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Thanks for posting Andy, let's hope all is OK 🙏

I've had two of those also 👍

That've very kind of you @BassApprentice, to return the favour I've got some space in my wallet in which I could probably store some cash on your behalf also 😃

The thing that I really like about Precisions.........? No need for decisions . One PUP, leave both controls wide open, plug it straight into the amp's input. And play 👍

Absolutely mate, absolutely, but if one didn't try out new stuff life - and let's face it this forum - would be very boring 👍

This had been calling my name quite a lot when I saw the Buzzard

Update on this monster! Looks like the circuit's an easier fix than I'd feared. There's two relatively cheap components - a pot and a battery clip - which are misbehaving, and when they do so at the same time it gets messy. I'm hoping to get the work done by Status and to get the all clear on the circuit from them, but if they're not able to it's apparently a pretty straight forward job. I've rehearsed it a few times, initially with the original strings, then with some flats, and most recently with Lo Riders, and it's a phenomenal, extremely sensitive, versatile, and if needs be, huge sounding instrument. It's everything you'd expect a top-end instrument for Status to be. But.......... ........after rehearing last night I picked up my Precision, and then my SUB, and knew that my growing realisation over the last few weeks that ultimately the Buzzard is not the bass for me was accurate. OK, this thing makes it extremely easy to play some of Entwistle's more demanding parts, and to sound ballpark doing so, but oddly I suspect that owning it has made me more determined to do the early 70's Who material on a Precision. So for Who stuff I'm going to head back to my hybrid Precision - late 70's body, Warmoth (maple cap) neck, Fender '63 PUPs and some nice rattly strings - while keeping a keen eye open for a used Status graphite Precision neck It ain't the destination, it's the journey 👍

Fair point 😆

Bad time of year for business and therefore cashflow, they just don't want money tied up in an instrument that might be hard to sell, the used market is extremely unpredictable at the best of times. There's absolutely no reason for any form of rant on Trustpilot, you asked them the question, they gave you an answer. Let's hope eBay provides a solution 👍

I worry that matter might meet anti-matter if you two meet 🙂

Blimey (or ‘what?’) has been the standard reaction do far among the few we’ve told, which makes it all the more fun. Re noises, our keys player says he needs some time off to do some programming so yes! We jammed track 1 a few weeks back, lovely to play 👍

Ha ha, I wish, that's a way down the line Mick, but it - or Quadrophenia - are going to happen Next is an interesting shift in direction, Odelay by Beck, gigging it in April al going well 👍

Full tube. 200w. Simple. Lovely ❤️

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I gigged my Ashdown 200 Drophead with matching 115 for the first time on Sunday and could not have been happier. Tone was fatter and smoother than I'd get for the same volume with SVT but could still bit like an angry Jack Russell when needed. And I have to say, of all the big tube heads, I thing Ashdown take the prize for best aesthetics also, especially mine....

I gigged my Ashdown 200 Drophead for the first time on Saturday and could not have been happier. Tone was fatter and smoother than I'd get for the same volume with SVT but could still bit like an angry Jack Russell when needed. And I have to say, of all the big tube heads, I thing Ashdown take the prize for best aesthetics also, especially mine....

.....which is really the ultimate positive outcome 😀

I agree, vague descriptions, deceptive camera angles, and false information. How for example does a body posses 'killer tone', I strongly suspect that he didn't build up a complete bass around a £20 piece of close-to-firewood junk just to check it's tonal qualities before dismantling and listing the body only for sale......

Agree with the previous reply, people aren't watching to buy, they're watching either out of a form or morbid curiosity or to justify selling their own tat at similar rates. Not only true of junk BTW, just the same with vintage Fenders and explains in part many of the high asking prices (they often don't sell for anything like the optimistic prices at which they're advertised, sellers either accept best offers or find a way of turning an eBay listing into a private sale, but the hight early price often sets the tone for subsequent negotiations)

Good combination (it's what I have on my Jazz) 👍 Best advice I can give is keep a close eye on this form, on eBay, and on Reverb and buy used, aim for Warmoth, Allparts, or Might Mite in that order. If you're buying new, Warmoth are always good but expensive and can't be bought new without importing from the US which adds duties/taxes Allparts are excellent necks 98% of the time but when bought from the UK distributor often come unfinished (risk of uneven frets etc) and without a nut, both of which add time and cost. Mighty Mite are good 80% of the time but if you get a 20%er it could be quite poor. Given you're budget - which is decent - the above's where I'd be looking