Bassassin

How odd. This is the bass - the same instrument, not just the same design: http://www.jacoland.it/site/jacoland-barcelona-simone-feroci-signature/ One cannot help but wonder how it wound up in Shepherds Bush Crack Converters with its knobs pulled off.

Removing the pickup & surround should give you an idea of whether or not there's room to install something different without routing the body. Have to say if it was my bass I wouldn't want to mod it irreversibly, or at worst, visibly. These Ekos are pretty rare and I'd be looking at mounting a different pickup in a new surround, using the existing screwholes.

If it was a Rickenbacker it'd be Sh!tGlo. I can't be sanctimonious though, I have a brown bass: Can't complain, only paid £60 for it...

Perhaps unsurprisingly there were copies in the early 70s. This from a '72 catalogue: Never seen one in real life & this is the only catalogue appearance I'm aware of. Not really a lot more accurate than the Eastwood - the Rick style tailpiece is curious.

It is a lot of money for a smashed up Fender copy with the wrong neck...

That's what I thought. I expect this would have standard DiMarzio red/white/black/green wiring & imperial hex poles. Should be easy to ID from those.

Amaze. Never seen anything like that before. I want one... Tuners are Schallers, or very good copies. Set-neck too. Quality. Wonder if that big black 8-pole pickup's a DiMarzio Model One?

Looks like it from the catalogue pic: Don't think it's ancient, might even be early 80s, when chunky bridges were starting to be a thing. Would like to see more pics of this, looks like the tuners might be Schaller M4S - Gherson used those on their rather decent Rick copy. Edit - just noticed it's actually called a "Finger Picar". How very odd!

It's deep in the red light district of Recanati.

Italian madness from the 70s. Your bass is a Picar, according to FetishGuitars: https://www.fetishguitars.com/castelfidardo-recanati/gherson/ There's a catalogue pic about 2/3 down the page. Gherson seem to have predominantly made decent quality copies, and original designs such as yours aren't too common. A proper weirdo rarity, and for that reason alone, I'd say you got a bargain!

Hard not to be a tiny bit political given the implications of the current situation, and the Government's present stance/behaviour, but this is well worth a read. Sorry but you're unlikely to find it very uplifting: https://www.rawmusictv.com/article/amp/2019/UK-bands-now-have-to-pay-import-duty-and-VAT-on-ALL-merchandise-before-even-entering-Europe-to-tour?fbclid=IwAR0pMAq4J_c40_hFcu3KMgHJT7yVGHcAk5bhD9FBhYTAzJi03gLmRVUinQc

That ain't no Strat... Sold that one 10 or so years back - still the best -playing P I ever had.

I can report my mid 80s E-serial MIJ Squier Strat does, as did my '84 SQ serial Squier P. Any excuse for a pic of the most gorgeous bookmatched grain & burst ever...

£2026? Wow. Can only imagine how expensive it'd be if someone hadn't kicked it up and down the street for an hour.

2019 and we're still talking about that talentless, inarticulate numpty out of the Bullsh!t Beatles.

Yeah, it's the same bass. Depends if anyone's really going to cough £650 for it.

Apart from the name and the pickups (which might well have been swapped) that's the same bass as my very first one, which I had brand new in 1978 for the sum of £59. Never heard of Vision before, but it is MIJ, it is a bargain at £49 and it is a piece of crap. If there was postage I'd quite likely buy it to see if it's as bad as I remember, see if I could make it play OK (I know how to do a decent setup now) and to tidy it up and make a quick 70-odd quid profit.

Depends on the band - a lot of bands have a revolving-door membership with one or two members being the core of the band. I'm a big fan of Opeth, who had released four or five albums before I discovered them. The current line-up has only two members of the line-up they had when I first saw them and bizarrely, neither of them are actually original members! Mikael Akerfeldt, guitarist, vocalist & sole songwriter, actually joined Opeth as bassist in the band's early days. Completely different situation though if a band's identitiy is entirely dependent on its individual members. I could hardly see, say, Alex Lifeson recruiting a random drummer & bassist and get away with touring as Rush, for example. For me there's a bit of a whiff surrounding current incarnations of bands like Big Country, who tour under that name with only two members of its "classic" lineup, and despite the fact that writer/frontman Stuart Adamson - who in many ways was the band - has been dead for 18 years. That doesn't seem right.

Hmm. Interesting that this bass sold a fortnight ago, and this is a re-list. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Jv-P-Bass/283598948420 Maybe this is why it's relisted - £685 would be reasonable these days for a decent condition JV. If it didn't turn out to be a bitsa.

Lurk around your local car boot for long enough and one will turn up, it'll be £20 and you'll still feel ripped off.

You're all right, but, paradoxically, wrong at the same time. But can we find a way throught this apparent cognitive dissonance? Oh god, if we must, you say. The bass in the pic is a Teisco Del Rey EB110 Tulip, related to, but not identical to the Kay EB100. If you look at the body shape of the Kay, it's not the same & not a "Tulip". This is what the guy in the pic's playing: https://reverb.com/uk/item/196751-teisco-del-rey-eb-110-tulip-31-inch-scale-bass-original-case-1960-s-sunburst The original Teiscos are quite collectable these days (hipsters, I expect) and a lot less common than the Kays, which were sold in every Woolies and your Ma's Kay (obvs) catalogue, somewhere in the pages beyond the ladies underwear section. They are, despite being Taiwanese & not Japanese, sort-of Teiscos, having been made in a factory established by and initially owned by Kawai/Teisco, which made a lot of identical & similar models. There - today you learned something you genuinely never gave a sh!t about.

It's slightly more interesting than the MIJ copies in that it's actually an East German-made Musima - easy to ID from the external heel-end truss adjustment and the curious use of rather high-quality Gotoh Resolite tuners. Here's a somewhat more broken one in Estonia: https://www.osta.ee/en/retro-elektrikitarr-musima-action-bass-35-95632552.html And here's one on UK Ebay, unconvincingly pretending to be a 70s Jazz! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/used-70s-original-electric-bass-guitar-fender-jazz-neck/312771076085 Kingfisher will have been a local importer rebrand - in fact most of these Musimas (Musimae?) turn up unbranded. There were also matching Strat versions too, seen several at my local car boot over the years. As far as the neck's concerned - it might be sortable, with a bit of brute force and a few washers. Get the neck off, manually bend it (brace the head on the floor, bend it back against your knee) and then see if the adjuster will tighten. If not, you should be able to get the adjuster nut off & bung a washer or two under it to give the nut a few more turns. This is an old P copy I had, being (successfully) persuaded to abandon its tendency to forward-bow. Strings are slacked off and it's clamped at the body end, bent back over the neck rest, and out of shot, the head's clamped to the bench to tension the whole thing. Left it like that for 3 days then cranked the truss rod to hold it straight. Sorted! Don't be afraid to flex a neck - it'll bend way further than you expect without breaking. Probably...

Not really clear how the poor soul behind this knockoff brand "couldn't keep pace with demand". I'm pretty confident I could buy a bunch of £90 Harley Bentons, kick them around in the mud a bit and knock out 10 or so of these a week. Easy.

If anyone's interested (which I suspect no-one is, but as usual I'll bang on anyway, sod the lot of you ) this is an East German-made Musima, probably mid-80s. Identifiable from the combination of the protruding truss adjuster, and the odd use of rather classy Gotoh Resolite tuners. Loads of Musimas seem to have been sold unbranded, which as this one shows, makes them a prime candidate for the application of fakey stickers. Dunno if the gen-u-wine Fender screw makes it worth the £77 it's currently bid at.