Cairobill

I am totally at ease with a good relic or a guitar covered in half a pound of glossy polyurethane, but these look so bad....

Yeah - I really pined after those two Yamaha Sixers I had but argh they were heavy. The TRB6P especially had this density to it so that when you leaned anywhere with the bass strapped on you felt you were going to fall over. This one just feels a lot friendlier. Still has a 'presence' when you wear it but it's comfy. Now that I have one that doesn't weigh a tonne I really have to hold onto it!

Yeah I've read that these preamps can be hissy. I'm not finding it an issue as I tend to go for a fuller/darker/middier tone with the treble a bit below the centre detent. But it's still not too bad when set to a glassier sound...

Barring an avalanche of cash falling on my head and a 10lbs Ken Smith turning up, I think my six string search is over. I've increasingly become a "Yamaha Man" of late with an FG180 (acoustic guitar), TX802 (synth) and a selection of Broad Basses passing through my hands. I've also owned a TRB6P and a TRBJP (MkI). I've always regretted moving on those sixers. They were both so playable and they sounded great but they were both too heavy to be 100% fun. The TRB6P was too close to 11lbs for comfort and the JP MkI was a bit chunky as well (and a weird orange colour). Anyway, I came across this MIJ 1994 TRB6 in a gorgeous cherry burst recently; it's in the Goldilocks zone for weight at about 9.75 lbs and has all the good things that the TRBJPI had without the unwanted bling. I'm pretty sure it's the 'version II' so brilliantly detailed elsewhere on the forum as it has a dyed blue laminate layer in the very pretty headstock. The key thing, of course, is that it's also an incredibly good bass. It has that wide TRB neck that's thin and perfectly carved to be very playable, great balance and a growly tone from the preamp that I'm pretty sure it shares with the JP1... sooooo (drumroll) it might well be 'the one'. It's the only bass I own at the moment and it's just asking to be played day in, day out which is a really good sign. It also has that special something that makes me play 10% better than usual. It's awesome. It's also near mint; I'm usually suss about minty 30yr old basses as they either sound weird, have horrible balance or are boat anchors. None of these apply to this one so I can only assume the previous owner took care of it and used it sparingly. Even the case is unmarked....it looks new. Anyway - no sound or movies as yet but the pics are testament to a seriously well made, simply beautiful instrument. It's killer! Anyway....PICS

@Baloney Balderdash it says 17mm in the specs

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This was a very, very nice Hofner

That’s very interesting! How cool

RBX800AF? Neck to body join is right... But obvs loadsa tweaking on the body....

A cursory look at the late 80s RBX basses shows they're pretty much all PJ config. However, the body looks to be an RBX body with an added laminate and a generous amount of reshaping. Whoever did the work obviously REALLY loved that neck. A very innovative cure for fret wear there

Well well. This is interesting! My main bass in the late 80s was an RBX350 and it was a cool instrument. Judging by the neck join to the body this is the neck and original body from something from that RBX stable but obviously highly modified. I would search for fretless RBX models from the late 80s with a JJ config to find out the original bass