hamfist Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 (edited) SOLD A completely unique bass. Recently purchased from Paul S on a bit of an impulse. I like this bass a lot but due to the slightly unexpected purchase of a Warwick I feel I need to recoup some money on this one. OK, so it's a Matsumoku-made 1984 Westone Thunder Jet, redone in a Stingray pickup configuration, routing and pickguard done by Bassdoc I believe. It has an alder body, a maple neck, a Wilkinson Stingray pickup and an East P-retro preamp. This bass has been played a lot in it's 30 years of life, mostly by someone wearing a belt buckle I think. The rear of the body in particular has a fair amount of scrapes. The front of the body is much less marked but still has quite a few knocks around the place. The neck is in much better shape, the rear of it being in particularly good condition for a bass of this age. Fretwork is good. Being black this bass looks completely COOL on stage. The neck has a 40mm width nut, but is fairly slim, measuring 20mm at the 1st fret front to back. Just FYI, the body has a 63mm neck pocket and will also take a standard Fender neck, but would need the bridge moving about and inch further back to compensate for the reduced number of frets. It actually plays really, really nicely. Very lightweight too, at just a fraction over 8lbs. The pre-amp is the highly rated East P-retro unit, which works very well with the Stingray pickup IMO. However, the volume/tone dual concentric knob took a bit of a bash on it's journey to me. It all still functions 100% fine, but if you want to turn the volume or the tone controls, you simply need to hold both at the same time or they will bind and move round together. They're not hugely stiff to move, but do need to both be held to be moved independently. Please contact me for more details if you can't quite get what I mean about that. Difficult to price. A perfect condition P-retro on it's own will go for more than a £100 itself. But you can buy this whole bass for £135 couriered to your door, in mainland UK. [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-main.html][/url] [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-full-rear.html][/url] [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-body-front.html][/url] [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-body-rear.html][/url] [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-hstock-front.html][/url] [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-hstock-rear.html][/url] [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-neck-rear.html][/url] [url=http://www.ephotobay.com/share/jet-main-b.html][/url] Edited July 29, 2014 by hamfist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbowskill Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 bargain! If only the spare pennies were at hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazzBassfreak Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Think I might have to snag this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Still sporting the aftermarket Gotoh-a-like bridge, too. Just to confirm, yes, the work was carried out by Bassdoc. Yes, it sounds huge. Yes it is beaten up! Great bass. Good luck with the sale, Alan. Going to double box it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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