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Lovely! Why the battery rout though, when it's going to have passive controls? Are the Overwater pickups active?

I use an EBS NeoDrome 12-150 at home. It's a bit overkill really, but I love it. And it feels right at home in rehearsal spaces and at small gigs too. It doesn't have a cooling fan at all. At 14 kg it isn't particularly light due to the heavy plywood housing, but it's tough as nails and sounds great. At €450 used (but in brand new condition) mine wasn't exactly expensive either. You can sometimes find the regular Drome 12 (without neodynium speaker) for even less, and there's the Drome Classic too that's even more affordable because it's made in China. That one doesn't have a tweeter though, which is normally a major part of EBS's clean fullrange sound!

When I started playing 20 years ago, a lot of stuff I'd love to own now was still much more affordable. The hype around Wal wasn't as crazy as it is now, Warwick was still fairly affordable (a new German Corvette Standard for 600 euros! They charge at least twice that now. I won't even start about used prices), you could still buy a USA Fender under 1000 euros new (almost doubled now), and Fender's shortscale endeavours weren't as hyped up as they are now and therefore very affordable. I would have looked for a cool Wal Mk1, a Warwick Streamer Stage 1 5-string and a cheap lefty Fender Musicmaster or (rare as a lefty) Mustang.

Spot on I think!

Famous last words 😆 Is it that sexy 48 that Bass Direct had in stock? Congrats!

Those damn Japanese sellers and their crazy pricing.

I had a laminated woven carbon fibre nut on a custom ESP guitar, and it was great and looked neat. Pretty much like this: https://www.browndogbanjos.co.uk/carbon-fibre-nut-blanks-guitar-5016-p.asp

Looks great, and the price is fair too!

For the use you're describing, I would rather look at something like an EBS Valvedrive. It seems like it is exactly what you're looking for: a subtle, tube-driven overdrive pedal with a 3-band EQ and two modes that are accessible by footswitch independently from the on/off-footswitch. According to the manual, "The vintage character changes the tube timbre, eq and compresses the signal over the gain stage." The Le Bass looks cool, but I think it is an "always on" kind of pedal, where you either select channel A, channel B or both but with no option of bypassing the pedal. I'm not sure about this, but from what I gather it appears that way. Edit: nope, sorry. There is indeed a bypass mode on the Le Bass by simply tapping the footswitch of the channel that is currently engaged.

That's an interesting one! Looks like it uses the Warwick tailpiece, and the saddles look very much like those used on ABM Mueller bridges (like the monorail headless bridge I posted above). Looks nice, I like the look of a 2-piece bridge. The ones used by Mayones and Jerzy Drozd also look very appealing, and match well with the overall design of their basses.

Only thing I don't like about it is the claw that holds the ball end of the string slides freely over the finish of my bass body when I turn the tuning wheel.

I have played Elixir strings for years and love the feel and long-lasting brightness of coated strings, but try finding coated double-balls I use Status strings on both my S2's now and do like them, but they don't keep their brightness as long.

Out with the subtlety then, and in with some hot J-sized buckers! Ignore the broken English, and take a look at the Roswell hot rails.

That looks awesome! I've lusted after these before, and I loved the very yellow one that @wombatboter owned for a while. Do tell me more about the gauge of that B string! That looks HUGE.

Italia Modulo in Belgium: link.

Here's one with a happy ending: Not on Basschat, but I once responded to this ad on Leftybass.com by our own @whynot (no, I didn't actually save that screenshot that long. I just looked it up again ). I was slightly too late, it was already shipped to the USA! It always stuck with me though, I loved the plain look and the sharp contrast between the bright white body, the ultra black phenolic fingerboard, and the white epoxy Roman numeral inlays. I had never laid hands on a Status or any other graphite necked bass before, let alone heard one, but I had decided right there and then that I wanted one. Fast forward 11 years (!), this happened: The seller lived in the USA as a student when he bought it, but had moved back to Israel in the meantime. Again, someone was ahead of me, but still negotiating. Within a few days, I got a message the other potential buyer was no longer interested and we sealed the deal, and I couldn't be happier! It did turn out a fair bit more expensive because of import duties and VAT, but it was worth it. I still love that bass, and play it regularly. It looks even more fantastic in the flesh

As is Jimmy Haslip. And Doyle Bramhall II who played with Clapton and Roger Waters among others is a famous upside-down guitarist. And Richard Dale of course!

Not enough neck screws Turned out cool!

I dunno, I don't see a bass "made out of 12 skateboards". I just see a solid ash body and a regular maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. The only bits that formerly were skateboard are used as a thin top that won't do a whole lot to the tone of the bass ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Looks cool though, but I agree with @Crawford13: with a clear pickguard, that routing looks like cr@p. I would have opted for a rear-routed body without a pickguard, or with the see-through pickguard with recessed knobs like Atelier Z frequently uses:

Yep! I had an Italia Torino Bass once that was great fun - but weighed a ton. It had a big, solid maple center block that made it really heavy. Sounded huge, was really fun to play (short scale) and was really well-made. The cream finish looked nice too, although I would have preferred a finish that made the cream bindings around the top, back and F-holes pop out more.

I think that model is called CR4. You may find more about it under that nametag

That looks incredible! I especially love all the dark veneers at almost every glue joint, it really adds a touch of class to it. Beautiful bass!

As a lefty I've always had an aversion to black and sunburst basses and guitars as it's often the only colour option we're given. But I'm gradually turning around, and have actually come to love the classic look of black on black on Fender style instruments. It just looks so classy and understated! That JMJ looks lovely with the black guard on

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First off, what an awesome find, and in beautiful condition! Congrats About the date: you might be on to something with the reversing of the date! Here's another '83 JV heel, which clearly shows the manufacturing date: Japanese writing is traditionally vertical, from top to bottom, with the lines read from right to left. However, when the Japanese write horizontal, it is in the same order as English. So this seems like a weird mistake to make!