Hmm...I'm not sure about this one.

[TheGreek]

Firstly the name on the headstock "Easton"?? is not dissimilar to the seller's username - could he be the "lutheir"?

 

Now he doesn't give any indication what the main parts are. As well an the pickups being from a 70s Hondo could the neck and body be too?? 

 

"aged by hand in the UK" - how was this managed? Could this have happen naturally - by neglect, let's say?

 

I'm not giving him my £600 anyway.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404272918398?hash=item5e208b2f7e:g:9PIAAOSw6F9kSYKH&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4BfhXtsGa48RqDX0XmKat6GTuWFZk4DzMhv3JCIdNpqNpL3yNyus6kyW4sQPgeowIg4bdYxF%2BCOksSSRKRotX8uhyOh742SkJknL%2BwGZ%2FCJNqmxJRE3nGODkauit9wZ2pXX%2BymFIFhKcrs74JrRMotXHIxF8cyvWIhOxKcQKSYXYS5M63ootHbYJbXgQ7OBId6YYYH7HQYcvIQZ8sWdoHm6m2ab1DMbex0EzG3zS4Cp7spte1mE%2FH13qzAb1%2FZLU%2Fpkzr6e%2FAVa5ijDVZ445OJgBAcmFkhTYmN0CV2dRNCLi|tkp%3ABk9SR4623Mj9YQ

[tauzero]

It was built by a lutheir though. A heir to lut? Their lu? It's a mystery.

[Waddo Soqable]

Says make an offer, 60 quid? 

[yorks5stringer]

'I' before 'e' except after 'c'

[TheGreek]

Tell that to Keith from Leicester

[Waddo Soqable]

[Bassassin]

I am sure about it - it's a piece of sh!t bitsa (a 'sh!tsa', maybe) with a ghastly obvious-fake relic finish.

 

The pickup's unlikely to be from a 'Japanese Hondo' as the overwhelming majority were Korean, & the occasional MIJ example would probably have had actual Dimarzios. Which I'm sure the listing would mention! So I'm saying cheap, new, probably Chinese body & neck; glued-on fretboard (no skunk stripe) & slightly wonky headstock shape. And touches like the chewed-up pozis holding the ashtrays on (meaning no pics of the apparently awesome pickup or hardware) are reassuringly professional, arent they? 👍

 

This is the same seller trying to fob off an MIJ 'Fairytale' (70s Swiss dealer brand) Jazz copy as something it's really not, and whose completed items contain things (which all have awful, fakey, grimy-looking relic refins) that sometimes do not quite appear to match their decriptions.

 

[Waddo Soqable]

Laughable really, when you consider what you could go out and buy with your 600 quid.. 

[dyerseve]

On 06/05/2023 at 13:29, yorks5stringer said:

'I' before 'e' except after 'c'

Except that there are more exclusions to that rule than there are inclusions...

[tauzero]

On 06/05/2023 at 12:29, yorks5stringer said:

'I' before 'e' except after 'c'

 

A weird rule to seize on.

[warwickhunt]

I can't find it in the BC Marketplace but I'm fairly sure that was for sale on here recently... maybe this thread forced him to delete it?  

[yorks5stringer]

On 06/05/2023 at 12:29, yorks5stringer said:

'I' before 'e' except after 'c'

Many who know me as 'Keith' will attest to my ironic use of the phrase above....

[Ralf1e]

If you look at his feedback he magaged to sell this some time ago

fender 51 precision bass Mike Dirnt Signature Series and Gig Bag. (#403526555673)

Buyer: 4***6 (1034)

£525.00