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I stand corrected! However: Custom was not (AFAIK) a Dutch brand, right? Also there was Gerrinez: Ibanez (Fujigen) basses imported by Gerritsen from The Hague.

Yep it's in the control cavity.

Hah nice! Looking at the body grain I don't think it's the same bass, but André had the habit of building multiple bodies and necks for one bass to match them. There's also one with a coromandel fretboard. Do you know the serial of your old bass?

Correct. They didn't even put the logo on the TRC some of the time:

Could be any brand from that era. Kasuga, Ibanez, Custom, Pearl, Aria, Aspen, all the same instruments.

That's because it's not a "true" Grabber. I've tried to ignore that standpoint and just look at the bass as is.

I wrote a review on that bass a while back and was very impressed by the quality. Enjoy that great bass!

Found this playlist last week: 250 hours(!!!) of Trojan music. Lovely.

Okay yes but this is not fair.

Multiple basses. My 1966 Jazz, my fretless Jazz and my 1971 Precision will never be replaced.

Absolutely nothing beats a (second hand) Squier for that money.

Thanks! I don't think this is the one from Marktplaats. There are 3 or 4 of these, André always built a couple of bodies and necks for one bass to match them. I know at least two other basses like these, one with a maple fretboard and one with coromandel. Very very versatile. To be honest, it has D'Addario Chromes on it and I really dislike flats on a Jazz, especially on such a hi fi, modern bass like this. So its exact sound still has to reveal itself to me

Thanks! It's an MM/J combination

Pretty straightforward: J-M-J. It has three volumes, 2 band EQ, switch for either the J or MM bridge pickup, single/parallel/series switch for the MM pickup and an active/passive switch.

The Sadowsky has left the house. It was replaced by a Van der End, so the fiver Jazz stable now looks like this:

The first boutique bass I've ever played was a Pedulla-like fretless by Dutch luthier André van der End. Every since then, I've wanted to own a bass by him, particularly with a walnut top and maple fretboard. A few years back, I bought a blue fiver by him. Didn't really get on with the sound, so I sold it. And then last week, just as I was selling two other basses, this walnut top, maple fretboard fiver turned up on a second hand website in Belgium. I had to have it. So yesterday I drove to Belgium and took it home. It's not light, but it's pretty darn awesome. Ash body, pickups and preamp by André himself, birdseye maple neck.

Well the price is absolutely excellent. I can and want to afford it.

I'm in the process of checking out a bass that is for sale about an hour and a half from where I live. To prevent a long drive, I've asked the luthier who built it about the pickup spacing; I'm pretty meticulous about the bridge pickup spacing in a Jazz Bass. I've sold all but one Jazz with 70's bridge pickup spacing because somehow I don't work well with that sound. So, for this bass, I asked what the spacing was. The reply of the luthier: "The spacing of the bridge pickup is between 60's and 70's. The distance between the neck and bridge pickup is like a 70's Jazz. So both pickups are placed about 4 mm further forward compared to a 70's Jazz. With this you get the deeper sound of a 70's Jazz, but more low end on the bridge pickup. Works very nicely." What would you do as a 60's Jazz fan with a description like this? Still check out the bass and risk a 3 hour drive (return journey) for nothing, or let it go? It is a beautiful bass and I know the luthier very well.

I've tried them all and I'd definitely go for the Ultra. In my opinion the best active Jazz Fender has ever made. Really everything about them is excellent.

Looks like a bass that was sold under many many names in the 1970's. Possibly from the Matsumoku factory. Could be sold as a Gumika, Custom, Sakai, Yamato and many, many others. Not particularly brilliant, not particularly valuable.

Yesterday with the UB40 tribute set:

It's not necessarily bad. The '63 VI I restored a few months ago had been without strings for 30 years and the neck was in perfect nick.

Why are there now two topics about this exact subject?

Oh cool! I'd like to read that.