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How do you define value?

Tony Levin, Gail Ann Dorsey, Graham Maby.

As for Sunburst vs. Vintage Sunburst from the era: 1989 Sunburst, 1990 Vintage Sunburst

Going by the catalogues from the era, I think the 'Special "Feature" colors' weren't necessarily the ones that commanded an upcharge. Take the 1990 catalogue, for example: 3 Tone Vintage Sunburst, Translucent White and Butterscotch Ash are listed as available at an additional charge, whereas the Special Feature Colors - like Peach - generally weren't named. It's not clear whether they cost extra. (1990 is a bit late for Peach though, 1989 might have been the last year that colour was available.) This is a page from the 1990 catalogue:

3 Tone Vintage Sunburst as a colour option first appeared in the 1990 EBMM catalogue - "at an additional charge", along with Translucent White and Butterscotch Ash.

The 30th Anniversary SR5 came with a (tort) pickguard.

No.

1964 Sunburst

This is my bass - Big Al 5 PDN (Premier Dealer Network) Vintage Tobacco Burst 2015 (completion date January 2016). When it first arrived, the neck alignment was a bit off (G-string too close to the edge), so EBMM authorised a return and we had the whole instrument shipped back to the factory via Strings & Things. EBMM then built a new neck for it to the original specs. The body wood on this edition is alder. The darker looking grain on the upper part of the body is an effect of the light reflection due to the contour. These are great basses.

A couple of early Classics: In October 2009, EBMM introduced the new Classic Series at Bass Player Live. Five instruments were on display, finished in Surf Green, Shell Pink, Sonic Blue, Trans White and Fiesta Red. Here are two from that first edition: B050501 (Surf Green) and B050505 (Fiesta Red) For the regular production run, the colours were renamed Mint Green and Coral Red. [Nice weight on the Surf Green - 8.9 lbs.]

This one? https://www.vintage-guitar.de/detailsvintage_4614_FENDER-Precision-Bass.html

1988/9 Sunburst Sabre 8.1 lbs

Nice! Tell us more - which years etc?

Something like this, perhaps? 😎

That site still seems available, as far as I can tell.

Only what I've downloaded over time They're mostly a collection of spec sheets plus some price lists etc going with it.

Indeed. Fire Engine Red (stamp REDFE) was a (short-lived) production colour in the late eighties. It's listed in the 1988 catalogue and also in the spring 1989 edition but by the summer 1989 edition it's gone. Pretty rare. (And beautiful!)

I think you mean the resistors. The reissues do have capacitors - it's the resistors that are missing.

I enquired with EBMM Customer Service and there's only four of these coming to Europe - one each for Germany, Italy, France and the UK. There's some excellent info on the website from the Project Lead Engineer about the build process. Apparently he spent two years working on it, the attention to detail is amazing, and with the very limited numbers I'm not surprised it's expensive. All proceeds going to charity, so what's not to like!

As drT said, Trans Reds from the '90s are usually over alder and tend to be a bit darker in colour. You can see the difference here: The one on the left is a 1987, the one on the right a 1990. (The SR5 is from 1989.)

Lovely! The best period for EBMM. Classic colour combo, too!

Matching headstocks were standard on custom colour Jazz Basses - with the exception of the Blonde finish - from late 1962 onwards for the rest of the Sixties.