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Derail away, there are no rules in sparkle culture 😆

Welcome to the forum! I visited SC a few years ago, the opposite end from you, Hilton Head and also a quick jaunt to Savannah, GA. I'm sure it's great to be in vicinity of the rich musical heritage of the Appalachia region.

Love it - purple sparkle occupies a strata all of its own 🤩

What on earth might happen at this bass bash that would require 100 emergency foil blankets?? 😆

Hmm... flamboyant basses I can manage, but the rest of my look tends towards grandad-core!!

Thanks 😄 - according to G&L that's rosewood, but it's the darkest rosewood I've seen on any modern production instrument, outside of builders with special / choice blanks. The seller listed it as ebony and I can see why.

Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing your woodworking skills! The purple one is my favorite. Also, I've have to admit I've never seen a tremolo arm on a bass before.. was that an original G&L thing from the era or something you added?

Funnily enough it started life that way, but was fretted by the previous owner.

More like glamb rock... we might risk dazzling the sheep 🐑 [I'll see myself out 🚪]

My inner magpie wouldn't stop chattering since seeing this... I've wanted a bass with one of these metal flake finishes for years... I'd considered going the custom finish / build route but this ticked all the boxes. Really happy to have a G&L back in the stable. It's a great sounding bass too, loads of sustain and zing. All being well it will be making it to the 2025 North West & Scotland Bass Bash 😀

As your bass is the same year and colour as my old tele, that era of lake placid blue has always felt ever so slightly green tinted to me. But it's always subject to slight variations. Crap photo with dubious lighting, but here's my P with the mint guard. I've tried to leave a bit of white paper in there to help with white balance. Looking forward to seeing it with whatever you choose -that's the important bit of course!!

Lovely bass and the Mexico factory were kicking out some great instruments at this time. I had a 2010 MiM tele which was an excellent player. lol at the tort vs white pickguard debate, when the correct answer is obviously mint. (I have a lake placid blue + dark rosewood Chender P with this combo and it's a good look) Edit: 350 is a steal, congrats on the pre-pandemic pricing 😆

The neck is absolutely gorgeous. The way the lines / cracks on the body finish and the brushing on the pickguard align gives it a very unified look. Also the colour of the pickguard brings together the neck and body finish. Enjoy it!!

Yeah, you make a good point, and I was thinking about this the other day. From a manufacturing perspective tariffs could be disastrous for a company like Fender which, if what one reads on the interwebs is true, regularly transport parts between the US and Mexico facilities. They're only 180 miles away from each other. Perhaps the line of thinking is, if import tariffs increase the price of this manufacturing model, its inevitable that will raise both the price of USA made and Mexico made instruments, for the US domestic market at least. As many counties will likely respond with retaliatory tariffs on American made luxury goods, the cost of a brand new instrument with an F logo may well get hit twice, and that's not even taking into account general inflation and the likely disruption to international markets if a trade war happens. So the Indonesian made line will be a good entry point for ordinary folks without big budgets. Or buy used, it's not like they're rare! Just conjecture of course, I'm no expert in international economics 🤔

If anything it seems to me that the Squiers have been a bit more adventurous / creative in choices of colours, special editions etc. The new releases are fairly, well, pedestrian in that regard. Let's hope a few bucks of that 100 price difference goes into tight QC.

There's something about it which satisfies my eye in terms of proportion (the carved extension on the headstock seems to add to that, funny that it's sort of a Tbird headstock turned upside down)

I love this shape. It's like it's anticipating the more extreme angling of something like a Jackson Warrior or a Washburn Dime. I know nothing about Overwaters. Would these be late 70's early 80's?

This product / price positioning makes a lot of sense though. The MIM instruments used to occupy the circa $/£500 mark a few years ago, but with inflation and the Ensenada plant making "nicer" lines such as Player Plus, there's a gap for a new standard Fender series that hits that price point. Of course it will be interesting to see a side-by-side CV to FS comparison.

Yeah I get a little of that. Everything looks a bit packed in. Those tuners hanging out beyond the bottom curve of the body don't help with it looking "busy". Then again, I guess if you want six strings, a compact body, and plenty of control over the sound this is where you end up. Looking forward to demos of this series anyway.

That's a very fair price for something with probably about £300 worth of upgrades and fret TLC. Your JB's a good deal too. I also just noticed this hanging out in for sale - same pickup configuration as an L-2000 - very cool looking bass imo:

Yeah, Guitar Guitar have very little in stock, no basses; Andertons have some guitars but only one bass at time of writing. Weird. That '81 L-2000 on BassBros is the real deal though - pre lawsuit headstock too. I expect something like that would hold its value well.

Yeah, I think in general the used market is in flux as sellers inflation-adjust their prices upwards, meanwhile there's more and more great used gear around (just maybe not G&Ls 😆)

Not sure if you're anywhere near Manchester but this guy seems to have basses for sale by the tonne on Gumtree. He has a nice looking Tribute for sale: https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/g-l-tribute-series-l-2000-4-string-bass-guitar-sunburst-stunning-/1490956546 The serial number says 2015, well before most of the recent QC shenanigans. Edit: if memory serves the L-1000 I saw was about £900, so you may be able to find a US made in that general price range.

I had a pretty bad experience with a Tribute series ASAT guitar - QC was very poor, and overall it was a bit of a mess. But this was during the Covid era when every company's QC went out the window. However that hasn't soured me on the brand, and in fact I'm eyeing up a USA G&L as we speak (not an L-1000 or 2000, so we're not in competition 😉). I'd certainly consider another Tribute just on the strength of the bridge hardware + pickups, but I'd want to check it out in person first. Let us know the outcome!

Are you thinking USA made or Tribute series? There was a CLF Research L-1000 that came up on Gumtree a few weeks ago which I almost snagged, but dithered for too long and it was gone. So they're out there, but it might need a bit of patience. Not sure on preamps, etc, but replacement pickups can be sourced direct from G&L. I also saw elsewhere on the forum that parts (so presumably also electronics) can be sourced from UK G&L dealers.