vmaxblues Posted November 27, 2016 Posted November 27, 2016 (edited) Hi guys, NOW REDUCED FOR A LIMITED TIME £250.00 Last of my 4 stringers! This has mojo but is a great player, and a top piece of history. I got this from Muzz and he said: [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It's a [/font][/color][color=red][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Nightingale[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif], a rare beast these days, here's some info from Russ on here (and thanks to him for this) about [/font][/color][color=red][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Nightingale[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]s:[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Nightingale basses were made by Neil McDonald, who used to be Bernie Goodfellow's business partner in the original Goodfellow Guitars venture. Neil struck out on his own and started [color=red]Nightingale[/color] after Bernie sold the Goodfellow name to Lowden in Northern Ireland (a few years before he started GB). The [color=red]Nightingale[/color]s shared a lot of features with the Goodfellow/GB basses, including the custom Kent Armstrong pickups and Dick Straker's active circuit, as well as some similar styling cues, including an almost identical headstock for a while (I loved [color=red]Nightingale[/color]'s yin/yang owl logo). The [color=red]Nightingale[/color]s were awesome instruments. I owned a lovely bolt-on 4-string for a while and it's one of the basses I really regret selling. [/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Back in the mid-90s, Neil McDonald moved his workshop from Croydon to Denmark St. He started to build a profile as a guitar tech, and after he made the perspex bass for Charlie Jones he got some extra visibility as a luthier, but by 2002 or so, he'd closed up shop. No idea what he's doing now, alas. I know Bernie G still services [color=red]Nightingale[/color] basses, since they used more or less identical pickups and circuits to the early GBs (not to mention that the newer GB "bass processor" active circuit just drops straight in)."[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The bass itself is very reminiscent in shape of the early Rumours, and does indeed have a custom Armstrong pickup - I contacted Aaron and his father about it, and they confirmed it's a high output single coil: "[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]My father would of made this the code stands for the following: J10 = 67.5mm long 12mm tall inside coil measurement; 5X = 3 ceramic magnets 8mm deep; 7kt = 7,000 turns of wire; 63 = 0.063mm guage wire (42 AWG). I couldn't give you an exact date but definitely before my time ( I started working with my dad in 98).[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]. "[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The EQ is active bass and treble, and it's got a surprising sweep of tones for a single pickup bass.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The neck and headstock's got some nice birdseye going on, and a very[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] nice black ebony board, and the quality of the bass itself is a cut above the usual factory-made suspects.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It's got some of yer actual mojo going on (see pics), one of the tuners has been refitted t'other way round, but it all works, it plays nicely and is definitely something different.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]When I got it, I had an issue with the truss rod adjuster, it was a little chewed, the truss worked perfectly, and in the end I had a local luthier make me a new adjuster, so all is good there now.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It is a really nice solid bass with mojo and a real players bass, offering it here at a fab pre Christmas/Black Friday price of £275, or maybe a 5 string trade.[/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Cheers for looking, pics below:[/font][/color] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4299_zpsvqhokg0d.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4300_zpsebrpimbe.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4301_zpsbbtv3u8x.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4302%20-%20Copy_zpsit2gpxjs.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4304_zpstntqyxq4.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4305%20-%20Copy_zpsgxnu4frt.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4306_zpsk5lqhlxb.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4307_zps4rc9aqyc.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4308_zps8nlj2skm.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4309_zps9qh8njzl.jpg.html"][/url] [url="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/vmaxblues/media/IMG_4310_zpsoafplbao.jpg.html"][/url] Edited November 30, 2016 by vmaxblues
silverfoxnik Posted November 27, 2016 Posted November 27, 2016 That's a bargain price for such a great and quite unique bass! GLWTS
tredders Posted November 27, 2016 Posted November 27, 2016 The flaming on that neck is beautiful. I don't need another bass. I don't need another bass. I don't need another bass.
scrumpymike Posted November 27, 2016 Posted November 27, 2016 [quote name='silverfoxnik' timestamp='1480253571' post='3182784'] That's a bargain price for such a great and quite unique bass! GLWTS [/quote] +1
TheGreek Posted November 27, 2016 Posted November 27, 2016 Love the flame maple neck - a bargain at that price - will almost certainly fly...
ahpook Posted November 27, 2016 Posted November 27, 2016 That's lovely. Would you be able to tell me the nut width ? Thanks
ahpook Posted November 27, 2016 Posted November 27, 2016 [quote name='vmaxblues' timestamp='1480267393' post='3182940'] 42mm [/quote] Thanks, bit large for my jazz-shaped hands I'm afraid GLWTS - fantastic bass.
vmaxblues Posted November 30, 2016 Author Posted November 30, 2016 Price reduced - If no takers will probably keep. Cheers
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rupert the bass Posted November 30, 2016 Posted November 30, 2016 That's a shame...would have loved a try out,ya just too far away
vmaxblues Posted December 1, 2016 Author Posted December 1, 2016 It is a really great instrument and I would definitely have kept it, but I am going down the 5 string route. I think the price is an absolute bargain, but the current market seems very flat.
big rob Posted December 1, 2016 Posted December 1, 2016 O dear, I have done it again......This bass will soon be on its way to me!!!!!!
tredders Posted December 1, 2016 Posted December 1, 2016 [quote name='big rob' timestamp='1480612470' post='3185875'] O dear, I have done it again......This bass will soon be on its way to me!!!!!! [/quote] We've all been there Bit of a bargain there, too. Make sure you do a NBD thread when you get it....
Thunderbird Posted December 1, 2016 Posted December 1, 2016 [quote name='big rob' timestamp='1480614043' post='3185895'] NBD? [/quote]NBD = New Bass Day
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