bigsmokebass

sick story mahn, would hate that to happen to me, like my old man says; dont marry haha. really digging this mahn, honour me dibs if you come to sell this =D

kudos i think if they stopped the highway one series, put the badass bridge on this series (imo). £600-650 would be more than worth it. if anything it feels like a real top end MIM.

i just find the quality of stock materials on the licensed fender, gibson, musicman. . . . products hardly ever match or represent the origional to many degrees. i have tried the squier 51 bass and can confirm this to my fender model, fact?! nothing stopping people souping these up over time to make them sound decent but straight away it [i]could[/i] cost you almost as much as a used origional. the likes of fenders, gibsons and all the rest are sound investments for live, recording, collecting and even selling as you often get more back than you baught it for. im not saying this is for every case as im sure people do have the time and money to make these guitars sound as accurate as possible and sometimes these licensed products have a tone and feel of thier own making them unique: tokai for 1 example. i've always, upto now, baught the real things as you know what your getting than cheap imatations that dont tend to live up to thier predecessors IMO. [i]lol not looking for arguements, just what i've experienced and my opinions =) [/i] [b]BSB[/b] edit: take the rickenbacker for example, worth just abit over £1000 3 years back, worshipped as a rock solid bass and now today can sell for almost double. whats happening to some of these knock offs that dont sound as good? sell for about half thier rrp if lucky lol XD

i suppose you could soup up a squier, no problem with that but it still wont be a fender or sound near enough as good. whether due to my height and size, i dont find much discomfort with the bass, not forgetting i have a 3" strap. i think for a discontinued bass which does have excellent condition, no mods or missing parts and you dont mind shipping local, national and abroad, then there is alot more money to be made than £450, especially now with the new 51 squier out reaching around £300!! i dont want to fill you with false hope as at the end of the day it all comes down to alot of things, who you sell it to being one.

imo. all origional and good condition, £600 isnt impossible as long as you know how to sell ;-)

i love my 51, got mine new for £450 and it feels like a million pound instead. i wanna be burried with it hahaha. one problem i had was my cat knocking it off the stand and f***ed both the pickup and electronics up- very delicate! if it helps, ive played reggae to funk to heavy metal on it and sounded mint with the SD Basslines replacement though with a big enough strap you dont feel the weight so much. [b]BSB[/b]

i have to admit im a sucker for the mex 50's and will be getting one soon myself. nuff said ;-)

never had a ricky or tried seymours on one but i got some SD basslines on my 51 and on my prev musicman and always sworn by them as the best sounds for bass :-)

didnt feel like £800 worth to me but i have rich taste and quite often too picky for my own good. felt like the headstock has shrunk too O.o

First Bass: Westfield Precision copy Go to: EB Musicman Stingray5 My bass: Gibson Les Paul Standard

not a great simpsons fan but thats awesome work B-) ritter always tend to make odd 'sci-fi' basses but i bet they play and feel like a dream