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Does this end your previous affair with HB? Will Thomman recover?

I agree @Cat Burrito but strangely Gibson and Guild didn’t do it back in the day.

This has appeared on the Thomman site, shortly available, but it’s not even on Guild’s own site yet. A Starfire 1 bass with single pickup and tailpiece rather than the more familiar Starfire 11 with a bridge tailpiece and big pickup/s. I don’t think guild ever made a 1 that looked like this but it has got a retro look and is not costing a fortune. £439 @ Thomman but with the new rules presumably they’ll be import charges. I hope someone in the U.K. stocks them as I’d really like to try one once we’re allowed out again.

It looks like Bass Collection have finally listened to the criticism of Bassists and changed their dreadful logo, at least on the Detroit and Profile models.

How is this working for elsewhere? I seem to remember a year or so back Japan agreed a free trade deal with EU. I’ve never imported from Japan so don’t know if back then imports became Tax free. If they did had Brexit knocked that on the head?

I don’t know why we think the Thunderbird is a heavy rock instrument. A well known harmony band used them.

I’d not seen the FGN Jazz so went on a trawl. In case it’s still an option , Jow Music have one in their sale reduced to £499. Snazzy Blueburst finish which is rather eye catching.

Given the grungy condition, I hope it was a bargain.

£349 @ PMT.

2 new Korean made models, neither of which interest me. They’ve taken away 2 other models - Spectorcore and Performer no longer listed on website.

To follow the Hofner thing, you could argue that middle and neck is the same as on the “Cavern” model of the violin bass. That was the original positions, I wonder why Hofner moved away from it to the bridge and neck?

I was thinking of the Burgundy they used on some EB2’s which was metallic. Perhaps I got the names muddled?

The headstock seems to be nicked from the earliest Newport’s before that too changed to a batwing.

I misspoke about Burgundy Mist, it’s actually called Sparking Burgundy, but it looks much the same to me.

I agree about smoked almond - weird. I would call it crunchy butterscotch.🤪

It would have been great to resurrect the batwing headstock but you can’t have everything. Thomman are offering these at £285; but then I notice it’s exc. vat. So do we now import them and pay U.K. vat or German? Do I detect a slight similarity in shape to my Gibson EB as in my avatar?

Horrible headstock shape too!

I thought I’d read somewhere on this forum that the Embassy had gone out of production. It did disappear from the Epiphone web site for a while, but now it’s back sporting new shiny colours all of which seem to have a sparkly metal flake content. It includes the classic Burgandy Mist, but I’m not so sure about Wanderlust Green! Did I read that right 🤔🥴