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Thunders (MIJ ones, anyway) are great. And this is still here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/279698-westone-thunder-jet-dropped-to-l60"]http://basschat.co.u...-dropped-to-l60[/url] Sixty quid. SIXTY QUID??? J.

Ages ago someone gave me a Gibson LP Custom Shop hard case. Had a clearout & ended up sticking it on Ebay (99p, no reserve) and it got bid up to about £170 - which someone happily paid! Maybe Gibbo guitar cases are special (I wouldn't know) but plainly people can and do pay silly money for a box with a handle. Jon.

[quote name='pineweasel' timestamp='1459255671' post='3014785'] The Thunder I cheap and nasty? Compared to the 2 & 3 has a bolt on neck, lighter bridge, and just one pickup, but it's still a great bass and miles better than most of the genuinely cheap and nasty alternatives available at the time. [/quote] There were some Korean-made Thunders (a bolt-neck MIK T2 came up on Ebay a few months back) and I'd doubt they were built to the same standard as the Matsumoku originals. Maybe Matski's was one of those. J.

Tiny Talman! Fancied a shortie for a while, could well be that the only question is which colour!

Recent completed listings from Ebay. Prices are variable but there is broadly an immense gulf between what some sellers want, and what people are actually prepared to pay: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=westone%20thunder%20bass&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=p2045573.m1684[/url] I wouldn't pay much more than £150. Which is pretty much what they've always been. Jon.

If he reads this, he'll be eggstatic at all the publicity he's getting. Ova the moon, in fact.

[quote name='Skybone' timestamp='1458932556' post='3012273'] Try: [url="http://www.matsumoku.org/"]http://www.matsumoku.org/[/url] [/quote] This is a post-Matsumoku, probably Korean-made bass. They don't talk about those! J.

Sending that to our drummer & guitarist.

My first though was that I'd base it on a 5er - wide neck & designed to take extra string tension. Maybe I should try this on my Peavey Zephyr... Jon.

Lovely. I think you got the better end of that swap. Get on to the [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/ibanezvintageguitars/"]Vintage Ibby FB group[/url] and see if anyone's got any spare tuners in their parts box. Jon.

Cool-looking bass. Not familiar with this exact model but it's very close to the Aria Avante Steve Bailey sig: Dunno how cheap it is - but I'd buy it, always liked the look of these. You might get some info from one of the APII Facebook groups: [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/AriaProII/"]https://www.facebook...oups/AriaProII/[/url] [url="https://www.facebook.com/groups/196371477217872/"]https://www.facebook...96371477217872/[/url] Jon.

Oh, I like that - way more sensible than the original. J.

I remember these from BW a few years ago, the guy in the link above got a batch built for some forum members. Bach do - or at least did - some nice stuff, including rather lovely interpretations of certain Basses That Must Not Be Named. Or at least, sold on BC... Jon.

[quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1458766193' post='3010749'] I mention it again, just because I am a little in love with it, but my latest B2B is a P/J and very nice too. [/quote] Did you post any pics of it? Never seen a P/J B2! J.

The seller admits the logo's a dodgy sticker, at least. Quite amusing how he's stuck a bit of insulating tape over the MIJ stamp on the neckplate! Grant/Grantsons were mostly pretty low-end stuff, had a few myself (admittedly not an EB-2) and they were nothing special. This will be a plywood Chushin build, same as most Columbus & Avon of the early 70s era. The mudbucker will be a low-output single-coil rattling around in that huge square case. J.

Don't think they ever did a J/J B2A, unfortunately. Would far prefer that to the nasal EMG guitar pickups in mine. J.

I like that. It's a Jack with a head, basically. Jon.

Just so we don't have to go through this whole thing [i]again[/i], this is the beginning of the discussion last time it came up: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/7473-japcrap-spotting/page__st__3270"]http://basschat.co.u.../page__st__3270[/url] Post 3271, in case the page changes when it updates. The discussion does not, in my opinion, bear being re-heated, as there is nothing new to add. For the record, I pride myself in being an equal-opportunities bigot, and would prefer to offend everybody in equal measure regardless of race or religion. To that end I welcome use of terms such as YankW@nk, BritSh!t and KoreaDiarrhoea. So if any BC members with a more varied and colourful vocabulary than my own could come up with offensive and disparaging descriptors for instruments made in Italy, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Brazil, Germany or indeed any other country where the bass guitar is manufactured, I would welcome their contributions. That is all. As you were. J.

We've had this discussion. This term appears to be something Americans tend to take offence at - possibly a subconscious manifestation of collective guilt toward the victims of their nuclear war - but in the UK is not an offensive expression, merely an ironic one. Irony being a linguistic device entirely absent from the North American lexicon, as far as I am able to tell. When we had this discussion before it was concluded that the title should stay for the reasons Happy Jack has clearly stated above. Being offended on behalf of somebody else (who almost certainly doesn't feel offended, because they're not actually [i]being[/i] offended) was not considered to be a valid reason to change it. It's a big, ugly world out there Jazzyvee, full of genuinely horrible people doing unspeakably awful and brutally [i]real[/i] things to get all upset about. The title of this topic is not one of them. Jon.

[quote name='wotsy' timestamp='1458691276' post='3009993'] What's this, a modded Blazer, a bitsa or something else? Only 80 quid. [url="https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/unbranded-mij-bass-guitar-/1160831642"]https://www.gumtree....tar-/1160831642[/url] [/quote] [url="http://s93105080.onlinehome.us/Ibanez-Catalogs/catalog/1979/09.jpg"]RS800 Roadster[/url] with a wonky scratchplate & a mudbucker. I'd pay 80 notes for that, if it plays well. J.

Night Of The Living Thread!

There is of course an excellent Rickenfakers FB group, where [i]every[/i] aspect of Rickenfakery can be openly discussed. J.

Highfox - it's perfectly fine to show pics of Fakers, discuss them, whatever - we just can't offer them for sale, or discuss where they can be bought. Same goes for real Ricks, amusingly. Jon.

[quote name='Shambo' timestamp='1458633446' post='3009180'] Don't know if this is Japanese but it's a Hohner P copy and it looks old. Pictures aren't very detailed but it's close to me in Plymouth and pickup only. [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hohner-Bass-Guitar-/291715299095?hash=item43eb963717:g:BssAAOSwHxVW8Cwv"]http://www.ebay.co.u...ssAAOSwHxVW8Cwv[/url] Wondering if worth a punt. [/quote] Yes it's MIJ & yes, it's worth a punt. Hohners of this era were made by Moridaira and are very nice indeed - some little guy called Rover - or is it Prince? Some dog's name anyway - is quite well-known for playing one of their Tele copies! Hard to tell from the pics but this one is probably mid-late 70s. Later Hohners (Arbor series & early Professionals) were Korean and not to the same standard initially. Jon.