Tripehound

I too have a Lakkie Hollowbody and can confirm that all the good stuff said about them above is absolutely true. Everyone should have a least one hollow bodied bass in the fleet and this is a cracker.

Looks fantastic! If only money wasn't involved.... Have a bump on me.

Is this still available?

Pm'd

Incidentally, is that a flat or a gloss black?

Lovely - and they get great reviews. I have a P90 Midtown Standard and it's a fabulous guitar. If this is anything like it'ill be top notch.

This is a fabulous Strat offering bags of tone, resonance and sustain and its condition is as good as the day it came out of Fender's Custom Shop in 2011. It comes in its original blond Tolex case with the Custom Shop Certificate of Authenticity and all the original case candy. It’s a joy to play and although the look is classic sunburst Strat, there are subtle yet significant improvements such as a hand-selected, lightweight, one-piece ash body finished in faded three-tone sunburst nitrocellulose lacquer. You don't get that kind of attention to detail on factory production-line Strats and I apologise for the amateur quality of my photos, which don't do the guitar full justice. If you do have any questions I'd be glad to answer them for you. Other premium Custom Shop features and improvements include:[list] [*]Master Built Fat ‘50s pickups (6.5K output) with five-way switching and modern wiring i.e. the second tone control affects the bridge as well as the middle pickup [*]AA grade, figured maple, C-shaped quartersawn neck sporting the Fender Custom Shop’s new hand-oiled neck finish. This provides a smooth, played-in feeling – and really shows-off the birdseye maple [*]A dark Indian rosewood fretboard with a 9.5” radius, abalone markers and 6105 medium-jumbo frets [*]A beautifully figured headstock bearing locking tuners and the Custom Shop logo on the reverse [*]A modern two-point fulcrum tremolo unit with polished solid stainless-steel bridge saddles and trem block [*]A sculptured neck/body heel for easy access to top frets with Custom Shop logo stamped on the heel plate. [/list] These features represent the best updates available for the Strat’s time-honoured, classic design. Best of all, this guitar fulfils all the Custom Shop’s promise in terms of classic looks, playability and TONE. These Custom Deluxe Stratocasters retail for more than £2,000 so here is a genuine chance to save a reasonable amount of money. Sensible offers invited. Collection from Stanton by Dale - halfway between Nottingham and Derby. A mile from J25 of the M1.

Any interest in trades?

I've got a Midtown 6 string - it's fabulous. I suspect this is too. GLWTS

Fantastic feedback from Henry - many thanks. It's a happy end to the story - the Curlee went to the luthier and got sorted out functionally if not cosmetically. Shopping list included neck adjustment (the truss rod was fine), fret polish, intonation (the bridge needed freeing up but was OK), electrics cleaned, new flatwounds on and a general clean and polish. I'm now considering whether I should keep this and sell all the others - it sounds fantastic! So no longer available although might consider trade for an immaculate Wal Mk II plus cash my way

Bugger - fancied one of these for ages and one comes up when I'm skint. Having only seen pics/videos I'd be very interested in any feedback on the hands-on experience.

[quote name='JazzBassfreak' timestamp='1398198067' post='2431622'] It really annoys me when vintage, rare basses like this come up and idiots on other websites such as tumblr decide to steal the pictures and post them for themselves to get popularity. Just seen it on my dash. Anyway GLWS. [/quote] Blimey - do people do that? Sounds like a job for my lawyer - if I had a lawyer. I've had a lot of interest in the old Curlee - many thanks folks - but I feel I should get a professional opinion on the situation regarding neck relief before going further. I don't like having to be vague about something so important so I'll update on this next week.

Hi Kev I believe that it's the latter but I'll have to check at the weekend as I'm away on holiday at the moment. If it's not the case, then I'll post a retraction.

[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]This is a US-made S.D. Curlee bass with through neck construction and is not to be confused with the Hondo models produced after the company was sold. It was sometimes described as the 'poor man's Alembic' and is, in this country at least, quite rare - I've only seen one other in the flesh. [/color][color=#000000]Twin Di Marzio pickups with coil switching option. Independent volumes and tone control. Badass II bridge and Grover machine heads complete the hardware. I would guess it's worth over £100 in components alone.[/color][/font][/size] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]The electrics seem OK but cosmetically it has seen much better days. Bumps and scratches are liberally spread over the whole instrument (it wasn't me that let it get like that ) and it would be disingenuous to describe it as roadworn or 'heavy relic'. Battered is what it is. But it still plays well and sounds awesome. I'm a bit OCD with my gear these days, probably because I'm keenly aware of how long I had to work to get the money to pay for them, so I like them nice and shiny but I know that a lot of people like that lived-in-mojo thing so this may just turn you on.[/color][/font][/size] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]It's sat at the back of the spare room for a long while whilst I agonised about whether to have it restored or to finally part company with it. Whilst still quite playable, the action is high for my tastes and I don't know how much travel, if any, is available on the truss rod. I favour hollow-bodied basses these days and I have to accept that even if I had it done up, it probably wouldn't get played a great deal. I'm having to take a wild guess at potential value because I think these are pretty rare. My brief research showed up a couple of people who asked for 650 and 800 Euros for in-very-good-nick examples but I don't know whether they were successful with their sales.[/color][/font][/size] [size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In the absence of a valuation, and I'm not sure one could be given, I'm open to any trade suggestions. [/font][/size]