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Was that the picture of the girl playing it at their open day thing? It looked lovely in that colour. I don't know if that was shortscale or not, or whether these are to be honest. There's not a lot of info around which adds to the confusion. Are these just the 34" Saints in new colours with a roasted board, or are they actually 30"? The only thing I'm going on is the post on facebook in which Mark confirms they are shortscale. I don't mind if it's long to be honest though. £299 seemed worth a punt. If I don't like it I'll just move it along, should get my money back without too much trouble.

There's two blue ones, a mid blue (kind of LPB) with a light maple board, and a darker blue with roasted maple board. Both look to be metallic but it's hard to tell in the single photos. There's also a Shell Pink jazz, roasted maple, mint green pickguard prototype for the same price.

Oops! We'll see what scale it is when it arrives. 😳

On the Ashdown Facebook page someone asks if it's shortscale, to which Mark Gooday replies "Yip".

Just seen these on Facebook. I really like the look of of this.

I've just seen a lovely looking shell pink shortscale on the @Ashdown Engineeringfacebook page. I'm assuming 30" but it could be 32". Also a sage green one which looks great too. Hopefully they'll/he'll (does Mark Gooday himself post?) be along shortly with some more info.

And it still inspires forty years later, doesn't it Mr. Gallagher!?

Welcome @joel406. If your Fenders are sunburst with a tort pickguard you're out! 😉

This totally. Back when I had a VW Transporter (T4), passenger door pockets would regularly sell on ebay for around £60-£70. Most T4s came with a double passenger front seat and no door pocket. The more expensive Caravelles and such came with a single passenger front captains seat and a door pocket (in general). People would swap their double seat for a single captains chair and then pay aforementioned price for the "ultra rare, hens teeth door pocket" on ebay. If you rang the dealers they were about £20.

Shot By Both Sides - Magazine

Yes I touched on my view that spending money on an appreciating collection makes more sense than spending it with on a depreciating car. Then you picked it up and ran with it to planet Tim. Let's just get back to bass collecting.

It's not even early but it's too early for this. What's going on and what did I just watch? Perhaps I'm just not awake yet. Maybe I'll try again later.

The above is from the same post of mine that you originally extracted my quote from. I've said what I do and for some reason you've tried to either say it's wrong, doesn't work, or something, I'm really not sure what your point is. Until I changed jobs last year I was doing 25k miles per year for decades in cheap, older cars with no problems, certainly no more than newer cars and it's usually far cheaper to fix any niggles than a newer car. The other stress free part of running an older, less valuable car is that if something expensive goes wrong, say a £2000 fix, then I can simply weigh it in and buy something else, if I had a £15,000 car then I would have to pay out and fix it. You cannot argue this as it is what I do, and have done for years. I also have no clue where this idea that a car or bass does, or should, earn you an income came from. For what it's worth my daughter does own a £30k car but she doesn't earn £30k a year. It doesn't earn her money other than allowing her to commute to work, which she did quite happily, safely and without any problems for three years in her previous car which cost £1300. A lot of youngsters whose dream of getting on the property ladder is unrealistic have resolved to buying what society deems the next indicator of success, an expensive car. Their thought process is if I can't afford a house I'll spend £500/600 a month on a car. Whether or not you think this is right it is happening.

Sometimes you speak complete sense @TimR, but this time I'm afraid it's utter tosh. If what you've written applies to you then that's fair enough but not one bit of your sweeping statements relate to my life at all.

Pass me my orthopaedic shoes. I stand corrected. 😁

Maybe it's the showroom then. But the point still stands that a collection of guitars/basses is of far more interest to me than a new car or a collection of money.

As far as I'm aware it'll be a good bass and well worth doing, pretty much an Ibanez Blazer in all but name. Made in the Fujigen Gakki factory in Japan that also made the Ibanez instruments. @Bassassin, our resident 70s Japan expert, will be able to tell you far more.

Geek Stink Breath - Green Day

Two Lane Blacktop - Rob Zombie

Fifteen Years - The Levellers (add them up 😉)

We don't neeed no steeeeenkin' reminders. Okay, maybe I did. Thanks 😉👍

Only You - Yazoo or The Flying Pickets, take your pick... ... pick The Flying Pickets and you're dead to me! 😉

And as if to qualify my above post, I go to scroll through facebook and the first picture that comes up is this one from the, 'Underdog - Obscure, Trashy and Kool Guitars and Amps' group. How is this not more exciting and pleasurable than a car? 😁

This is pretty much exactly my outlook on it, with the addition of my enjoyment of restoring/refinishing instruments. Spare money has very little interest to me, but owning and using lots of different basses does. I can leave my money in the bank and let them make money off it, or tie it up in basses I enjoy and I'll make money off it. Seems a no brainer to me. Collecting money seems far more ludicrous to me than collecting basses. I also don't have any other expensive hobbies, golf, photography, etc. Being in the car trade my whole life has left me bored with them, I buy a car for about £1500, keep it until it's not worth repairing and scrap it, typically around 6 or 7 years, so let's say £225 per year, where lots/most pay that per month for theirs. The odd thing to me is that society sees spending £30k on an exceptionally speedily depreciating car as the norm, but spending £30k on something like a bass collection as a 'problem'. You be very hard pushed to spend £30k on basses, to find out in 10 to 15 years time they're only worth £1,500, whereas this is normal for a car. Obviously there are exceptions to this, as with anything.

Rearview Mirror - Pearl Jam