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Stunning work 👌🏼😲

Quick deal done with Nigel, excellent comms, prompt payment etc, and as said above, top Basschatter - deal with confidence 😎😉

I've just had it confirmed by Patrice Vigier that it's the 16th Passion ii he produced. 👍🏼

Nice one matey, the look on the folks faces getting their food in Doncaster Wetherspoons - as we both played each others bass before sealing the deal - will stay with me for some time 😂😂 It's come out well 👍🏼

I should be able to get a live gig song sorted at some point, we can record into the desk. Live vids never ever seem to give a decent FOH sound due to less than great phone mics...😕

🤣🤣🤣🤣 bit of a drive for me to pass it on Dave, so I'll attempt to do my best with it 😜 and, yes, you're right, luthier Gary hadn't actually seen one in the flesh, then again, neither had I! 😳 I've spent the afternoon playing with the options on it, and despite the close proximity of the pups to the bridge - and to each other - they make a very different and variable sound, it does have an amazing range of tone options. It is a truly unique and an amazingly well built instrument, everything I've read about them seems to be true. When I picked it up, Gary said he could get everything from a Rickenbacker through to a P bass sound out of it. Great I thought, every time I play a bass it just goes bom pa pom 😆

What a collection 😮😮😮👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 AWESOME!! 👍🏼

Gary has done an amazing job w/w, he's been a great find, and we do have some other great luthiers up here in the NE. He recently completed a guitar that had been refinished by David Wilson, another big name up here for guitar finishes 👍🏼

I'll pass your number onto my kids Brian, as it'll not be me that'll sell it 🤣

Body shot with black bridge, for 40 years old the condition is really good 👍🏼 I forgot to say I also cleaned up the pole pieces on the Benedetti pickups after fitting the bridge, nothing too harsh, q tips with a tiny dab of Solvol Autosol

I'm in the club 😎 https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/509739-vigier-passion-ii-fretless-to-fretted/

Thanks RB, I would have loved the skills to do it myself, but they don't stretch that far! Apart from the tuners and bridge swap, the nut was as much as I could contribute 😆

In the Northeast, specifically Newcastle and surrounding areas, Gary at Sylva Guitars. From Custom builds to set ups, repairs etc.. https://www.sylvaguitars.co.uk/ See my fretless to fretted Vigier conversion in Build Diaries on here. Recommended 👍🏼