Gareth Hughes

Hey Folks - Up for sale is my Ernie McMillen Custom 5 String. Ernie's builds guitars for the Avalon Guitar Company. Recently he has been working on Zematis guitars at Avalon, which retail at $15,000. Before that he worked for 15 years for Lowden Guitars, during which time he built many of the Goodfellow Basses that were there between 1992-96. All this to say that the construction is top notch. Enough about Ernie and now the bass: Body is a regular jazz shape (taken from a mid 70's Fender template) and is mahogany. Unique feature is that the body wings are completely hollow to reduce weight. The pickups, bridge and neck block are on a solid center piece. The resulting weight is an even 9lbs, weighed on my local post office scales. Like the early Fender Tele basses this bass has no body contours - in order to allow for the hollow wings. The neck is one piece maple, with a maple fingerboard. Scale length is 36" and has a tight and powerful B, and the other strings benefit enormously too. Neck is thin front to back, and has a flatter fingerboard than your average Fender. The headstock has lightweight Gotoh tuners with a maple cap and rosewood veneer underneath for the logo. Bridge is by ABM with 17-18mm string spacing. The pickups are by Bill Lawrence, the J45 model. These pickups have a huge frequency response and are very from low to high. The preamp is an Audere JZ3 model, in a Vol/Vol/stacked Bass and Treble configuration and with the Z-mode switch to change the impedance. Combined with the pickups there are a huge range of tones available. And now the only downside to this bass, and it's purely aesthetic. On the back of the bass there is some staining, coming from the center block out into the paint. As its only on the back of the bass it didn't bother me too much so I left it alone. And finally - the price: All in, with the pickups and pre, this bass cost £1500 to get made. I'm selling it for £850 shipped to the UK. Selling as I have a few too many electric basses as I'm now playing mainly upright. No trades. Thanks, Gareth

Bump - these are great, flexible and powerful amps. And this is a bargain price.

BUMP

Good thing you snapped this up - I was just about to go check how long/how much it would take to get me from Ireland to Sunderland and back in the car. Enjoy the rig!

[quote name='maidensprayer' post='555214' date='Jul 29 2009, 03:31 PM']This is just what I am looking for to use with my upright on stage,,is it still for sale? I live in Maine,,,bass player for the misty mountaineers, You can check us out on youtube. I am excited to hear back from you. Thans Dotty[/quote] Hey Dotty - Thanks for checking the amp out - but I'm guessing that shipping this amp to Maine would get mighty expensive. But if you want to do it send me a PM.

[quote name='Beneath It All' post='548476' date='Jul 23 2009, 12:43 AM']....I haven't sent you a PM - you sent me one[apparently] which I haven't recd.[/quote] Ah, apology -you wrote 'not rec'd', which I took as a question, as in 'had I not received your PM'. All clear now. My PM was checking if the amp was still available and would you ship t N.Ireland, and what would the cost of that be? Thanks, Gareth

[quote name='Beneath It All' post='548450' date='Jul 23 2009, 12:04 AM']Not recd..??[/quote] nope, haven't received any PM's from you.

PM'd

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BUMP!!! - Price Drop to £1300 plus shipping.

Good luck Gaf. And plenty of TLC for the missus - and some more when she gets home.

More PM's replied to. Thanks, Gareth

Not to put anyone off buying this but, why don't you sell your Epifani cab and get another GS112? I had two and loved them. Heartbreak to sell them, and only did because I also have two Epifani UL112's. I honestly never had a gig that two 12's couldn't cope with (within reason). Still, having said all that - SOMEONE BUY THIS CAB - IT'S A BARGAIN AND A BLOODY GREAT CAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As is the Pulcinella!! Good luck with sales - these are beautiful instruments.

Happy 4th of July Bump!!!!