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Brought a Bass from Dave , Super nice guy, great comms keep me informed at all steps, he allowed me to send him a box + some packing then let me arrange collection even though his pref was for collection in person. Bass is as described/pictured and was a total bargain, Super, Smashing, Great. Cheers Steve

I guess so. Still: super strange that anyone would put a 1977 logo w/ serial on a '74 neck after refinishing. I've never seen anything even remotely like that before. But, other than that: it still looks like a very nice and you obviously knew very well what you were purchasing. So: enjoy it

I suspect your strong and consistent sense of fair play has been challenged mate, but given that, my reading of the ad - and the asking price - was very much 'This is NOT an all original mid-'70s Fender by a long stretch....'. Enjoy the playing 👍

Thanks for the comments guys. Lots of helpful stuff and some not so. I want to reiterate - I went into this purchase fully aware that it's a parts bass. I wasn't looking for anyone to tell me I had a bargain, I just wanted to know if anyone had ever seen a neck like this before. I do know quite a lot about vintage stuff myself, so am fully aware that the lack of a three bolt attachment/bullet truss rod makes this unlikely to be a '77 neck. It's not a precision neck that's been reshaped (they never had blocks and binding); I'm going to guess that the most likely explanation is that it's a '74 neck that had the wrong decal/stamps put on when it was refinished. I also didn't pay the full asking price. I got a decent discount. I didn't buy it because I wanted a vintage bass and have bought into some kind of dream. I've tried before to get a decent sounding '70s Jazz with Japanese reissues and AVRIs, but never got there - they always sounded a bit too thin/hollow compared to really good '70s ones. Before buying this I tried out basses at Bass Direct, Andy Baxter, Wunjo and ATB. the only one which was comparable was the Mocha '77 at Wunjo. I already knew the bridge was aftermarket. I have a spare '70S Pure Vintage one I can put on it. Maybe you think I paid to much for essentially a bunch of parts, and with perseverance perhaps I could have assembled my own for less money, but there'd be no guarantee what it would sound like. I put together a P bass with Musikraft/Guitar Build parts recently, and there wasn't much change from £1500 with all modern parts. Don't worry about it being a dud - the dud would be the all original '78 in white I also tried at the Gallery . Much prettier, but it sounded absolutely dead. And I'm not going to stick a 1974 logo/serial on it and sell it for double the price as all original, don't worry on that score.

I wasn’t patient enough to wait the 40 or so days they take to make them 🤣

OK that was fun

"Burns"?

Think a chat with Mojo might be in order. They do some really cool looking stuff so will see what we can come up with.

The main reason why I wouldn't buy a genuine vintage bass, as much as I might fancy one!

Except nobody told this person it was a genuine, original vintage bass. When I bought my 1970 Jazz and found out it needed a refret, the elcetronics were trash and it needed a few hundred euros of repairs, now thát was a moment where I was upset.

Honestly, I can’t believe nobody else is as upset as me that a bass player has potentially been sold a dud here. To me it’s all part of the murky, messy world of vintage basses. Off to play some now rather than bang on about it.

voting is now being served , steak a claim while you can , well done

A440 tuning fork for at home, keyboard at band practice/gigs. I still have one. I can reach it from where I'm sitting. I tap it and listen to it from time to time.

We have some more mooosic for you After an outright winner was declared for January, @upside downer was over the moon with having the honour of choosing our February theme. Its not BS to say I chuckled somewhat when I opened the message By way of an introduction upside downer moooosed... "A farmer paints stripes on her cow to increase its visibility at night and prevent car accidents if it wanders onto the road during blackouts in World War II. I wonder if Lee Marvin ever starred in a film called 'Paint Your Cow'? " A fantastic picture that brought some great variety, have a listen and vote for your favourite 3 pieces of Moooosic 1 @Al Nico Those stripy outfits make the poor cows hips look big? 2 @Baloney Balderdash How to paint a holy zebra cow : 3 @Leonard Smalls Inspired by the pic of a majestic Zebra, I thought we needed some dub to celebrate the hole * of the plains Zebra... * edited to say my song isn't about Zebra's holes, but homes! 4 @Jean-Luc Pickguard I had not intended to paint a cow that morning. The plan was to paint a fence. 5 Lurksalot its the Beef 52's 6 @AndyTravis think the breakdown in the middle represents the painting part, the higher paced ending, just the freedom of the newly painted cow… https://on.soundcloud.com/dodnjMxBAi7P8xpfqu the link is to soundcloud , we couldn't get it to embed this time! 7 @MoonBassAlpha Something a little jazzy for a change, inspired by BlueNote Organ jazz, a bit of Wes Montgomery and possibly Pink Floyd and Pat Metheny for good measure. 8 @upside downer Kapow! Cow! Now! Er... A clomping, stomping romp that takes its title from a line in Douglas Adams' superb Hitchhikers books and is in no way a comment on Mrs UD's driving, oh no. It's about my Dad's old Volvo. Most excellent tuneage but a choice needs to be made have a pick of 3 of them voting will end at midnight on 28th of the month good luck

Not if you told me upfront that it was made of parts.

Try the MXR synth pedal first before investing. It's a digital tracking pedal and a lot of the sounds only work with precise playing. For instance the Chameleon sound works with a very clean technique and so long as you don't play faster than the song tempo. The sub/octave don't seem to suffer from this and track well without glitching. Unlike an analogue pedal there is a learning curve to playing this one.

Are really talking about vintage prices at £1.6k? It was advertised as a bitsa made of Fender parts, all of which have been modded / refinished. It appears that the provenance of some of the bits is a bit unclear, but if it kinda look like 70s Fender parts to my un-rained eye. At worse, he may have paid £300 or so too much, but if it plays well enough and is gigable, then that's not the end of the world. It would be a different story if he had paid £3k for it!

A good teacher will cover hand technique, tuning, basic shapes. Your short scale will make this much easier