still bought it's hardware from the Koreans. The so-called "bad blood" between the two is mostly the product of owners with Japanese built Tunes. Not surprising, I think Fender Master Built owners would get upset with MIM Fender owners claiming there's no difference between their basses. A basic Tune Maniac from Japan will be built by a small team and maybe fired in their PLEK machine, photos of it featured a lot on their FB page along with fancy inlay work on folk's Strats and LPs. It'll cost you about £1200 before shipping and VAT/import duty. £1500 shouldn't be far of the mark. A basic Korean Tune Maniac can be had from Ned at VSN in Canada for £404. With Shipping/tax etc £650 easy. A few years back Sam Ash over in the USA wanted to buy the brand name for another budget line of theirs. The Koreans said no and SA had a fire sale on Tune products,can't say if that was a deliberate attempt to damage the Tune brand name but that was the effect it had in the US.Both are recovering with the Japanese holding the upper hand,given the fantastic value they are for a hand built bass 👍 Fine basses no matter the flavour

haha you still have a way to go yet Andy, I still fell like a kid most of the time 😂

The 32inch Chromes might suit me for a short scale bass so I will take these off your hands...

me too Jon

Cheers Karl...

Thanks Andy, lovely bass to play, I will be sorry to se it go

2006 Fender USA Precision Bass Butterscotch I have had this bass for about 10 years and it has seen very little use, never been out Gigging so condition is 9/10 Some swirling to the back and the scratch plate , one tiny match head dimple on the back and a very small dent to the lower edge but otherwise great condition. Nut width is 40mm and a very comfortable neck, fret wear is minimal. It has the S1 switch, everything works as it should and the neck is quite straight, good action and a Joy to play The grain can be seen through the finish, weight is 9lbs 4oz Comes in the original moulded case which has plenty of scuffs marks on the outside but otherwise functional Selling due to recent acquisitions and sale only so no trades, sorry, was hard to pick one to sell 🤔 Price includes delivery to UK Any questions guys please fire away..

SOLD

So sorry for you loss Sean, lovely looking lab...

I have the same model, bought it off a guy who played it a few times and stuck it in his wardrobe for over 30 years, it has one tiny dent about the size of a match head. The brass though suffered a bit with darkening but for its age still decent and one of the unsung heroes and amazing sounds GLWTS I paid that much for it 10 years ago so a bargain price. Someone will be very happy.