Bassassin

The Silverado's without a doubt the tastiest looking of the bunch and to be honest the only one I'd give a second glance to. Reminds me of this in many ways: [attachment=55476:stbgtfull2.jpg] Apart from being nearly 3 times the price! J.

[quote name='Jamesemt' post='912239' date='Aug 1 2010, 08:41 PM']Cheers for that. There's a similar one on the bay for £40. Do you reckon it would be worth a punt at that?[/quote] Unless there's anything drastically wrong with it then yes. Got a link? J.

[quote name='Jamesemt' post='912209' date='Aug 1 2010, 08:12 PM']I've just found this on the bay: [url="http://wap.ebay.co.uk/Pages/ViewItem.aspx?aid=290340197649&sv=Encore%20bass&emvcc=0"]http://wap.ebay.co.uk/Pages/ViewItem.aspx?...ass&emvcc=0[/url] Is it any good? Looking for a funky customisation/restoration project...[/quote] It's similar to the Aria A-100 pictured here: [url="http://www.matsumoku.org/models/aria/catalogs/75_aria/75_aria_catalog_pg1.jpg.html"]http://www.matsumoku.org/models/aria/catal...og_pg1.jpg.html[/url] An awful lot of 70s starter basses with this Burns-inspired design turn up on Ebay - it actually looks like various factories in both Japan & Korea produced these. I would say the Encore's Korean, the mahogany neck & blank, round-cornered neckplate are typical MIK features & not usually found on MIJ instruments. Personally I wouldn't expect it to be up to much. Low-end 70s/80s Korean stuff was pretty dire and I would say it's about twice the price it's worth, particularly if it's going to be a project you spend money improving. Jon.

If I had £1300 I would - I love that finish on a Rick. Don't suppose I could persuade you to sell me the black Hipshot for a pittance, could I? Jon.

Mazeti's only an importer brand name, not a manufacturer, although this might have come from the same factory. Gawd knows where that is though - China's a big country! J.

Possibly the first bass solo I heard, definitely the first one I tried to play: Lemmy - Keep Us On The Road, from Motorhead's first album: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11DHbpERlRM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11DHbpERlRM[/url] Solo's at about 3.06. Still can't think of one I like any better. Jon.

[quote name='cetera' post='910321' date='Jul 30 2010, 02:56 PM']Just found these two makes/sites.... quite interesting stuff.... not sure if they've been mentioned/discussed here before?[/quote] The Tuscany Rick copy came up in the relevant thread on the Ebay board. Here's where the brief discussion starts: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=270&view=findpost&p=881548"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?s=&sho...st&p=881548[/url] And reading back through it, that looks about right to me. Jon.

A few months ago this factory one-off appeared in Rickenbacker's Ebay shop: [attachment=55283:front1.jpg] [attachment=55284:back1.jpg] [attachment=55285:Full.JPG] Absolute stunner in my opinion and a possible hint they might reintroduce the stripe, like they did with the full-width inlays. J.

Anyone else get the feeling all the good ones are gone? J.

[quote name='tauzero' post='909386' date='Jul 29 2010, 04:11 PM']Looks very much like an Audition/Top Twenty Woollies special from the 70s. I had solid-body and semi 6-strings, and a thoroughly decrepit solid-body 6-string is in my garage waiting for me to decide to throw it away.[/quote] It's a Teisco - you'll find it bottom left on [url="http://www.mark-cole.co.uk/teisco/bass.htm"]this page[/url]. Loads of these were sold in the UK badged as Top Twenty etc so it's almost certainly a Woolies Wonder! J.

It'll be 70s - there were no later Shaftesburys, as far as I can tell. Post some pics and I'll tell you what I know. Jon.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='908786' date='Jul 29 2010, 12:19 AM']One day Bassassin will post a wanted ad for some part of it and I'll sell it to him for a pittance.[/quote] Gawd. I really am that tragic, aren't I? Although in my defence, I've passed up two of the guitar ones of these selling for buttons. I like to think I have some standards! Speaking of which my worst bass was my first - a short-scale comedy attempt at a Jazz, wearing a Grant badge. It had a bridge so poorly aligned the G string was off the neck above the 12th, pickups that didn't pick a great deal up & an action so high you could stick your arm under the stings. It might've been Japanese & old but it really was an irredeemable piece of sh!t that I'd gleefully hack to splinters given the chance. Or I hope I would. I Could probably give it a good setup & have it playing like a dream now. I bet I could... :ph34r: Jon.

[quote name='LukeFRC' post='908375' date='Jul 28 2010, 04:24 PM']i would buy this [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=96386"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=96386[/url] you can turn the active on if you ever want it![/quote] These are great basses but the neck is absolutely [b]nothing[/b] like a Soundgear! They're also very heavy, while the two SRs I've had were featherweight. Fortunately the Ibby Soundgear range has been around for best part of 25 years and there are enough different models that it shouldn't be hard to find one with the right spec. Alternatively why not upgrade the hardware & pups on your GSR? Jon.

Probably Chinese & the sort of thing that turns up new on Ebay under a variety of different names & a BIN of £199. Whatever it is, that's a lot of bass for 50 sovs. Jon.