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Had a delivery from Warmoth today...nom nom nom... Just the neck to go now, then the fun begins...

It was 200 until the last minute. I was tempted to have a go, but I really don't need it. Only really see about 1 per year with the 240V

This was a bargain! I'm sure the last 800rb went on ebay for about £4-500?

Wayne - I'm off to B&Q this afternoon for my chisel and saw. Haha, not really. You may be able to see the body is very slightly dinged and bashed, so I'm just going to leave it at that and beat the crap out of it on stage when it's done. Just had email from Warmoth - the squared fretboard end and a jet black ebony board is adding on another $110. My poor, poor credit card.

I think the story goes that Matamp made all the Oranges back in the day. There was some kind of fallout and they went their separate ways. Good luck finding an OR200. They're pretty rare now - I always remember that Jimmy Pages OR200 sold on ebay for $30,000. So...yeah!!

That's an 0R200. Late 60's/early 70's 200 watts of Matamp power. Basically on old GT200.

Hi folks, Thought I'd let you know about a build I've started - a replica of Matt Sharp's black jazz bass he used in his time with early Weezer and the Rentals. The bass is made up of a knackered old 70's body, some Schecter Monstertone pickups and a Birdseye Maple/Ebony Warmoth Tele Bass neck. Karl Koch (Weezer's webmaster and general fifth member) got in touch with Matt for me and passed on the specifics for the build, so I'm really grateful for that. Here's the bass as it is now. I'm not one for relicing basses, so I needed a black Jazz body with 70's spacing. A used Geddy Lee bass with a few scratches and dings showed up on Ebay so I got that a few weeks back. The pickups were the hardest thing to source. They're discontinued now and only available on Schecter custom shop basses (which retail about $3000). Anyways, I found a guy who bought a bass in 1996, didn't like the pickups and swapped them. Turns out he had kept the Schecter pickups for the next 14 years and happily sold them to me when I asked. I put the order in with Warmoth last week for the neck so that should be here in about 12 weeks maximum. I love waiting, don't you?! Got a couple of other bits on the way from Warmoth; a tortoiseshell pickguard, Schaller BML tuners so they should be here hopefully very soon. I'll update this when they get here. Got a Schaller roller bridge in the mail today from Thomann in Germany to complete it all. I've assembled a bass before, but I think I'll take this to a pro to do a great job and get it setup just right. Finally, here's a couple of pics of what I have now. Cheers for looking.

I bought a body off this seller last week. Communication wasn't the best, but the item was fine and as described. Just an FYI.