TRADED Boldogh Custom 5 £1250

[papaya]

Hi,

Up for sale this unique, beautiful and great sounding instrument.

Top modell of Boldogh basses in almost mint condition.

Tons of tone variations due to Zolkow X3 preamp (used in F-Clef, Blasius, etc. basses) combined with splittable humbuckers.

You have 12 frequency selector dip switches and gain control for each pickups.

Zolkow battery fuel gauge installed (red LED light).

You can check the details of the electronics and the low battery indicator on Zolkow’s website: http://zolkowpreamps.com/ 

 

SOUND:

Sorry for the quaility of video & playing... but here it is with a few settings:

 

SPECS:

Neck: Status MM5 graphite (34˝)

Top: flamed maple

Body: afzelia (same wood as used for Warwick Streamer Stage II basses)

Pickguard: aluminium plate painted black

Preamp: Zolkow X3 with „Sadowsky” knobs

Pickups: EMG TWX (splittable new generation EMG humbuckers)

Bridge: ETS Tuning Fork (same brand used for Marleaux basses)

Tuning keys: HipShot USA Ultralite

Strap buttons: Warwick straplock (recessed into the body of the bass).

Weight: 4,7kgs

 

CONTROLS (left to right):

1.    Volume

2.    3 way switch for passive tone (passive tone "full on"/ no passive tone / "medium" passive tone)

3.    Active blend

4.    2 way switch for splitting coils (both pickups in humbucker mode / both pickups in single coil mode)

5.    Mid

6.    Treble/Bass (stacked knob)

 
Location: Hungary.

Please contact me if you have any questions!

Thanks

 Joni

 

Edited January 27, 2018 by papaya
Video added.

[alyctes]

You'll have a much better chance of selling it if you put some pics up.

[papaya]

6 hours ago, alyctes said:

You'll have a much better chance of selling it if you put some pics up.

Oh sorry. I have insterted them from URL but it was only me who saw them then. Now uploaded some.

[alyctes]

Yes, I see them now.  Pretty

[dutchwife]

Beautiful looking bass ~ Mr. Boldogh makes some lovely instruments. GLWTS etc.

[papaya]

Thank you dutchwife!

[dutchwife]

Not at all P ~ missed this beauty the last time round so I'm now calculating what I need to move along in order not to strike out twice!

[Fianso]

Do you have some sound please ?

[papaya]

1 hour ago, Fianso said:

Do you have some sound please ?

I can record some sound clips if you wish 

Please PM me what kind of pickup / EQ settings and playing style are you mainly curious of.

Thanks!

[papaya]

Now £1150.

[charic]

That's stunning

[papaya]

There are threaded bushings in the body so metric screws are used to fix the preamp cavity cover.

The same method used for the pickups with black socket head screws, check it out here.

[papaya]

Price dropped to £1100.

[papaya]

Shipped in a used Music Man HSC.

[papaya]

Bump.

Edited January 27, 2018 by papaya

[papaya]

It is 99% mint (only some almost invisible wear signs on one or two tuners). 

 

Edited January 27, 2018 by papaya