PB-50 SB Vintage Series : Great Bass for peanuts

I needed a spare bass to throw around the house.

The bass was well packed and arrived in the UK fairly promptly.

THe bass is solid and not to weighty. There was no real flaws in the craftsmanship , infact ive see worse in squire and fender bases. The neck has one minor wood grain flaw that is basically just a slight difference in colouring.

The routing and bridge and pickup fixing was spot on and the nut and machine heads all quite straight,

The tuning was noticeably stiff but improving.

The pick-up sounds clean and quite with a low mid punch much like the bass it copies.

Action was initially high and neck a little to curved for me. A quick tweek and the action is nice a low with minimal buzz. A couple of hours fret dressing would probably only reep a mm lower action. Neck is big and wide but I have big hands. I feel quite comfortable playing this even at speed.

Bottom line... This is quite astounding for the price. BAck in the 80s, I've played worse US fender basses than this. TBH if this had fender on the headstock, 50% people would not know. Comparable to a medium quality squire and poor Fender.

Maybe I was lucky.