Finally found a Fender Katana Bass

[elom]

So my ebay search for "Fender Katana Bass" normally sits there idle year after year. Then today I get a notification email. Like a twitch on a moribund fisherman's line, I click the link and dive in.

Then I realise a) that it's the Squier version and it's that mad German bloke!

Oh well, maybe next year...

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120406532057"]Ebay Link[/url]

[aj5string]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-Katana-Bass_W0QQitemZ110376077128QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item110376077128&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-Katana-Bass_W...%3A1|240%3A1318[/url]

What about that one?

Other than the paint job of course...

[elom]

[quote name='aj5string' post='463326' date='Apr 15 2009, 07:22 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-Katana-Bass_W0QQitemZ110376077128QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item110376077128&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Squier-Katana-Bass_W...%3A1|240%3A1318[/url]

What about that one?

Other than the paint job of course...[/quote]

Even with that paint job, that's a very good price for a rare Squier. I'm looking for the Fender version though but thanks for flagging this. Wonder why I didn't get an ebay email about it?

[elom]

and 18 months later and still not even a sniff of a Fender Katana - I'm beginning to think that they never existed!

[willyf87]

not to rub salt in the wound but I'm sure i saw a squier one on ebay a couple of weeks ago, wasn't the original colour I don't think.

[Shockwave]

[quote name='Johnston' post='985006' date='Oct 11 2010, 10:55 PM']Was there ever a fender one??[/quote]

Yup!

I had an old squier Katana guitar a long time ago, Japanese squier and only cost £100! Had all the playability of an early Jap squier, just in a pointy shape!

[bigjohn]

I've got a 6 string squire Katana if anyone wants to take it off my hands in return for some cash...

[Annoying Twit]

At present there are four listings for Squier Katana basses up on ebay. But, if you look at the photos, there are only two distinct photos between those four listings. Dunno what that is about. The starting prices are not cheap, but not outrageously expensive compared to other Japanese Squiers, so I presume it's not the German "Bloke" (*)

[url="http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=katana+bass&_sacat=See-All-Categories"]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trk...-All-Categories[/url]

(*) I typically use a much stronger word in my private thoughts, but that might be inappropriate in the forum.

Edited October 12, 2010 by Annoying Twit

[stu_g]

i have a squier katana guitar i bought recently off the bay, i remember back in the 80s going to the soho soundhouse new years sale i went to buy a bass but the ones i wanted had gone so i came away with a fender katana guitar which i think cost about £150 sold it to a schoolmate shortly after

[stu_g]

i think the other post may be correct though i dont think they ever made a proper fender japan katana bass
i know they made a guitar but im not sure there ever was a bass just the squier one
heres some info here: [url="http://uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2010/08/fender-katana.html"]http://uniqueguitar.blogspot.com/2010/08/fender-katana.html[/url]

[Delberthot]

[quote name='Johnston' post='985391' date='Oct 12 2010, 09:48 AM']MMMM! A Fender one now I already want a Squier now where's that new simley oh yes

so whats the craic with this German "bloke"???[/quote]


He sells sh*te at vastly inflated prices but we reckon its a ruse so that people will check out his parts (ooer missus) and buy them instead

[Annoying Twit]

[quote name='Delberthot' post='985617' date='Oct 12 2010, 12:33 PM']He sells sh*te at vastly inflated prices but we reckon its a ruse so that people will check out his parts (ooer missus) and buy them instead [/quote]

He also sells very nice things at vastly inflated prices. I don't know how it works out, as surely he must pay a few pounds (or euros) for each listing, and if you look through his history, he has listed hundreds of instruments which received no bids. Perhaps the one instrument he sells per year or so garners him enough profit to make up for all the others.

[Annoying Twit]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='985325' date='Oct 12 2010, 08:55 AM']At present there are four listings for Squier Katana basses up on ebay. But, if you look at the photos, there are only two distinct photos between those four listings. Dunno what that is about.[/quote]

[quote]hi, don't be put off - ebay were doing a free listing day and so I have listed my guitars twice to maximise there exposure - should the guitar sell in the first sale then the second will be canceled. Cheers,[/quote]

It's irrelevant as my purchasing budget is zeroed. But, to be honest, I would still be put off. Not exactly fair for those bidding in the second auction.

[Shambo]

back from the dead....

I searched katana and this came up. Rather than make a new thread, I thought I'd add it here, just because they don't come up very often.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Katana-Bass-precision-p-jazz-rare-Japan-made-Squier-collectable-vintage-/150807953962?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item231cdac22a

[TheGreek]

The OP hasn't been active here since July last year - I wonder if he's seen the ad on eBay..

[SidVicious1978]

i love them are the short scale

[Gust0o]

Well, it's a year later... and I must have knocked my Ebay settings off, somehow, as I no longer seem to see any ads from that German sh*tebag.

[the boy]

[quote name='Shambo' timestamp='1336152586' post='1641884']
back from the dead....

I searched katana and this came up. Rather than make a new thread, I thought I'd add it here, just because they don't come up very often.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Katana-Bass-precision-p-jazz-rare-Japan-made-Squier-collectable-vintage-/150807953962?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item231cdac22a
[/quote]
The guy selling this is our old mate shippers the "Swansea sander" he has relaunched his career under an assumed identity. Nice guitar though it was probably nicer before he had a bash.