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24 Hours from Tulsa - Gene Pitney

A mere scratch...

Art for fart's sake - 10cc

Really good looking Bass...too late for a build thread?

If you can't find a neck for sale there are several people here who have the skills to make you one.

Apache - The Shadows

Kilo Queen - Queen

Keep on keeping on - The Redskins

Close to it..maybe a few mm further forward. Definitely better quality than you would expect from a £500 rep bass.

Don't go - Yazoo

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She works hard for the money - Donna Summer

Penny Lane - Those lovable Liverpool lads

That tuning requirement could be a deal changer for some...the current owner for one.

Has anyone else seen the Celeste on Gumtree? Advertised for £1 the seller is holding out for what they consider sensible offers.

True - Spandau Ballet

This is what autocorrect offers instead of twatts - "Mr and Mrs Silly Billy" Twatts the way I like it - KC and the Sunshine Band

Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs (Lowry's Song) - Brian and Michael

High output active Wilkinsons are the main contender to replace the replacements. The housings will need a bit of noodling.

Personally I'd take the partial refund and spend it on some sand paper, etc . A few hours and you have a relic'ed bass. I have one of those rubber stringed basses...tuners are rubbish and the strings won't stay in tune. Fun to play though.

Someone else had a similar query recently - not sure of the outcome though. A friend who has been playing over 40 years had one and was very impressed. Not surprising really - there aren't many bad new basses out there.

Portrait of Tracy - Jaco You might have heard of him

Public Image - PIL

I was playing it for about 45mins. I like it. TBH I was a bit apprehensive about it tonally - some of the reviews on YT commented on weak pickups - having played it I must say that I disagree with those comments. Many of the videos had me torn too - some sounded excellent with a warm phat tone, others muddy and characterless. The latter are missing out on a very nice bass tonally - about 75% bass, full on mids and a tiny little bit of treble and you have a very usable phatt, funky tone - a bit reminiscent of Yamaha TRBs. As I said very usable. Neck is your modern C shape with rounded edges where it meets the fretboard and has been finished very nicely with no issues with sharp frets. Lacquered finish neck which I'm not normally a fan of - IMO they tend to get sticky really quickly - not so this one.. There's always the option of a 10 minute discussion with some wire wool if required. Now you need to remember that I paid around £300 for this - it doesn't feel like a £300 bass - doesn't sound like a £300 bass. The humbucker, despite criticisms on YT is again very usable - you wouldn't want to change this out even if you could. Typical Volume and three band EQ - you don't have to be Albert Einstein to figure this out and a useful range of tones (though I'll probably leave it alone for now). Tuners are Squier and it was virtually in tune out of the box - low B needed a little tweak but that was it. No idea of the weight but it isn't heavy and though I didn't try it on a strap it nestled nicely on my knee. Bass came with nickel wounds which will find a new home when I change to tapewounds later this week. I won't have to use a 135 low B. Fender/ Squire have cut this from their production list - possibly because it's neither a P or a Jazz - I can't understand why it didn't have a more positive following TBH. It's a very good bass for not a lot - but then there are a lot of basses like that at the moment. Certainly up there with the low end G&L, Lakland and Sire. If you have £300 to spend, you could do worse.

I don't think anybody's going to want to watch 20mins of fiddling with controls.