I am selling a Vox VBW-2500 Bill Wyman Teardrop bass. This is a beautiful shortscale bass, handmade in Japan around 2008.
It's is a pretty rare model that you won't see too often. A bit of history about this bass: Around 1960 Vox made a signature model of their Mark IV teardrop bass for Bill Wyman. Around 2007-2009 Vox Japan made a limited run of reissues of the Bill Wyman bass. The reissue came in two models, the more traditional VBW-2000 and the more expensive VBW-2500. The basses were handmade in Japan in a limited run of about 100 pieces. More info about these basses is still available on the [url="http://www.voxamps.jp/products/VBW-2500/spec.html"]Vox Japan website[/url].
Craftmanship is excellent. The neck is pretty thin and the bass is very light. The bass has alnico single coil pickups that give it a very nice and warm sound, with all the characteristics of a hollowbody bass. The sound is also quite deep for a shortscale.
Due to their limited availability these were [i]very[/i] expensive basses at the time. I'm looking for [s]850[/s] [u]750[/u][b] 700 pounds including shipping to the UK [/b](I'm located in The Netherlands). I can ship it safely in a big box, don't worry. The bass is in near mint condition, all original and comes with its original hardshell case.
Here are some specs:
- Neck: 770mm Scale length mahogany 22-frets(w/zero fret), bound rosewood and dot inlays
- Hardware: VOX CS stoptail, bridge with cover, Goto BG707-C Tuners, VOX custom single coil bass pickups
- Finish: Whale Blue
- Weight around 3.18Kg
- Hard shell case
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