Brother Jones

For God's sake buy it Chris. Please. When I was a wee lad, the local shop in Epsom had one of the first Tune Bass Maniacs, and one of these in the window.

This is a steal . Come on someone, please buy it before my payday text arrives.

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....

£275 was their original retail price in 1988 IIRC. My dad bought me one when I did alright in my A-levels....

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.

PM'd

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.

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.

So did I. It's certainly a piece of something.

I remember actually giving away a very nice fretless one of these at the end of 2015. Very, very bad move.

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.....

I've owned a factory fretless version of this, and they are fabulous. Oh, sod it, PM'd.

Asymmetric neck?

Seriously, why is this still here?

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.