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A friend of mine had an 'Axe' bass that he bought from an advert in Kerrang. I borrowed it for a week in an attempt to set it up. It went back fairly quickly with a "sorry, not much I can do".
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Worst sort of budget trash from the late 1980s. Made Marlin look like a quality brand, and my Westone Concord look like a pre-CBS....
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I had an axe bass. It was so bad that I wore a brown paper bag with eyeholes cut in it while playing it.
The neck bent like a bow when the strings were in tune, the bridge came away from the body in when tuned, the strap buttons kept falling out of the balsa wood crap body. Total garbage. . . . In a bass shaped bundle.
Makes me laugh though, I thought I was the mutts nuts until about two days after I bought it.
Might start a row here but could I also suggest that the three ricken****ers I had were totally useless too. Looked amazin but played like dogs.