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Yamaha BBG4 Blue Flame Rosewood stealth modified
£200
Cambridge

tomthebass

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Happy New Year Bassfolks!

 

Up for sale a pristine passive Yamaha 24 fret stealth beauty.

 

Time to offload one of my lockdown projects with the following mods:

 

  • Removed the matching headstock colour and revarnished/tinted, applied a new Yamaha decal and a couple of additional coats of satin varnish. Don't ask me why, I just have a thing against matching headstocks 🤷‍♂️
  • Routed to enlarge the rear control cavity (now sporting a new cover) to allow 5 control knobs with a preamped treble-mid-bass-blend-volume setup. I've since removed the preamp for another project and returned this to passive volume/tone pair for each pickup and so one knob is currently unused. During the drilling process I clumsily damaged the lacquer around one of the pots, see pictures. Thankfully it's barely noticeable with the knobs fitted.
  • Removed all the gold plated hardware and replaced with like for like black, with the exception of the neck mounting plate.

 

This thing is lightweight at 3.7kg and super comfortable to play, truss rod works fine and you can get a low action without buzz, and it has a nice crisp piano-like tone unplugged.

 

Pickups are the stock Yamaha passives, I assume single coil.

 

That's all I can think of, feel free to fire questions!

 

 

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