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It's a wonderful piece of cocobolo, in fact. 😉

Thought I did... Done now. 😉

Due to the Covid-19 situation and severe back problems (67% 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 as well as some stuff I don't use. I've also considerably lowered the price for a quick sale. Relic Shell Pink Non FENDER Fretless Jazz Bas with WARMOTH P-Bass roasted maple neck and rounded edges thick pau ferro fingerboard. Think Limelight, Nash or Stevie-G. ABSOLUTELY NO TRADES ! NON NEGOTIABLE PRICE AS IT'S SOLD CHEAPER THAN THE SUM OF THE PARTS ! 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 : £649 GBP !!! Shipping to United Kingdom is, of course, possible, but with an extra customs fee (VAT + other taxes + courier fee), because U.K. is now outside EEC. In fully working condition and in excellent overall condition, except, of course, the relic job. Here are the specifications : Body : great quality light ash body (maybe Northwest or the likes, but not Chinese crap) with a simulated shrunk tortoise pickguard Neck : Warmoth P-Bass (43mm nut) one piece roasted maple, satin finish Fingerboard : rounded edges thick pau ferro (almost unmarked) Fretless : 20 positions with white side dots Headstock : 4 in line Fender shape Pickups : ToneRider Jazz Plus TRJ1 set in 60's position Controls : volume, volume, tone (TAD Mustard capacitor 22nF) Tuners : Kluson Vintage MF4LN Bridge : Schaller 3D-4 (heavier than any Bad*ss, great sustain guaranteed) Strings spacing at bridge : 20 mm Nut : white Corian Strings spacing at nut : 11 mm Knobs : Sivcak Sadowsky-like Scale : 34 inches Hardware colour : chrome Truss rod : one double action with stiffening steel rods Finish : relic shell pink Land of craftsmanship : worldwide Serial number : 62188 (fake number) Year : 2021 Weight : 4.200 kilos Action : from 1.5 mm under the G string to 2 mm under the E string at 12th position (can even go lower, but was perfect for me) Will come with a brand new Ritter RGS7-B gig bag. Non-smoking environment as usual. I'm only selling this bass because I'm thinning down the herd for the reasons mentioned above and that I also bought a new digital hybrid piano... 🤦‍♂️ The bass has been fully set up professionally. It is fitted with a brand new set of Ernie Ball Super Slinky nickel strings (45 - 65 - 85 - 105) that really deserve the bass. The sound is as good as any Custom Shop Fender without having to sell the house and it's sold lower than parts cost. This bass is dead silent thanks to a perfect copper shielding and the amazing ToneRider Jazz Plus pickups, even if they are single coil pickups. Loads of mwah when needed, terrific tone control thanks to the PIO capacitor. You simply won't be disappointed and with the repro decals, it really looks like the real deal and sounds even better. What you see is what you get ! Look at the photos taken under different angles to see the real condition, which is relic (even the front logo). Here is the link to the 21 photos in high resolution and the Excel pricing file : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b7XXeUBa325eyy_DZyv4F9VI5TmfsJqK?usp=sharing Don't hesitate to ask for more.

Indeed, and it was still made by Michael Tobias himself, but it's a bit tricky, even if Michael says these were his golden days with a dream team in a dream facility and certainly the best Tobias basses ever made. If I were you I would change the title and description accordingly, so nobody could "sue" you, even if we are all very reasonable and well educated Europeans. 😉

It's not a pre Gibson series as the first Gibson serial number is 1094... Check this from Michael Tobias himself : "After several attempts to move the business to larger, better equipped facilities, I sold Tobias Guitars to Gibson on 1/1/90. The first Tobias Gibson serial number was 1094. At that point, Gibson was instrumental in moving us to a bigger shop in Burbank and setting us up with a great spray booth and dust collection system. We finally met So. Cal safety codes. Basses built during the 1990-1992 era were built initially by the same crew that had helped establish Tobias Basses as one of the most sought after basses on the planet. We added several people during 1990, and ended up with a great ten-man shop. Business was still very good. We were not able to make anywhere near enough basses to fill the orders. Instead of trying to jack up production, we tried to get outside vendors to build for us. We had 110 Model T basses made for us by a very fine builder in New England, and then we got the Terada factory in Nagoya, Japan to make the Standard bass for us. This was and is a great bass, but the dollar-to-yen ratio killed the project. There were about 400 Standards. Late in 1992, it was decided that in best corporate interests Tobias Guitars would move to Nashville. After much deliberation, no one from the original Tobias Guitars crew went to Nashville. The final LA Tobias/Gibson serial number is 2044. Despite Gibson's ownership of Tobias, all of the basses made up to 2044 were built by my regular crew. We also built about 60 basses that were not numbered or finished by us. Those would be the first production from Tobias/Nashville. I left the company in December of 1992, and was a consultant for Gibson as they set up operations in Nashville. They had some trouble at first, but have since done a fairly good job making Tobias basses." To be complete, this is also important : By contractual agreement, Michael's consulting agreement with Gibson had a one year non competition term. That ended in December of 1993.

Yes it is.