lemmywinks

About 101cm with the padding in, removing it gets you about an extra 6cm.

I use an Ibanez EHB1505 and it fits in the guitar Pro Go with the removable base padding still in. It's tight but not so tight that it puts strain on the neck. I think with a longer headless you'd have to remove that extra padding which just velcros off. They did redesign the bag not so long ago (changed the straps and rain cover) so maybe that accounts for the different sizes? I'll measure mine and post it here.

I contacted the seller for more infomation, he's done some work on it including different pickups and wiring so possibly the same bass. My main interest was string spacing as it looks too tight for me, seller said it's 15.5mm so very narrow at the bridge.

The eBay listing looks like the legit one, Rob Armstrong is Coventry based as is the seller. Dave Pegg and Rob are also quite good friends I think.

The boner bass! Played a Jazz years ago, was very nice but had that uncanny valley vibe to it. Look far less odd being played on a strap than they do on a stand IMO. Might be one for future collectors given its unusual appearance and limited production.

This has turned up on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/192391876912240/

It's a Cort thing, they've had that license for donkeys' years and it's just a way to cheaply add name brand spec to an instrument, I've fallen for it in the past. They've slapped numerous names on their in house/offshore pickups over the years like EMG Select, Mighty Mite, Duncan (in the EDB 5 series) etc and have used the Fishman license on preamps as well. I quite liked the Might Mite pickups and Fishman pre (long gone now due to failure) in my Cort C5P, much better than the old Bart MkI and it's dreadful accompanying preamp in the supposedly higher spec B5 I owned (nice bass though). The Ibanez T1 pickups used in that 1006 sound great in demo videos, a vast improvement over the Lic Barts in the other 1000 series.

@jassbass I would be hitting them up for a free bass or two!

Act Like You Know! One of my favourite bass grooves right there, nice playing!

If it was normally priced then it might be worth picking up just for the lefty ebony fretless neck.

Worth about £300-£400 these days, they're ok basses. As said the precursor to the Rockbass, passive pickups are quite tame and don't really sound like any flavour of Warwick. I had the 5 string single pickup version, never really got on with it and I moved it on. That one is seriously overpriced, can get a proper one for that much.

There's a big thread abour Sire upgrades on TB, I don't think there's any drop in replacements which is a shame. When I put Schallers on mine I had to drill two new holes per tuner (I think, was a while ago) however these are covered by the baseplate so aren't visible. Even if you put the stock ones back on theres no visible holes.

Lobster has one of the fretless EHBs, sounds great and doesn't need a pickup swap IMO.

I'd probably look at a used TC BG250-208 which has a far more capable amp section, expect to pay between £150 and £200 when one comes up. Peavey do a current equivalent in the Max 208 but new prices will be over budget. A mate of mine had the Rumble 25 which was perfectly OK, he sold it when he got a Gnome/Mii110 setup which was far better.

Well that's fine, they can do as they wish. I aint gonna line a nonce's pocket so I will also do as I wish. Not sure what your point is or what relevancy it has to the OP's issue but you do you.

There was absolutely no evidence of Jackson doing anything abusive. The OJ SImpson case is controversial, the two MJ trials aren't. In fact they're alarmingly conclusive if you want to look into them, nobody ever does though. He was no doubt a very strange man, he was also someone with a lot of mental health issues and extreme social anxiety. At points literally terrified to be around adults but at ease with children. Guy Pratt provides a some insight into his behaviour in a working environment in one of his YT videos. Put simply people think Jackson was guilty because they have been told a series of carefully selected and manipulated lines. The same people think Paed Townshend is innocent because they have been told a series of carefully selected and manipulated lines.

He admitted guilt and accepted a police caution, got off very lightly by all accounts and was put on the sex offenders' register. He paid to access images of very young children being violently sexually assaulted. His PR did a very good job of reducing the impact on his profile which is why we still get people thinking he was innocent. Contrast to Michael Jackson who had the opposite - trial by media where he was assumed guilty from the off and when the evidence was examined he was found to be innocent. Twice. I used to assume Jackson was guilty (just like everybody else) but as soon as you start digging it's quite alarming how he was treated. It is indeed very different to Pete Townshend who is a child sex offender yet seems to have gotten away with it and can remain in the public eye.

Micheal Jackson was found to be innocent in court. Twice. I have and would still play his songs, wouldn't have anything to do with Paed Townshend's music though.

Wait, it's hundreds of trillions of pounds? I knew Warwicks had gone up but I didn't know they were that bad!

Yeah I agree with this, there's no "chops" requirement to own any level of instrument. The guy in the video can play decently enough too, does some fast metal w/pick passages in his videos and sounds very good doing it. He's just not a fretless fingerstyle player yet so understandably sounds like he hasn't got to grips with it. I wish I had the spare cash lying around to justify splurging 5 figures on a bass unsuited to my gigs and playing style, hell of a bass to learn fretless on that's for sure!

You can get a used German Warwick Corvette for less than the price of a new Rockbass if that's the bass you like. In the sub £1k price bracket there's lots to choose from, I would try a few and see what string spacing you get on with. Either way Cort, Ibanez, Sire, Yamaha as mentioned above are all good options, some of the premium Ibanez SR basses have high end pickups and the used price takes a big hit so if you like tight string spacing then I'd look at those. There's an SR1305SB on Facebook at the moment for £625.

If you really like a bass and are gigging it but see shortcomings in the hardware (which might be functional but is an obvious cost saving measure) then it would make sense to replace with something to your liking. I gigged a Sire as my main bass for years and did some (reversible) mods, only one of which (Nordstrands) made it sound better. The Schallers I put on there made it a better bass to gig though as did the metal knobs which sorted the somewhat cluttered bell plate. It turned a bass I really liked into a bass i really liked. If you're sensible and keep the original parts in case you want to move it on then modding can be very cost effective, especially if you source used parts to begin with.

I'll get some pics and figure a price out and shoot you a message over the next few days.

Yeah still have the original box so shouldn't be a problem. Also has the QSC carry bag and locking IEC cable etc.