chrkelly Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 (edited) I've seen another fretless that I've just got to have so this is up for sale. Standard early 60's spec, alder body, maple neck, factory lined & dotted rosewood board, single coils, reverse tuners. Sounds like it should be worth a lot more money! It's a very resonant instrument with very jaco sounding back pickup, looks the part too. Plenty of dings & pitting on the metalwork as is normal for a 30yr old bass. £400 collected from London SOLD! Edited November 17, 2014 by chrkelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cloud Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I used to own one of these in the 80's and it was better than my vintage Fender jazz. This is a lot of bass for the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted August 2, 2014 Author Share Posted August 2, 2014 Cheers Cloud, it's a cracking instrument! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zinnsky Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 PM sent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrT-Bass Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Mmmm...i've been thinking about a fretless recently. Where are you based? I'm in north-west London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zinnsky Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Going to have to pass on this unfortunately... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 No worries Zinnsky. [quote name='MrT-Bass' timestamp='1406991779' post='2516509'] Mmmm...i've been thinking about a fretless recently. Where are you based? I'm in north-west London. [/quote] I'm down the other side in Catford SE6 (takes 15mins max on the train out of London Bridge). Could meet up in town if you want, though you wouldn't be able to try it out first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBR75 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Beautiful bass. A bargain at this price. But it probably isn't a 1982 model as its Tokai indicates it is more likely a post 83-84 model. Before 84 After 83-84 : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrT-Bass Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 [quote name='chrkelly' timestamp='1407057126' post='2516889'] No worries Zinnsky. I'm down the other side in Catford SE6 (takes 15mins max on the train out of London Bridge). Could meet up in town if you want, though you wouldn't be able to try it out first. [/quote] Thanks man, pm'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 [quote name='CBR75' timestamp='1407058937' post='2516903'] Beautiful bass. A bargain at this price. But it probably isn't a 1982 model as its Tokai indicates it is more likely a post 83-84 model. Before 84 After 83-84 : [/quote] Cheers for that, you're right. Done a bit more research & it looks like it's from '84. Apparently they changed the headstock shape in '85. Wish all companies would just use a serial system that you could work out easily! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 [quote name='MrT-Bass' timestamp='1407062026' post='2516931'] Thanks man, pm'd [/quote] Back at ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 Still available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 Back up for sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarjong Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Do you know if this is a factory model or has it been defretted at some point? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumple Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Pretty sure it's a Jaco model and came like that from the factory. I had an early 80's Tokai Jazz Sound for years it was bloody excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted September 16, 2014 Author Share Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) I'm pretty sure it's a factory fretless. Here's the 1984 catalogue pic... The only differences are the p style knobs, which were probably changed by a previous owner. [attachment=171850:v812.jpg] Edited September 16, 2014 by chrkelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarjong Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Ok, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted September 18, 2014 Author Share Posted September 18, 2014 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sblueplanet Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Ooh.... Nice Jaco vibe happening there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted October 23, 2014 Author Share Posted October 23, 2014 Bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrkelly Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 Bump, will be in Nottingham Thurs & Fri this week if anyone's interested up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Gair Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Would you ship? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Gair Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 To Scotland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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