Franchement

And There you go !

After a hard work, a long journey to the luthier (fret planning and full adjustment), she's back !

See how oil brings out, much better than varnish, all the colors of the different woods !

She's beautiful and she sounds great

Thanks again for all your advice !!

@LukeFRC I talked to my luthier who advised me the Danish.

I saw old realisations and that's look great. In addition, it is very easy to sand again in 10 years and then to re-oil.

@PaulThePlug : I'm going on a natural oiled finish - I will show you.

@LeftyJ and @Bassassin : I can understand your point of view.

Personally I do not attach importance to the brand, the rarity or other sign of fame.
What interests me is the quality of the violin, the design and above all, the sound.

This is an exceptional bass and, in my opinion, it will be even more so without its yellow varnish full of hits which does not allow the woods to vibrate fully. I'm going to give it 6 or 7 coats of Danish Oil, I just think it's to respect the woods and its design.

The serial number is still visible. The logo ? I don't care.

I will show you the final result.

Completely sanded !

It was very hard, the varnish was tough !

Now I'm gonna take the step 'Danish oil'...

To be continued

I crawled the net and just found 3 ads. One in Usa, one in Australia, and this one in Paris.

I'm a bit lucky

Hey everybody ! 

Look at what I just bought :

I got it for 600 Euros.

It's really big compare to my Warwick Streamer Stage 1 but I will get used to it.

I'm gonna completely renovate it (sanding, oiling ...) and I will show you the result.

Thank you all for this brainstorming which allowed me to choose this bass !!!

Update - 41 kgs - more or less 80€ to ship to EU..

God damned, so cheap - I'm not going to throw them !!

Hi TheGreek ! No idea..

If you find a not so expansive way we can manage that !

Cheers

Hi everybody

You have all contributed well to compiling a nice list of bass with the desired profile, thank you !

After a good reflection I choose my future fiancee

Ibanez Musician MC 800 NT !

Quite rare, I know.

I already find one in France for 600€ (discussing for the moment with the guy).

Does anyone have one in a closet ?

@Bassassin I see it know, interesting. So many options, haha  

I'm happy of the list we create for that special kind of bass !

I'm gonna take my time to find THE ONE !

@Bolo Good idea - heavy style

@Bassassin 👍 Are you a bass historian ?

@mcnach Haha - I should go there that's sure !

@PaulThePlug What do you mean ?

@mcnach Thanks, I looked today on their custom page. Beautiful stuffs but minimum 1500€. It's at 80km from my house !!

6 hours ago, Bassassin said:

10 hours ago, Franchement said:

I just found that - a single-pickup neck through Washburn Vulture :

https://reverb.com/fr/item/4804860-1980-washburn-vulture-transparent-brown-wing-series

Never seen that before! Add that to the list, then.

It's beautiful but what it's strange is that on the wiki page they said that Washburn was established in 1983. And there is not a word about a Vulture model.

Ok for Brandoni, I understand  But do you thing we can be confident, are these quality instruments ?

Haha ok, thanks

5 hours ago, Bassassin said:

Washburn didn't do a single-pickup through-neck Vulture & the Scavengers were bolt-neck.

I just found that - a single-pickup neck through Washburn Vulture :

https://reverb.com/fr/item/4804860-1980-washburn-vulture-transparent-brown-wing-series

@tomthebass You're right, I already sanded then oiled a bass, it's a piece of cake. that's why it's the less important criteria.

@Bassassin Damn you're a bible ! Thanks  The Aria Pro TSB550 is beautiful (unless the head) !

I do not understand well these story about Brandoni guitars (I'm francophone)..

They bought separated pieces then re built by themselves ? What does 'NOS' mean ? 

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We begin to have a beautiful list of basses  Thanks to all !

@el borracho Yeah it looks so amazing. I listened demos and I think it's my favorite of all those mentioned here.

@ead Good idea, beautiful bass !

@Jean-Luc Pickguard Haha what's that ? A bass for 200$ - A joke ??

@itu Wow, you offer me a catalog ! I'm gonna dig into that

@Lfalex v1.1 Thanks, I'm gonna watch that..

So it seems that there's not a lot of actual models with that configuration...

Thank you all !

So, after your suggestions and those of other forums, we have :

- Kasuga Scorpion

- Kawai F1B

- Yamaha BB 1200

- Aria Pro II SB 700

- Jaydee Roadie 1 

All from the early 80' !

Other ideas ?

@Sibob Beautiful model - Thanks !

@Bassassin : Beautiful !

Haha

I'm just wondering if some brands offer this kind of stuff..

Damn, I forgot an important detail :

No Fender or fender like...

Thank you Geoffbyrne for the suggestion !