#SOLD# Fender MIJ MB-5 5-string Bass Very Light!! £300

[Hamster]

Hi all

Another thinning of the herd! This is the superior MIJ Fuji-Gen factory made Fender MB-5. It's VERY light weight for a 5 string at 6lb 12oz.! Serial number dates this as made 1993-1994

Nice balance on the strap, 2 Jazz style pickups and a relative thin neck. Some marks and scars which I've tried to show on the photographs. Also a little fret wear but still plays fine, a missing gear cover on one of the tuners. A few small marks on back of neck but not noticible when playing.

Hard to price this as so few are around, so I'll start off with £300, but will consider sensible offers via PM.

Will come with the pictured case, I took the strings off as they were past their best.

Here's some blurb from the Fender website:

MB basses (1994-2011). By the mid 1990s, the ubiquitous Precision and Jazz basses had proliferated into more than a dozen models of each. To augment this flourishing selection of the two traditional basses, Fender once again sought to introduce something new and different at a modest price point—hence the 1994 introduction of the Japanese-made MB-4 and five-string MB-5 basses. These offered smaller bodies with no pickguard and a more contemporary shape and overall look (“MB” stood for “modern bass”), with triple-laminated maple necks and tuners on both sides of the headstock. The MB-4 had a Precision/Jazz pickup configuration; the MB-5 had two special design single-coil pickups.

 

[Paul S]

Yes please!  PM incoming.

[Marc S]

Well, you don't see many of those about!
Fast movement there Paul S

[Paul S]

Well, Marc - he who hesitates first has the last laugh.

 

Or something.

 

Couldn't resist - there aren't too many basses out there I fancy but this ticks so many boxes!  

[Marc S]

16 hours ago, Paul S said:

.....Couldn't resist - there aren't too many basses out there I fancy but this ticks so many boxes!  

So anyway.... it'll be for sale around mid January then Paul?
...he says from a safe distance

Edited December 13, 2017 by Marc S

[Paul S]

 well, as it happens.... I fear the paradox that I am attracted to it because it is essentially an uber-lightweight jazz 5er but worry that it isn't a precision. Only one way to find out.