It's not a Ric - it's a Chickenbacker, probably £250 new (give or take the paint job).
(Oh, and I've played my Ric through your amp, and it sounded pretty good!)
Thanks for you hospitality, Andy; it was nice chatting with you and your lovely lady too!
(Oh, and the cab was exactly what I wanted, so that was an easy buy...)
I think that disclosure would be good, but it's perfectly alright (and even enhancing) to have had work done by a respected maker/repairman.
Dunno what the impact on value would/should be though.
Status were first called Strata, but Fender got on their case, so they re-branded.
The Japanese Status pre-dated that, but the seller has confused the two; this one's just a 70s copy, nothing special.
I've got an S1 5-string too; it's a nce, light, fast, comfortable bass.
I'd replace it with a headless graphite one, but that would cost a heck of a lot more!
I've got an AH150; I bought it new in the 80s and it did the club circuit fine, running through a Marshall 4x12.
I've now also got an Elf, but I've not used it much - I just had to have one...
:-)
I was thinking about a 12-step, but the USB-MIDI converter box seems a bit naff.
I'm not surprised there's a lot of space inside a PK-5, really, as the logic board should be relatively simple; I wish they'd put the power supply inside, though!