FS/FT: MG Custom Fretless 5 - Nordstrand Zen blades (*price drop*) £1475 The Hague, Netherlands

[TorVic]

(Located in The Hague, NL. My feedback history: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/280308-feedback-for-torvic/page/3/#comments)

Cash Price dropped: 1150eur  + shipping (trade price 1350eur)  

Got this here and it is still like new! Only played occasionally at home. Selling to fund another purchase - no trades

Here's the description borrowed from the previous sale: 

• New price: 2565 USD (bass) + 300 USD (shipping costs) + 687 USD import costs = 3552USD / 3152Euro / 2790GBP
• 34 "scale
• lightweight Swamp Ash body with Wengé veneer and Brazillian Olive wood top
• 7 piece Maple / Wengé neck with a nice dark piece Ebony for the fretboard
• 24 fret lines with dot markings on the side of the neck
• 2 Nordstrand Zen blade pickups passive Volume / Balance / Tone
• Ebony ramp (slides in - not affixed with any adhesive) 
• Gotoh tuners and mono-rail bridges 
• weight ~4.4 kg

website: https://mgbassguitars.com/ 

 

Edited September 19, 2021 by TorVic
price drop

[TorVic]

Some earlier photos from the makers with tapewound strings

  

 

Edited September 12, 2020 by TorVic

[Bassdude BE]

This bass was made for me by Mauricio Costa @MGBass and it´s an absolute gem!

It is definitely one of the best sounding fretless basses I´ve ever layed my hands on, the combination of the neck and body woods, combined with the Nordstrand pickups gives you a tone to die for.

I only sold it to Torvic because I was starting to experience some health problems in my left arm and shoulder and I only play short and medium scale basses these days because of that.

Sad to see you´re selling this Torvic, I hope all is well..

Kind regards,

Don

 

 

 

Edited October 2, 2020 by Bassdude BE

[TorVic]

Thanks for sharing Don. I agree that it is an absolutely wonderful fretless - ergonomic and sounds great! It's in the exact great condition as I received it from you.

There is another bass that has caught my eye and as I have too many basses, I have to follow the rule of 1-out for 1-in. I am more partial to 4-stringers now. 

Unfortunately I haven't used this bass much at all and hence letting it go. Anyone looking for a great sounding and great playing fretless will definitely get a great deal with this one! 

 

[Bassdude BE]

If those are still the same strings that were on there when I traded this with Torvic last year, then they are Thomastik flats.

They were new back then, so they should've settled in nicely by now. G.L.W.T.S.

 

Edited October 24, 2020 by Bassdude BE

[TorVic]

Yes, it’s still got the same strings on

[Nicholasbt]

Hi! are there any videos/sound clips of the bass?

[TorVic]

I'm afraid not. It hasn't been used much at all.

If you are interested and want some recordings, please PM me the details. 

[TorVic]

I recorded some sound samples with different settings. The bass was connected directly to my audio interface. No effect or mastering was used. The track was exported with default normalization.

The settings: 

neck pickup - tone fully open - midway - fully closed

both pickups - tone fully open - midway - fully closed

bridge pickup - tone fully open - midway - fully closed

MG-fretless-tones.mp3

[alyctes]

It might be worth editing the title so that people can see the price is reduced?