Shipping from Japan is super easy. Howard made a thread on it. Although I don’t know about imports to Germany
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it will likely arrive sooner than if you ordered from Thomann, even in Germany 
Japan has lot of J models I have noticed.
@Whying_Dutchman I await your opinion of the VS4.
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It’s 8:51 in the morning here - shop opens at 10:00!
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11:51 here time for bed lol I will check back when I wake up
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Yeah, more popular here for some reason. Many, many boutique J’s at staggering quality levels. Same for the bigger names; most Atelier Z’s are J basses, for example. Same with Vellmor, Momose/Bachhus/Deviser, Black Smoker, etc.
You all confuse me 
Thomann delivers next day here - nobody can beat that.
Also: the main (except for @Al1885 's great reasoning) reason I did not get the Reverend Dub King is the fact that I had to buy it abroad.
So no way to send it back cheaply.
So Japan is no option…
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Well off to bed then, and when I wake up I expect to here how crappy the VS4 is so I don’t have to deal with GAS
Johnny Dibble did a review of a Vintage bass and he really liked it
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True, from Japan would probably be 4-5 days. Probably on Deutsche Post as well
I’ve had things I ordered here (with standard shipping, nothing special) arrive within 12 hours. Shipping is kind of down to a science here.
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Here it takes about 3 days to get a bass from Thomann’s or Japan. Done both
and they won’t sell me an Antigua Bass Vi dagnabbit
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really? I would have guessed they would be all but giving them away
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I get a message they can’t ship Squier to the US
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now that’s wild, since none of them are made in the US
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Ok, my findings for the Vintage VS4 CR Reissued Bass Cherry Red
Prologue:
- The sales guy, a bass player, was wonderfully no-nonsense for a German. I felt like a nerd, talking about fiddling and modifying…He said: “I just need a volume knob on my bass and PLAY. No fiddling around, no f#cking discussions about strings - they are all the same!”. That’s punk, my friends!
- I play better in a store than at home. I did not feel ashamed and nobody laughed (in my face)
About the bass:
- that’s one heavy short scale bass. It feels massive!
- It looks great, in bloody red
- I was underwhelmed with the sound - much worse than my humbucker ESP. I played a cheap short scale fender to hear the difference and I instantly liked it. And compared to the Rascal, this bass is nothing!
- The tuners feel cheap
- The nut is good - 42mm graphite
- The strings feel cheap, but the sales guy says that it’s all the same anyway
- The neck is massive. Frets are ok, but the neck is really thick. Also it is very sticky. To misquote a famous president of a well known country: “I did not have sexual relationship with that bass” - but it felt like other players had, if you know what I mean. Oh, and the neck is glued on…
- One of the humbuckers sounded ok, but not as “rich” in tonality as my ESP. The other had a harsh/sharpish sound, my ears could not stand the sound.
- The bridge is massive, but you cannot set action height for each string individually.
- The knobs were knobby.
For the price I would not take it. I am eyeing a 2nd hand version though, which would cost me about 230€. For that price I could take it apart and replace everything I don’t like - except the neck.
Pictures (the red colour appears brighter here - the real colour is more like the blood of your opponent, one hour after a bar fight).
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It looks like a pretty normal EB-3 style Gibson clone, though with slight differences (pickups etc).
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I hope that the original Gibson is better!
those are awesome, adding to the short scale thread
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IKR? Totally cool, tiny, adorable things.
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This copies real life. 10ish years ago ESP made some miniature Babymetal guitars and sold them for a small fortune, and they all sold out in a flash. So why not make an anime and do it for real?
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NGL the tiny instruments are adorable and I kind of want one of the 28" BTL’s