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If you like short scale and don't mind neck dive! Back in the 60s loads of people used them (the Gibson original) but they went out of fashion and production. They were probably a bass that was designed for guitar players converting.

Look at Spector's Korean ranges, I love my Spectorcore and others say the Legend is great. Super value, well within your price range and brilliant quality.

Lovely looking bass. I've always thought Yammies were likely to be heavy, how's this one?

In addition to the site for Bach's that Howdenspur found, I bought a discontinued EB2 style bass from Bach. It may be worth an email to them to see if they have an remainder stock. (They stopped selling semis because of threats from Gibson the same may be the case with their birds).

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I've never seen them before, that's a great price! Do you know if they offer any other colours/fingerboards?
[/quote]i think his stock is the sunburst, but there was discussion here with "JOW" about other colours. He was offering to get a run if there were sufficient buyers wanting a particular colour. Why not email them and see, nothing ventured nothing gained!

Check out JOW dirty bird. Loads on this forum about them, well thought of.

Re another of these, there's one on eBay for €599 from somewhere in Germany (new).

Welcome to the semis. Looks very Gretschesque to me. Used to have an EB2 and I'm sorry to say it played like a dog so if this plays well you're better off!

I remember seeing Ashey Huhcings in the Albion Band using one of these. Funny how 2 bass players renowned for being folkies used such modernist instruments!

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Great looking guitar, jaguar meets rickenbacker! You describe it as "blonde" , is it a paint finish or is there grain showing through as per natural?

So everyone talks about them being light. Having given up Ps and Js as too heavy what do these weigh?

Brilliant! You are so fortunate. Did you still get caught for VAT on import?

Are you sure it was the bass that sounded good not the amp? I'm told that they are really difficult to re-fret.

I don't understand where this "glossy is sticky" comes from. There was a time when all guitars and basses had glossy necks and now we call them vintage and ask ridiculous prices for them! Just keep them clean.

The guy selling this has only been on eBay for 1 month, to be avoided.

Ibanez SRF700 or Aria FEB (semi) both come unlined.

Much nicer than a Fender.

Looks great. I think all basses should be chambered! I wonder what it weighs?

Still around if anyone needs one. BUMP

Have a look at voxshowroom.com where you'll find an article about it. The bass player of Paul Revere and the Raiders who were Vox endorses had one and says the neck was awful. He e rntually took the neck off and replaced it with a Fender neck to make it playable. There's another for sale in the US for a tad over £1700, bit cheaper than the eBay one.

I always thought they were short scale, ass many if not most basses were I. The 60s other than Fender and Ricks.

Looks ace. Was it new? When I have seen previous Violin basses of this brand I thought they had the incorrect Y tuners, but this has proper small tuners which I have always suspected were just guitar tuners on Hofners.

I'm old enough to remember these from the 60's. I believe they were made in Italy for Vox, but thought the quality was not very good, a bit better than the Rossetti Lucky 7 but not as good as a Hofner! I suspect the modern version, even if made in China ( or elsewhere in Asia) may be better. They do look cool though, the late Brian Jones of theStones famously used the guitar version and Hilton Valentine of the Animals used the 12 string version before he got his Rick 12. I wonder if the neck dive is still as bad.

Very Robben Ford. Check YouTube "Playing the blues" & "Blues and beyond" to see him playing one of these. I seem to remember Fender even making a signature model for a short while.