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This bass was finished in November 2004 and is in excellent condition. It has the 10/90 neck with the most beautiful flame maple. The neck is the thinnest I have ever played and fretwork is excellent. The body has an ash core with really thick flame maple caps, front and back. Bass is all original with no issues. Kahler bridge, Schaller machine heads and Benedetti single coil pickups, Vigier 18v preamp. It comes in a semi-hard Gear4Music shaped case which is in excellent condition, and really good quality for a budget case. Weight is 3.7kgs

I'm moving on one of my ACG 6 string basses. The one in, one out rule applies in my house sadly, so as much as I don't want to see it go, needs must. It's a pretty special bass, 6 strings, singlecut bolt-on design, with a 31.5" scale length. Even with the shorter scale, the whole thing is so well designed and made that the low B is solid, as useable and musical as most 34" and 35" basses in my opinion, but I will attach a couple of vids so you can hear it. Here's the lowdown... 6 string, tuned B to C 31.5" scale Bolt-on construction 24 frets 16.5mm string spacing 54mm nut width STUNNING Highly Figured Black Limba Body 3 piece Wenge Neck, with Asymmetrical profile Pau Ferro Fingerboard ACG RFB pickup, humbucker, handmade by Aaron Armstrong with series/single coil/parallel switching, roughly in the MM Stingray location East Uni-pre 4K preamp with passive tone control and active/passive switching Hipshot A Type Bridge Gotoh Resolite Tuners String with Newtone Nickels, 28 40 60 80 100 125TW More pics here on the ACG site >> https://acguitars.co.uk/project/0307-finn-classic-6-31-5/ Video featuring lockdown hairdoo and beard, and the Low B string in use (recorded using a phone and a little Warwick 1x8 Combo) >> Silly video doing some noodling as part of a duel with a good friend, who is a Banjo player (recorded using a phone and a little Warwick 1x8 Combo) >> The bass is absolutely mint, only issue to declare is the 12th fret, on the high C string has a little buzz, which you can hear in the second clip if you're really listening hard, so it could do with a little fret dress on that fret, but bar that, it's all good. Looking for £1650 and it can come with a Hiscox Hardcase for an extra £50, otherwise it'll be in a TGI Extreme Gigbag. More than happy to courier within the UK, with insurance, at buyer's cost. No looking for £1550 with a TGI Extreme Gigbag. Currently no case or bag, but I will purchase a suitable gigbag/case when the bass sells. More than happy to courier within the UK, with insurance, at buyer's cost. Please check my feedback >> I'll leave this up for a couple of weeks, then I will move it to The Bass Gallery for a commission sale, but that will mean the price goes up, so if you're keen but can't quite stretch to it immediately, please get in touch, we might be able to work something out. New, this bass would now cost over £2800, and well worth it at that too. No trades thanks, I have other plans... Any questions, you know where I am Cheers, Eude

If you can, do. It's one of those things where function and aesthetics mix perfectly and the sublime emerges, like an Eames chair. And, before anyone says anything, I know I am a pretentious tw*t.

Hi folks, for sale is my OLP bass in black with a BWB pickguard, a nice looking Rosewood board and black hardware (honourable exceptions being the jack socket nut and washer and the jack plate on the bottom of the bass; see below). I think these were mostly made around 2006 in China under licence by Ernie Ball and were the forerunners of the SBMM bases. My research would suggest that this is one of the 3rd series basses characterised by: Small bridge plate as on modern Stingrays, with studs flanking the saddles, as on Stingrays. The body edges have a smaller radius. Many black, silver and metallic blue finishes. Lots of rosewood fingerboards. Basswood body. No natural finishes to speak of, but quilt and flame top veneers appeared. The usual passive VVT controls. Necks stayed wide but relatively shallow profile (the nut width is 42mm) The bass is in good condition as I hope you can see from the photos. Black basses are a bit of a ‘mare for me to capture properly (so any tips welcome) and I’d be happy to produce more pics as required. As is often the case, this bass has been modded or upgraded (depending upon your POV) as follows: The almost standard upgrade to fit a Retrovibe Stinger ’77 preamp. This is one of the newer ones with smaller pots to allow more space for board and battery. Warman MM4 AlNiCo; there is plenty of info on the Warman website. It’s a really nice sounding pickup imho and currently wired in parllel. I have hollowed out the control cavity a bit more to allow the battery and preamp PCB to fit more comfortably flat on the bottom of the cavity. The knobs are now Spector knobs. Sorry I don’t have the originals, but I think these look way nicer. Again YMMV The previous owner has created a hole for a jack socket on the bottom of the bass (please see the pics). The bottom jack socket is not currently in use, but I was thinking about adding in the Artec QDD onboard overdrive unit (also for sale on here) and moving the jack there again. Please check out the Low-End Lobster mod video for creating a budget version of the SBMM Dark Ray. The bass comes fitted with D’Addario EXL170BT strings that are maybe 4 months old now and will come with a decent gig bag. As with many of these basses, it weighs just over 4.3kgs according to my scales. It’s a lovely instrument and only for sale as arthritis is starting to badly impact my playing so slowly (and painfully) getting rid of my gear that I have accumulated over the years. Collection or meet up would be preferred, but I have suitable packaging so I can post this at cost; probably around £15 to £20. Here are some pics:

Thanks for the message. I have got pictures of quite a lot of them and I did think of doing a (very) mini personal version of Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass, but I am wondering what She Who Must Be Feared And Obeyed would do if it was ever discovered. Most likely something injurious to my health and wellbeing.

For sale is this absolute monster of a bass - the very rare 5 string US Fender Precision Deluxe. This is the one with the Precision pickup at the neck and the ‘Double Jazz’ Humbucker pickup at the bridge & active 3B preamp, it’s a hugely versatile bass and is a proper tone machine! I’m not here to try to sell this particular model of bass to you - I’m sure you probably know what they are, so I’ll just tell you about this specific one. (If you’re looking online for it the bass is sometimes known as the “Fender ADPV” on TalkBass etc. If you are wanting where there is a lot of info/player reviews - they’re very well thought of, worth a looking there if you’re considering it as there’s a lot of discussion on there about them) These are extremely sought after due to the versatility of them & amazing build quality - l really don’t want to let it go and tried to sell my Mayones Jabba 5 instead first but there’s no takers, so unfortunately this is on the chopping block It has an Ash body, maple neck and is finished in a really nice transparent teal green (so you can see the grain of the ash underneath) and a 3 ply mint pickguard Sound-wise the bass can do it all - it’s a fantastic sounding bass, it has the Precision pickup at the front and the double jazz humbucker at the bridge. In my opinion the blend centred is one of the best fingerstyle sounds there is. Depending on the gig/genre I usually have the blend 10-20% either side of centre, front gives you a huge precision sound or rear gives you a bridge pickup style sound whilst retaining all the low end and not just sounding thin and ‘middy’, then give the Mid knob on the preamp a turn to taste - cut makes the bass sound more passive and boost gives a really nice mid boost that seems to cut through the mix (that’s just how I liked to use it anyway!) It’s an active bass and the 4 knob setup is Vol/Blend/Bass & Treble stacked/Mid - the mids are definitely the secret sauce of this preamp, also for some reason the mids turn the other way to the bass & treble, so forward is cut and backwards is boost - it’s always been this way, no idea why 🤷‍♂️ Condition wise, it’s in reality good nick, there is a couple of bits of buckle rash to the back, not much at all but enough to mention. It looks like someone before me playing with a pick and so there’s some dulling of the gloss and marks where someone has clearly been giving it some welly with a pick at some point, it’s not bad but it’s there. There is odd marks and stuff here and there as it’s a 23+ year old bass, but you wouldn’t know that - it looks great, no big dings on it, the chrome hardware still looks new - obviously it’s not perfect but there’s nothing worth noting. I’ve tried to do as many different pics as possible so you can see for yourself I’ve included screenshots of the info from the Fender serial number website in the photos but I’ll quickly list the important stuff: - Ash body/Maple neck & fingerboard - Satin neck finish - String through body or through bridge - 22 medium jumbo frets - 34” Scale - 9.5” (241mm) Fretboard Radius - Modern C shaped neck - Nut width - 1.875” (47.6mm) - Bone Nut - Abalone dot inlays - Deluxe lite bass tuners - Rolled fingerboard edges - Contoured neck heel This is an absolute top drawer US Fender, there’s not much else I can say, but it’s definitely one of the models that makes you realise why Fender has the name it does! These were made in a real golden era for modern Fender’s, these basses and the electronics were John Suhr designed and both the Jazz and the Precision deluxe’s from this era (mid 90’s - early 00’s) have almost mythical status and you can see why This comes with the original Fender moulded hard case, and includes the original case candy including manual, lifetime guarantee, stamped QC inspection card and all that, as well as the Fender branded truss rod tool & Allen key Price Reduced- £1,250. Shipping/delivery can be arranged (Trades - May take cheaper trade + cash my way but it depends what it is, I already have a bass on hold and I need som) Loads of pics below 👇 Sorry for the essay, congratulations/commiserations if you managed read it all!