Epiphone Archtop Acoustic Bass, Custom Kent Armstrong Pickup, Hard Case SALE PENDING - *SOLD* £750 Beccles, Suffolk

[kristo]

Up for sale is my Epiphone Masterbilt DeLuxe Century archtop acoustic bass. I bought this new in 2018 and have gigged it regularly since. Although well gigged, it has been babied so is in great condition, with only a couple of small marks on the body. Fitted with Labella 760N Black Nylon strings, which I think are an improvement on the stock D'addario tapewounds. The original piezo pickups on these are ok, but I wanted something better, so I had some dialog with Aaron at Kent Armstrong pickups about other options that would work for me. He wound me a custom floating pickup which transformed the live sound, giving a lovely warm, full tone. This has been wired directly to the output jack, with the piezo disconnected. The bass now has a beautiful double bass type sound which worked brilliantly for the old time stuff I played. Also sounds great unplugged, and is louder with roundwounds, but I prefer the tone of the nylon strings. The bass has the matching Epiphone hard case.

I will include some Bobs Fits F hole blockers made especially for the bass. I got these in case I had any issues with feedback on bigger stages, but I’ve never had to use them. The original tuner buttons have been replaced with Schallers. £695 ono. 

Collection from Beccles, Suffolk. I have a box so shipping is also a possibility. Cheers.

Edited June 15, 2022 by kristo

[oldslapper]

Love mine. Same mod, piezo replaced with Krivo mag pup. 
Lovely build quality, plays wonderfully and looks cool as flip 

GLWTS 

Edited May 24, 2022 by oldslapper

[Taa]

Would make a nice fretless IMO

[oldslapper]

12 minutes ago, Taa said:

Would make a nice fretless IMO

That’s exactly what I’m doing with mine. It’s booked in with luthier later next month. 😎

[kristo]

On 24/05/2022 at 10:18, oldslapper said:

That’s exactly what I’m doing with mine. It’s booked in with luthier later next month. 😎

That sounds cool. Interested to see how that goes so please put something on here. 

[kristo]

Price drop.

[Ajoten]

Aargh! Waiting for the chancellor here to be in a better mood so I can give serious consideration to this...