PJ-74 VW Vintage Series : Astonishing Value

I have bought harley benton previously. I have a rosewood veneer jazz style bass which is excellent although pretty heavy and I bought my son the "thinline" tele with the P90 soapbars. This again is a tremendous guitar. I just fancied trying the PJ style pickup layout and this Pj 74 OW looked really nice on the website. I struggle to say how good this bass is. When it arrived I could have gigged with it straight from the box. It was still in tune. I always fiddle about with my guitars so I expected to have to adjust the truss rod and string height...but everything was perfect. The finish is flawless and the colour, olympic white, is beautiful. It had the typical jazz problem with the two volume controls...with both vols on full it actually gets quieter but that is solved by backing off the bridge vol slightly. I wanted to do the series pickup mod anyway which I did with a push pull vol pot. It is good but really it sounded good with the standard VVT setup anyway. I did lower the strings at the nut but not by much. I didn't have to do it. I have gigged with it twice in a week. We all have Fenders and Gibsons in the band and the rest of the crew were amazed at this thing. This is a £150 bass. If it had fender written on the headstock and cost a £1000 I wouldn't be disappointed. OK..I play through good gear..TC RS Cabs and Hartke heads but my main bass is a 1987 Ernie Ball Stingray and I also use a 1973 Precision.......but I just prefer using the HB. It really is just as good. Maybe I just got a good one but I don't think so. This thing really is astonishing value.