OK, well here's the skinny and I'm going to be brutally honest. I bought this new last year and I will be honest, I was fairly smitten; it was my first fresh out of the box bass in some years and I'd been waiting many moons for it to arrive. Forum members who share an interest in these basses will be aware my purchase wasn't without issues and the net result was that it required a rewire as the original Gibson pots were well under the recommendation for the pickups, so got changed to 500K un