EdwardMarlowe

Have to admit, I dismissed them as 'yet another budget line' when I first saw them, but that was before I encountered a Vintage SG copy that a friend had.... fantastic guitar, very much on a par with the Epiphone G400 (which I rate highly), but at a fraction of the price. I'm actually very tempted by one of those, even though I don't have any real call for an SG type.... Overall, I think they're hard to be for the money and certainly you need to spend a fair bit more to better them. Really solid, working instruments. I did look to them for a P Bass project recently, but unfortunately they don't seem to do a maple board as an option (at least, not left handed anyhow) - a deal breaker for me.

[quote name='Soloshchenko' post='592543' date='Sep 7 2009, 11:06 PM']$187 delivered so just under £115 but I'm fairly sure that is without tax or duty or whatever so I'll probabaly get invoiced for that soon. I'll let you know.[/quote] Tax works like this: they'll charge you VAT on the total price (including the shipping, which annoys me), then on top of that total you'll pay 4.5% import tax. You also have to watch out for the fact that often they take the dollar figure - in this case the 187 - and treat that as if it was [i]pounds[/i] in calculating the tax. Worth challenging, I think, if they do that. You could just be lucky, though - I've seen it happen. Any time I've had to pay duty before, Parcelforce have paid it all upfront, and then they won't hand over to me before I pay out for the cost (including, of course, some rip-off "handling fee" of about £15). That they haven't charged you this and you have it to hand means you may have been lucky - customs don't pick up just everything. Maybe the folks at Rondo er, wrote something on the package which, you know, led customs to think it was a gift orf commercial sample or other non taxable? not that I'd ever suggest an upstanding company would do anything naughty like that. Happens occasionally, though! Looks like a really nice bass.... have to admit, I'd bed tempted if they do a lefty. I really love the look of the Squier CV P Bass, but no dice on the left handed front, alas.

If it has to be one bass and one bass only, then make it a P Bass for me. Specifically, a 57 style with the maple board. I'm [i]so[/i] over rosewood on F-style anything.... partly my own preference for 50s aesthetics, and partly that it's all you ever see below a certain price point nowadays, esepcially if you're a lefty like me. Eventually, I'd like to have a couple of fairly whacky, retro things. I [i]love[/i] the bass version Eastwood do of the Jack White Airplane guitar, but three or four P bass types are on the list first!

Hi.... new London member here. Discovered this forum via something someone posted on HarmonyCentral.com, and it seemed like a useful thing, being UK based. I'm a rather poor guitar play, and have been playing guitar rather poorly since December 1991. Following the odd foray with a borrowed bass, I bought my own first bass in 2001, a Squier P Bass Special. Bought my own in large part, in the end, because being left handed borrowing one here and there is rarely an option. I've been considering taking lessons for the first time, on both guitar and bass, for a while.... I'd be grand in a punk setting (I have the DeeDee Ramone approach on bass especially nailed ), but being rather too old and fat now for bondage trousers, I'm on the rockabilly-retirement plan, and I'd love to be a lot more competent in that genre. I'm also interested in taking my bass playing somewhat more seriously than simply as a get-by 'second instrument'. In terms of basses, I currently have the aforementioned Squier, and an early, Mk I (82/83) Westone Thunder IA. My tastes these days are very different in bass, though - really, all I want is a 57 style maple boarded P Bass or three.... one each in black, CAR, LPB, Surf Green, and an as yet to be finalised custom design. I don't ask for much, eh? Heh. The Westone will be being sold soon to fund something P bassish (possibly from Brandoni; my choice is limited being left handed and wanting a maple board - were they available I'd be all over the Squier CV series P bass like a rash), while the Squier I plan to part out and part canibalise as a donor guitar.... I'm on the lookout for a decent, used P bass body (Squier upwards...), and a maple boarded neck, with the plan to use the pup and other bits from the Squier to build my own Pbass project. Toyed with the idea of just fitting a maple neck in the Squier, and that might also be realistic... would certainly save on the need for a body... hmmn. There's just something about the simplicity of a regular P Bass design, though, as opposed to having that extra pup in there. My bass amp du jour is a Vox T-25, which sounds superb with a P-Bass pup pluggedc into it. I also have my eye on one of the new, tweedy Fender Bassman TV range.... potentially the 150W model. Doubt I could plug the 350W in in my flat, though it does have the attractive options of either a 1x15 or 2x10, where the 150w is 1x10 or 1x12 only.... mmn. So, uh, yeah.... interesting forum...