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Had this beauty of an Absinth bass been a five string, I had bought it immediately, as a birthday present to myself on the 29th(!!!) of December. 😄😄😄

You will regret selling this; it goes to eleven...!  

Beautiful colour!
What is the weight? What does the controls do?

Well, it looked really broad.  I had a SS1 BN; still miss it...

Is it a Broad Neck?

A beauty!!!

I have always liked the look of these, but never tried one.
Fender never publishes specs you like to know. What is the string spacing at the bridge on this one?
All my basses except my old Steinberger has 3/4" (19 mm) spacing, even my five string basses...

I cannot see the pic's either...

A really nice bass!!! I had an old L1000 before, so I know what you mean... 

What string spacing at the bridge does it have?
I had an XL25 that was super super narrow...

1 hour ago, WarrenD said:

Tack! 

Ja, jag läste om det faktiskt, ordet 'Tjänare' för ett tag sedan. Så många gammaldags ord som man advänder på ett annat sätt i nutiden, eller hur? 

Norrköping. En av mina favoriter bander kommer därifrån. Marduk. 

W. 

Ja, de är lokala snälla killar. Yes, they are local nice guys.

Hej och välkommen, WarrenD!

"Tjena" is short for "tjänare" and means servant. Originally something like "I am your humble servant", but it has been degraded to something that sounds like a sneeze. I prefer the allround accepted "Hej!", that means "Hello!".

All the best,
Roger in Norrköping, Sweden

I've had one; one of the basses I miss. Stupid, stupid me...!

Good luck with the sale! 

3 hours ago, JMarkD said:

... But I really must dust those book shelves...

 

 

Nice bass!
Here is a simple solution for your "dusty bookshelf situation": place the books at the outer edge of the shelves; then you won't see the dust.  

My two "new" best friends, but the worst enemies of my back:

The Super Bassman with 810 Neo cab, and the 100T with a "Fenderized" Hughes & Kettner QS810L that used to tour with the Swedish hard rock group Europe...

The club setup: 100T and 115 Neo (can also be used with the Super Bassman).
I bought this cab from knicknack here on BC and had it shipped for a very modest price to Sweden. 


Sometimes I use the Monique in front, but that is sheer luxury.

13 hours ago, Graham said:

Are they Nordstrand pickups on the Payson?

I've loved the feel of the Dingwalls I've played, but the tone has always left me cold

Yep! Bigrig 5 in lefty version, but in a 6 string format to reach over, since fan fret makes the "diagonal length" greater than across the strings. Also an NP5.
One thing I didn't like with the Dingwalls was the switching system. I wanted the ability to mix pickups, not just switch. Another thing that makes the Payson more like a Fender is the body thickness; Dingwall makes their basses thinner to cut weight, but it also cuts tone. The Super P5 is also modified; I took out the rather useless "dual way tone pot", where you rolled out the mids in one direction (smiley face) and rolled off the highs in the other the ordinary way. Taking out the mids is taking out the P from a P-bass. On both my P5 and P4 I have Stellartone Tonestylers, the very best retrofit for ANY P-bass. Period. My Dingwall Super J4 has also been modified: switching system out and a J-Retro Deluxe in. 

4 hours ago, Graham said:

That looks lovely

It is lovely!  
Here it is with its brother-in-arms:

I've always liked the 19 mm (3/4") spacing that Fender basses have, and I want the same on five and six strings too. The first really good five string I got was a Lakland 55-94 Deluxe that felt at home immediately. Later on I favoured fan fret basses and got my first Dingwalls. But - they had 18 mm spacing, so they didn't feel exactly how I wanted them to feel. Later on I got the Dingwall Super J5, which had 19 mm spacing, but also a shorter scale. Well, after reducing the sauce I found my five string of choice, a Payson Supercharger PJ. 19 mm spacing , 37" - 34" scale, all passive and in every other aspect an old school bass, all to my liking, since I am kind of old school too, closer to my statistic age of death than my exam.   

My two five string fan fret basses:

Payson Supercharger PJ5 with Payson roundwound strings, and Dingwall Super P5 with Thomastik Jazz Flats, ordinary long scale set (34") is enough for a medium scale Dingwall.

Payson: 37" - 34" and Dingwall:35" - 32"

Nice looking bass! Hadn't I just bought me a five string...
Not at all looking like an 18th century piece of furniture, like many Drozd basses tend to...
More a tool of trade. 
GLWTS!

I bought this fabulous combo from a friend, when he got rid of some surplus studio equipment, and got it WAY too cheap. EBS Neo Gorm 212.

THOMASTIC FLATS, hmm ...
Everyone knows that most string producers tend to omit the important information how long the practical string length is. Thomastik Infeld is not only bad at informing, they are also completely unwilling to answer if asked. Sauerkraut!

Well, I was in contact with Brink's Music in Katrineholm, Sweden, as I work a dozen stone throws from there. They could tell that the string lengths on a Long Scale set can actually be used on many basses with 35 " scale, if not strung through the body. Here are the actual lengths:

From the ball end to the beginning of the silk wrap.

G - 96 cm = 37.79"

D - 95.5 cm = 37.6"

A - 96 cm = 37.8"

E - 93.5 cm = 36.8"

B - 94 cm = 37"

I wanted to use their Jazz Flats on a Dingwall Super P5 with 32 "- 35" mens watch, which worked great, as seen here:

I am a fan(!) of fan fretted instruments, and found the perfect passive allround bass earlier this year: a Payson Supercharger bass with Nordstrand BigRig and NP5 pickups. Everything from modern to really old school in one instrument.

3 hours ago, KuzBass said:

Aren't these normally 30'?

Nope!
There is a smaller - and uglier - model that is short scale:

34".