Valenti

[ShaunB]

Hi guys...

Just got this from Lee, and what a fine instrument - bodacious even!

Love it!

[bremen]

[quote name='ShaunB' post='93353' date='Nov 23 2007, 03:08 PM']Hi guys...

Just got this from Lee, and what a fine instrument - bodacious even!

Love it!

[/quote]

Nice finish! What wood is that? Are they Warmoth parts?

[ShaunB]

[quote name='bremen' post='93355' date='Nov 23 2007, 03:10 PM']Nice finish! What wood is that? Are they Warmoth parts?[/quote]

...from Valenti's website:

1 Piece Swamp Ash Body
Transparent Blue Finish
Maple neck with Maple fretboard
Satin Finish on neck
Nordstrand NP4 Pickup
Aguilar OBP-1 Preamp
Hipshot HB-1 Tuning Keys
Gotoh Quick Release Bridge
Black Pearl Pickguard
Black Hardware
Schaller Straplocks

[Sean]

Is that #005? I nearly made a play for that a while back and something came up which meant I was temporarily insolvent. Possibly the nicest P bass I've ever seen.

[Lee-Man]

Glad you like it mate. Was playing with Roddy Radiation from the Specials at the weekend.......he reckons I'm mad for parting with it, I reckon he's right!

[ShaunB]

[quote name='Lee-Man' post='95811' date='Nov 28 2007, 09:16 PM']Glad you like it mate. Was playing with Roddy Radiation from the Specials at the weekend.......he reckons I'm mad for parting with it, I reckon he's right![/quote]

I reckon you're right!

(hang on... I'm oh so glad you did!)

It is a superb bass. Nuff said... and thank you Lee!

[tayste_2000]

Wish I'd never sold it myself but I did manage after trade aftre trade to get a Mesa Boogie 400+ for it.

That was the second Valenti to come in to the UK and for a long time I had the only 3 in the country

[NJW]

Thats a pretty famous bass!

[ShaunB]

Pretty and famous... and quite possibly the finest instrument I've ever owned.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[quote name='bremen' post='93355' date='Nov 23 2007, 03:10 PM']Nice finish! What wood is that? Are they Warmoth parts?[/quote]
I think Nino has used Warmoth parts but may get them from USA custom these days.

It certainly looks like this bass on the Warmoth site:
[url="http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/gallery.cfm?fuseaction=include_featured_a"]<a href="http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/gallery.cfm?fuseaction=include_featured_a" target="_blank">http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/gallery.cfm...lude_featured_a[/url]</a>

His headstock is also features on the usacg site:
[url="http://usacustomguitars.com/pegheads.html"]<a href="http://usacustomguitars.com/pegheads.html" target="_blank">http://usacustomguitars.com/pegheads.html[/url]</a>

Edited December 5, 2007 by Jean-Luc Pickguard

[tayste_2000]

This bass was Warmoth he moved onto USA Guitars now has everything custom made for him by Callowhill.

Personally I didn't like the shape of the USA Guitars stuff