Bassassin

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

This one has almost the full range of improvements. Neck not positioned properly in the pocket, bridge dangling off the end, vicious assault on the nut, mismatched knobs. I've never met one of those Mazetis with the odd-shaped headstock in the flash so I don't know if he's reordered the tuners, but he's obviously swivelled at least one round.

Wouldn't be an MDP bass if he didn't wonk the tuners! The arrangement appears to be standard for these strange headstocks and I'd be surprised if it didn't provide inspiration for future MDP customs.

Shame he got hold of this neck & destroyed it - always liked the laminated fretboards on these & quite like the idea of building a headless around one.

On 13/05/2023 at 06:42, Ralf1e said:

I thought Westone thunder as weĺl at first. I do think it's some kind of uncle mats. Don't like the neck/headstock repair much.

Could becone a headless project.

Fancy letting a through neck of that quality get in that state. Bstewards

It's a Cort, made in Korea by Cor-Tek. Nothing to do with Matsumoku.

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22 hours ago, Pseudonym said:

And surely it was appropriate to give Snow the benefit of the doubt over whatever transpired down the lane.

I'd always assumed he was on his way to kill Euronymous.

3 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

That seems more of an Eastwood type thing?

Not when you consider Retrovibe came to prominence making Rickenbacker copies.

I quite liked my old T40, tonally very versatile but (in my experience) fiddly as f*ck to find the sound you wanted & nigh-on impossible to keep it dialled in. Very playable bass apart from the back-breaking weight, so mine never got gigged & didn't stay around too long.

I like the fact David @ Retrovibe's done this but for me it doesn't work aesthetically - the body proportions are off, looks like he's used a Stingray-ish body with the neck (and therefore pickups & bridge) set further back than a T40, leading to that oversized-looking scratchplate. That said, I hope it's successful enough for there to be a v.2, with proper T40-shaped body, in natural or black. I could be tempted...

30 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

No one in fact knows what the 'H' in Jesus H Christ actually stands for.. Scholars have suggested it might be "Horse" their thinking being that one of the earliest depictions of Christ shows him with a horses head.. Spooky eh😁

Great. Now I'm going to spend all day preoccupied with the religious significance of Bojack Horseman.

Reassuring it's a Genuine Home-made, not one of those fakey mass-produced Chinese knockoff Home-mades. 👍

Oh, go easy on Greavsey there. Can't be easy what with all those WokeyDokeys cancelling everything, rewriting history and locking you up for saying that you're English.

Can't even have a nice, calming pint of Bigot's Best in the Hung Golly any more. Dunno what the world's coming to.

16 hours ago, rwillett said:

But what was it? I can’t work it out and would love to know. However I don’t claim a vast knowledge of bass guitars.

I did think an old Westone but couldn’t find any that had the knobs like this. Also the headstock and truss rod cover are different 

 

somebody must recognise it surely?

 

rob

It's a Cort, made in Korea & from 1980-ish. Sold branded as Kay in the UK, and a million or so other brands worldwide. Cort made dozens of different guitars & basses based on the same through neck/triple dot brass inlay template, from little travel guitars to double-necks. They're generally nice quality & were an inexpensive alternative to the through-neck Aria SBs, Ibanez Musicians etc of the era.

That said, this one's a mess, looks badly neglected and £99 is wildly optimistic for a start bid.

This is one I had a few years back. £50 BIN & it scrubbed up nice.

On 09/05/2023 at 10:22, neepheid said:

 

Looks like a Squier Paranormal Jazz '54 to me:

 

https://www.fender.com/en-GB/squier-electric-basses/jazz-bass/paranormal-jazz-bass-54/0377100500.html

Not sure how that's gone under my radar!

Now I really want a black/gold pickguard one with cream DiMarzio Model Js. For no good reason.

Eurovision goth metal, anyone? Germany's entry:

The BBOT bass! Have we discussed these before? I can certainly remember expressing opinions about interesting concepts but lazy, ugly execution and absolutely eye-watering price tags.

Can't think where else this would have come up if not.

I am sure about it - it's a piece of sh!t bitsa (a 'sh!tsa', maybe) with a ghastly obvious-fake relic finish.

The pickup's unlikely to be from a 'Japanese Hondo' as the overwhelming majority were Korean, & the occasional MIJ example would probably have had actual Dimarzios. Which I'm sure the listing would mention! So I'm saying cheap, new, probably Chinese body & neck; glued-on fretboard (no skunk stripe) & slightly wonky headstock shape. And touches like the chewed-up pozis holding the ashtrays on (meaning no pics of the apparently awesome pickup or hardware) are reassuringly professional, arent they? 👍

This is the same seller trying to fob off an MIJ 'Fairytale' (70s Swiss dealer brand) Jazz copy as something it's really not, and whose completed items contain things (which all have awful, fakey, grimy-looking relic refins) that sometimes do not quite appear to match their decriptions.

It'd be the nicest-playing Jazz or Jazz copy that was within budget. Probably end up with a Squier Affinity, or maybe a Classic Vibe if there was a sale on.

10 hours ago, Hellzero said:

These are not Seymour Duncan pickups as there's a magnet bar glued under, neither DiMarzio because there would be 2 magnet bars per pickup (humbucker) and Allen imprint pole pieces type.

 

I think these are 80's Japanese pickups, maybe Matsumoku.

 

Calling @Bassassin !

Could be MIJ but not sure. Looks like they've been white originally & yellowed over time, so not the cream covers some MIJ P types use, also the lugs look quite big - an oddity of 70s/80s MIJ P types is that they often have smaller lugs than standard.

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

They've probably been locked so quickly that you never saw them which should answer your question. See also transsexuality.

Not sure why that would be.

Anyway, the two things are hardly the same - bisexuality's just a boring, everyday sexual orientation, not the hot-topic, divide-and-conquer political punchbag that transgender discussions have somehow become.

4 hours ago, Jack said:

I'm normally one for the ladies, but there have been a few lads in the past who have turned my head. I'm going to go with 'yea'.

Don't think BC's ever done a bisexuality thread - or any other topic about contributors' inclinations.

Wonder if we're grown-up enough?

2 hours ago, Shaggy said:

 

My second bass, Columbus JB copy.   Beyond awful.

Hopefully no one will be suckered into buying the one in the OP.   As the saying goes; “you can’t polish a turd......”

To be fair they weren't all sh!t - I've had one or two Columbuses they played fine after a proper setup. Pickups were rubbish, though.

On 26/04/2023 at 12:51, SteveXFR said:

 

The comments on their anti trump social media posts were hilarious. People were shocked that Rage didn't dig the whole maga thing 

Loads of people who heard:

Fück you I'm not doing my homework!

Fück you I won't tidy my bedroom!

WTF? Eco-Butcher's Apron?

Ghastly.

7 hours ago, tauzero said:

TBH, I've always associated him with Gibson basses, due to that being the only bass I'd seen him with in photos from the first few albums.

That'll be the Frog Bass:

I'm off to pick up an old Avon EB copy for £60, some green Halfords rattlecan & a bit of tacky bling. Pretty sure I've got a scabby P pickup in the spares draw, probably doesn't work but that's just a detail.

My painstaking artistry will definitely be worth the extra £900.

Don't think I've encountered one of these before. Nice, that.

I'm a massive DD fan (one of my first influences) and this does look like a pretty accurate Billion $ Bass replica - but this is a £200 bass with £30 worth of mirrors & rhinestones stuck on it. And £5 or so for the superglue.

I think for £1000 I'd want Dennis to have stuck the mirrors on himself. And then show me how to play Gutter Cat & Dead Babies properly.

8 hours ago, BigRedX said:

 

IIRC Kimbara were the import brand for FCN. I have a Kimbara acoustic guitar which was bought in 1974. It's OK but nothing above any other £30 MIJ acoustic guitar from the mid 70s. I suspect they came from a variety of Japanese factories as the quality seemed to change over the years. I always saw them as being a bit better than Columbus but nowhere near as good as Antoria.

Quite correct - and they were a bit better than Columbus; in the 70s FCN had a 3-tier range, Satellite at the bottom, Columbus in the middle & Kimbara at the top. From what I've seen, most but not all copy-era Kimbaras were Matsumoku - this Ripper has an Aria-branded counterpart that's likely to be identical. There are some Kimbara oddities with effects circuitry which are the same as the Japan-market Fresher brand, these were made by Chushin Gakki.

I had a very nice Kimbara L6S copy, Matsumoku-made, very much a sibling to the Ripper. Was a bit of a resto.
 

Very tidy-looking example. No idea how reasonable the price is (£550) but you'd pay a bit more for a 'real' one.