pmjos

Nothing sounds better because its 'older' agreed. I'm in the if its better - its better camp. I've played a 61 p bass that sounds so rich, full and sweet it makes you want to weep but I have a Moollon P5 and it sounds different - but beside that 61 it sounds better than most other p's i've ever played.

I agree that nobody in an audience gives a fudge. However, no difference in sound and playability? I have great modern instruments and tonally they get close enough for all general purposes, but they couldn't touch the resonance sustain and just the thickness of tone of some of the vintage instruments I owned. No way. They just don't make 'em from the same stuff they used to, we used it up, especially old growth maple, ash alder & rosewoods. Then there is the aging, can't fake 60 years of seasoning. Having said that My brother has 2010 factory made bog standard jazz bass. It remains one of the best sounding jazz basses I've ever played - why who knows....

I have a 1977 ray but that's it - all the expensive stuff is gone and I feel better for it. Like Jason Karloff says above "Painted myself into a corner I didn't see coming"

A short while ago I made the decision to part with my vintage basses and some amps. I didn't set out to become a collector but I seem to have been quite good at it and my instruments had built up to a fairly substantial value. I didn't buy them for their investment value I bought them because they were wonderful things to play. However over time the weight of their increasing value started to bug me. I found myself worrying about using them, moving them about, turning those 60 year old pots. I mean one replacement pot and the value drops, a failed winding and say goodbye to enough cash buy a new bass. Love these instruments as I did for many years in the end I actually found it a relief to sell them. Anyone else had this experience?

I'm just curious has anyone had the chance to try out a Bacci Marleo yet?? I've played the Bacci Leonardo Baritone guitar and the build quality is really off the charts. Attention to detail, woods, finishes, hardware was absolute top notch. https://bacciguitars.com/basses

These are my two - they make me very happy.

Its actually Moollon's own custom hum cancelling p pick up, its not a casing

Take 5 minutes for a story about a very fine chap. Before the start of the pandemic I ordered a Moollon PV having been in Seoul to visit YJ and Andi Roselund at the Moollon workshop a few months before. I was really taken with the PV's tone. So the Pandemic hit and after working in a factory building respirators for the NHS through most of it I then lost my job. Not good karma. Sadly having paid my deposit I wrote to YJ and Andi saying that I could not afford to continue with the purchase and I heard no more. A few weeks later I saw a red PV up for sale and thought no more of it knowing I could not afford another one. 2 1/2 years later I got a message from Andi saying that YJ had not sold the bass it was still there available for me... Jaw dropping moment. They never got the email and YJ hadn't sold it - he kept it for me. What other maker would do something like that? I had in the meantime managed to get myself back on my feet and could complete the sale. Last week I took delivery of the bass I ordered three years ago. Delivered in pristine condition and sounding like a complete beast. I'm overjoyed to have this bass. I thought I had lost it and out of the kindness of YJ I do. What a bloody awesome bloke - unreal. The bass BTW is staggering, the low end is so deep but articulate and the higher register is thick like a short scale. Its ridiculously good, and oh the colour.. Red............ Red...... Red........