I just bought one of these, and am I surprised! It's a lot better bass than I expected, albeit with some still typical Chinese factory flaws. Mine was actually setup pretty well. I IMMEDIATELY removed the 'Douglas' brand, with a paper towel, dampened with lacquer thinner, one pass, and it was gone. I then removed the neck, tuners and bushings. I drew a Telecaster Bass headstock outline on it, from photographs of a few I found on the net- and ran it through my bandsaw, then on to the belt sander. I finished it off by fine sanding, and scraping it to a smooth finish. About 1.5 hours total. I put the neck back on, and a set of the huge Fender 9050 flats..with a 110 'E' and a 55 'G' - big strings. I had to adjust the neck, and the rod is about as tight as it will go. It set up great and sounds too good to be true for a $139.00 bass. I had to round the fret ends a bit...but I've also had to do that to much more expensive basses. I decided to take an OLD, brittle piece of white acrylic plastic that's been in my shop for years, and make a pickguard, just for the hell of it. I wasn't too crazy about the black one. I'll replace it with a vinyl Allparts white vinyl blank soon. I just did some practicing with it. I don't know why, other than the noise factor, anyone would want to replace the pickup. It sounds great. The sunburst finish is really well done, and is on par with the more expensive Squier 50's look basses. I'm going to take it to a gig with a big sound stage and a great soundman tomorrow. I have a few pics to show what you can do with the headstock- as others have done before me, and what it looks like with the white guard. I can't upload them to this post, they're too big, but I'll be happy to e-mail them to anyone interested.

Here are the pics that Dave (lhbassist) just sent me

man i really want one of theese but cant get past the headstock and i wouldnt have no idea on how to mod it...