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Bump for pics added. Cosmetic condition is pretty good: it's clean, nothing is ripped or broken. There's some paint worn off the grill, some wear on the plastic corner protectors (but all intact) and if the carpet was in your living room you'd be thinking about getting a new one, but for an amp on stage it's fine. Courier within the UK (excl Highlands & Islands, Channel Isles) will be £20. Courier to Europe: Germany £37 France £40 Portugal £41 Spain £46 Greece: £60

Really nice 2x10 bump.

Not in Warwick, in Alcester, the other side of Stratford on the A46.

I bought this thinking I needed an extension cab, but the Markbass seems to be able to handle anything I want it to do on its own, so this has been sitting in the corner sulking. It's a 2x10 cab with tweeter, grill, black carpet, and with three well placed, recessed carrying handles, is light and easy to move around. Has 1/4" jack and speakon connectors. Very hard to find specs online, as it's discontinued, but I hope below is accurate. It's in good cosmetic condition and all works as it should. I'm asking [s]£160[/s] £150 collected from B49 in Warwickshire, or will arrange courier at cost. Specs: Speakers: 2x10" ES 1040XL8 tweeter T2004 Crossover: 3 kHz @ 12db Power: 300 W RMS Freq. Response: 35hz - 18khz ±2dB Sensitivity: 102dB SPL @ 1W1M Impedance: 8 ohm Dimensions: 629 x 413 x 413 mm Weight: 15.9 kg - 35 LBS Pics

[quote name='Bassman Rich' timestamp='1335457140' post='1631562'] Dear All My ripper is a 74 one (original body shape), and pretty much identical in colour to the one for sale here, and i'm guessing (cos i'm no authority on wood), that its maple too. Its lighter than all my precisions, but I dont have any scales so cant weigh it. The pic Spiney norm put up, looks to me like maybe it was a black bass that sbeen stripped (is that black paint inside the holes where the machine heads go, or just no light/flash so looks dark?), and they put the more grainey wood under a paint job. No idea really, just a thought, but if I didnt already have one, I would definately have this one, its the best year/colour combo imho, and in great nick too. Good lightweight bass, and has quite a bit of trebly growl and bite compared to other Gibson basses which may be available, especially the mahogany ones ;-) By the way, didnt they originally have maple for the 73/4 ones, go to alder till 76/7 ish, then go back to maple again? [/quote] Yes, well spotted, although it was actually a natural body that someone sprayed black and I then stripped again. I'm sure what you can see there is the original finish, somewhat tarnished by living under black paint. Whoever it was also sprayed over the pickguard, which I couldn't save, and the pickups, which I could. Conventional wisdom is that they used maple until the body shape changed in 75 and also then changed to alder. They changed back to maple a couple of years later. However, I've come across a few original shape bodies, including mine, which suggest Gibson was already using alder before the shape change. Grain patterns vary, I think the key indicator is weight - I can't explain a 2lb difference in basically the same bass unless it's different wood. My black maple 78 looks cool, but for tone I'd go for the alder one every time. It actually has at least 3 useful options on the pickup selector and always surprises me how well it fits in with blues, rock, ballads, anything. Plus you don't feel like you've been carrying a concrete block through the gig. High time someone bought this.

On hold .... And Sold!

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Might the body be Alder rather than Maple? Mine is most likely '74 and the old shape body like yours, but there's a lot more visible grain than you get with maple and it's a couple of pounds lighter than my '78, which is definitely maple. I weighed the natural '74 at 9lbs. [IMG]http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff24/philtrory/Gibson%20Ripper/Natural%20Ripper/IMG_1887a.jpg[/IMG]