!!! SOLD !!! JP BASSES Plume Redwood 5 aka SKJOLD Denoncourt Plume 5 £2250

[Hellzero]

Thinning down the herd, so selling the basses I don't use, especially non 6 strings basses.

 

FOR SALE OR (PARTIAL) TRADE BASED ON THE NEW RETAIL PRICE ($9000 USD) :

 

Superb looking, playing and sounding 33" JP BASSES Plume Redwood 5 with high grade woods.

A bass in the league of Fodera and the likes. A real high end rare and collectable bass as Jean-Philippe FERREIRA (owner of JP BASSES) sold the rights to Pete SKJOLD who named these the Denoncourt series (see link below).

 

The specifications :

Body : chambered 2 pieces high grade highly flamed maple

Top and back : 2 pieces exhibition grade holographic curly redwood with 2 veneers of ebony

Neck : 3 pieces bolt-on high grade padauk and ebony center with 2 veneers of maple with patented high grade Macassar ebony tone transmission heel plate and matched top heel exhibition grade holographic curly redwood

Fretboard : thick flat radius high grade Macassar ebony with side dots only

Headstock : angled with matched exhibition grade holographic curly redwood and JP inlay

Tuners : 2 + 3 Gotoh Res-O-Lite 350

Frets : 25 in stainless steel (24 + zero fret)

Truss rod : 1 fully working

Bridge : ETS Transmission Bridge

Pickups : 2 JP BASSES/Kent Armstrong  fitted in epoxy adjustable ramp

Preamp : Audere 3ZB1 2 bands with volume, Dingwall rotary switch for the pickups selection (bridge, series, parallel, neck), bass, treble with the 3 ways Z switch plus internal gain and capacitance trimmers (left row only working because of the Dingwall rotary switch) without forgetting the LED battery status. This preamp can be converted into a 4 bands by simply soldering 2 more 100 K Ohms pots. So as it is right now, you have 12 totally different sounds from deep bass to crystal clear tone !!!

Strings spacing at bridge : 18,5 mm (adjustable)

Strings spacing at the zero fret (high grade Macassar ebony nut) : 9,5 mm

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

Scale : 33 inches

Finish : oiled

Hardware : black (comes with new Harley Benton Strap Security Locks)

Weight : 4,6 kilos (perfectly balanced)

Case : non original unbranded hard case

Year : 2005 (one of the last ever made by JP BASSES)

Strings : D'Addario Nickel EXL 170-5 (45-130)

Todays price for a similar bass with all the options by SKJOLD (download the price list and you'll be amazed) : at least $9000 USD or around £7000 GBP !

The bass has been fully set up and everything checked.

Non smoking environment, as usual.

 

Asking price is £2250 GBP (around one third of a newly made by SKJOLD and half the price in 2005 when it was made by JP BASSES), which is a steal for such a rare bass, but I want it to find a good home as I only play 6 strings basses and mainly fretless.

 

Links :

http://www.skjolddesign.com/basses

http://www.skjolddesign.com/images/pdf/Pricing2014.pdf

https://www.ets-hardware.com/transmission.php?pic=2

http://www.audereengineering.com/3ZB.htm

 

Look at the pictures to see the real condition (under different lights to try to capture the real beauty of the woods), which show some wear, a few little knocks, some belt scratches at the back and two wood pieces at the rear of the neck where there were two knots (instead of glue mixed with wood dust)... I've pictured everything as usual, but if you want more pictures, just ask.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Hellzero

[dyerseve]

Beautiful plumage!

[Hellzero]

Et le ramage se rapporte au plumage, c'est donc bien le phénix des hôtes de ces bois.

[CameronJ]

Wow, this is lovely. Has something of an ACG vibe to it. 

[Hellzero]

But they were crafted before ACG went into business, in fact Alan CRINGEAN started in 2006 just after Jean-Philippe FERREIRA stopped in 2005. Strange coincidence, no... 😉

[skelf]

Hi

The business came into being in 2005 I was building before then so no coincidence at all. However it is also public record that JP was and still is one of the biggest influences, and making me want  to build in the first place. My main wood supplier Larry was also JP supplier it is how I found him. So I have always held JP in the highest of regard.

[Hellzero]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your kind reply, but there was no offence at all in what I wrote, I just wanted to get the time line right.

Thanks for your words as they do it better then mine. That said, I've owned one of your bass and really liked it especially the EQ01 (when properly understood).

And I still love your 0157Ü, which is a true masterpiece : http://archive.acguitars.co.uk/portfolio/0157u-uber-art-recurve-4/

Keep on making great instruments in your beautiful landscapes place. 👍

[skelf]

No offence taken,all good. Best of luck with the sale although if I was you I would keep it. An original JP will be hard to replace. 

[Hellzero]

Thanks for the advice, but as a 6 strings bass player and mostly fretless, it's missing a string. That said a trade for a JP BASSES 6 (fretless) would be the perfect solution, or one of yours, Alan, of course.

[fiatcoupe432]

On 1 November 2018 at 15:06, Hellzero said:

Thinning down the herd, so selling the basses I don't use, especially non 6 strings basses.

 

FOR SALE OR (PARTIAL) TRADE BASED ON THE NEW RETAIL PRICE ($9000 USD) :

 

Superb looking, playing and sounding 33" JP BASSES Plume Redwood 5 with high grade woods.

A bass in the league of Fodera and the likes. A real high end rare and collectable bass as Jean-Philippe FERREIRA (owner of JP BASSES) sold the rights to Pete SKJOLD who named these the Denoncourt series (see link below).

 

The specifications :

Body : chambered 2 pieces high grade highly flamed maple

Top and back : 2 pieces exhibition grade holographic curly redwood with 2 veneers of ebony

Neck : 3 pieces bolt-on high grade padauk and ebony center with 2 veneers of maple with patented high grade Macassar ebony tone transmission heel plate and matched top heel exhibition grade holographic curly redwood

Fretboard : thick flat radius high grade Macassar ebony with side dots only

Headstock : angled with matched exhibition grade holographic curly redwood and JP inlay

Tuners : 2 + 3 Gotoh Res-O-Lite 350

Frets : 25 in stainless steel (24 + zero fret)

Truss rod : 1 fully working

Bridge : ETS Transmission Bridge

Pickups : 2 JP BASSES/Kent Armstrong  fitted in epoxy adjustable ramp

Preamp : Audere 3ZB1 2 bands with volume, Dingwall rotary switch for the pickups selection (bridge, series, parallel, neck), bass, treble with the 3 ways Z switch plus internal gain and capacitance trimmers (left row only working because of the Dingwall rotary switch) without forgetting the LED battery status. This preamp can be converted into a 4 bands by simply soldering 2 more 100 K Ohms pots. So as it is right now, you have 12 totally different sounds from deep bass to crystal clear tone !!!

Strings spacing at bridge : 18,5 mm (adjustable)

Strings spacing at the zero fret (high grade Macassar ebony nut) : 9,5 mm

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

Scale : 33 inches

Finish : oiled

Hardware : black (comes with new Harley Benton Strap Security Locks)

Weight : 4,6 kilos (perfectly balanced)

Case : non original unbranded hard case

Year : 2005 (one of the last ever made by JP BASSES)

Strings : D'Addario Nickel EXL 170-5 (45-130)

Todays price for a similar bass with all the options by SKJOLD (download the price list and you'll be amazed) : at least $9000 USD or around £7000 GBP !

The bass has been fully set up and everything checked.

Non smoking environment, as usual.

 

Asking price is £2250 GBP (around one third of a newly made by SKJOLD and half the price in 2005 when it was made by JP BASSES), which is a steal for such a rare bass, but I want it to find a good home as I only play 6 strings basses and mainly fretless.

 

Links :

http://www.skjolddesign.com/basses

http://www.skjolddesign.com/images/pdf/Pricing2014.pdf

https://www.ets-hardware.com/transmission.php?pic=2

http://www.audereengineering.com/3ZB.htm

 

Look at the pictures to see the real condition (under different lights to try to capture the real beauty of the woods), which show some wear, a few little knocks, some belt scratches at the back and two wood pieces at the rear of the neck where there were two knots (instead of glue mixed with wood dust)... I've pictured everything as usual, but if you want more pictures, just ask.

hat is beautiful .... good luck tony 

[fiatcoupe432]

7 hours ago, skelf said:

No offence taken,all good. Best of luck with the sale although if I was you I would keep it. An original JP will be hard to replace. 

however Alan , i think your instruments are really really special!

something really special about your fretless basses ...i  dont know what you do but i love it. 

i dont own one (yet ) played many times diffferent acg but one day im gonna have a 6 string build (fretless) of course 

[skelf]

Thanks very much. Any time you want to have a chat you know where to find me. Still a killer bass you are selling.

[Hellzero]

On hold. 🙂

[Hellzero]

Gone.