adledman Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 recently took this bass in trade and need to move it on hopefully for cash but a lower value bass and some cash would also be cool. its a 4 string headless active solid wood body slaptastic machine. the frets have been polished up and there is hardly any wear and the electrics are all spot on. i thought this bass was described as a good few years old in its original advert on ebay but from the look of the neck it does not look very old at all. if anyone knows how to date them i would appreciate it. it has a zero fret and the action is amazingly low, electrics are volume, balance and tone and it surprised me in the tones it can produce from toptastic slap to a nice mid` growl to a good full bottom end. the only issues it has is some buckle rash on the rear. otherwise its pretty much spotless. there you go! it is what it is, a good example of a top english made graphite necked bass. £650 posted to your door in its hard case that is tank like in construction. or a trade w.h.y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 [quote name='adledman' post='986047' date='Oct 12 2010, 06:42 PM']recently took this bass in trade and need to move it on hopefully for cash but a lower value bass and some cash would also be cool. its a 4 string headless active solid wood body slaptastic machine. the frets have been polished up and there is hardly any wear and the electrics are all spot on. i thought this bass was described as a good few years old in its original advert on ebay but from the look of the neck it does not look very old at all. if anyone knows how to date them i would appreciate it. it has a zero fret and the action is amazingly low, electrics are volume, balance and tone and it surprised me in the tones it can produce from toptastic slap to a nice mid` growl to a good full bottom end. the only issues it has is some buckle rash on the rear. otherwise its pretty much spotless. there you go! it is what it is, a good example of a top english made graphite necked bass. £650 posted to your door in its hard case that is tank like in construction. or a trade w.h.y[/quote] MB1. PMd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS2 Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 I bought one new serial number 053 in April 1988. I had some work on it at the factory in 1989. They were just introducing the Series 4000 (which was the same bass but with a plastic body in various paint colours). So 1988-1989 maybe 1990. The Series 3000 had a natural finish and came in three wood options, walnut, cherry and utile mahogany. If your bass is headless and has the natural finish it's a 3000 except for one bass that was (re)finished in sky blue. If it has a solid colour it's probably a 4000. Another similar bass was made, this was the headed Matrix bass, around 90 92 ??? It's a long time ago but maybe this gives you and overview of the bass. Oh btw it was a fantastic bass and I traded mine in 97 for a fretless Warwick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adledman Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 [quote name='CS2' post='986731' date='Oct 13 2010, 11:01 AM']I bought one new serial number 053 in April 1988. I had some work on it at the factory in 1989. They were just introducing the Series 4000 (which was the same bass but with a plastic body in various paint colours). So 1988-1989 maybe 1990. The Series 3000 had a natural finish and came in three wood options, walnut, cherry and utile mahogany. If your bass is headless and has the natural finish it's a 3000 except for one bass that was (re)finished in sky blue. If it has a solid colour it's probably a 4000. Another similar bass was made, this was the headed Matrix bass, around 90 92 ??? It's a long time ago but maybe this gives you and overview of the bass. Oh btw it was a fantastic bass and I traded mine in 97 for a fretless Warwick.[/quote] cheers cs2, it really is nice and only selling to fund a VB-99 and already started moding my ibanez for the midi otherwise i would have preferred to have used this for it. my headstock has 141 stamped on the top. going to see if there is a dating page at status. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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