HeadlessBassist

For sale or trade: 2013 Fender Nate Mendel Road Worn Precision Bass. Hey SSG's, As I predicted, this one is not long for my stewardship, which is a pity, as it's got an almost nuclear punch to it with the standard Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound pickup set. But at the end of the day, I'm a Jazz bass player, as opposed to a Precision bass player, and the chewy punch of my Aguilar equipped '95 Stingray is capturing all of my attention at the moment. 'Nathaniel' here has been set up beautifully with a low action curved to the 7.25 radius of the fingerboard, currently running on 40-95 Elixirs, so it's a dream to play. Comes complete with a seriously thickly padded old gig bag (pictured). This is one of the early Mendel Signatures with the original BadAss II bridge. If you haven't played one of these before, they're a big favorite of people with either small hands or classical DB technique, as the nut width is 1.615", so not far off a Jazz neck. There's no point in me pointing out dings and marks, as it was RoadWorn from the factory. I've not added any more dings to it, or kicked the body around a gravel carpark, but the Mexican workers at the Ensenada plant probably did. It's actually quite a nice subtle job, with aged maple parts and metal hardware. The nice part is that you can see the gold undercoat underneath it, as if it's a well gigged refinish of Candy Apple Red over a previous coat of Shoreline Gold. £925, or make me a sensible cash/trade offer with a little extra money going either way. Buyer to collect, or will meet at a reasonable 75-100 miles from Derbyshire DE7.

My eye (yes, I have two. Don't worry...) was caught by the cool looking lever at the top of the bridge - does this amazingly manly bass have a lever that deploys the string mutes? Bet MusicMan wish they'd thought of that before adding those fiddly tiny metal round screws under the bridges of Classic Stingrays. Seriously impressed by the intonation calibration markings on the bridge as well. If Bang & Olufsen made basses, they would make basses like this.

I can lend you a butter knife and you could go at it like Jaco, if you like.

FOR SALE: Genuine modern EBMM Stingray Humbucker & Aguilar single coil Jazz pickup. These pickups definitely work, as they came out of my '95 Stingray (yesterday in the case of the EBMM Humbucker!) (Please note that the EBMM Humbucker would suit a more modern 'Ray, as it's the newer, taller style casing with no springs on the bottom.) £50 posted for the pair.