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DiMarzio Model J on its way.

Look at completed/sold listings. £150 is a realistic price.

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1493133057' post='3285926'] I'll add Airborne to that, the only AC/DC tribute band to not play any AC/DC [/quote] Rose Tattoo & Krokus might beg to differ, if they were being honest.

The Armoury Show - ex-members of Magazine & The Skids who crafted massive, epic post-new wave rock. One proper album then gone. Beltane Fire - saw them supporting Marillion in the mid 80s, more widescreen, epic pop-rock with endearingly silly lyrics based on Arthurian mytholgy. One album then phut. Turned out they were an old-school rockabilly band moonlighting as trendy 80s rockers. They pulled it off really well but that doghouse bass should've been a giveaway...

I have the through-neck version: [sharedmedia=core:attachments:46079] Not for traditionalists and very marmite. I find it extremely well-balanced and it's very light. The Lace pickups are practically noiseless (which is the idea) but the downside is that the output's very low. The neck on mine's a bit of a baseball bat too - P width and very chunky - I tend to prefer J type dimensions and if mine was a bit slimmer I'd probably use it more. Description is a bit disingenuous - it's not a "hand-made prototype" (mine's Chinese & No 0008!) and the list price for the bolt-neck single pup version is [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lace-Helix-4-String-Bass-Guitar-in-Black-or-Blue-with-an-Alumitone-Bass-Pickup-/292073390172"]around £500[/url], not a grand. Still a cool bass & would be OK for the £300 start price.

Lines all the way for me. I don't play enough fretless to have a sufficiently developed technique to play unlined cleanly, and tbh I like the look of a lined board - particularly a very dark board with just lines, no dots. And IMO looks are important - I'd get less enjoyment from playing a bass I disliked the appearance of, and that would probably affect my playing.

Well, clearly I defer to your immensely superior taste.

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1492358432' post='3279655'] And an awful lot to look at and think "that's absolute bollocks mate" [/quote] Indeed... I quite enjoyed it - as I usually do, oddly. I say "oddly" because I'm by nature a metal/prog head so Jools never caters to "my" taste. However the show frequently exposes me to music I would usually never listen to, and sometimes this is quite refreshing. This week's show did feature some great musicianship and songcraft, and while I won't be supporting the careers of any of the featured artists, there was a lot to appreciate. The only thing that really left me nonplussed was the country & western lady - in fact my vocalist partner erupted in gales of laughter as soon as she opened her mouth and all those mawkish, generic cliches poured out. The fact she was there shows that there's always an audience and a market for the same old same old, I suppose.

[quote name='zvirus' timestamp='1492152636' post='3278250'] Eastern European basses: [url="http://mayones.com/basses/"]http://mayones.com/basses/[/url] [url="http://gmrbasses.com/"]http://gmrbasses.com/[/url] Just named two. That was not nice Sir Cheers, Tomas [/quote] As it happens it turned out to be Northern European - I just hope none of our Dutch friends take offence at their nation's vintage musical heritage!

You're welcome to borrow a DiMarzio DP123 Model J, to give it something to do until I get around to installing it!

Agree with Geoff - string spacing & name thieved from the Schaller 3D but ugly & cheapo-looking. And only 3 times the price!

My favourite book as a child, and I must have re-read it dozens of times over the years. A shame there's never been a good film version - IMO the best adaptation (despite changing the setting & era) was Orson Welles' 1938 radio version. Love the Jeff Wayne interpretation - although the Fighting Machines look completely wrong!

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/303782-how-much-for-a-westone-thunder-bass/"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/303782-how-much-for-a-westone-thunder-bass/[/url]

Interesting, this. Just did a quick headcount - mostly from memory, so I will have forgotten a few - and I've owned 35 Fender-shaped basses & guitars, none of which had a Fender logo. Out of these, 22 were basses so I will have gigged with most of those. I've never owned a "real" Fender and it's pretty likely I never will. I suppose I can understand why people who aspire to "big" brands would fake-up budget copies, but this recent trend for eye-wateringly expensive knockoffs (Limelight etc) utterly mystifies me - particularly with a shonky sticker on the end.

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1491808066' post='3275418']...occasional actors / singers coming on stage dressed as characters from the movie. I actually thought the live show storyline was far better than the movies. It was set in a different time era and just seemed to work better. [/quote] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds"]https://en.wikipedia...r_of_the_Worlds[/url]

Do as I did - scrape off all that horrid brown glop (which will take a whole 20 minutes) and Danish oil the body, so it looks a bit like this: [url="http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/LanterneRouge/media/Ibanez%20SR500/sr500refin01_zpsnkckqift.jpg.html"][/url] Admittedly - mine was an £80 fixer-upper, and in a dreadful state when I got it.

Simple answer to your question is to change the search to sold items: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=westone%20thunder%20bass%20guitar&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=p2045573.m1684[/url] So we can see that while the high-end, through neck Thunder IIs and IIIs consistently achieve fairly high prices, a lot of the BIN prices for bog-standard, common-as-muck Thunder Is and IAs are very, very, very ambitious. Great basses they may be, but if you pay more than £150 you've been had.

A classic example of home-made wonkiness.

Ah - the Die Nasty. Not a huge fan of 80s pointy - but I might have made an exception if it had been the 2-tone metalflake finish...

It's got that "almost, but not quite", slightly wonky look you tend to see on home-made basses. Would be an interesting & striking design if it was just slimmed down a bit - as it is it's just slabby & a bit ugly. And looks like it's made out of your gran's wardrobe.

Bridges like this (7 screw, hex adjusters) are common on 70s MIJ copies. Not suggesting that's what this bass is, as bridges can be swapped & screwholes filled, but £3700 for something that has a strong likelihood of being a bitsa - or worse - is hilarious. And not in a good way.,

[quote name='Meddle' timestamp='1490942908' post='3269156'] Looks like a heavily modified Egmond, like this: [url="http://touch.adverts.ie/electric-basses/egmond-bass-guitar/4579914"]http://touch.adverts...-guitar/4579914[/url] [/quote] I think you're right. Looks like someone tried to make it look like a Gibson.

My first thought was Eastern European, but looking closer, I'm leaning towards home-made.

No idea at all how they became decapitated, but I can say that they're not Vantages, or any other Matsumoku model. These are Kawai builds and derivative of a Japan-only Fernandes design from about 1978. They turn up with numerous different brands, and are quite common branded Lincoln in the UK. Wouldn't mind one as a headless project but no idea what I'd do with three!

A member on here called Wizbat - not sure if he still posts - had a matching pair of Rick-styled 6ers built by Jon Shuker, maybe 8 or 9 years ago: [url="http://s1276.photobucket.com/user/LanterneRouge/media/Rickenfakers/Shuker%206ers_zpsgbxav7rm.jpg.html"][/url]