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It looks to me like a homemade body with a Grant neck; Grants were Fender copies in the 70s, similar to Columbus.

Quality craftsmanship.

Well, if you're talking about other threads, than perhaps not. In the case here, I had good day out, but I didn't buy anything from that shop and I wouldn't make an effort to go there in particular. I can get the item in question without leaving the house.

Sure - I don't doubt that.

It's slightly over-dramatising to use terms like "so upset" and "feelings hurt"; I was more commenting on the futility of going to a shop. I'll go to places I enjoy and I'll walk past the ones which can't be bothered.

Well, if asking to try out a cab makes me a difficult customer, then they're in the wrong business.

Not really pointless - it'd give a good idea of its capabilities and I'm not sure that a 1x10 is really a gig cab. (I'd likely use it with other amps too, so it's not Elf-specific.) I happened to be there and would have probably bought it, but no plans to go back in the forseeable. Precisely - I can get one of these from (presumably) many places, and perhaps at a better price. The difference between a shop and the Internet is that you can go to a shop, try the item, and walk out with it there and then. It's up to the shop to make me want to buy the item from them, or I'll go elsewhere.

I went into Guitar Village, in Farnham, for a look today. They had a Trace Elliot 1x10 cab there, so I asked if I could try it, as I have an Elf. The assistant (who was wearing a Trace Elliot shirt) said the only amp they had was a combo which was sat on top of it, to which I pointed out that that wouldn't work very well, as it had its own speakers too; he said there might be another one in another room, but really that combo was it. I don't believe that they didn't have another amp head in the shop, but they plainly couldn't be bothered. I said don't bother.

I ecently bought a 100 pack of Rickenbacker compatible hex screws - I don't think I'll run out!

Well, I've just tried playing it and it's a bit hokey-cokey, also one of the machines is way too stiff. I think I'll disassemble it and try some experiments with removing the overpainting. In the end I'm only in it for a fiver; I would like to get to something playable, but if I just end up with a wall hanger, then that'll be alright.

Well, the neck plate's on a wonk.

@BrunoBass Shame you didn't make it to the Bass Bash; we could've put them side-by-side (I think yours has a better finish!).

Geddy and Geezer - now that'd be an event!

I hear he's got time on his hands now.

I hadn't noticed the tuners - they're "characterful"!

Same as bertbass paid for his!

I picked up this bass today at a car boot sale and it looks like it's a 60s Vox Clubman which has been overpainted (yes, by their son in his bedroom, the couple selling it told me). Any advice as to how can I strip off the paint without taking off the original finish too (the pickguard too)? I don't know anything about the paint that was used.

Yep - that's my plan. I think I'll be in the modding section asking for tips on how to remove the makeover without stripping the original finish. (If only I'd had it a day before, I'd have taken it to the bash bash and got some advice f2f.)

No worries! :-) The folks at the Bass Bash yesterday seemed to like it.

Aha! It looks like a Clubman. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Vox-Clubman-Electric-Bass-Guitar-1960s-No-Reserve-Auction/142781696032?hash=item213e73c820:g:mfsAAOSwWw1a62Ik

I've just been to a car boot and came home with this... Apparently the folks' son painted it some time back. I've now got to strip off the paint and see what's underneath. I don't know anything about it, other than it says VOX on the pickups.

I have something not dissimilar...

I wasn't intending it as a negative; I was following on from saying the high octave is not so good. The 1 and -2 ones are good (subject to the caveat of physics wrt the -2). You're right that ths SS's tracking is spot on.

My Marbass Super Synth's octaver does -2; on a bottom-E you can just hear the individual beats of the sound, rather than a note as such.

My only regret is that I didn't get to play many other folks' basses - I arrived at 2 and next thing it was home time!