LukeFRC

Last year I looked at vintage Fenders for a bit a toyed with the idea of a nice mid 60s P. Didn’t go that direction in the end but one thing I did notice was a lot of shady people being shady, and a practice for being economical with the truth and wording things very carefully to give impressions of provenance

Daphne or sea foam I would guess from the tone on the black and white photo

Erm is that his face on the pickguard?

oooh I like the colour

payments is relatively simple - an active directory of stock with multiple ways to buy which updates once payment is taken.... is a lot more difficult and a new and more expensive website build and maintain. For something specialist like bass guitars I doubt the margins are crazy and for 90% of their customers their cheaper and more manual system will work just as well.

Page three and we are finally getting somewhere ! Yes Ricky! Yes!

So the high point of Yamahas bolt on designs vs a mid spec fender japan jazz that’s not really a jazz and happens to be the colour you like?

did @Beedster used to have one?

Korean company called Dame, makes a brand for outside Korea called Sire. Signs up big names to help sell stuff. No chicanery. As comparison, who built the Squier bass you like and started a thread about?

Why would it be of any concern at all? Established brand, with manufacturing capability, in one country launches brand outside their country with a different brand name? You know a lot of other brands will be built for them by other manufacturers?

In: - our second daughter - Bravewood P bass kinda 1961 style and won’t be going anywhere - ibanez roadster from 1981 that I only got this week and already know Isn’t for me! - a Nordie bass mute thing - loads of secondhand strings trying things out: some of the secondhand strings I didn’t like

Sell the Fender 1) the bb1600 sounds so good 2) I literally only bid on that bloody roadster on Friday - and picked it up sat - I had known you were thinking of selling the bb1600 Ild have come to Manchester instead. So sell the fender and I’ve got time to work out how to sell an ibanez

Cleaned up, screw holes no longer loose, setup and intonated … well built review: ‘it’s ok’, currently not setting my world on fire! Possibly active pickups which I never enjoy. Will live with it a while see what happens

why do some of them have a different bit of wood midway between the two pickups?

Well my one is back together, a lot cleaner and works. turns out I am not used to 24 fret necks and also the massive height distance between the neck and body compared to a fender type. it’s a bit like wearing someone else’s shoes at the moment

Unless… there’s been a redesign in that the pots seem to be different/not have the additional shielding on the outside and the preamp isn’t mounted … if you are redesigning those bits maximising the cavity helps keep the weight down and a simpler install? I was reading something about musician series pretty much having minor changes for each year. I spent two hours cleaning someone else’s well ingrained crud off the fretboard today and then doing the cocktail sticks and woodglue trick on the holes that seemed a bit loose… neck, pickups and oddly - bridge - how you remove a bridge enough times to have loose screws I don’t know!! Be interesting to find out how it sounds when it all comes together. EMGs… I’m normally a bit ambivalent about active pickups so we will see how it goes!!

GREAT preamp …. But… I’ve got a Uni pre in a Lakland … it’s pretty tight fit- want me to eyeball if I think it would fit in the roadster? Using existing holes?

The rout is a different shape to mine and @NancyJohnsons too

Googled ibanez musician control cavity and they had the same plastic around the pots so I think original. edit: here https://www.talkbass.com/threads/any-ibanez-musician-bass-users-out-there.688124/page-6#post-17175947 not recent fret job and more recently levelled and not crowned… but pro enough it was only spotting the filled extra dots on the side that got me asking questions to realise it was originally fretless

same pream I think my on mine - but mounted in. Also check the weird plastic bits around the pots - no idea what they are - mines a 1981

@Bassassin would this be a good thread to show off what the wiring on one these looks like?

@Bassassin would know

So - seeing as @TheGreek would ask - it needs a bit of work - but it’s a RS-940TV that has been later fretted and fitted with late 80s EMGs - think original preamp

Right At the top end of what I would have paid

Yeah but he’s so cool he was into Japanese basses before they were popular