Bass ID please

[thepurpleblob]

What is Miss Natasha "Bat for Lashes" Kahn playing in this picture.... any offers?

Edited April 10, 2009 by thepurpleblob

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

didn't 'bass collection' basses have headstocks like that?

[Shockwave]

From the headstock, looks like a Bass Collection bass.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

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[RhysP]

Bass collection or possibly a Tune Bass Maniac (which the bass collection basses were modelled after).

[thepurpleblob]

[quote name='RhysP' post='459642' date='Apr 10 2009, 09:47 PM']Tune Bass Maniac.[/quote]

If that isn't the best name for a bass guitar ever then I don't know what is

[Paul_C]

or even a Maison, which was a "Squier/Epiphone" Bass Collection-a-like, as far as I recall (I had an orange one)

[TheRev]

I don't think it's a Bass Collection - they don't have position markers on the fretboard.

I reckon it's a Tune of some sort.

[Zoe_BillySheehan]

[quote name='TheRev' post='459680' date='Apr 10 2009, 10:56 PM']I don't think it's a Bass Collection - they don't have position markers on the fretboard.

I reckon it's a Tune of some sort.[/quote]

yeah the Tune basses do have the fret markers.

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[Zoe_BillySheehan]

and is it just me..or does it look like the headstock might not be rounded at the top?
maybe just the light reflecting off it if a funny way...

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[leschirons]

[quote name='TheRev' post='459680' date='Apr 10 2009, 09:56 PM']I don't think it's a Bass Collection - they don't have position markers on the fretboard.

I reckon it's a Tune of some sort.[/quote]

I agree.

[thisnameistaken]

Definitely a Tune or a Bass Collection. I'm sure I've seen Bass Collection basses with dot markers in the past, they flooded the budget market in the early '90s back when I gave a sh*t about basses, I've seen a lot of them. Did Ibanez build them? They always reminded me of Ibanez basses.

Bass Collection seems more likely, given the number of them in circulation over here compared to Tune basses.

[Russ]

It's a Maison. Basically a low-rent version of a Bass Collection. The headstock on the Maison is a little squarer and pointier than the BC or Tune ones, but the main identifying mark (the logo on the upper bout) appears to be covered over with gaffa tape.

I've played a couple. Horrible, horrible things.

[LukeFRC]

dont think so russ, the headstock on the maison looks wider and the upper horn fatter.
i think it looks a lot like this
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=44886&hl=bass+collection"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=44886&hl=bass+collection ://http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?sho...ass+collection [/url]

[warwickhunt]

[quote name='Russ' post='459785' date='Apr 11 2009, 04:59 AM']It's a Maison. Basically a low-rent version of a Bass Collection. The headstock on the Maison is a little squarer and pointier than the BC or Tune ones, but the main identifying mark (the logo on the upper bout) appears to be covered over with gaffa tape.

I've played a couple. Horrible, horrible things.

[/quote]

IIRC Tune basses also had a logo in exactly the same place as those Maison basses.

[EdwardHimself]

It could well be one of those shine basses that seem to go down a treat on ebay.



As you can see, many of the identifying markers are the same, such as the headstock shape and the fretboard. I seem to remember the nut being of a similar crudeness from when i actually owned the thing.

Edited April 11, 2009 by EdwardHimself

[molan]

I'm not sure it's a Tune.

The tuner spacing on Tune Bass Maniac looks different to me A&D tuners very close & almost horizontally aligned:

Edited April 11, 2009 by molan