Bullfighter 4 String Electric Bass Guitar, Full Size Standard Right Handed Rosewood Fretboard Bass Kit with Gig Bag Strap Cable (wood)

The guitar arrived with no damage, but I would suggest some packing styrofoam instead of a cardboard box and a gigbag. More important than that is total lack of quality control, fortunately I work on guitars so the following problems were corrected by me. Tuners collar nut loose on all tuners, fret ends not filed,(they actually scratched my fingers), reverse relief in the neck, requiring major truss rod adjustment. All collar nuts on volume and tone pots were also loose, causing entire pot to rotate inside. But for $200 it’s a decent modifying platform, and a neck through guitar is worth the effort.

I'm surprised the bass survived. The box was all but destroyed. Therefore I give it 4 stars.. plays nice.

Yes, the packaging was minimal, and amazing it came undamaged. However, this is probably the best deal you can find on a bass right now, especially if you can get it on Black Friday sale or Prime Day or something. I bought it together with a cheaper Glarry bass and a Squire Classic Vibe 70's (that cost twice as much) to compare them all. The Glarry offers no competition. The Bullfighter is solid, and dare I say beautiful. The Glarry felt like a cheap toy next to it, and the neck dive on the Glarry was absurd. The Bullfighter is every bit as substantial as the Squire, has better fit and finish, offers active pickups, neck through body, and I thought it sounded better too. Much more meaty and with greater sonic variation from the controls. Playing through a Fender Rumble 100W, not my favorite, but it's what I have.The setup was basically good-enough-for-me out of the box. (Shipped with stings detuned, of course.) The neck is very substantial, thicker than the Squire, and to me it feels good, although I'm used to thinner Ibanez necks. The fretboard inlays are unique, and quite nice I think. The fretboard feels nice to play on. The pickups are very powerful, very quiet humbuckers, and the output seems very bass-heavy with pots at neutral, but you can adjust it of course. I have noticed some clipping when I really dig into the strings, so I'm guessing the electronics may be cheap or the pickups too close to strings, but doesn't really bother me. I've seen complains about sharp fret edges, but they are perfect on the example I received. (In fact, the Squire frets jabbed my finger far more often than those on the Bullfighter.) The strings seem to have good character, not dead, although nowhere near as bright as the strings on the Squire. Can't comment on the tuners, except that they work OK, but look cheap. The pots look cheap but feel quite solid, nice resistance, good on-center feedback. The battery compartment has ample space, no messy wires, and works fine.The wood body is attractive, although barely finished at all. "Natural" is no joke. The body is not a single piece of wood, however, and on mine that's very apparent. They did not take great care in choosing pieces with similar grain, so it has a little Frankenstein look, but hey, it's unique. If I were to do it again, I would order more than one and then choose the one that looks the best, since it seems the variation can be extreme.The Bullfighter brand is produced by Changsha Bullfighter Musical Instrument in China, and their website is a comedy of automatic translations, but it seems like they know how to make a good bass. Longevity? Who knows.