lemmywinks

Yup, I've been waiting patiently for the day those Chinese factories start churning out 5 string headless hardware and it floods AliExpress at bargain prices. Gonna happen one day!

Correct choice - piezo bridge and nylon coated strings is wasted on a fretted bass! Where is the LR Baggs clone preamp from? Fancy one of those for my Sinsonido.

North West Guitars are doing 15% off everything and 20% off if you spend £100 or more until midnight, so for example you could get a Mono M80 sleeve for £97 or the full M80 gigbag for £134: https://www.northwestguitars.co.uk/?setCurrencyId=1

We got our RCF tops off a Facebook group and the matching subs came from eBay, a lot of the stuff on FB seems to be low end DJ gear around here though so you might have to sort through some rubbish.

Definitely consider Sire however £500 is used Lakland Skyline territory. Both of those have great necks which are outstanding for their price tags. Maybe one of the higher end Cort GB series.

That is a crazy bargain.

Don't know really, I haven't done a gig sans PA in over a decade. I usually have the volume on my preamp pedal between 9 and 11 o'clock and it's more than loud enough for any stage I need to play, some are ballroom sized stages and some are pubs.

I replaced a Markbass stack (LMII with two Club 121 cabs) with a QSC K10.2 and there's no shotcomings regarding volume or tone. I use it for personal monitoring only though and go through the PA for FoH every time.

Loving the Milhouse MkIV !!!

That gap in the neck pocket is a handy place to store plectrums and business cards, probably get a couple of cables and a spare pack of strings in there too:

Crikey - £43. I've bought proper basses for that!

Quite a few Warwicks have ash bodies and bolt on necks (the majority of Corvettes have this configuration) and they've done maple fingerboards before. In fact the Fortress Flashback was ash, bolt on and had a 2tek bridge. The original Fortress One and the Masterman were bolt on maple.

Well it's up to £30 with £10 postage so someone out there likes it.

Nice, get some pics up! How does the fingerboard feel with the rolled edges compared to the MkI version or a standard F copy? That's something which is criminally overlooked IMO, particularly on Warwicks with Wenge boards which take an age of playing to become more comfortable.

Also what's with the centre block / lower wing join veering away near the lower horn on the darker bass? Looks really strange and isn't on the other one.

£170, someone got a bargain there.

That's a different bass, aside from the darker colour (could be put down to lighting/filters) the grain on the back is different: Can't be that good if half of them are up for sale at the same time! Ugly as sin anyway, also what's with the bridge and pickups being lopsided on the maple laminate part? Looks really odd but both of them have it so it must be deliberate. Treble side is touching the body wings, bass side you can see maple:

Never played one but understand they are popular on here, seems like £100+ of the price everywhere sells them. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/REVELATION-RBN5-Bass-Electric-Guitar-5-String/223016629228?_trkparms=aid%3D333200%26algo%3DCOMP.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20180409081753%26meid%3Dd52c98d1486248c788d14bc4ae1624cf%26pid%3D100008%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D273537981244%26itm%3D223016629228&_trksid=p2047675.c100008.m2219

Nobody on here seems to care when Harley Benton or Vintage rip off Fender models, in fact you lot all buy them!

They did broadneck options which went to 20mm spacing (apparently that's not maxed out too) on 5 and 6 string basses so maybe they're having a memory lapse there.

The neck is cracked below the nut though, still fixable but turns it into a more complicated job. Also on closer inspection the Schallers are missing the ferrule/nut assembly too - looks like generic machine nuts on the front of the headstock and metal washers on the back - so what little value was there just got even less! It's a dog but at least the seller is honest in the description. This is the type of project I find most interesting though, lets face it if you're nearby and could collect it would be worth sticking a tenner on just for fun. Possibly.

The woodworking required to build a through neck bass from scratch doesn't quite tally with the hack job that is the rest of it though, if it is hand built I would be surprised if the same person did the botched 8 string conversion.

Sensible upgrades apart from the pickup cover (pointless) and the battery covers which are no longer tool free. I like the rolled fingerboard edges though, that's a smart move for them. Wouldn't kill them to stick some licensed Ultralites on there though would it?

Did you expect them to be the right way round? Look at it FFS! Looks like the holes for the machine heads are too wide and have been plugged with some sort of rubber ferrule.