!!! SOLD !!! MTD 635-24 Fretless. For Sale or (partial) Trade.
£3150

Hellzero · August 19, 2018

Thinning down the herd, so selling the basses I don't use.

FOR SALE OR (PARTIAL) TRADE BASED ON THE NEW RETAIL PRICE ($8000 USD) :

Very nice MTD 635-24 Fretless with new Bartolini/Tobias preamp installed and fretboard fixed because of slight default.

The specifications :

Body : two pieces poplar

Top : bookmatched maple burl

Neck : bolt-on one piece wenge

Fretboard : ebony

Headstock : reversed glued with maple burl veneer

Tuners : Hipshot USA

Frets : none, fretless, 24 positions with only side dots

Trussrod : 1 fully working

Bridge : brass Hipshot B Style

Pickups : 2 Bartolini/Tobias humbuckers

Preamp : (new) Bartolini/Tobias 3 bands EQ (+/- 9 Volts, so 2 batteries) with volume, blend, treble, mids, bass and 3 positions swith for the mids frequency

Strings spacing at bridge : 18 mm

Strings spacing at maple nut : 9,5 mm

Action at 12th fret : from 1,5 mm under the C to 2 mm under the B

Scale : 35 inches

Finish : hand finished with an epoxy base coat and catalyzed urethane topcoat (satin seethrough Andrew GOUCHÉ red)

Weight : 4,4 kilos

Case : original unbranded MTD

Serial # : 878(120202)

Year : 2002 (early bird)

Strings : D'Addario Nickel EXL 170-6 (32-130)

Todays price for a similar bass with all the options : $8000 USD or around £6300 GBP !

The bass has been fully revised, fixed and set up last year by Christophe LEDUC who did a differential fretboard dressing after fixing the slight uptlifting end of this very fretboard on the treble side. This was done with the guiding help of Mike TOBIAS himself as they are friends. The bass is now perfect and also received a new preamp exchanged by Mike TOBIAS as the original was defective.

Note that this bass seems to have been orderd by Andrew GOUCHÉ himself as there is GA written (see pictures) on the back of the battery plate, neck and in the neck pocket, but unfortunately Mike TOBIAS has no record for that fact, but maybe Andrew GOUCHÉ could confirm this...

Non smoking environment, as usual.

Asking price is £3150 GBP due to the rarity and now fixed problem, but very good condition of this bass.

MTD price list link : http://www.mtdbass.com/price-list/

Having questions about the real colour, it's somewhere between my pictures and these :

http://www.bassclubparis.com/index.php/mtd/535-signature-andrew-gouche-detail

https://www.basscentre.com.au/products/used-mtd-andrew-gouche-6-string-with-hard-case

The pictures to see the real condition (under different lights to try to capture the real colour), which shows only some little wear with a very few dings and scratches plus the satin finish going away over the MTD logo, so all in all absolutely nothing serious :