Bacchus TF5 red ash maple hand-crafted in Japan £1200 Cambridge

[tomthebass]

Beautiful red-stained waxed ash three-piece body with matching red headstock, one-piece maple neck and maple fingerboard.

 

Pickups are Bacchus humbuckers (EMG clones) with Aguilar two-band preamp plus a passive filter, so the combination works like the VTC in Sadowsky basses. Tuners are Gotoh cloverleaf.

 

Lovely to play with low action, crisp tone and 18mm string spacing at the bridge. Weight is 4.5kg (bathroom scales)

 

Bought new from Japan this year and hardly played as the bass I’d been waiting for a long time became available just after.

 

Price is what I paid for it including import duties etc from Japan.

 

Can ship in a generic hard case.

[ped]

These are fantastic. I had one a few years ago. The sound was very Smith like, also like a Sadowsky Modern. Built just as well.