TRADED P5 Freedom CGR Retrospective Series £1300 Villejuif - France

[Hooch]

I'm selling my Freedom Retrospective series Pbass. These are japanese high-end basses, handmade on request by Freedom Custom Guitar Research – Pino's Rhino builder. They're made with the best materials money can buy. The standard Retrospective Series PBass costs more than €4000, shipped to your door direct from a Japanese store.

This one would be more expensive: it's a custom-order, hence the full-lacquer Shoreline Gold body - Standard ones are poly-coated -, the active preamp on top of a full-passive layout, and the Honduras rosewood fingerboard, while they normally use Indian one. Here you got a jazz fiver, with standard specs: https://www.digimart.net/cat03/shop169/DS05910935/#

The bass is a 34-scale P fiver, with an extent on the B string. Overall good condition, with some crazes & checking in the Shoreline gold nitro layers. The neck is perfectly straight, low action without fretbuzz, vintage-thin frets remaining intact. Gorgeous fingerboard, comfy C shape, and a joy to play. B string is resonant and defined, the extended scale tightening its tone.

Very light Fender-shaped fiver, hence its alder body: 9.1lbs / 4kg.

As for the electronics, the split pickup is quite unusual. I've never seen such a pickup before, with 4 polepieces on the A string. Pickup-height setting is unusual, but once you've found the sweet spot it just shines.

P tones for days, just as good as my 4-string vintage Ps, with this wonderful passive tone. Freedom nailed it, much better than the Xotic XP fiver i formerly had. Pull the tone pot and you get a modern twist to the beast, with a Freedom CGR made 2 band EQ. You got many useful tones there, including a killer slap tone. Amazing bass, which is not played as much as it deserves - i only play 4-string basses with my buddies.

Comes with a Yamaha hard-case in good working condition. Freshly strung with 45-130 Rotosound.

(was) €1550 / £1280 shipped to your door in European countries. Now €1400 / ~ £1180

There you got feedback about me : 



Edited March 7, 2020 by Hooch

[CameronJ]

This is very cool

[busccini]

Any Trades?

 

[Hooch]

@CameronJ Thank you, and you won't find many, if any, of these Retrospective Series at this price. No trades i'm afraid, as i'm selling this bass to raise some money for an early 70s jazz with black blocks. 

Edited February 16, 2020 by Hooch

[Hooch]

Price drop, it's now yours for €1470 / ~ £1220 shipped to your door in European countries. I think it really is a bargain at this price - plus it's quite unusual finding one 2nd-hand, even in Japan.

[therealting]

Oh my. 

[Hooch]

€1400 shipped to your door. 

Here's a working link to a standard Retrospective Series J : https://www.digimart.net/cat03/shop169/DS05910935/#

a new custom-order P, with the same specs as mine, would cost around 500 000 yens / €5200 shipped to your door in European countries.

[Hooch]

Trade pending

[therealting]

Ah I didn’t think trades were an option...!

[Hooch]

Hi, you're right it wasn't indeed, except, in my mind at least, a 70s jazz with cash my way. I did my best to make my price appealing, losing a few hundred euros on what i paid for. Market's slow, brand's not a big name in Europe, even if it is in Japan, i think i'd have lost even more on a straight sale. I understand this but i think it's not on par with what this bass has to offer. Someone initially made a fair & interesting offer, went back with the same one despite price drops. In France we have a saying, only fools never change their mind. 

All the best,

Yannick

 

(TRADED)

Edited March 7, 2020 by Hooch