Scoop Posted November 27, 2008 Posted November 27, 2008 (edited) Bought directly from Bernie Goodfellow (KSD's UK importer), who recommended that he fitted an EBS pre-amp to it before he sent in on to me. Bernie also imports EBS. Good move tonally as the EBS pre is a very tasty bit of kit although it bumped the price up quite a bit. This bass comes with a long gig bag - the lengthy headstocks on these mean that they often won't fit Hiscox style hardcases comfortably - and it's fitted with *fairly* new DR Black Beauty strings, not shown in this pic. Really nice bass in very good condition with few marks and nothing significant to write home about. (or complain about, really) Bargain at £485. REDUCED TO £459 Collection preferred but not essential. Reluctant to accept Paypal, but can be arranged. Edited December 6, 2008 by Scoop
Thunderthumbs Posted November 27, 2008 Posted November 27, 2008 If I had the cash, I'd have that off you right now. That's lush. :wub:
BassBunny Posted November 28, 2008 Posted November 28, 2008 [quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='339096' date='Nov 27 2008, 11:54 PM']If I had the cash, I'd have that off you right now. That's lush. :wub:[/quote] +1 To that. Shame i don't get on well with 4 Strings. Good luck with the sale Mr S and hows the ACG??????
Scoop Posted November 28, 2008 Author Posted November 28, 2008 (edited) [quote name='BassBunny' post='339107' date='Nov 28 2008, 12:08 AM']+1 To that. Shame i don't get on well with 4 Strings. Good luck with the sale Mr S and hows the ACG??????[/quote] I haven't had a chance to gig with my ACG yet but rehearsed with it last night. Sounded as you'd expect, bloody great. Thanks for the kind words on the KSD it's a great bass but I owned 11 basses at the start of the week (sold a couple already) and I have another two ACGs on the way, one in a couple of weeks, and another in prep stage; so I just need to make room more than anything. I'm really sad to see these go but I just don't need this many basses and head is ruling heart for once. The reason why this bass is on my sale list is sheer practicality: One of my regular gigs these days is in a gospel band and we play in churches, as you might expect with a gospel outfit. Single coils pups are useless in church gigs because the churches always have the hearing aid induction loop switched on for the old dears with their hearing aids. Single coils and induction loops create instant uncontrolable feedback and there's bugger all you can do about it. I'd rather keep this and sell my Lakland Bob Glaub Precision, if I'm honest. This is the nicer bass to play but the Lakland has a split P pickup which is hum cancelling and the induction loop gets along with it nicely. So this feller got to go... Edited November 29, 2008 by Scoop
ianrunci Posted November 29, 2008 Posted November 29, 2008 [quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='339096' date='Nov 27 2008, 11:54 PM']If I had the cash, I'd have that off you right now. That's lush. :wub:[/quote] Your right there mate. I played on this a couple of weeks ago and the neck is fantastic. If I was a bit more flush I would snap this up now. I would recommend this to anyone its light, plays fantastic and sounds like thunder, you must be mad parting with that one Dave
Scoop Posted December 1, 2008 Author Posted December 1, 2008 [quote name='ianrunci' post='340418' date='Nov 29 2008, 12:49 PM']Your right there mate. I played on this a couple of weeks ago and the neck is fantastic. If I was a bit more flush I would snap this up now. I would recommend this to anyone its light, plays fantastic and sounds like thunder, you must be mad parting with that one Dave[/quote] Ian, I had 11 basses at the start of the week with two more ACGs on the way. As I said earlier, I would FAR rather sell my Lakland Bob Glaub than this one. But the Lakland doesn't feedback on church gigs, so this has gotta go.
silverfoxnik Posted December 1, 2008 Posted December 1, 2008 [quote name='Scoop' post='341587' date='Dec 1 2008, 12:43 AM']Ian, I had 11 basses at the start of the week with two more ACGs on the way. As I said earlier, I would FAR rather sell my Lakland Bob Glaub than this one. But the Lakland doesn't feedback on church gigs, so this has gotta go.[/quote] If it doesn't sell quickly, perhaps you should consider putting some hum cancelling p/ups in it?
JakeBrownBass Posted December 4, 2008 Posted December 4, 2008 i'm using one of these atm and they really are great basses for the money! The EBS preamp is excellent! Jake
Scoop Posted December 6, 2008 Author Posted December 6, 2008 [quote name='jake_tenfloors' post='345240' date='Dec 4 2008, 12:04 PM']i'm using one of these atm and they really are great basses for the money! The EBS preamp is excellent! Jake[/quote] And at even less money!! REDUCED to £459
LukeFRC Posted December 14, 2008 Posted December 14, 2008 silly question but who/what/why is KSD? I did a wee search on google which turned up ken smith designs, none of which appeared like a J bass.
johnnylager Posted December 14, 2008 Posted December 14, 2008 (edited) [quote name='LukeFRC' post='354443' date='Dec 14 2008, 06:44 PM']silly question but who/what/why is KSD? I did a wee search on google which turned up ken smith designs, none of which appeared like a J bass.[/quote] Try [url="http://www.kensmithbasses.com/KSD/KSDdefault.htm"]here[/url] and [url="http://www.brooklyngear.com/PDF/KSD_SellSheet.pdf"]here[/url]. Lovely basses. You won't find much about the EBS pre though - bit of a side project of one of the EBS gadgeys I think. Lovely pre too. Edited December 14, 2008 by johnnylager
Scoop Posted December 27, 2008 Author Posted December 27, 2008 (edited) can't be arsed any longer and withdrawn from sale. Edited December 27, 2008 by Scoop
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