BassAgent

Oh boy how I love semantic discussions.

Self-taught, then. He had an education in accounting.

I stand corrected! Absolutely true.

Oh sorry reading it back it was formulated a bit too bluntly. Didn't want to make you sound dumb or ignorant

Leo Fender was not a luthier and he never claimed to be one. He was an engineer and inventor.

Exactly. Same goes for not crafting your own hardware. Any person who builds a stringed instrument from bare wood but uses existing hardware (e.g. Hipshot or Gotoh) is still a luthier in my book. It's the wood crafting that counts.

I'm pretty surprised nobody has named this yet: Lakland Skyline 44-64 Vintage. Excellent quality, sounds and looks like a Precision but with a nice, slim neck. I had one for a while and sometimes regret selling it a bit.

Not too many, only two: First series JV, bought for an absolute bargain (75 euros), sold for a lot more, still regret it. I know the current owner but he won't sell it back to me. The Skarbee bass. Excellent.

I stand corrected! However: Custom was not (AFAIK) a Dutch brand, right? Also there was Gerrinez: Ibanez (Fujigen) basses imported by Gerritsen from The Hague.

Yep it's in the control cavity.

Hah nice! Looking at the body grain I don't think it's the same bass, but André had the habit of building multiple bodies and necks for one bass to match them. There's also one with a coromandel fretboard. Do you know the serial of your old bass?

Correct. They didn't even put the logo on the TRC some of the time:

Could be any brand from that era. Kasuga, Ibanez, Custom, Pearl, Aria, Aspen, all the same instruments.

That's because it's not a "true" Grabber. I've tried to ignore that standpoint and just look at the bass as is.

I wrote a review on that bass a while back and was very impressed by the quality. Enjoy that great bass!

Found this playlist last week: 250 hours(!!!) of Trojan music. Lovely.

Okay yes but this is not fair.

Multiple basses. My 1966 Jazz, my fretless Jazz and my 1971 Precision will never be replaced.

Absolutely nothing beats a (second hand) Squier for that money.

Thanks! I don't think this is the one from Marktplaats. There are 3 or 4 of these, André always built a couple of bodies and necks for one bass to match them. I know at least two other basses like these, one with a maple fretboard and one with coromandel. Very very versatile. To be honest, it has D'Addario Chromes on it and I really dislike flats on a Jazz, especially on such a hi fi, modern bass like this. So its exact sound still has to reveal itself to me

Thanks! It's an MM/J combination

Pretty straightforward: J-M-J. It has three volumes, 2 band EQ, switch for either the J or MM bridge pickup, single/parallel/series switch for the MM pickup and an active/passive switch.

The Sadowsky has left the house. It was replaced by a Van der End, so the fiver Jazz stable now looks like this: