LukeFRC

My old one. I tracked down the guy who owns currently on Basschat it years ago. I saved up like crazy at the end of high school for my first bass, a lunchtime trip to a musicshop in Colchester found this hiding at the back of the shop where it must have been for years, the neck was like a banana and the screws were rusty... my dad was working in the town and helped talk the price down... my dad is quite good at bargaining, the sales assistant was sent to get the gig bag and came back with a status branded hardcase, it being the only status in the shop it went in it. Owner was not so happy his assistant had given it to me. Would be interesting to try now after all these years. From memory it was amazing to play, a lovely lovely. The sound was a bit warm and smooth. The Japanese CIJ precision that replaced it sounded a lot better. I few years later I realised I could join Basschat and someone would pay me good money for the bass and I could buy a Warwick streamer from Warwickhunt... and the rest is history!

I used to have a Status Shark 2 proactive... It was my first bass about 18 years back. I love the fact that neither the Statii forum or the Status website have changed since then! (Obv. excerpt the 15 different Mark King special editions since then )

Andy will of course probably got the original leaflet... but for the rest of us http://www.statii.com/status_cats/catalogues/10/index.html

That’s some good work there!

They made it. They still make a version of it now

Which of his pres is it?

Personally I understand why you striped it, but I kinda wish you were doing something more than just danish oil... in a few years that too will have yellowed and it will look similar to how it did before.... colour stain, or @Andyjr1515 used Osmo oil that kept the raw colour of the wood on a bass he built for the Greek.

You only got one of his basses last week and you’re social media buddies!

Have you got a photo of the back of it? Headstock, neck join and something of the back of the neck.

I spy a lot of Peavey love

There’s nout there that would be an upgrade on your gear

Even with your wobbly knob half hanging out?

bit mad - you would think someone in the company would just want to shift it after a while

I mean, it's really not a good sign really

The MM USA sterling 5 looks a good price too

they look like late 90's status markers that they used on their wood necks

Originally- when I realised I could sell things I wasn’t using to buy things that I wanted and upgrade stage by stage. then I have a fairly short bucket list so I would buy and sell to work my way through that list of things I wanted to try. Tried pretty much everything I wanted and crucially worked out what I liked. then recently it’s been accidental buying things to try... and then finding I prefer them to what I had. I got up to four basses and wrote on here that I could sell them all as I was so happy with the Jazz I had. It wasn’t hyperbole and a year later I had sold half of them. The last “extra” Might go and I might blow all the money in 2-3 basses on a nice old P bass. im genuinely happier with less basses as I play music more and think about basses less

Anyone else up for a "how many different pickguards will Andy have made for this" sweepstake? Bonus points if you guess what he ends up with...

To go on the outside?

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Nice! Did you end up being able to keep your blue PJ or did that go?

Isn’t that just @TheGreeks bass before it got left in the sun and melted a bit?

does it make much difference to sound? I've used threaded nuts in bits builds before and to my ears, it makes a difference vs screws. (I prefer screws)