I know this is an old post, but I thought I’d state my experience for those that are reading this and thinking of buying an Ashbury. As other people have noted they are nice looking, nicely made basses. I had one for 2 years and thoroughly enjoyed playing it. However, sadly the tuning started to slip. Initially I thought it may be the machine heads but on further inspection the steel strings were pulling through the wooden bridge, damaging the bridge and body of the bass. The only way to repair it would have been to remove the back, which for a circa £250 uke bass wasn’t worth it. Sadly, I had to bin it.