💥 SOLD 💥 YAMAHA BB1024 Caramel Top Condition £475 UK Delivery £475 Suffolk

[Quent]

Hi all. Up for grabs is my near perfect Yamaha BB1024 in a sweet glossy finish which shows off the beautiful grain on it’s body. Only weighs 4.1kg 9lbs 1oz. Selling  to make room for an incoming heavier ........BB1024! Different colour. You only live once.

Everyone should have one or at least try one of these outstanding passive basses which have very powerful clear PJ pickups with Vol , 3 way pickup switch and a tone pot which gives a huge range of tones. Loads of good demos on Youtube. 

Serial No HQM193022 so it was made in June 2010 but has obviously not had much play (see close ups of frets ). I’ve owned it since 2017 and taken good care of it so it’s super clean and set up ready to play and had a full fretboard oil last year and a lesser oiling/ clean last week when I gave the frets a farewell polish. The photos make the board look a bit dry in places but it isn’t. Lovely subtle striped rosewood, see pics. 40mm nickel silver nut , as per fret material.

Has a set of DR Lo Beams from last summer strung through body ( see 45 deg loading and special shaped / reversible brass saddles on the steel plate ). No case with this but don’t worry I’ll pack and pad very well in a coffin type bass box and pad that inside a large outer bass box.

Super comfortable satin finish neck but a nice gloss on the headstock face. The only superficial imperfections are just that, there’s no damage  at all to the bass and all electronics work perfectly. One tiny dink rear of body shown with Biro but it’s on a darker grain line , not even worth a drop fill. Headstock edge on shoulder near E tuner has two small dark spots within the grain by the looks. Not photographable ( I tried) are very faint signs from playing ( not swirls, more like squiggles ) below G string , twixt P pup and neck, just below, still a full gloss finish. That’s all.  She’s a beauty.

Good luck trying to get it and I can include a black pickguard I got from Yamaha in London which looks great to me just stuck on with those gummy removable sticker dots ( can include a few) so let me know if you want that too. ( see one pic ). 

All the best and enjoy the Great Jail Break on April 12th ! 🍻 😃

Yamaha BB1024 Specs

 

Construction Bolt-On

Scale Length 34'' (863.6mm)

Fingerboard Rosewood

Radius 10" (250mm)

Frets 21 Medium - Nickel Silver 

Nut 40mm - Nickel Silver

Neck 56.3mm at 12th fret.

Body Alder 3 piece with Maple Spline Joints.

Neck - 5 piece Maple/ Nato ( mahogany) 

Bridge Vintage Plus ( Steel plate, Angled Brass Saddles for point string contact

but reversible for normal saddle top contact if preferred.)

45 degree Through Body stringing.

String spacing at bridge 19mm.

Pickups Neck: Split Blade (Alnico V), Bridge: Single Blade (Ceramic)

Pickup Switch 3 position Toggle Switch, Bridge / Both / Neck 

Controls Master Volume, Powerful Master Tone.

 

Spline Jointed 3-Piece Body:

Three-piece bodies are joined together using spline joints between the center and side slabs. Made of hard maple the splines deliver richer body resonance that comes close to that of a one-piece body. 

 

 

Edited March 18, 2021 by Quent
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[tom1946]

That looks wonderful sir.

[Quent]

Tiz indeed Tom, thanks and only  9lb 1oz. Ideal for old gits like us!

[david1711]

These are brilliant. I have a 1024 and 1025x. Talk about value for money. 

[three]

Fabulous design and execution - I always feel that a Yamaha bass inspires confidence in its performance 

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

....and that is how to sell a bass 👍.

There are a few members who could learn a lot from this ad. GLWTS.

[EJWW]

Sorely tempted by this... love yamaha basses

 

[Quent]

So am I EJ ! I might keep it ! ( 😄 )

You guys are right of course ( thanks ) these are terrific basses for build and the sheer excellence of tone and with the punch too. I’m a big fan of active EQs but when the tone pot is this effective it brings out the best from the Yamaha passive pups which have more than enough output. 

[Quent]

Bugger. Sold it.

[Black Coffee]

Cant believe I missed this.

 

love these 

[Quent]

Ah, hard luck BC, another will come along soon enough. Sold in under 2 hours.

Good luck and keep well. Quent