pete.young

I'd like to make bassmanady an offer for his BB NE 2, so I need to put my TRB5P mk 1 up for sale. This is a Japanese TRB5P mark 1 dating from 1991, with Piezo bridge pickup and PJ configuration. Controls are volume, blend, bass, treble, piezo cut and a switch to turn piezo on and off. It's neck-through construction with a flamed maple cap on a maple body and an ebony fretboard. There is a little fret wear but it's hardly noticeable and doesn't affect playability of the instrument. Condition is not perfect - there is one bit of mojo, a scratch on the top side of the body which has gone through the finish, but this isn't visible to either player or audience. Other than that, the bass is in excellent condition for a 20-year-old instrument with no buckle rash and only the usual light surface scratches. Sound wise this is an incredible bass, a veritable tone monster. I tried all three of bassmanady's TRBs and this one was the best-sounding of the three, with stronger lower mids and more presence. It's set up with a low action and passes the Kiwi test (a £1 coin won't fit between the 'B' string and the 12th fret) with new D'Addarios. String spacing is 19mm at the bridge. Unfortunately I don't have the original Yamaha case, but a Thomann tweed case is included. Realistically priced to sell at £500 plus shipping. I'd prefer pickup from Ipswich or London, or a meet-up reasonably local to Ipswich. Here are some photos, if you need more views of anything just ask!

Think the fingerboard is highly unlikely to be rosewood - I thought all Status Graphite fingerboards were a man-made material called phenolic.

Not great for people who don't use Facebook. Please can you email me the pictures or put them on Photobucket.

Very cool. I have a Vintage with the same neck, it plays brilliantly. BTW, if you include the 'IMG Code' rather than the Email/Html link, the pictures will magically appear in the thread. Like this: [IMG]http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q693/Karl_Altdorfer/IMG_0545.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q693/Karl_Altdorfer/IMG_0544.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q693/Karl_Altdorfer/IMG_0543.jpg[/IMG]

Karl, Stick the pictures on Photobucket and include the image tags in your posting.

[quote name='bassmanady' timestamp='1353182146' post='1872573'] Hi Pete,no thanks mate,that blue TRB5P is a tone monster,but i have really settled on the passive tone of my RBV [/quote] OK, I'll take some photos tomorrow and see if I can drum up some cut-price interest in it!

Somehow I missed this. I don't suppose you fancy your blue TRB5P back plus cash your way?

Seriously good deal. I bought a new MG206C and flight case a couple of months ago and didn't get much change out of £600.

Gah, what have they done to photobucket! It's been a while since I went there. There's an 'Upload' tab in the top menu bar which will let you load your picture into the 'Library' . Or you can create what they now call a 'Story' just for pics of your bass. Once you've done that, if you mouse over the picture a little graphic of a cog wheel appears in the top right hand corner. Hover over that and a menu pops up with a bunch of choices - the one you want is 'get media links'. Select that and a dialog box appears with 4 things in it. You want the bottom one, called IMG code. Left click on that and the code disappears, to be replaced by the word 'Copied' on a yellow background. Now go to the Basschat message you were composing, and paste the IMG code into the message. Job done.