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Got this guy a few weeks back now, I think around the time the board-which-shall-not-be-named got momofied.

I have a cheap IYV/IVY P-style but I have it strung with flats and foamed the bridge and I really wanted to leave it that way but also to learn how to slap bass so I figured I'd better get another bass. This thing showed up on the local market for a so-so price (not bad, not great) but I loved the look of it and wound up biting after talking to the guy for a while and talking him down a little bit.

I really like it. I don't know that much about basses but it feels pretty good and I love how it looks. It's just got the one active pickup so I guess you better remember to keep a 9v in the bag, but I like it a lot. The one complaint I really have is that the tuners are pretty horrible, they kind of skip and feel worse than even the ones on my super-cheap bass. I was a little worried they were going to break. I might think about replacing them whenever I have to change the strings but that might be a while.

It's called "mint green" but it looks like surf green to me, although in certain angles it looks more blue.

Couple of pics:
it looks blue in this one:

I have one of those as well. For the money, they're really awesome. I have a Mojotone 2-band preamp to put in it and looks like I'm picking up an alnico Stingray pickup to drop in as well. I definitely would like to find some genuine EBMM tuners and bridge to swap out at some point as well, but those are mostly ok for now.

Replace bass strings?
That's just crazy talk.

I owned one of those basses for a minute. Mine had the walnut stain finish. I bought it on impulse, sight-unseen, mainly because there was so much buzz about them when they first came out. But by the time it arrived, my level of desire had dropped a few notches. It was a really good bass for the price, but it didn't really fill a need, or bring anything that new to the table, and I got buyer's remorse... I returned it to Guitar Center before the 45 days were up, but I played it for about a month before doing so. It's a good bass... Sounded good, played great! Congrats!