Interesting Fortress Flashback copy

[lemmywinks]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111600725085

Not seen one like this before, in fact I've never seen a Warwick Fortress copy before let alone the Flashback! Looks quite solid but with generic parts, fair few watchers too.

[wotsy]

I'm one of the watchers 👀 nice lookin bass.

[Bassassin]

There were quite a few of these knocking about a few years back - I actually remember these "Flying" brand things being on Ebay. There was another brand (the name escapes me but there's a thread about them buried somewhere in the Ebay topic) who were trying to flog these as some sort of hand-made US originals, with a 4-figure price tag. Chancers!

And I actually had one similar to the "Flying" - think I bought it right here. Can't remember the name (might have been a no-brand) but it was OK, not great, and could've done with a fret dress:

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Jon.

[lemmywinks]

I should have known you'd had one at some point!

I'm watching it out of interest, can't gig a 4 nowadays.

[Bassassin]

[quote name='Moi' timestamp='1425569040' post='2708708']
There was another brand (the name escapes me but there's a thread about them buried somewhere in the Ebay topic) who were trying to flog these as some sort of hand-made US originals, with a 4-figure price tag. Chancers!
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...And quite randomly, I found the thread in question - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/3046-dcmontana-fakes/page__view__findpost__p__33226"]DC Montana, they were called[/url].

J.