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Hello everyone! Long story here but I will try to be synthetic. Before Pete, owner of Wal, passed away in mid 2000, he started a project of a new bass together with Martin Sims of Enfield Guitars. After the death of Pete the project was put in standby and only one year ago Martin Sims decided to complete it. When I discovered that I purchased it, that was before Covid. Now after one year I received it but unfortunately due to financial issue I can't keep it so I have sadly to sell it. It looks and sounds gorgeous. Moreover is super versatile due to SIMS Super Quad Pickups and John East pre-amp. It's indeed absolutely UNIQUE. Here follows the features: By Wal: Body: Mahogany core with maple top & back 5 piece Maple neck Super dark ebony fingerboard (24 frets) Bridge Polyester black finish By Sims: 2 Sims Super quad pickups with 3 way switch for each pickup (single coil, series, parallel) John East preamp (stacked knobs with gain and frequency control) Front and dot side less (you can choose between just dot and both dot and front side through the switch). Hard case included but not Wal.

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Due the lack of musical activity, I also have to put this bass up for sale. I'm sure I will regret, this is the best bass I ever touched (and I had a lot of them). I was very happy to buy it back this year, but I have no choice in these strange times. Specs: - Body: ash - Top: cocobolo - Neck: maple - Fretboard: grenadilla, 24 frets, mother of pearls block inlays - Scale length: 35" - String spacing at bridge: adjustable, 19 mm now - Pickups: Basslines (Seymour Duncan) soapbars - Preamp: Seymour Duncan 3 band 9V - Weight: 4.2 Kg on my bathroom scale - Price: €3500 + shipping, fully insured (only €, please), used Mono Vertigo gig bag included (https://www.thomann.de/ro/mono_cases_vertigo_electric_bass.htm), not the soft case from the pictures, that is the case of my ex-KL6. - Trading options - Spector or Warwick Streamer (only if I'll receive minimum €2000 difference), but try me, who knows... Please PM. The bass is made in 12.01.2001 (serial no. 226) and is in excellent condition, let's say minimum 9/10 (some traces on the back of the body, almost invisible due to the ash grain). More pictures and sound/video clip by request.

TRADE VALUE £795 Yamaha Billy Sheehan Attitude Special, made in Taiwan 1997, electric blue metallic. This was the fairly short-lived version of his signature 'Attitude' bass. These were made for a couple of years out of Taiwan and sold at a less eye-watering price than the MIJ models, while still featuring some classic Billy Sheehan features The neck is fairly slim with a 40mm nut; slightly bigger than a vintage style Jazz Bass but not as big as a traditional P. It's very slick in the hands; the satin finish and 12" radius make it pretty shred-friendly. The body is light and lively but still well balanced against the neck; there's no 'dive' to speak of. The pickup combo and electronics is unique: you get a standard P pickup with it's own volume knob but no tone knob, as well as the signature big passive HB in the neck, which also has a seperate volume as well as a tone control. Basically, you can start off with a juicy, growling P-style tone, then use the neck pickup to dial in a whole world of extra fatness and low-end punch. This shiny blue finish with the cheeky red inlays is seldom seen on this model; it looks terrific. This is a brilliant gigging bass. There are a couple on marks here and there but excellent condition for a 30yr old bass. Trade for Fender Nate Mendel. Postage £25 uk. 20201120_102204.mp4

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I've only just got this having been told twice that it weighs 8.5 lbs, it really does not! The real weight of this beautiful bass is 10.85 lbs. Which is why I'm selling it. I'm 74 with a glass shoulder and a very bad back. This is a quality reissue of the 1976 Stingray, When Mr Fender started the company. It has the dampers and the white pickup cover to finish it off, in the flesh (or wood) it looks amazing and plays wonderfully well being a 2eq. I can't tell you how disappointed I am over this bass, I love it and you will too. The price includes delivery. ****I should add that the only trade I would consider is another Stingray that weighs 8.5 lbs, 2eq, Maple board.**** Please buy it.

CASH PRICE £1999 TRADE VALUE £2695 Alembic Elan made in 1990. Excellent condition. Spec below: Model: Elan top: Flame Maple accent: none body: Maple finish: Stormburst neck: 3-piece Maple scale; 34" long fingerboard: Ebony inlays: Pearloid (plastic) ovals pickups: Alembic PJ controls: volume, pan, filter, Q-switch, mono output hardware: chrome plated brass Comes with Alembic hard case MIGHT TRADE. NO P/ BASSES OR JAZZ. ANYTHING UNUSUAL THANKS FOR LOOKING

Gutted but I need to get some money. It's taken me years to finally get one of these but I now REALLY need to sell a few things. These have been long discontinued apart from a very short run about 5 years ago. There is currently a used one in Sweden, on Reverb, at a very ambitious £681 +£93 delivery! Excellent condition apart from 3 cymbal nibbles & 1 little scratch on the back. Strings are a little tired. Vol/vol/master tone (with push/pull treble cut for full fat neck woofer), from brown note to R**********r -esque clank. 9lb 5oz, lovely fast 40mm nut, neck like a Nate Mendel. Beautifully built. https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/el_basses/bb714bs/index.html#product-tabs Feedback linked after photos. Will courier for extra £44 (£18 + VAT of that is insurance). UK mainland or organise your own collection. Or collection from Darlington. Sorry, no trades. No gigbag or case included in price (extra £20 for basic Ritter gigbag if required). Cheers, Karl.

£550 is an absolute steal for a cab of this quality!

Im only selling because ive just got a Billy "Wife " copy. Ive recorded with this and it sounds great

Nice Bass 4,9 Kilo fully original ,Everthing works fine , frets are Well use but still plenty of Life there , Bass was Set Up and got new Strings, Original Case stinks a Bit but IT can BE cleaned Bass use to BE placid Lake blue but affter many years became Green ,still Songs of blue on the Back. Will trade against music man 5 Strings , please No Special models , im Not Sure about oder Trades but Fell free to offer i will add Money for the right Bass If needed. Cheers alexis

Due to the Covid-19 situation and severe back problems (66% officially disabled because of it) plus right shoulder injury (non-operable capsulitis from which, after more than 3 years, I will never fully recover), I'm selling all my basses over 4 kilos and also the ones I'm not really using. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. ACG Finn R Type Fretless 5 Custom Spec Level, November 2014. ONLY POSSIBLE TRADE : LEDUC U-BASSE FRETLESS 6 ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £1895 GBP !!! (new price is way more than £3000 GBP and some time to have it finished..) Fully working and in excellent condition. Here are the specifications : Body : black limba Top and back : thick flamed redwood with two black accent veneers Neck : set in with a small tone block of Macassar ebony, 5 pieces of, from center to external side, Macassar ebony, ash and wenge (asymmetrical profile and fast neck, think JP Basses or MTD) Fingerboard : thick (7 mm) flat radius acrylic impregnated Birdseye maple with a black accent veneer Positions : 26 with partial fret lines and Luminlay side dots (Luminlay torch delivered with) Headstock : angled 3 + 2 shape with flamed redwood top and back and two black accent veneers Pickups : 2 x ACG FB humbuckers Preamp : ACG EQ-02 with 2 passive tones (47 nF TAD Mustard capacitors) Controls : volume + blend (stacked), low pass filter with frequency + cut/boost (stacked), high pass filter with frequency + cut/boost (stacked), passive neck pickup tone, passive bridge pickup tone and red battery control LED (the other small circuit inside the cavity) Tuners : Gotoh Res-O-Lite GB-350 Bridge : Hipshot "A" Style Strings spacing at bridge : 19 mm Nut : ebony Strings spacing at nut : 9 mm Knobs : ACG-East Scale : 35 inches Hardware colour : black Truss rod : one double action Finish : satin finish that has become shiny over the years Land of craftsmanship : United Kingdom (Scotland) Serial number : 0172 Year : November 2014 Weight : 4.535 kilos Action : from 1.5 mm under the G string to 2 mm under the B string at 12th position (can go lower, but was perfect for me) Will come with the original Hiscox hard case (2 keys inside), a set of Dunlop black Straplok (used) and the Luminlay torch. Non-smoking environment as usual. The bass has been fully set up professionally. It has received a new battery and has been fitted with a brand new set of La Bella White Nylon Tape Wound 750T-B-XL strings (50 - 65 - 85 - 105 - 135T). Certainly one of the best fiver fretless around. Top luthier build quality (Alan Cringean is in the top ten, for sure) and a sound to die for. The neck is a pleasure to play and the sound has tons of mwah. The original preamp was an ACG EQ-01 (there's a mistake on the website confirmed by Alan himself), then @Bass Wielder put a John East Uni-Pre and I removed it to put an ACG EQ-02 so I had the opportunity to put two (2) passive tones with oiled paper capacitors that are softening a bit the very fast attack, but maintaining the long decay. And you still can use the two filters to tailor your sound. The La Bella White Nylons are simply perfect for this bass (and any fretless, by the way) as they allow you to make very fast slides and also small accents with dramatic effect. There is absolutely no neck diving. I'm only selling it due to my health problems as it's really too heavy for my broken back. Link to this very ACG page : http://www.acguitars.co.uk/project/0172-finn-r-type-fretless-5/ Link to the ACG EQ-02 : http://www.acguitars.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ACG_EQ02_4k_2019.pdf Link to the La Bella strings fitted : https://www.labella.com/strings/category/5-string-white-nylon-tape-bass/ What you see is what you get ! Look at the photos taken under different angles and light to see the excellent condition of this bass. Some very minor scratches and very small dings impossible to photograph. Here is the link to the 40 photos in high resolution, plus some of the work in progress : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qhK_Y1nDnNGNQTiiCOhmMB4VhU6qbk_l?usp=sharing Don't hesitate to ask for more.