TheMoose Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 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! 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTool Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 Aw man! 😳😳😳😳 If that had been fretted it would be mine now 😩😩 Stunner, GLWTS 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 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/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 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... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 That is so nice. So so nice. GLWTS Dave 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 *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* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J66Bass Posted November 18 Share Posted November 18 Beautiful, for more info I believe Vigier shop is quite accessible to speak to , before I believe he s closing down for retirement soon.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 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. 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTool Posted November 19 Share Posted November 19 Is this still here? 😲😖 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 (edited) 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 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted November 20 Share Posted November 20 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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