Beedster

KT88s?

That’s a very kind offer @itu 🙏

@itu @AndyTravis @Shaggy @Misdee @Cosmo Valdemar @Mickeyboro @OliverBlackman many thanks for your posts, much appreciated 👍 There is a lot of anger tied up in this, and yes there shouldn't be and I need to let that go. There are at least two faults with the circuit, one of which leads to it completely cutting out occasionally, so it's not usable in a band situation as is. The other is that the mid circuit doesn't work through more than around 20% of it's range which is frustrating as one of the things that really attarcted me to this bass was some comments online about how powerful that function/circuit is on stage. To be confident that I have a reliable bass I suspect it's going to need a replacement Status circuit at the very least, and I don't think they stock the circuit in question (and Rob has suggested that they're not taking in repair work at present). But this stuff happens, the anger is not that, it's that the seller has simply refused to respond in any meaningful way, refusing to make any contribution towards making it right (and I suspect we're looking at a few hundred quid here at least). I made a partial claim of a couple of hundred pounds through Reverb which he simply rejected without comment, so I then made a full claim, in part in the hope that when confronted with a reversal of the deal and full refund he might at least engage. However I'm starting to realise out that while eBay tend to side with the buyer, Reverb's process is tortuous and illogical and appears designed to put buyers off claiming for damage/not as described etc 😡 Sadly I'm going to think twice about using Reverb in future also

Thanks Andy 🙏

Agreed, I'm talking to Rob but I'm not sure I should be shelling out for a new circuit and installation (as well as travel costs and time) having been told by the seller it was all working fine and having since been completely blanked by him. His name's going on this site if he doesn't change his mind, he's a bass guitar dealer on Reverb....

I’m shedding a skin or two at present, so suspect my two 70’s Fenders will be on their way soon. They’re both beautiful, unique, outstanding instruments, but…..

There's a few on this forum that started low and are getting lower?

Over-inflated market meets under-inflated economy I've been grappling (yes I'm that sad) with the instrumental/emotional dichotomy of late, in part driven by being forced to use a £300 bitsa Precision that I quite literally had to put together the same day at a rehearsal last week and finding it not unequal to my '73, in part due to playing a full Status Graphite instrument and getting a taste for what a bass really can be in terms of engineering and technology (and that's not Fender by a long shot), and in part trying to be a decent Dad and not tie up shit loads of money in stuff that doesn't really matter. And once again I can't help feeling we're all antique collectors

Prices are coming down, I'd call that optimistic

Sadly this is going to have to go back to the seller, I mentioned some issues with the circuit above, and it's transpired they're slightly more substantial than I initially thought, plus it seems that - according to Rob at Status - the circuit in question is likely not the original (which might explain why it doesn't work). Sadly the seller has adopted a "f*** off, you bought it" approach to negotiations and is not prepared to meet me half way on the cost of fixing the problem, so I have no real choice 😡

I agree, most are easy to spot, but that's true of all deception really. But given in nearly areas of art, engineering, tech, where there are a small number of fakes that even experts struggle to find the flaws that determine it's not the real deal, there must be at least a couple of 'bad Nash/bad Limelight' type luthiers out there?

I often wonder how many of the basses out there are fake, despite the owners believing that they’re 100% genuine. Copying, as well as relicing/aging are now so easy to do, and the impulsivity and emotionality of many buyers of vintage instruments means that we often accept very limited evidence when buying a ‘dream’ instrument ?

You can bet there’s a lot more out there than those Gibsons

None of it was your fault or your responsibility mate. Frankly he’s an idiot, not so much for messing it up in the first place which can happen, but for not having made good since, which might have allowed me (and BC) to see it as a random deviation from normal service as opposed to a warning sign of how deep down he views his customers and his professional responsibilities 😕

Well I hope a BC member saw it, jumped, finds it's the real deal, and gets an early Xmas present 👍

Live and studio, two different worlds 👍 Defo FL or FL-alike in the studio, very un-Clayton either way

The Troubles on Songs of Innocence sounds very fretless to me?

......and if it is genuine, I imagine it will resurface at a significantly higher price in the near future 👍

That's the truth 👍

Well, they did, as per the two in the Geddy Lee book 👍 But yes, it's a mystery bass, I'd didn;t take too close a look at it just assumed it was modified to a greater or lesser degree 👍