Bassassin

Standard 34". Which is a pity, as I'd be more motivated to do something with it if it wasn't - despite having about a million basses, none of them are short or medium scale!

Thought I'd test the theory using Bing's AI bollocks image generator. The prompt I used was the ad title, plus 'fretless' as that seemed important, even though the seller didn't appear to think so. So - Warmoth Short Scale Fretless Bass Neck with a Blue Headstock. This was the closest to the prompt - and honestly, the more you look at it, the better it gets.

It is. A lot of people seem to want their sales description to look as lazy, stupid & generic as possible these days. Not sold anything on Ebay for a long time, I assume this is a built-in feature now, as it's so common. Strongly suggests that no-one bothers reading descriptions!

Mostly this for just grabbing & plonking away unplugged: And mostly this for recording: Or for making a racket, this:

IMO the best-looking MIJ P-derived design, had a bit of GAS for one of these for a long time. That's the best finish too. Shame it's overpriced by about £300!

Cheers for the catalogue pic. The tuners are what makes me think MIJ - they look a pretty close match for mid/late 60s units used by Teisco, amongst others.

That's hard to argue with.

There were Italian & Japanese versions of these - I think this one's MIJ (from the pickups/tuners) but can't really be sure without pics of the back - Italian ones were made by Eko. Never owned or seen one in the flesh, so unfortunately can't help beyond that. @prowla - D'you know anything about these, Paul?

Second bump for this self-indulgent topic - because look what happened! And it's a big one. Perhaps THE big one (until we work out the all kinks & put together that 50+ minute single-piece-of-music concept piece*) - 11:29 of epic massiveness, melody, magnificence, multiple vocal/guitar tracks, and many other superlatives beginning with 'm' that momentarily escape me. We're incredibly pleased with & proud of this. For me, having been composing & recording music for pretty much all of my adult life, it's near-impossible to point at one particular song & go - that's the one - but I can listen back to this without wishing I'd done anything differently or better, without thinking there's a single part or a transition that doesn't quite work. It's been probably the most challenging composition (for various reasons) I've been involved in, and mixing it sufficiently daunting that I consistently put it off for around 18 months - but finally I somehow managed to make sense of the 52 tracks we recorded, and I think it sounds pretty great. So if I can have a minute of your time - well, eleven minutes - please stick this on a big screen & big speakers/headphones, and indulge me. We love this, & hope you will too. And you know how it goes - if you do, tell your friends, if you don't, tell your enemies. *Not a joke. It's called LastDay, and is as terrifying a prospect as it is inspiring. Might be finished in 10 years, if I last that long!

Really interesting article, thanks @Hellzero for posting that. I bloody love Strats, me. If I could only have one guitar & one bass (perish the thought!), it'd be a Strat & a Jazz. Arguably an HSH Strat with coil splits on the 'buckers is a do-everything guitar.

Dug mine out - forgot I'd already tidied it up & nailed it back together. Neck doesn't look as bad as I remember, but no strings, so how/if it plays is anyone's guess!

Pah. If they'd done their homework they could've said it was £500.

I've got one of these, in bits. Mine's identical apart from the tuners (which I think have been swapped on this) and colour of the pickup bobbins. Didn't pay much for mine which is just as well, as it turned out to have a warped neck, so it got sidelined among Things I Can't Be Arsed Dealing With, where it's remained for a number of years. The body's solid mahogany, but a few mm thinner than a proper J, so it's fairly light. Pickups designed to be hidden under ashtrays, like a lot of early J copies, and would be hard to replace without routing. No s/n on mine but I think these are probably '72/3 or so. The seller's assuming '76 from the number on his, but Mats serials from this era are random & can't be used to date them. If it plays well & the electronics work, £120 for the FB one's probably an OK deal for an old Mats Jazz. Needs knobs & a pot but that's not a deal breaker on something like this. And if anyone wants to make an offer for my pile of bits - I am but a PM away...

If it's like my Cheapo SuperStrat, that G4M logo's just printed over the finish and should come off with some T-Cut & a bit of persistence. If you're bothered by such things.

Not vintage, or Japanese. Or headless, for that matter. Looks like a modern Chinese cheapo, a bit grubby. In more ways than one.

That's really interesting - it looks like a more upmarket version of this 1980-ish budget through-neck P type, also made by Samick, sold branded Satellite in the UK. A quick dig around came up with a single P version of your bass: And a link to a listing of the actual bass you have (same grain patterns) with its original DiMarzio knockoff bridge, and a clearer pic of those odd pickups. Are you sure they're not original? If they're not, the bass has been professionally routed to fit the J-type unit. I don't recognise the logos & a reverse image search doesn'r come up with anything similar. Anyone else recognise these? I think you're right that this is from the late 70s/early 80s era, and the problem is that Samick was almost 100% an OEM manufacturer at the time, so there are very few examples or records of what they sold under their own name - the earliest catalogue I can find is 1987, and there's nothing like this there.

Looks the same as it always has to me, maybe a little shorter & broader but barely a redesign. It's still gopping.

That is extraordinary and I want one. That is all.

I bid on one of those years ago - didn't get it but it was a bit cheaper than this one. Don't think I've seen another since. I think it's made by Cort in Korea, mid 80s. Looks like a close relative of this odd Hohner Professional that I did manage to win (for buttons) around 10 years ago. Has the same headstock shape too.

Smooth off all the angular edges (and that weird pyramid on the top bout!) and I'd quite like that. Makes a change from another bloody Precision.

That may be ever-so-slightly optimistic! Unless the cab's stuffed with contraband gold or diamonds, it looks like the seller's accidentally added an extra '0' to the price! A couple of ER40 heads have recently sold for a sub-£300 best offer.

Drugs. Probably really dodgy acid. It's the only explanation that makes any sort of sense.

On MIK instruments I think so - I had an E serial MIK Squier Bullet which turned out to be YC, and AFAIK Samick use the S serial prefix on everything, regardless of brand.

Always liked the look of the SRXes. Think they were intended to be a more metal-oriented take on the SoundGear series - never played one but they look a bit less svelte than the standard light & skinny SRs.

I think this is a Young-Chang bass, iirc they took over the Squier contract from Fujigen when manufacture started moving to Korea. Didn't know there were MIK Fenders from this era, though. Young-Chang lost the Squier contract when they started selling the same instruments under their own Fenix brand - which also have E-prefix serials but don't appear to date in line with the Squiers, or indeed Fenders. Apropos of nowt, this has Gotoh GB1 tuners, as used on many '80s MIJ Squiers & Fenders.