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  1. The bendy bridge is another thing that points to Matsumoku - loads of Mats basses from that late 70s/early 80s era had these & they all seem to be made of cheese. This is the one that was on my Westy Track 2 when I got it:
  2. I've never played an SR300, but have owned a few other versions of the Soundgear (there have been dozens - the range goes back to the late 80s!) and they tend to be very good basses, particularly if you get on with a narrow neck. What's interesting about the SRs is that for some reason they've always had a pretty low re-sale value, which means you'll very likely be able to find a used model from higher up the range for the same sort of price as a new SR300.
  3. I've never been entirely sure 'Hondo II' was actually a thing. The logo started appearing on Hondos from the early 70s & I'm inclined to think the part that looks like a Roman numeral is (or at least was originally) just a bit of the design, but it sort of stuck as a name. Later Hondos have a couple of different logos that don't have a number. Aria Pro II was a rebrand/update of the Aria brand, so the Pro II bit was meant to suggest improvement/advancement - although unlike Hondo (a US brand originally owned by International Music Corp) it's proper Japlish & therefore borderline inexplicable. The Aria & APII brands continued side-by-side & have been known to appear on the same instruments, so it's anyone's guess. The parent company is Shiro Arai Co, so at least you can see where it started!
  4. Steal. Probably Matsumoku - my Westbury Track 2 has that style of plate & apparently those were all Mats. Pickup almost certainly a DiMarzio (stick a hex key in a pole piece, should be Imperial so metric won't fit) and worth the price on its own. I love the fact that deals like this still come up.
  5. If you dig (like what I do) there are versions of this with maple/black block necks as well. Mostly in the EU & branded 'Leyanda' (which seems to be related to Hohner), they don't have the string through bridge & some have 'proper' Fender shaped heads. There are probably other variants with different names too. https://reverb.com/uk/item/67039741-hohner-leyanda-bass-1970-sunburst-1970-sunburst
  6. That's a really interesting read. In its own way, this weird/hideous bass is a proper bit of UK music history, as is its original owner. It should be restored & stuck in an (unfortunately non-existent!) museum!
  7. Conditional recommendation for Streetshirts here - I've used them for band, work & novelty stuff for years. For the most part they're very good considering how inexpensive they are but print durability is variable & I've had a few average-quality prints too. The design interface is OK for upoading completed artwork but it's important to enter the actual size you want the the design to be, not what it looks like on the screen. Not sure how it will handle the OP's (excellent!) artwork but what's good is that a one-off with a single front print is £17 delivered, so not too much of an outlay for a sample. There are significant reductions for bulk & they'll print on any colour shirt.
  8. It's a Musicvox Momo 8-string. Or is it? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305054963788
  9. Back when these came out, I had no idea the Duke existed, never mind that the Alien was a knockoff - I just assumed it was a cheap, low-effort way of making a headless bass. To be fair, I 'borrowed' that concept with my first guitar (originally a Columbus SG copy) after it had a minor accident...
  10. Looks really tidy. If it was local to me, I'd be half-tempted to make a cheeky lowball offer just out of curiosity. Although I did play one of these in a shop when they were new (first headless I ever touched, in fact) and my initial impression was that it was rubbish. IIRC the guy in the shop apologised & said it "wasn't exactly a Steinberger".
  11. Would make several hundred times more sense with proper headless bridge/tuners
  12. That's exactly what it is. Bargain! http://www.luthimate.fr/en/bridges/1573-chevalet-basse-abm-3d-4-cordes-chrome.html
  13. It is an SB-ELT/RSZ, like @mihangle says. It is broadly similar to the SB-Elite II and the SB-R80, but the ELTs are post-Matsumoku basses & were around from about 1989 - 1992. I've done a fair bit of research, as I have one myself. They're incredibly good basses & easily up to the standard of the earlier instruments. There's been debate in the online Aria/SB basses communities for years about where these were from, & it's good to finally see one with a country of manufacture sticker - most of them have no markings whatsoever, so with no region or serial they're quite hard to pin down. We know model numbers & rough dates from old catalogues but that's been all up until now. Anyway, gorgeous bass (mine is black, so much more dull!) & GLWTS!
  14. 80s (maybe early 90s) MIK Hohner, possibly Arbor or Rockwood, not too sure. Always thought these were pretty cool, if I had a spare J neck knocking about I might ignore my complete lack of space & necessity & have a punt! These were probably made by Cort, as that's where Hohner production went when it moved from Japan in the early 80s. Stuff like the round-end pickups & bogseat string-through bridge appear on MIJ & MIK instruments, so these were probably made under license in Korea. GLWTS!
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