Grahambythesea

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.

Curious to keep the “Viola” when it was never a Gibbo or Epi model. Also the Kramer D1 is listed as an Epi? So the Embassy hasn’t lasted, shame as it seemed a quite good option as an entry model. Should have made it with the batwing headstock. BRING BACK THE RIVIERA

I think the original is handsome, metal knobs always have a classy look to them. When you spend the sort of money you’re spending you might as well have look expensive!

With that big old Mudbucker in the middle it really should be named after Stuart.

So how long have we to save our pennies before you unleash these ? Will there be preorders?

Looks like a Musicman Sabre.

Now you can go on black and white telly and have your guitar look white 😁

Seem to be back up to £699 now.

Also not in the market for a bass costing a grand, but nice to see P and J clones that weigh 3.5 / 3.8 kg. Generally lighter than the Fender originals.