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    Yep, it's easy to assume a lot more knowledge than is the case Reminds me of when I used to gig my old 4003, the bass player from one of the other bands on the bill, probably in his mid-40s, came up in the break and said "What an amazing looking bass, I've never seen one like that before". "Mate, are you seriously telling me you've never seen Paul McCartney, Lemmy, Bruce Foxton, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, any of those guys, playing one of these?' "No, sorry, and who were those last three......?" I kinda wish I was in that 'Just play my own bass in a band whose music I like blissfully unaware of all the other stuff' space, it would be so much cheaper
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    I didn't say that ply is as good as carved, I said there's nothing inherently wrong with ply. A well designed and constructed instrument made from high quality ply will most likely be superior to a poorly designed and constructed carved bass. OK, ply tends to be used for cheaper instruments, so in many cases the construction is also less rigorous, but that's not a function of ply as a medium/material, and even given this there are some very high quality ply instruments out there 👍
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    It's more likely that eBay are feeling the pain of platforms like Vinted, which pretty much everyone I know is now using for clothes. Re music gear, I used to look at eBay all the time on the off chance of seeing a bargain or rare instrument or piece of studio equipment, but those days are long gone. Ebay seems to be mostly new (or fake) items now, but if I want to buy new eBay is the last place I'd look, you usually get better service and lower prices going straight to the supplier/manufacturer. Ebay is still massive of course, and I doubt is in any sort of trouble, but they're probably getting more massive at a slower rate then their Execs planned for, so I guess they're trying everything
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    OK, doesn't look it's best in tort, but this is a pretty decent instrument that's not only iconic but moving towards vintage. The only thing I think could make it better would be the installation of a John East MMSR preamp with sweepable mids, but other than that, to all intents it has the feel and tone of a nice early Stingray. Do I think it's better than an EBMM Stingray? Certainly better than some I've owned 👍
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    I appear to be running low on file storage but there's a load of photos of the bass on the recent Reverb listing here https://reverb.com/uk/item/83902180-ernie-ball-music-man-sub-bass-4-active-2003-2006-black I'll add a few until my storage is exceeded Back of body in very goo condition Neck played in but still in good shape Some scratches around neck/headstock joint Details plus some inevitable headstock wear for a 20-year old bass Lovely dark board ....and just in case you have a nut fetish
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    Nothing at al wrong with ply unless you're a wood snob 👍
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    We’re all waiting with you @funkle 👍
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    I wouldn’t put a mic inside the bass, there be dragons 👍
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    Brilliant 👍
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    ....which is quite amusing given the review says "Very cool part that you don't have to pay attention to, if it's damaged you go to the car repair shop". That's where I'd always hoped to be able to get my expensive musical instruments fixed, the car repair shop 🤔
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    This ^ And to reinforce Jack's point, the action is (implied to be) high to excessively high but with no obvious means of lowering it given it's a fixed height and composite bridge. Taking that to a standard wooden instrument luthier will be like taking a Landrover Discovery to your local MOT garage, they're either going to rub their hands with glee at the projected income or make a complete mess of it. Or both
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    All of that plus I'd be concerned that I'd struggle to find a tech/luthier to work on a composite instrument, from the tech's POV wood's easy and forgiving material, composite less so 👍
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    Fender aren't alone after all
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    I think you're overestimating their ability to play psychological games in the marketplace (which would anyway amount to Russian Roulette), and underestimating the level of hard-wired groupthink in Fender. Much as the engineers at Apple used to be somewhere between tears and hysteria at the unveiling of a new model that was at best an incremental improvement on the previous model, the folks at Fender see this Innovation Series as innovation plain and simple. I imagine there's a sign placed directly over the entrance to the Fender Boardroom, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it....'.
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    Yes, certainly there were production models from the early 80s and several models since, notably IMO a lovely recent Jazz Bass with ebony neck, blocks and binding (although I forget the model)
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    Do you have pics of all the basses Andy....?
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    Fair point, not unlike the Ric 5'er or EBMM shortie then? It's probably worth calibrating our expectations of Fender by comparison with what is (or has been) considered innovative in the case of other instruments? Double bass for example, um, graphite end-pin? Acoustic guitar, bowl backs? Drums, um..........?
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    Legend 🙏
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    Or Ford 👍
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    I don't disagree Dan 👍
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    Agreed 100% unless they’re using a strict click to record and OP is not used to playing to one 👍
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    Do you know which PUP and circuit they are Dan? As I mentioned the other day, I'm planning to out-innovate Fender on this with a Jazz body routed for MM PUP and a Status Graphite Jazz neck; it'll sit somewhere between the Modulus Flea and the Fender Active Flea Jazz sig you have - give it 5-years and Fender will release it as the Beedster Signature model 👍
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    Sell it to me, it'll make it feel better 👍
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    @david1711 apologies as I'm guessing my comments were not entirely helpful given the above. If it's any consolation, I was working under the impression that my old Jazz neck was also original for quite a long time, IIRC it was @wateroftyne who pointed out my error, which set me to researching what seemed to me at the time the rather surprising history of fretless instruments at Fender; specifically that with the exception of a couple of prototypes, there no factory fretless Jazz Basses until the mid-late 80's, and I think even then they were MIJ. Given that - certainly as far as bassists were concerned - one of the most iconic Fender instruments of the 70's/80's was Jaco's Jazz, it struck me as odd. Anyway, following brief PM chat with @BassBod I was looking for some info about my old neck yesterday evening and came across a post by @AndyTravis from years back indicating that he'd worked on what sounded like an identical neck (i.e., early 70's bound Jazz Bass neck with replacement fretless ebony board), so I'm guessing there are at least two of them out there. Re the similarity, I guess it's possible that the split in the binding at the heel is part and parcel of getting the binding off to replace the board...? Anyway, your neck looks to be in exceptional condition as well as nicely done, all the best with the sale. A neck of similar quality and specification from Warmoth would probably come in at a higher price than you're asking for a lovely vintage piece with a whole lot of mojo and history. Apologies again for the derail 👍
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