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  1. Brother Jones started following Zon Sonus fretless 4 string - *WITHDRAWN* , Ibanez 1991 SR1000PN - Purple Flipflop Neon! *TRADE ADDED* , Hohner The Jack bass and 7 others
  2. Brother Jones
    In my experience, these early Soundgears are among the best MIJ basses in existence; right up there with early 80s Arias or Tunes. Yes, the necks are remarkable, as are the electronics and the PUPs (those are genuine low impedance active PUPs). I owned an SR1000 and an SR800 at the start of the 90s and really should not have moved them on. Now actively considering where I can dredge £500 from....
  3. Brother Jones
    £275 was their original retail price in 1988 IIRC. My dad bought me one when I did alright in my A-levels....
  4. Brother Jones
    IME these were extremely well-made. I never got round to owning one, but every one I tried (including one in Leed's own Music Ground in 1990 or thereabouts) was supremely playable. Oddly rare.
  5. Brother Jones
    PM'd
  6. Brother Jones
    My memory of the Thunder 1A is that the three pots are volume, passive tone, active tone. The switches are active/passive and either a coil tap or a series/parallel. From the logos, that is a relatively late one.
  7. Brother Jones
    I thought it was my old one too - but, from memory, mine had a mid-shift switch, and this one doesn't have the wood grain (which you could only see quite close up). We might be talking about the same bass. In any case, these are possibly the best fretless basses ever made IMHO (ACG being the others). have to confess I'm tempted.
  8. Brother Jones
    So did I. It's certainly a piece of something.
  9. Brother Jones
    I remember actually giving away a very nice fretless one of these at the end of 2015. Very, very bad move.
  10. Brother Jones
    As a bassist of a certain age, the second hand market on BC can be utterly incredible VFM, and this is perhaps its most extreme example. And yes, I really do miss my fretless Recurve.....
  11. Brother Jones
    I've owned a factory fretless version of this, and they are fabulous. Oh, sod it, PM'd.
  12. Brother Jones
    Asymmetric neck?
  13. Brother Jones
    Seriously, why is this still here?
  14. Brother Jones
    It was a bargain - because, yes, I wanted a quick sale. Frankly, it's worth a lot more even than is being asked for here. I suspect I'd prefer this to an NYC Sadowsky 5, for example, and certainly to a Metro.
  15. Brother Jones
    I suspect there is a really serious strategic problem for companies like Fender. One analogy is hifi equipment. One of Britain's most famous hifi brands, Naim Audio, makes integrated amps, preamps and power amps that they have been able to service over the years. As a result, their entire output for several decades is still out there doing great service, with a thriving second hand market. Fender have similar issues. If your products are good enough that they don't end up as landfill - or the opposite, actually appreciate in value - sooner or later that is going to affect your new product. If you know what you're doing in either case, buying new makes less and less sense as the years go by. This is especially true in sectors where either technology has simply ceased to deliver something that is of greater value (possibly the case with hifi amps), or where the vintage nature of the product is the secret to its appreciation (Fender basses).
  16. Brother Jones
    I owned this, and it's absolutely lovely. Really should not have let it go.
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