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Wow, great read, learnt a few things tonight re my old bass, big thanks to all the previous posters and information! Here's some pics of my Encore E83 bought from Mr Music guitar shop in Glasgow very early 90s, (I know I bought it there as the strap still pristine, the bass never left my flat as I was a guitarist/programmer and not a bass player). Cannot be sure of the year, looks like an earlier one as the Encore logo is higher up on headstock above string trees, the string trees are chunkier and the headstock style is older version? Might have read some of this wrong. I had a Roland W-30 sampling workstation and a Yamaha MT-3X 4-track with 6 channel mixer and I used get the guys I was in a band with round to flat to record demos (guitar band stooges/bunnymen etc, our own stuff, we supported The Primitives early 90s for Scottish gig). Drummer lived 30miles away so I prgrammed all the drums on W-30/Cubase. Bass player lived in east-end and only turned up for practices/gigs so it was me and singer/guitarist who did most of demos. I used to prgram the bass using Cubase on Atari 1040ST triggering W-30 samples, sounded great most of time but.... I bought the Encore as some songs needed a real bass on them and slides (being a guitarist), and you cannot beat a driving bass line, right, think Lucretia My Refecltion heavy-duty. Took me hrs and usually aching bleeding fingers to get a good take... 😉 My own fault, got better at bass when kept it simple. It's all stock (even the strings are factory as I do not ever remember changing them when I found out how much a new set was back in day 😉 ), not really an issue if it's only ever picked up now again. Having said that I set it up last Christmas as I'd set up my other guitars over holidays and felt bad for leaving it out, truss rod is a pain as need to remove neck however it plays way better now than it ever did back in 90s 😉