Dave Swift

SOLD!

Thank you pbasspecial! Just in case people haven't spotted it, my custom Martyn Bailey EUB is still available for a reduced price of £3,250!

Good for you Marc! 👍 I was formally a trombone player, and when I took up double bass & guitar and then turned professional at 17, I was struggling to maintain playing all three instruments to a high level. (Time management was never my forte!) Eventually I decided to let the trombone go, and to focus just on bass. However, a few years ago I took up the trombone again, and now I love playing it for my own enjoyment without any pressure! Having said that, I have recently done some sessions on it, and I did play it with Jack Bruce when he was playing bass on a radio show I did with him a few years back. Never too late to start up again! Thanks Marc, it will be a shame to let my Martyn Bailey EUB go, but with the big life changes I have coming up, it's the right thing to do. And anyone who buys this bass will be getting the best EUB out there, and at less than half the cost of what I paid for it. An absolute bargain! 😉

Indeed it is Marc! Just need more space with my first baby due in March, so I'm selling this EUB and a number of my bass guitars. Time for a change of priorities! 😉

Thank you Geoff! New price drop to £3,250! If any of you need more info, or if you have any questions, please feel free to get in contact with me. Thanks, Dave Swift

This superb bass is still available, but now has a new lower price! Was £4,500, it's now for sale at £3,999!!

To be honest I can't actually remember (so many basses......!) but I think it was 19mm

The price is not necessarily "etched in stone" L4R6O. I am actually open to reasonable & realistic offers!

Thank you HazBeen! In an ideal world, I'd love to keep it, but as I said in my post, there is a lot changing in my life right now, and even more so in the new year, so it's more important for me to move this bass on so someone else can enjoy it as much as I have.

I'm currently selling a couple of my high end basses, including my Harvey Citron AE5 (5 string) hollow bodied bass. This truly is a wonderful instrument, but a combination of me wanting to "thin out the herd" and some major developments happening in my personal life means it's time for me to move this and other basses on. This custom Citron AE5 features a wider neck than the usual Steve Swallow model (Steve plays exclusively with a pick and has very narrow string spacing) It also has a 36" scale length, and is tuned B to G (low to high) It currently has an Aguilar DCB pickup installed in the sound hole, but I still have the original Citron soap bar pickup which will be included in the sale. The bass originally had a piezo only pickup at the bridge, and as much as I liked this, I decided firstly to have a magnetic pickup added, but then decided to remove the piezo pickup and use the magnetic one exclusively, featuring a more elaborate preamp. I still have the original bridge saddles, and piezo pickup. The original preamp was an EMG, but I got preamp wizard John East to make me a custom UNI PRE preamp for this bass. I still have the original EMG preamp which will also be included in the sale. Whoever buys this bass can always have it changed back to its exact original specs very easily.. I had Martin Peterson at The Bass Gallery in Camden Town do this work for me, so he is very familiar with this bass. The bass is still structurally the same as it was the day it was made. Although I toured with this bass, and used it on numerous TV programmes, recordings and radio shows, it is still in immaculate condition! (As are all my basses) I used this bass with all manner of artists including Joss Stone, former Spice Girl Mel C, and Chris Difford (Squeeze) See photos below. It is currently at Bass Direct if anyone wants to go and check it out. Yes, It's an expensive bass, but a brand new one of these will cost way more than my original asking price of £4,500. Also bear in mind I had to pay shipping from the US, and import duties & tax, so naturally this had to be reflected in the price. To buy this bass new direct from Harvey Citron, I believe you're looking at double what I'm selling mine for, that's before shipping, duties & taxes. Finally, I'm including several YEARS supply of custom made Dunlop & La Bella strings made specially for this bass. The cost of these alone would easily be over £1,000! So, even at the new lowered price of £3,999 all inclusive, this really is a bargain! 😉 Any more questions, please just ask! Dave Swift http://daveswiftbass.com

Thank you wateroftyne, good to be here!

Up for sale is my custom made Martyn Bailey EUB. Martyn is one of the UK's top double bass luthiers, and I commissioned this one-off bass from him about four years ago. I was frustrated with the poor quality of so many commercially available EUB's on the market, so I asked Martyn to think of this project not so much about making a cheap, generic EUB (there are enough of those out there already) but more about deconstructing an actual acoustic double bass. He didn't disappoint! This instrument is hand carved using only the finest woods available, and has a floating, spring loaded top, and even its own bass bar and mini sound post. It has Martyn's own high quality double bass tuners. Check out the flame on the neck too! (The shoulders are removable) Simply put, it has the same high quality woods & components you would expect to see on a world class acoustic double bass. It comes with a custom made gig bag, a custom made stand, Pirastro Evah Pirazzi strings, a Fishman Full Circle pickup (my favourite double bass pickup) and a Fishman Pro EQ Platinum DI. This bass has been previously advertised for £3,800, but the price has now been reduced to £3,250. An absolute bargain! This really is the best EUB I've ever owned and played, however, due to a number of factors, including my first baby arriving in March 2017, it's time to finally move this bass on, along with some bass guitars from my collection. Incidentally, this bass and all the accessories cost me almost £7,000 so whoever buys this one will getting it at half the price! It has been used on tour with Jools Holland (my regular gig) and in the studio on several of our albums, but it's still in superb condition. I can supply more pics, but here are a few to be going on with, including one with me and the bass in the recording studio with British soul singer-songwriter Laura Mvula. Any questions, or if you'd like to try the bass out, please feel free to get in touch!

Hi, do you have the original machine heads for this bass? Were extra holes drilled to accommodate the new tuners? Could you please send or post some more pics of the bass, in particular the back of the headstock and any dings or scratches? Thank you very much. Dave.