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As Troubadour says looking at Google it appears that it’s a similar story to Dr Bass. Where a product was raved about and then sheer numbers of orders and poor management caused its downfall. The victim of its own success perhaps? https://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?188254-Blackpoole-Relic-Works-is-no-more!

Links please.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/used-70s-original-electric-bass-guitar-fender-jazz-neck/312771076085?hash=item48d29bdff5:g:FoIAAOSwjHBdf~Lu

Jon, I was looking up the story about the connection between Ned Callan and Shaftesbury and came across this ridiculously incorrect article again. Spot the mistake! I have seen this before and had pointed out the obvious errors to Rose Morris however it remains..... https://rosemorris.com/blogs/news/14900469-bobby-sands-and-his-nobbly-ned-callan-shaftesbury

Was yours a Shaftesbury version? I think the construction differed on later models. I’ve always wanted one of the Cody basses (or was it a Hombre?) - knobbly Neds - that looked like a piece from a jigsaw. This guy sells a lot of project grade instruments at inflated prices. If you look up a Google search this bass sold on Gumtree for less than £200 a few years ago. It was the same bass as it had the custom scratchplate. I’d risk it for £200 so I may PM him and see if he’s amenable to offers.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Standard-Jazz-Bass-Maple-Fingerboard-Lake-Placid-Blue/312769510857?hash=item48d283fdc9:g:hEoAAOSwELRdfhIq Logo is dodgy and that’s funny looking ‘maple’.

It is a nice looking bass but why professionally refinish a black bass - er - black? Not being facetious but was it that badly battered?

I know but it’s a big one! 🤣

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Precision-bass-guitar-1989-Made-in-Japan-Phil-Lynott-Thin-Lizzy-Replica/233336589884?hash=item3653f1ce3c:g:LmQAAOSwN6Nddin5

More pics in colour would help his sale however.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970s-Vintage-Fender-USA-Guitar-F-Monogrammed-Strap-Strat-Telecaster-Case-Candy/233304596491?_trkparms=aid%3D333200%26algo%3DCOMP.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140131123801%26meid%3D2da637afcf68413cb4eac1b560502f83%26pid%3D100168%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D273998160655%26itm%3D233304596491%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D5411&_trksid=p5411.c100168.m2941

Neck plate gave it away for me

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-Bass/193088305468?hash=item2cf4f5b93c:g:jIYAAOSwkGpdcqll It looks not quite right, a bitsa?

Very odd looking things I remember seeing a few of the Wandre/Davoli instruments in some old guitar books. I thought that there were some chancers on eBay but some of the prices on Reverb are bonkers! Vastly inflated - I’ll bet there are some very disappointed buyers out there and very happy sellers....that’s if anything ever sells.

Everything......logo, tuners, bridge, serial placement, mismatched timber, burst, cheap looking neck, string tree, truss rod access, oh the neck plate may be real...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-American-Pro-P-Bass-3-Tone-Sunburst/193074603240?hash=item2cf424a4e8:g:YRUAAOSw4yJdZ~SU

My first JV - a Jazz which I bought used in 1986 - was £95 and mint and I still own it. I briefly borrowed my second in 1991 and then bought it for £225 a year or so later as I loved it so much. That was a Precision. Both fantastic instruments that I did let go of for a time - either lent out or sold - but regretted and bought back. I’ve had many JVs and sold them on but not these two as I’ve learned the error of my ways at last! I am still looking for a maple neck Precision in black however. This person should have saved another few hundred quid and bought one from Basschat!

It went for £360! I bowed out at £88. They are great basses but in that condition? I do wish good luck to the buyer but I think that’s a bidding war that got a bit over enthusiastic given the state of the item!