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  1. quiet1_au

    Help Identifying?

    Yes as mine has lost a patch of finish from the back of the neck it appears to be mahogany too. I haven't dared touch my truss-rod, although it seems to have high neck relief it's possibly helping avoid fret buzz from a fretboard that appears to have de-laminated a bit. It plays OK as is so...
  2. quiet1_au

    Help Identifying?

    I saw an Invalid Link Removed that appears to be the same as your's mralex (possibly slightly different tuners but black knobs and truss rod cover)? Digging around some more I came across an aside article on drowninginguitars.com covering a whole range of weird and strange pickups - one of...
  3. quiet1_au

    Help Identifying?

    Also not sure about the wood used - the optimist in me wonders if it's Mahogany? It's very straight grained, totally different to the basswood used on my Jet King 1 guitar (which is similiar in style to this bass and the reason I bought this bass :D))
  4. quiet1_au

    Help Identifying?

    That's one of the links I came across MaxDusty. There are some small differences (to my bass that is, perhaps not the OP's bass) such as the truss-rod cover plate, lack of thumb-rest (finger-rest on the pickguard was clearly once there though), black knobs, the lower horn has been flattened...
  5. quiet1_au

    Help Identifying?

    I just bought one of these basses myself. Mine is missing the finger-rest on the pickguard, those little pointers and has a red/black burst headstock (and back of the neck too, although there is a patch of missing lacquer on it :eek::() I was hoping you might have found out a little more about...
  6. quiet1_au

    Post your vintage Japanese basses

    I just bought the same unbranded Japanese short-scale bass that Nortega shared a couple of years ago. It's been mildly modded with a regular bass bridge (but I have the parts of the original twin-saddle one), a rewound pickup for greater output, and it's missing a finger-rest - not to mention...