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  1. I hope someone can help with this. I've been scouring the net for one of these- needs to be a white one with the t bird logo- to no avail. I've looked for that Aurora projects lot that have been recommended on here in the past, but they seem to have disappeared.
    Any ideas anyone?
    Many thanks
    Stuart

  2. I recently bought one of their 'Cats Eyes' branded acoustic six strings, which is Chinese, and I have to say it's a belting instrument. Cost less than £150 IIRC. The precision in the link a couple of posts above is about £850, at todays exchange rate (which is very poor) an off-the-shelf Maruszczyk Jake is about £820. Does anyone have one of each? Which is the better buy?

  3. Ahh, house insurance. I had a similar incident a couple of years ago with an acoustic. Tripped, dropped it, buggered up the bottom bout and the binding. The repair plus refinish came in at a rather unpleasant £900. My insurance company, fair play to them, settled very quickly. When I came to renew the next year I found my premium had gone up by..erm..£600 because of the claim...bit of a bummer really...insurance companies, you think they work for you because you pay them. Mmmmmmm.....

  4. Jesus Christ. In 1983 I bought a no name precision copy which some enterprising previous owner had a: Lovingly hand painted a 'Fender' logo on the headstock and b: added a second pickup. This second pickup was a rather agricultural device, which looked- to my untutored eye at least- like a six inch nail with some copper wire wrapped around it. The tone it produced (when engaged by means of a light switch attached to the scratch plate), could best be described as challenging. Not in a good way.
    That was £95. There was nothing else to be had locally for less than £200, which was a lot of money back then.
    So here we are in 2017, and you can buy a bass of this quality, Japanese made, in good nick, for the same price £ for £.
    Quite astonishing. GLWTS. Lovely bass for someone.

  5. [quote name='Shabbs' timestamp='1487682609' post='3241758']
    Perhaps no 2nd chance offers because he's bidding with a second account?
    [/quote]
    Controversial.....I have to say though, that bit in the listing about 'checking notes with a scanner' is a bit mental. I'm sure buying secondhand basses is not organised crimes route of choice for passing counterfeit cash.

  6. [quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1486512379' post='3232464']
    That does sound interesting, I prefer the older brighter sounding pickups!


    [/quote]How come Gibson never managed to do this? It beggars belief.

  7. In 1983 I bought my first bass, from a music shop in Cardiff. It was a Precision 'copy'- and I use the term in it's loosest possible sense- which some enterprising previous owner had lovingly painted a fairly passable 'Fender ' logo on the headstock. Possibly the same enterprising former owner had added a second pickup near the bridge. The pickup looked remarkably like a six inch nail with some copper wire wrapped around it. It was £95. There was nothing else within £120 of this, and I had £100, which had taken me AGES to save.
    Thirty four years later, this is £85 and actually looks like quite a nice bass.
    Globalisation can't be all bad, eh?

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