lemmywinks

£170, someone got a bargain there.

That's a different bass, aside from the darker colour (could be put down to lighting/filters) the grain on the back is different: Can't be that good if half of them are up for sale at the same time! Ugly as sin anyway, also what's with the bridge and pickups being lopsided on the maple laminate part? Looks really odd but both of them have it so it must be deliberate. Treble side is touching the body wings, bass side you can see maple:

Never played one but understand they are popular on here, seems like £100+ of the price everywhere sells them. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REVELATION-RBN5-Bass-Electric-Guitar-5-String/223016629228?_trkparms=aid%3D333200%26algo%3DCOMP.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20180409081753%26meid%3Dd52c98d1486248c788d14bc4ae1624cf%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D273537981244%26itm%3D223016629228&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

Nobody on here seems to care when Harley Benton or Vintage rip off Fender models, in fact you lot all buy them!

They did broadneck options which went to 20mm spacing (apparently that's not maxed out too) on 5 and 6 string basses so maybe they're having a memory lapse there.

The neck is cracked below the nut though, still fixable but turns it into a more complicated job. Also on closer inspection the Schallers are missing the ferrule/nut assembly too - looks like generic machine nuts on the front of the headstock and metal washers on the back - so what little value was there just got even less! It's a dog but at least the seller is honest in the description. This is the type of project I find most interesting though, lets face it if you're nearby and could collect it would be worth sticking a tenner on just for fun. Possibly.

The woodworking required to build a through neck bass from scratch doesn't quite tally with the hack job that is the rest of it though, if it is hand built I would be surprised if the same person did the botched 8 string conversion.

Sensible upgrades apart from the pickup cover (pointless) and the battery covers which are no longer tool free. I like the rolled fingerboard edges though, that's a smart move for them. Wouldn't kill them to stick some licensed Ultralites on there though would it?

Did you expect them to be the right way round? Look at it FFS! Looks like the holes for the machine heads are too wide and have been plugged with some sort of rubber ferrule.

Well someone's stuck a bid on it. Own up, which one of you was it?

Also just noticed the neck is cracked near the truss rod, on the plus side it has a set of Schallers:

Hahaha I didn't see that, some of them don't even reach the edge of the fretboard!

To be honest you can buy the headless bass bridge and nut kits for £25-£30 on AliExpress so this might make a nice Hohner The Jack copy project for someone up for a bit of Steinbuggery, especially as it should go for a very low price. With a bit of elbow grease you might end up with a presentable through neck underneath all that green marker pen.

Thought Hohner B Bass at first but it's PJ and the shape is different, I think whoever is responsible for this really wanted one of those!: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BASS-Guitar-in-green-this-is-the-AND-in-rock-N-roll/253952871655?hash=item3b20c54ce7:g:wqMAAOSwtmZb1KaU Quite an entertaining and honest description from the seller anyway which makes a change.

Was hoping you'd come along, are the 90s and later Fenix basses like this one (which I really want, it looks great) still Young Chang? Looks to have the same bridge as the Samick built Arias but maybe they were sourcing the same Korean parts. I can remember drooling over the 4 string version of that as a youth, it was reviewed in one of the guitar mags at the time. Never managed to stumble across one in the wild though.

I think I must be getting less sweaty as I age then as strings seem to be lasting me much longer than they used to. Either that or I'm getting tighter with my money.

Imagine how much of a tit you'd look displaying that in a glass case in your office. "You're guitar looks a bit knackered" "It's actually authentic wear done to replicate someone else's music career and playing style" "Riiiiiiiiiiight........"

I always thought with the Sires you're paying for a great neck and preamp attached to a nice working bass which looks the part and is more than solid enough for a hectic gig schedule. Interesting about the corrosion though, mine doesn't have this and I clean it about twice a year!

Also I hope the OP doesn't mind this turning into a thread about horrible headstocks............

Crikey that's a terrible mess, never noticed that before. Even the knock-offs on AliExpress do a better job:

Imagine how much of a tit you'd look playing that on stage. "You're guitar looks a bit knackered" "It's actually authentic wear done to replicate someone else's music career and playing style" "Riiiiiiiiiiight........"

Your old combo may have a low mid hump whereas the more modern Laney may have a flatter response? The volume might be similar but the baked in sound might give more perceived volume. If it has the mid pre shape switched in then disengage that.

The older ones might be more desirable but the headstock shape is horrid: Bleurgh, nearly as bad as that Alleva Coppolo thing.

Here's a tasteful take on the Fender headstock I've always liked, it's from an old Fenix (think they were Samicks): Compare to a much more expensive Sandberg which looks like a toddler tried to make a tin opener out of balsa wood:

If you ever feel bad about your Sire headstock just remember people regularly pay £5k for an absolute travesty like this one: Nothing wrong with the Sire headstock IMO, if we hadn't been looking at Fenders all our lives most of us would probably think their headstocks looked rubbish too, I do regardless!