Bassassin

That's the low B sitting on the outside of the saddle if you look closely. Bridge is a Schaller 3D & it looks like there's scope to move the G saddle inboard, if you needed to.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-string-electric-bass-guitar/283450360393 Inclined to think this is a one-off home build, but aside from the wonky/fugly headstock, this looks competently done. That enormous pickup's quite incredible! There's a logo of some sort on the headstock - anyone recognise it or able to decipher it?

The other school of thought is that Eastwood are overpriced dodgy knock-off merchants.

You don't give a lot of info about the bass but realistically unless it's a rare vintage instrument it would likely be easier to find one closer to home. A few things to be aware of when importing - firstly - CITES. If it has a rosewood fretboard, it'll be subject to the currently complicated & expensive import regs for endangered hardwood species - both buyer & seller need to obtain and pay for the correct clearance paperwork, otherwise it will be confiscated and destroyed by customs. Second thing - import duties. I don't know what importing a fairly high-value instrument from Mexico is likely to cost, but considering I recently got stung for £21 for importing my partner's birthday present from Japan (a fluffy toy tardigrade, if you must know!) then expect it to hurt a bit. Have to say, I'm intrigued though - any chance of a link to the sale?

That's much more like it - LEDs everywhere and 2xP. I want one of those!

Looks 70s or early 80s to me - old enough to hail from an era when MIJ stuff wasn't too highly regarded. Certainly pre-dates Kris Novoselic smashing his to bits! Got a vague idea there are repro scratchplates out there, although I might be thinking of the Custom Agent - which was Ibanez/Antoria's LP with Black Eagle-esque styling.

Definitely a Black Eagle neck, probably the Antoria version as it's UK. IIRC these had a black headstock face with a decal logo, so it's just been sanded back. It's pretty uncommon to see these headstocks in an unbroken state - considering original Black Eagles are quite scarce, the neck alone on this is probably worth a few quid. Looks like this has been some sort of custom build done around the Antoria/Ibanez neck - the body looks well-crafted & professionally finished but I don't think it's from a donor bass. Hardware looks decent, if unusual - don't know if the Shadow humbucker is by the same company that does piezos & preamps today though. Sort of hope some geek picks this up for a Black Eagle resto project.

This is very interesting - it's not a Ripper copy, it's a G3, and I've absolutely never seen one before. Without seeing under the scratchplate, tbh I'm leaning towards thinking it's a (fairly common) standard Grabber copy that's been modded to G3 spec with the scratchplate & pickups. That said, the pickups are interesting because they're neither real, nor copies of G3 units by the looks, instead they're very close, if not identical to the transparent covered single-coil types fitted to Marauder guitar copies made by Chushin Gakki - the factory which made Maya. If it's a factory G3 copy then I'm surprised at never having come across one before - Chushin were incredibly prolific and sold under dozens of different names. Highly curious.

There were good Avons & not-so-good ones. That's a good one. And a potential bargain.

"Canglewood" is awesome. Still doesn't quite measure up to "Squizz", though.

Sadly they'd need to do that from beyond the corporate grave! Ibanez, on the other hand, were selling their 2388B models over 10 years before JH's Rickenbacker International Corp even came into existence, and nearly 30 years before he stole, sorry - registered - the design trademarks to RIC... Proper can of worms, if anybody ever wanted to open it!

Not presently in a gigging band but in my last band all the songs were co-written between me & the vocalist. Now in a composing/recording project with the same singer and all the songs are co-written by me & 'er. In addition as well as the bass, it now falls to me to play the guitars, program the drums & play/program the pretend keyboardy bits too. Oh, and misproduce the result!

That's what I assumed. Interesting about the bridge, I've seen plenty of 3D-ish copies which were very similar but lacked the roller saddles, never seen a dead-on clone though.

Interesting thread - I didn't know the original Alien also had the alu neck components like the Kramer. Someone in the thread suggests the Aliens & Dukes came from the same factory. So did Kramer outsource production to Samick in Korea? That's where the Hondos would have come from. No surprise to me that they were available with different brand names, this was common practice with Korean factories such as Samick & Cort, and also many Japanese manufacturers from this era.

Actually, I don't! Can't profess to be much of an expert on Dukes/Aliens, but I do know they were both bolt-neck - typically you'd be able to ID a Duke from the neckplate. If there were through/set neck versions of either, then I've never seen one before. However I'm inclined to err in the direction of Hondo with this one, aside from the Schaller bridge, hardware looks lower-end, and I think the Kramers had a hex-pole DiMarzio pickup. It's sort of cool, but a bit of a mess for £170.

I've seen the guy from D.A.D's version before - not sure why, but there's something about these that just makes me want to punch whoever thought this was a good idea.

The worst of it is, it strikes me that I think I know what this is. Or rather - what it used to be. Should be in the "Grants Are Pants" thread.

I'm calling fake - not because I'm any kind of authenticator of ancient rock 'n roll signatures, but because this bass isn't 60s MIJ, as claimed, but I'm pretty damned confident is actually 70s (probably '75 or later) Korean. And last time I checked, Brian Jones died in 1969.

Pretty sure there used to be links to old catalogues & specs on the Fetishguitars page I linked to. Can't find them now. Gah.

Not 100% clear on this as I've only owned SRs, but I think the SRX range was meant to be a more rock/metal-oriented version of the Soundgear series. Not sure whether they have the same thin/narrow neck as the standard SR but if not, it will feel very different. Like every bass, the action depends on how it's set up, how good the fret job is, and personal preference. I play quite aggressively & a very low action tends to produce more unwanted clattering and clanking, so I tend to tweak it up a bit.

That's a properly cool little rarity for a tenner. Looks pretty intact from the pics, and should scrub up nicely.

This is definitely the most ludicrous thing I think I've seen masquerading as a bass. Took a screen grab to try & work out what's going on, and am left with the sneaking suspicion that this might well turn out to be a prop knocked up from random bits of plywood & tinfoil. And stickyback plastic, obvs.

Perhaps a wealthy Rickenbacker fan / Faker hater will buy, it just for the joy of being able to remove it from circulation and burn it. Someone message Mr J. C.Hall (retd.) of Birmingham...