Kev

That's really beautiful, and agree I can't remember seeing a gloss natural SS1 before, its stunning. If you ever come over the UK, or have any other way of magicing the instrument here without import costs making it too ££££ thanks to a certain 2016 vote, do let me know!

So as well as building the best modern style basses money can buy, you also hoard traditional beauties like this?! 😍 Beauty buddy!

Lovely bass!! Just for the sake of clarity though, this bass isn't a Masterbuilt bass, it's a special edition model from 2008. The Masterbuilt instruments with all their features didn't come in for almost a decade later 🙂. Still, best corvette you could grab at the time!

On hold pending sale.

Any chance of a video or audio clip of what this sounds like?

Some natural light photos added!! 😁

Up for sale I have a bit of a unique bass, built by Hungarian luthier Blasius! This bass was built for hungarian musician Miklós Anga Kis to his exacting specs. Year: 2020 Topwood: Black Poplar Bodywood: Roasted Poplar Core Neck: Maple neck with Graphite reinforcement - multiscale 36" to 34" Fretboard: Highly figured Ash Fretboard Pickups: EMG Pickups Preamp: Zolkow 3x Preamp Hardware: Hipshot Tuners and Bridge. Sadowsky knobs. Schaller strap buttons. Since factory, the original EMG DC pickups have been upgraded to the top end TWX pickups, with the original volume/blend control swapped out for the TWX push-pull volume pots to switch between humbucker and single coil mode. The original volume/blend are still taped up in the control cavity. The Zolkow preamp is a thing of genius. It's a 3 band preamp with 12 internal dipswitches that control the frequencies of the bass, mids and treble. Attached is a PDF (kindly provided by Papaya) that goes through how to set the switches for different frequencies (its not in english but its fairly obvious). It also has a battery light indicator which reassuringly flashes green 3 times when the battery is fresh, twice if it's somewhat used, once when it's nearly out and flashes SOS when the battery is dead. (thanks to Peter for this info!) I've given the bass a full setup, neck is dead straight, action very low. The bass is currently set up for drop F# tuning with fresh Payson Drop G set strings and sounds absolutely HUGE, however can easily be reverted to regular B standard without issue with the zero fret. The nut behind the fret is carved from a lovely piece of wenge. Condition is great. The previous owner liked to experiment and added two additional strap buttons on the lower horn and near the arm contour, these have been removed but the small holes remain. It has a couple of nicks and scratches, most significant being the bottom of the fretboard being chewed up a little by someone apparantly using a short allen key to adjust the neck (the nut is quite deep, i'll include a tool with the sale that doesn't damage the bass...). Neck is wonderful and the fretboard is quite something. This bass would cost around £3k new. It pains me to sell but for some reason it's just not working out for me. Fresh pics below taken this afternoon. Also linked is a few videos of the bass in action, the first being made by Blasius and the other two from the previous owner. The bass did not come with any case but I can include a Stagg Ndura gig bag. Collection HUGLEY preferred as I have a distrust of couriers, happy to drive some distance to meet up. Courier a last resort at your risk/cost. Cash is king but trade offers welcome. zolkowpreamps_223_v2_bekotes_hu.pdf

Absolutely stunning, and must say your photography showcases it far better than the studio pics!

You may be in luck, i'm in full dither mode so its there for the taking 🙃

Pm incoming...

Ooof.

Need to raise cash so up for sale is this brilliant PSU. You know what it is, basically the best PSU out there for powering your pedalboard. Perfect working order, velcro residue on bottom, comes with box and cables. Also includes 3 x 8800 parallel adapaters for combining output MA to power the Neural DSP Quad Cortex, which is what I mainly used it for! PSU is around £210 new and the 8800's are about a fiver each, so I think this price is fair. Pics will be posted a little later on today, but its just a power unit at the end of the day Cheers Edit: Withdrawn for now as my alternative solution to using this doesn't work 🙃

That's lovely! Don't see many around like that. How old is it?

It's a real looker! What is the benefit of the scalloped frets? And is the relicing limited to just those two edges on the front?