Budget Lefties

[DGBass]

I don't really get excited by the latest and greatest bass out there these days. I have a main and a backup P-Bass and that does me fine for everything. Saying that, I saw this bass advertised for a ridiculously small amount of money and got very curious about how much lefty bass guitar I could reasonably expect to get for just fifteen quid. Being fretless, or looking fretless, also intruigued me as i've never owned or played a fretless before. So, I picked it up, gave it a good clean and set up to my liking( never actually set up a fretless before either, so just guessed what it should be) and took it along to a rehearshal. The verdict is that this was indeed a lot of bass for the money. It also played really well and I'm now a convert to fretless basses. It also sounded great through my Ashdown MAG 600 straight in with no effects. It's well made, has a slab rosewood finger board that would shame many a Fender, and the pickups are AXL branded EMG Passive J's. Not high output, but have lots of clarity, and are very toneful. All the hardware is sort of generic fendery type stuff, does what it needs to do quite well, and with no fuss or bling and stays in tune and intonates well. I don't know much about these instruments other than they were made between 2001-2005 in China so its at least two decades old. The only real downside so far is that its a tad neck heavy because the body is quite light. It's maybe made of basswood or something similar instead of alder and is slightly thinner than most J basses I've come across. It's certainly a gigglable bass and solidly made.

 

So has anyone else found a budget lefty that's peaked their curiousity, and has turned out to be a diamond in the rough? And giggable?