Ibanez Musician - 80's MIJ - *SOLD* £495 Margate

[jay-syncro]

A lovely 80's made in Japan Ibanez Musican bass complete with a Hiscox flight case. 

 

This bass is extremely well built and features neck through construction, 24 fret ebony board, lightweight hardware and active electronics. It plays wonderfully with a recent set of Ernie Ball flats and a med/low action. It sounds great! 

 

Bad points are it has some superficial lacquer checking/dings/missing finish etc but nothing out of the ordinary for an instrument that has been used for 40 years or so! Also the bridge pickup seems to have a lower output than the neck for some reason. With the pickup pan pot balanced or favouring the neck you'd never notice it, but mentioning for clarity. I have considered modernising the pickups/preamp but IMO it sounds great as it is. 

 

A wonderful instrument. 

Edited May 15, 2023 by jay-syncro

[Burns-bass]

Absolutely stonking good bass at a wonderful price.

Edited May 13, 2023 by Burns-bass

[songofthewind]

Ah, gorgeous! Memories are made of this.

[Hatts]

Bargain wish I could get over my fender snobbery. 

[Kev]

About half the current market price surely?  Bargain!!

[Hatts]

37 minutes ago, Kev said:

About half the current market price surely?  Bargain!!

Try building one for less than £1500 .I could not.

[tomthebass]

Beautiful! What's the weight?

[jay-syncro]

On hold!