I doubt Eastwood could ask such a low price if they were considering reproducing the original Moog electronics.
Yeah. I didn't see the price before. Surprisingly affordable. My point wasn't that they should have repro'd the Moog circuit at that pricepoint (or at all; probably not worth it), but rather that they should have referred to this as an RD Standard (or just RD). For fans, the 'Artist' designation means something and this bass isn't it. I certainly wouldn't want their silly treble boost circuit (in the bass version; might be cool in the geetar).
That pic is of an actual Gibson RD Bass reissue so we don't know what the Eastwood version would look like (details; e.g finish colour as per their speil) or what the pups would be. Chances are they'd use some sort of J style pup (because that's easy, and their drawings seem to imply that, thugh I'm not sure where those came from), but probably not the same Seymour Duncans Gibson did on the reissue.... Use of the J style is, I think, a mistake in the Gibson reissue/sig, despite Novoselic's vintage bass purportedly sporting them at some point (though if it's his sig, and he wanted it that way, fine, but still think it was a bad decision). They also make no mention of the wood choice.
Not realistic for production, but as a mod I think some G3 Bill Lawrence pups (bridge position not quite so at the bridge) or some lipsticks would be cool in this thing.
They also need better copy writers.