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£1150 / 1300 euros now, shipped to your door.

Yes, it has this specific growly midrange of 70s spacing jazzes, and the slightly narrower nutwidth of first ones too - 1.475 instead of 1.5.

Almost forgot to mention the bass isn't on the heavy side: 9 lbs / 4,1 kg

I'm selling this nice japanese Vanzandt JBV, handmade in PGM factory with a beautiful 2-piece ash body. It's a faithful 70s jazz bass replica, except the full-nitro coat, Kluson-like tuning pegs, and 60s-like bridge. Cosmetically speaking, some minor dings due to the nitro-coat, and that's all. Perfect playing condition, with low action without fretbuzz, . Frets and trussrod have lots of life left, electronics works fine. Amazing tones, one of the thumpiest jazz-neck PU i've heard. Gnarly bridge pickup. This bass has these 70s jazz mids. Sounds even across the neck. Vanzandt pickups, CTS pots and Cornell-Dubilier replica cap. Comes with its VZ gig-bag. £ 1190 / 1350 euros shipped to your door in European countries - i live in France. Price dropped to £1150 / 1300 euros shipped to your door.

now sold.

£750 / 800 euros shipped to your door.

My current fave is Broughton's Terraformer. Breaks up nicely, from light OD to pretty gainy stuff, no low-end loss, and so many tones hence its 3EQ, blend and gain combinations. The tricky part is setting the blend on the fly as it has a major effect on output level. But it doesn't sound 'layered' at all. Nice form-factor too. Second one would be Grizzly bass, Swell B-Peg too, which is less flexible, bigger and has specific power needs, but sounds damn right !

Extra-drop bump: 900 euros / £790 shipped.

950 euros, shipped to your door in Europe. I'm not in the best position to say it really is a bargain, but seems like it's already done :-) It's a great P, and a great P/J too.

No worry, i didn't understand your post like this. Sorry if my quite-basic English sounds like i'd have misread it ! Btw, it was an interesting point. There were Navigator P/Js like mine in 1983. I first thought it was a custom order.

Thank you, these are great instruments indeed ! £880 / 1000 euros price drop bump.

Bump. Got everything to make the parcel's strong & the shipping safe.

Thanks, it's working well indeed. I dig its P thump, but the J is pretty useful for a tighter growl. As for Navigator PJs, you can download there some ESP catalogs: http://www.guitarscollector.com/esp-catalogs.html If you pick the 1983 ESP Export one, you'll find on page 9 a LPB PJ-120 which looks pretty similar to my bass.

I'm selling my 80s Navigator P/J, overall good condition hence its 30 years. Genuine LPB colour has nicely faded in OTM. Parchment pickguard - not that white in the flesh. As for specs: Gotoh GB-2 tuners P/J pickups set Veneer rosewood fingerboard One-piece (it seems) Sen body Medium-jumbo frets 8.8 lbs / 4 kg Everything is genuine and in good working condition. Trussrod's a bit stiff but is working well, with neck straight & low action. Currently strung with 45-105 fresh Rotosounds. A real joy to play with a C shaped neck, slightly narrower than old Precisions (42mm/1,65 inches width). Sounds just like a serious P should, with the added flexibility of the J. Many tones in this one. Comes with it's genuine leather-like gigbag.1050 euros / £930 shipped to your door in European countries. Price dropped : £740 / 850 euros now, shipped to your door.