Bassassin

Temu Special Edition. Pretty sure the Cats Protection League will have no idea it's not genuine.

Fair point. But it's a quality defret job, if it's not factory.

Gold or red pearl for me. Bit sick of tort.

B-Bass lined fretless 6? I had no idea such a creature existed! That has two more strings that I've ever found strictly necessary & 24 fewer frets than I would normally favour - but even I'm borderline tempted! That's (literally) a lot of bass for not all that much money. Those Strat knobs would have to go, though.

Never had one but always thought it was a good-looking bass - they used to come up quite regularly but haven't seen one for ages. Crafter as a brand's pretty decent, a guitarist mate has a Crafter acoustic, which plays & sounds way better than the price tag suggests Just had a quick look & there are a couple of CX100s going for £135 & £115 respectively. If this one's the same ball park - go for it!

I think if I wanted a pointyhead 80s hair-metal bass, I'd find a real pointyhead 80s hair-metal bass. It wouldn't be £1400, it would almost certainly be MIJ, not Indonesian, and it would probably have one of those amazing multicoloured crackle finishes. That said, I didn't want one back when they were current & I certainly don't want one now. Not sure who the target market for stuff like this is in 2025, tbh.

Aside from my first gigging band when I was 19 - which already had a full set of original songs written by the guitarist - I've been main composer or co-composer in every original band or recording project I've been involved in. I suppose I'm reasonably prolific & have for the most part put bands together, rather than joining them. I've always been open to other people getting involved with writing - but maybe for some musicians it's just easier not to!

For fear of it getting a bit specifically political (but not in a partisan way), them's the consequences of a polarising system, & the New Bosses being essentially the same as the Old Bosses. Fwiw I'd contend the Guardian hates Corbyn & whatever his new party's called (and probably the new ultra-left Greens) just as much, if not more than they hate Reform.

Rick & Stick? 😲 You are Nick Beggs & I claim my £5!

Quite. I tend not to read or contribute to threads I find uninteresting, or downright boring.

"Virtue signalling"?

Just for the record, assuming I finish this before the inevitable lock - no. Racists, homophobes, transphobes & hateful, bin-burning bigots of any faction can do one. Not in my band, not in my life, if I can possibly help it.

It's a sad reality that every time there's an excited-sounding thread title naming a bass brand I'm unfamiliar with, I have a little bet with myself it'll be yet another bloody fake Precision. I probably owe myself around 20 grand by now. Although it'd be 25 if I occasionally took a punt on it being a 15-string singlecut coffee-table.

A quick Google image search suggests it's a Sandberg Bullet Booster. Which is a really rubbish name for a nice-looking bass, in my (admttedly valueless) opinion. https://bassbros.co.uk/sold-basses/2012-sandberg-bullet-booster-fretless/ There are people on here who know a lot more about Sandbergs than me, with luck one wil be along soon.