A new purchase means that something has to go, plus I temporarily have a carton suitable for posting a bass. This bass is a classic example of how there are no longer any 'bad basses'. Although a cheap bass originally and now being sold at a very knock-down price, this is as playable & reliable as most other basses and sounds like ... well, like a Thunderbird. You'd be hard put to tell this (sonically) from an Ibanez or even a Greco. Sad to relate, I now play almost exclusively 5-