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Well found @itu seems like he could pick a Fender too!

Sad to hear of the passing of Kenny Rogers. The man had a great voice and was an upright bass player in the past with a jazz trio, the Bobby Doyle Trio and with the well known folk act, the New Christy Minstrels (remember one wheel on my wagon?) He made having a white beard cool.

Vintage do a range for under £400. Should be able to pick one up second hand quite cheaply. New £296 on eBay.

That would look good in the Beach Boys.

I think a more versatile alternative is the Spector Spectorcore. Same type of semi hollow body with a single F hole, Fishman Piezo bridge, but with bonus of a single magnetic pickup (EMG on my model, newer ones have a Bartolini). Excellent build quality- Korean made.

Weren’t some of the Aria basses branded as Commodore in the U.K.?

Whilst I am happy to rub down a maple neck to give a satin finish, I recently bought a Hofner Ignition Violin Bass which has a high gloss sunburst neck. I’ d like to take it down a bit, but I don’t want to loose the sunburst finish. I also suspect that the finish is pretty thin. Anyone any suggestions? Should I risk it or just leave it to time?

Classic super strat!

Thanks they seem ridiculously cheap!

Interesting, mine had a cut nut, which surprised me, and unfortunately someone in China can’t measure! Alright now though. I saw a YouTube video wear the guy sanded the B Bass logo off the truss rod cover. Might try that.

Nice colour.

That sounds highly feasible. I was around in the sixties, my older brother had a Senator Bass and I remember seeing guys with Committee basses which we thought was very up market! I can’t remember any amateur bands having violin or club basses. I wonder if they were mainly in the German market so the bands like the Beatles & the Searchers who played in Hamburg got theirs over there?

4 string and that short is surely a piccolo bass?

Is there a bit of a Fender thing going on in your house? 😜

My first ever electric guitar was a Club 40. I can get quite nostalgic about club basses although I have never owned one😞

Now changed to a much better ivory coloured nut and bought tea cup knobs which look so much more the part than the black mini top hats.

Having recently bought too, was the nut ok on yours, I had to change it, it was miss cut. Did yours come with tea cup knobs?

Another new bass? You’ll be running out of house room.

Nice to see a Bass Collection instrument without that revolting logo on the headstock.

There are enough fake EB2s being made in China to find one manufacturer to licence to produce an officially endorsed version of the Epi at a reasonable price.

Fake. The body shape is wrong around the top horn, too pointed. Wrong pickup and then that headstock and logo. If it plays well give him £50 if he won’t pay you to take it away.

No.

This arrived yesterday having bought it on the net from a store and advertised as preowned. I haven’t owned and played a short scale bass for very many years and my last was a ‘66 vintage Gibson EB2. Most of the time since then I’ve played long scale 5 string basses and still do. i thought this may be fun and really light for those days when the shoulder ache nags. Judging by the state of the neck relief when it arrived, flat and choking around the 7th, I doubt this had actually been preowned, but perhaps buried in the warehouse. There isn’t a mark on it, but the gig bag looked and smelt filthy, straight in the wash! So a little time working on the truss today and the floating bridge ( a dreadful idea, how do you get the height right for all the strings?) and it’s playable and intones correctly if with a relatively high action. I think the nut has been cut wrongly so the G string is a little too close to the edge of fretboard. Will get a replacement and see how that is. Pickups are fine, kicking out a pretty strong signal, the short scale hasn’t caused me any problems when just noodling and I’m pleasantly surprised that the 15mm string spacing hasn’t tripped me up. (My 5 string basses are 19mm and 16.5mm). The logo is an inlay, which I think is better than the original which were silk screened initially and then a plastic stick-on badge. Some tea cup knobs would be nice and at some point before too long - flats. It weighs a ridiculously light 2.4kg (5lbs) but doesn’t seem to suffer neck dive. So far for a cheap Chinese made instrument costing a fraction of the prices of my others, I reckon it’s pretty good, time will tell.

Be careful about the strap lock attachment that fits to the strap. I had Schaller ones on a Fender Jazz, but the nut came undone on the strap and the bass crashed to the floor! Check them regularly or perhaps put a touch of superglue on the thread to keep the nit in place. Alternatively the “rubber rings” originally for Grosch bottles but now sold for holding straps on - look on eBay.

Very un- Jackson like, no pointy headstock. Body shape is rather Tobias like, looks like it would hang nicely with those long horns.