Purchased by me in 1972 from Sound City, Shaftesbury Avenue and extensively used throughout the 70's and 80's until GAS took hold! It has been refinished many times since the blue sparkle finish seen in the Fender catalogue. The current finish looks OK but isn't great, with a few marks and a chip near the jack insert. The original pick up was soon added to with a John Birch steel guitar pickup near the bridge, which sounded great. The feint outline of this pickup is still visible. This was replaced by the Bartolini MM pickup at the bridge by Mansons of Exeter. The original Fender pickup was then outed in favour of the Bartolini PB pickup installed by The Bass Gallery - the battery is for this pickup. Currently the bass sounds better than it ever has.
Original reverse thread tuners. 34" scale. Truss rod works. Hardly any fret wear. Around 4.3 kilos. Bit of neck dive. Strung BEADG instead of EADGC. Original bridge. 15 frets only.
I've loads of photos which I may have to post separately. The case is a fairly cheap TGI one in good condition.
A bit difficult (for me anyway) to access the higher frets due to a rather bulky neck pocket and the left over damage from a broken wrist.
The buyer may like to restore this to its original specs, but I assure you the pickups now fitted sound infinitely better than the original one. Any questions please ask.
The price is firm, and no exchanges thanks. I'm now 80 and certainly don't need any more basses!
Meet up somewhere in the south is the preferred course of action
I am a very regular user of Basschat and have always left the tab open so that I can quickly access the site. In the last couple of weeks I have been asked to sign in again on every visit. A bit of a hassle only. More irritating is the e mail following the sign in saying "you have just logged in from a device we haven't seen you use before". I have been using the same phone and pad for the last three years!
Any clues?
Cheers,
Graham
Final sale of my five stringers. Super bass, comfy to play and looks a stunner.
35" scale
approx 4kilos
17.5mm spacing at bridge
Fitted with straplocks
Comes with Modulus case as shown
Fingerboard fairly flat.
Built in 1995
Notes:-
Retro fitted with Bartolini passive soap bar pickup by Guitar Mania of Poole. The original EMG pickup and complete pre amp and wiring loom are also supplied to return the bass to factory specs.
There is a 1mm deep chip in the outer neck finishing layer (which I didn't notice until after two years of ownership). See photos, it's at the first fret and is not felt whilst playing. I've had this bass for twelve years and the neck is as stable as you would expect it to be.
Collection from Bournemouth or meet up within reasonable distance is preferable.
No sound clips, sorry.
Let me know if you need any further info.
Cheers,
Graham
Hi, sorry to butt in, but you've quoted my ad above. If you want to try my tuner I'm happy to sell it to you, post paid, and if it is not what you want, just return it it to me and I'll give you a full refund. Let me know.
Cheers,
Graham