LeftyJ

Stunning! What is that top wood? A different shade of ash? Not usually a fan of LED's, but just the side dots is tasteful and not overly flashy. Nice!

Oh god, that guy. I wish his hands were replaced with broccolis so he can't wield his tools anymore. Although I'm sure he'll just start buying up all the cheap 12-string ERB's on eBay and convert them to 6-string guitars for people with broccoli hands. There once was a version of the famous Der Untergang scene made with subtitles about his "craftwork", but I can't find it anymore. It was fantastic.

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Someone took a good look at a Wishbass and thought "I can do better than that!" Truth is they probably did 😄

LOL, it's not a pretty sight, no. On a serious note though, the tension-free neck was a really clever and innovative design that's still being used after almost 50 years! Ibanez even had the high-end USA-made versions of the RG guitars and ATK basses (USRG and USATK) made by Bunker with that neck design, and they're fantastic beasts if you know how to wield them. They look weird though, with the separate headstock mounted to the brass neck construction. Here's one in pieces: http://www.strangeguitarworks.com/disassembling-an-ibanez-usatk-neck/

Good time for us Euro-folk to buy gear in the UK then!

I had an Audere in my Jazz and loved the range of tones it offers. The impedance switch felt a bit useless to me (huge effect though!), but the EQ is good. Because my bass had a side jack, I chose the version with passive tone control at the 4th spot where otherwise the jack would have been. I was annoyed with all the knobs working counter-intuitive though because it was a righty unit and all my other basses have reverse pots.

Just went up from 300 to 800 euros.

Cool! One of those Aria's has been for sale here for quite some time. I believe it only had frets 1-7, and had the rest pulled. Cool and rare beast.

What finish is that? Was it refinished? I've never seen an RS924 in anything other than black, brown sunburst or transparent violin.

Unitune for me too, I love it. It's fast, accurate and the display is very good. I like it so much that I've also bought a Polytune 3 Noir micro pedal for my pedalboard and it's perfect in every sense!

There is (seemingly unbeknownst to the seller) a rare 1970s Bunker bass advertised in the Netherlands, with a tension-free neck. In the only picture provided in the ad it is missing it's headstock (which is supposed to be bolted to the metal frame inside the neck. The outer wooden shell is just that: a shell. Interesting concept. Dave Bunker built the high end Ibanez USRG guitars and USATK basses in the mid 1990s. https://link.marktplaats.nl/m1543395287 Here's what it should have looked like, with the headstock attached:

The 5-string on the right. It's a 2012 Status S2 Classic bolt-on, previously owned by @Bonin-in-the boneyard. It's a very basic S2 without fancy woods or tone blocks or the like. Just a woven carbon graphite neck paired to a poplar body. It looks black in the picture, but it's actually a metallic anthracite and looks more like dark grey in person. It's super comfortable, the neck is wide and flat and it has a huge range of tones. It's currently tuned a full step down to ADGCE because I've been using it in a doom metalband, and even with the light strings I have on it (.040-.125) it feels great and still sounds tight, and required zero adjustments to the setup. The neck didn't move at all. It's just brilliant.

That looks like a TRB6P, which is neck-through-body and has a piezo bridge. The TRB5II is bolt-on, without piezo's.

I wish they had stuck to the regular shape with rounded edges. Not a fan of the angular body edges with bindings. I also wonder what happened to their Mustang plans from some time ago and how it changed to a shortscale Jazz all of a sudden 😄 (screenshot is from 19th of March 2019)

Definitely this 🙂

I've owned two and loved them. I've had no trouble cutting through a mix and have used them both in a wide range of styles from pop covers to metalcore. They have quite an effective EQ, and aside from the external controls the tone of the pickups themselves can be fine-tuned too. There are two trim pots in the electronics cavity that let you adjust the amount of "humbucking" by blending in the second coil of each pickup. This is subtle, but audible.

This one gained quite some internet fame: The Lack table apparently has its legs exactly 19" apart.

My contribution: I actually own this (but lefty, of course). It looks ridiculous and is really weird and uncomfortable to play due to no neck profile whatsoever, but it's loads of fun. And actually surprisingly well-made! Recessed monorail bridges, strings-through-body, custom-made stacked humbucker pickups per string and a real bone nut. It sounds remarkably like an upright bass with flatwounds.

This is not going to help then: I've owned two LB75's and a B4, and with the exception of my second LB75 they have all been great. I bought all of them used, resale value on used Carvins = crap. My DC727 came from Gumtree and belonged to Joaquin Ardiles of Good Tiger, formerly of The Safety Fire. My first LB75 (all-black, ebony board, J-MM pickups) I bought here on Basschat for a very low price because it had some damage to the finish. My B4 also came from Basschat. My latest LB75 was customized, and I didn't like it. Beautiful flamed walnut top and a hidden neck-through, but it just didn't feel right. The previous owner had the lacquer on the neck removed and the neck profile shaved and then tung-oiled, and failed to mention this in the ad. Was a very unpleasant surprise when I found out, and since then the bass just didn't feel right to me.

Not my photo, but very much my guitar: It's a Carvin DC727. Controls are volume (push-pull for passive), passive tone, active two-band EQ, 3-way pickup selector, coil split for each pickup individually, and a phase switch. Very versatile guitar, huge range of tones!

On the old ones it should be engraved in the string clamp at the top of the neck.

That would be the Series 4000, with the composite bodies. They were available in black, but they had J-style pickups and were bolt-on and you can clearly tell the neck pocket from the front. They also had much simpler controls than the S2000.

The name is odd, they've been using that for several years for one of their fullblown metal guitars and this bass is something entirely different. They have absolutely nothing in common. I'm not a big fan of the headstock either, or the pickguard design. I'd rather get a Reverend Wattplower.

I thought the Eclipse always had the more rounded shape, but this one has the classic S2 body shape. It also appears to be either neck-through or one-piece, as the neck does not continue below the end of the fingerboard whereas on a bolt-on like the Eclipse you would see the neck pocket continue down to the neck pickup. My guess is Series 2000.