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The J series looks great. Very classy

That is insane. I've seen these sell for £600-700

The 200 series is near the bottom of the pile when it comes to the ESP/ltd range. Good bang for your buck but nothing special. The real deal ESP stuff is truly awesome. Gibson have a few lawsuits out to stop them taking business away. I have never seen one of these in person but i am a regular poster on the ESP forum so i have a good idea of what they are like. The relic work is varnished over (which defeats the object) Guitar-village had the real deal ESP model on sale for £599 last year.

If they were not in the eBay auction pictures it could have been damaged in transit. A claim with royal mail (or other courier) might be an option.

My first bass was a milestone III. I traded in an epiphone SG400 for it. Nice slim neck, frets were all great and the fingerboard had an eyecatching figuring. The pickups were average and the input jack was shoddy until i properly fixed it up. Highly recommend as a starter or just something cheap to sling around.

Thomann have added the new warwicks to their site

I am sure the Warwick Korean models will still be of good quality. In my eyes they are just upgraded Rockbasses. The price of some of them is crazy. The signature models are all around £1600. With the way thing are going 90% of companies need a cheapish range of instruments to survive. Zon and Overwater have overseas built models now. Guys like Ken Lawrence can keep busy by working off word of mouth and charge $8000 a go.

I am guessing this bass is good by the positive reviews. I saw a new one today for £775 and might get it.

With every year and price increase it makes the used market look better and better. You can get the odd good deal and if you know the right people a friendly discount but the average Joe is getting priced out of the market.

[quote]Dean Guitars and the John Entwistle estate will be unveiling two models of the new John Entwistle bass line at the 2011 Winter Namm show in Anaheim, California January 13th through 16th. According to John's son Chris Entwistle, the estate chose Dean because of their attention to detail plus their willingness and ability to bring the project to market swiftly without sacrificing quality. Steve Luongo, John's drummer and personal friend of 15 years steered the estate to Dean Guitars as he knew company CEO Elliott "Dean" Rubinson is a touring bass player who grew up on John's playing. "Brand was not as important to John as the actual playability and John would let the instrument do the talking" said Luongo. "John has been a huge influence on me and I am proud to be on the front line in the development of these instruments, also being able to play and hear them live on stage when playing with the Michael Schenker Group and Cactus" Rubinson said. The first two models in the new Entwistle line are 'The Spider' and 'The Hybrid', both made in Dean's legendary USA Custom Woodshop in Tampa, FL. Both of these USA models will incorporate the new Aphex Exciter/Big Bottom/Compression circuit on board, an industry first. There is also a Hybrid model that sells for under $1000. "I know that if John were here today he would love these basses" said company CEO Rubinson who will join Steve Luongo and Mark Hitt on stage at the Dean Guitars 2nd Annual NAMM JAM party, Fri. Jan 14th at The Grove of Anaheim, where the bass will be played in public for the first time[/quote] Thanks to the various sources over on the talkbass forum

[quote name='eude' post='1081229' date='Jan 7 2011, 03:54 PM']Wonder what kinda price they'll be....[/quote] The list prices are Pro series start around £900 The signatures are about £1500

I saw this about a week ago. Nothing blew me away to be honest. I expect the new Paul Grey ATK to be around for a year until a new guy gets it. Every year there is a thread on the ESP guitars forum that shows the best stuff from NAMM a good month before it happens.

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='1080489' date='Jan 6 2011, 09:42 PM']If they can put these out at around £300 they'll be a steal[/quote] After having a look on Warwicks site, the cheapest models are listed at just over £400. The Pro range is upwards from £898 and the cheaper version of the signature models float around the £1500. Even with some store mark down and haggling they are quite expensive. I dare not look at now much the ones made in Germany cost.

I posted this on the talkbass forum earlier but thought i would post it here too. [url="http://www.warwick.de/catalog/export/"]Warwick[/url]

[quote name='fretmeister' post='1000699' date='Oct 26 2010, 12:51 AM']I think it is simple - a bassist from Trivium is not going to have enough fans with money for BC Rich to put out a £3000 bass with all the trimmings. So they make one that will sell to the market that listens to Trivium the most. Exactly for the same (but in reverse) reason that Fender won't do a MIM Dave Gilmore strat. Signature models are in tribute to the artist - if you want the exact same instrument, then phone their custom shop just like the artist did. They will be happy to take your order.[/quote] I have to agree with all of this. Most trivium fans are well under the age of twenty and very few of them have the money to buy a US made bass with the spec the real deal has. The other sigs from the Trivium guys are reasonably priced for what they are. If the fan base of Pete Wentz was in their twenties and older instead of teens then his sig would be a fender and not squire. It is all about making money as easy as possible.

[quote name='Stacker' post='991408' date='Oct 17 2010, 06:28 PM']I remember seeing this bass player a band in Edinburgh when I was a teenager who had an old Rick 4001 and he'd put a Strat pup in where the foam mute used to be. He said, as I recall, that it "brought out the highs"! What utter bullshit! I think he just had it in there as a conversation piece!![/quote] Cliff Burton did this to his Rickenbacker and many Metallica fans have probably done it too.