Bassassin

Not me neither. Already got one, ain't I?

I think it's a really long neck heel/tenon - like a bolt-on through neck.

Another RS924! Needs a little bit of love, but should tidy up. Wonder if the preamp still works? Would be a bargain if it went for much under £200.

That's a proper rarity these days, hardly ever see these & the real US made originals (rather than the licensed Hondo versions) are proper rocking-horse droppings. Look forward to seeing it once it's had a hose down!

Derision, shirley? 😆

Binface gone? 😲 In fairness I'd completely forgotten it existed for at least the last ten years. Would appear I wasn't alone, which may be peripherally connected to its demise.

From the pics, Aria RSB. I admit to a natural prejudice but it's a more elegant design than the other two. Left-field suggestion - Yamaha SBV:

Holy necrothread Batman etc. Anyway, 12 years later it's a handy opportunity to remind ourselves that despite having the same name on the end, this: Is not really the same as this:

Lovely, that. Always had a little GAS for one, I'm a complete sucker for a through-neck.

Good to know. On that basis, I'll give it a swerve for my future projects.

If that was a tenner at the car boot I'd probably leave it there, as it would need far too much work to make it sellable. Wondering if all the black muck smeared over the belly cut is an attempt to hide plywood laminations.

Not sure that's right - Status (originally Strata, until Fender got shirty) were around from '81 or 2. Jacks didn't appear until the mid/late 80s, as I remember.

So - did they lock them all in a room with their basses so they'd use them to bludgeon each other unconscious? And the last one left standing was the winner? Or was it 'ten random bass players some of our readers might have heard of'? I've just rolled my eyes so hard I've currently got a great view of my own occipital lobe.

It's not a Teisco, but then again most 'Teiscos' aren't. They've been spotted in the wild badged Sakai, so it's logical to think Sakai Mokko, an actual manufacturer, made at least some of them. However most of them, including matey's diseased piece of junk, the overpriced Audition & possibly @prowla's (would need to see neckplate pic to confirm) are Korean, and made by Samick. These things are the object of some curiosity in vintage MIJ circles - there are various different versions & the earliest has a 2-a-side headstock & German carve body: Not sure who made these but they turn up badged Dynatone, which is a brand that might have been connected to Guyatone. These are probably the 60s versions. The MIJ Sakai versions have the more common 4-inline head, no carve & big chrome-covered pickups. Also more likely to feature a tort plate, turned metal knobs & a maple neck. Common badged Silvertone & National in the US, it's also in an early 70s Aria catalogue, although that's never been seen in the wild, as far as I know. Moving swiftly on, we get the ubiquitous MIK variants. These often conveniently tell you what they are by means of a sticker, like this: Other identifiers are mahogany necks (really common on MIK & Taiwanese guitars of this era) often black-painted headstocks, single coil staple-type pickups & single-ply scratchplate, like this & the two Ebay examples: These are also fairly common bearing the 'Arirang' brand, which is known to have been manufactured by Samick. 'Arirang' is the title of a traditional Korean song. Unsurprisingly, we've had threads about these before...

Always liked the look of the B Bass - it's basically a Hohner Jack with a headstock, & the Bs tend to be somewhat cheaper than their decapitated brethren. Not sure how long they were around for but late 80s/90s Hohners were made by Cort and tend to be uniformly top quality.

Agreed, I see loads of examples of that old bass (there are several variations, Japanese & Korean/Taiwanese, all with the same design) and never noticed it before. The Gibson even 'borrows' that overt curve on the control part of the scratchplate.

That is literally amazing and might well be one of the top five things I have ever read. Congratulations on winning The Internet - just be careful what you do with it.

That's stunning, best-looking P I've seen in a long time. Incredible grain on that body!

That's how it works. It's like a sport to him, he's toying with us, and our collective incredulousness only makes him stronger. Don't squander your resistance for a pocketful of mumbles.

Careful when you sit down...

Just looking at it makes me want to take a rasp to it.

Oh, I have. And I'm aware of his 'novel'. All part of The Game, never doubt it...

I'm inclined to think it's influenced a bit by those slabby-looking Burns-Weill things from the 60s - Riverhead robbed the shape of their Unicorn headless from the Burns Flyte, after all.

I am increasingly leaning towards the theory that the gentleman in question is a member here - possibly a long-standing, well-known, well-respected contributor, even - and these listings are actually small, incremental components of one long and very complex wind-up - at our expense. I'm not saying "let the witch-hunt commence", but...

Not quite £30 but I didn't exactly pay top whack... Had this one for 12 or 13 years - picked it up from Gumtree back when I was buying & selling to earn a crust. The guy was from Aus & basically selling up before he went back - oddly it turned out he was a friend & former bandmate of my band's guitarist. The pics hadn't shown much so I had no expectations of the bass, expected it to be a bit beat-up & was amazed to find it in near-new condition in its original case. It had been gigged, there are some tiny marks here & there on the body, but clearly really well looked-after. It ended up being one of those basses I bought to wipe down & sell on, but ended up falling in love with. Used it plenty for gigs & recording, the only downside being it's a hefty sod. And it genuinely was at the back of a cupboard, where it (and one or two others) got stashed when we moved, seven years ago.