Vigier Passion fretless carbon thru-neck (#016) £2,000 - *SOLD* £2000 London

[TheMoose]

Vigier Passion fretless carbon thru-neck (#016) £2,000

 

Selling my Vigier Passion lined fretless bass with carbon neck-through-body. I believe that it is a series ii with Phenowood Fingerboard.

 

It’s all as original, including VP4 active preamp / circuit board. It sounds brilliant and is lovely to play.

 

It is in really good condition for its age but has some small resin cracks around the output (quite common) and a repair on the underside (see photos).

 

It’s been stored away for 30 years but recently cleaned up, serviced and set-up by Medley Guitars in London. It’s now 100% ready to play.

Comes with a hard case.

£2,000

 

I’m going to try selling in the UK first, then consider going international if there's not enough interest.

 

Thanks for looking!

 

[BassTool]

Aw man! 😳😳😳😳

 

If that had been fretted it would be mine now 😩😩

 

Stunner, GLWTS 😉

[itu]

Pickups are old, as the polepieces are visible. Series II sounds right (neck, electronics, shape etc.), but a phenolic fingerboard, white nut, and fretless? Not Delta metal? Could this be a modified bass?

 

#016 gave really strange results. I don't say the pages are always exact, but still.

https://www.vigierguitars.com/fr/datez-votre-vigier/

https://www.vigierguitars.com/date-your-vigier/

[Hellzero]

The Vigier website is too often totally wrong, that's quite amazing to have put that online without really double checking all these serial numbers recouping themselves and their correct item designation being completely wrong. 🤦

 

First generation fretless Delta Metal are almost as rare as hence teeth and most of them if not all were Arpège, I owned one and it took me years to find it, but a very good friend of mine wanted it so badly that I sold it to him...

[dmccombe7]

That is so nice. So so nice.

GLWTS

Dave

[Hellzero]

*Derail ON*

 

My Arpège bears serial number 005, is from February 1981 and I even have the original invoice of the first owner (I was the second owner) who bought it brand new on the 2nd of September 1981...

 

What does the dating website says:

 

 

Try to find mine! @itu

 

 

 

 

 

*Derail OFF*

[itu]

Thanks @Hellzero, like I guessed, not all numbers are right there. But that fretless neck and white nut... and I don't say I remember a Delta metal Passion.

[J66Bass]

Beautiful, for more info I believe Vigier shop is quite accessible to speak to , before I believe he s closing down for retirement soon..

[Hellzero]

12 hours ago, J66Bass said:

Beautiful, for more info I believe Vigier shop is quite accessible to speak to , before I believe he s closing down for retirement soon..

Two years too late. 😉

[BassTool]

Is this still here? 😲😖 

[Hellzero]

After searching again, I can confirm it's a factory early fretless Passion II (introduced in 1985) with a graphite neck and a phenolic fingerboard as, like all the early ones, it has a real bone nut, no dots on the front and white fret lines when the fretted versions of that period had no front dots too and a zero fret, so a converted one would still have it or something even weird(er) with a huge nut...

 

Check this review (by the great Tony Bacon) from ... 1985, everything matches: https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/vigier-passion-bass/11761

 

Remember that the Passion (introduced in 1983) came after the Arpège (introduced in 1980) and was thought differently, but here is the rare beast @itu, a 1983 Passion I fretless with a Delta Metal fingerboard and a graphite neck without truss rod, of course: https://www.basscentre.com.au/products/vigier-passion-fretless-1983

 

You can even compare this Passion II fretless with its fretted sibling here: https://www.leboncoin.fr/vi/2887220561.htm#xtor=ES-3999-[MYSRCH]

 

Hope all this helps. 😉

 

GLWYS!

Edited November 20 by Hellzero

[itu]

3 hours ago, Hellzero said:

...but here is the rare beast @itu, a 1983 Passion I fretless with a Delta Metal fingerboard and a graphite neck without truss rod, of course: https://www.basscentre.com.au/products/vigier-passion-fretless-1983

Pickups turned upside down! But this is something I saw decades ago in a window of some shop. I have never seen an Arpège Delta metal in person. Only pictures.

[TheMoose]

Now sold (subject to delivery in Jan).

 

I'll update the headline message once I've worked out how to do it!

Edited December 13 by TheMoose