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Saturday is reserved for getting your kit ready, checking strings & batteries, cases out of the loft, etc.

The performances are just harmless eccentricity. Bodging Instruments and adding a premium is a poor show, though.

This is like a specialist subject on Mastermind...

Clotted Cream?

OTOH, I find it annoying when I'm searching for something and I get search & browse manipulation; if ebay had an ignore button for sellers I think I'd use it a lot.

Yes - I'm not into "upbranding". However, Fender do put "by Fender" on some of their models. Epiphone are even worse and put a "Gibson" TRC on some of theirs!

I'd go for a Fender one if you can find it in budget. I've been looking at an Ibanez Mikro to try out, myself. I had an Epi EB0 and it was OK but unremarkable. I've also got a vintage Japanese something or whatever, which is full-size but short scale (ie. the bridge is further up the body). A complete flip-around of the idea would be a Kala U-bass.

A car boot buy of mine... (I still haven't finished the reversion job...)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-P-Bass-50th-Anniversary-1996-Guitar-Project-Functional-Working/264495509923

One of my pet hates is "Squire"... As for this particular one, it's not worth the money.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Headless-bass-guitar-custom-painting/163898945003 (I do quite like the paint job, though!)

Maybe they're very rare because they didn't sell very well...

I find pancake plugs real sods to solder! I went to Dawsons once looking for cables with pancake plugs and they said they'd never heard of them. These days, for in-pedalboard, I use EBS Flats.

Purley - that might be a way...

I didn't know they'd done a headed one. (I used to have a headless.)

A lot of folks do bring theirs, but it’s not compulsory. There’s a fair amount of sharing goes on.

WHAAATTT!?!?

The special Warwick handcrafted in China range...?

Fantastic bodgework there!

It says RRP £399 - nobody would pay that for a Shine. £149 might be worth a punt. They're sub £100 instruments used.

Once I rose above the noise and confusion...

I bought a cab there last year; took it into the hall and tried it out with my Elf, easy buy.

Yeah, but they play, sound, and look great!

It looks a bit scruffy for the price.

It looks to me like the new bridge/tailpiece assembly needs more body routing to fit, so it won't be a drop-in replacement.