What's this???

[TheGreek]

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Guitar-/330785205179?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4d0455abbb#ht_500wt_1288"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-Guitar-/330785205179?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item4d0455abbb#ht_500wt_1288[/url]

[ash]

It's a Watkins or Wilson Sapphire. I'm going to have a bid as I did own one years ago and it had a nice neck. These were well made instruments but the pickups were comparatively weak compared to US basses. A shortcoming common to several UK guitar manufacturers in the 60s and 70s.

[oldslapper]

That is the coolest bass I've seen for a while.
Action looks like you'll need to get a bus to the fretboard, so probably not suitable for a beginner. But, worth a punt Ash, even if you need to do some work on the truss rod, which may be fine anyway!

John

[Mr. Foxen]

Vintage wavy grovers are prob worth most of that.

[TheGreek]

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It's a Watkins or Wilson Sapphire. I'm going to have a bid as I did own one years ago and it had a nice neck. These were well made instruments but the pickups were comparatively weak compared to US basses. A shortcoming common to several UK guitar manufacturers in the 60s and 70s.
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Did you win this?? Went for £82...not a great deal for quite a nice looking bass...

[ash]

No I had a maximum price that I put on it, I think it would have needed a lot of work and these come up fairly frequently at a reasonable price in better condition.