LeftyJ

And now it's probably wickedly expensive rubbish and still out there 😅

Pretty cool! Somewhere between a Wal and a Gibson.

Yes, with a headstock like that, it has to be one of those two.

Just get an EBS amp with phantom power 😛 Both the input jack and the FX return are 9V powered, and will power your bass or the last pedal in your chain through a stereo jack cable.

I played a lefty Thumb doubleneck once, and I've never laid hands on any instrument heavier than that. Just crazy! Really cool though. It had a fretted 6-string neck and a fretless 5-string neck, both strung reverse. http://www.leftybass.com/h_h_thumb.jpg

Great price! And an old one (1996 according to the serial) with a wenge neck. Nice!

I have an Ampeg SVP-PRO, SVP-CL, SWR Grand Prix and an EBS Microbass II. The SVP-PRO is my favourite, with a host of classic Ampeg tube tones, a versatile EQ and plenty of drive at the turn of a knob if I want it. It's basically the preamp section of the SVT2PRO in a single rack space. The SVP-CL is the preamp section of the SVT Classic and maybe even better than the PRO, with less bells and whistles and the ability to produce a fairly flat and uncoloured tone too, but I just really enjoy the drive of the SVP-PRO.

The lighting was poor, but here's a try. There's a LOT going on in there, so I hope this helps. Mine's a lefty, so everything is backwards but the soldering shouldn't be. If you need to see anything in more detail, drop me a PM. Most of the wiring from the active/passive switch is heading to the narrowest of the two connectors and to the output jack, but it's difficult to see.

OK, I'll take a look at mine!

Supercool! That fingerboard hasn't seen oil for quite some time it seems. Could probably use some TLC 🙂

Edited after I got home and checked my other MIJ Strat. Strangely, one does have the shim and the other doesn't. Not very helpful then 😅

Could the battery be dead, so you're actually killing the sound when switching to active? If not, what model 940 do you have? The 79-82 model with the brown soapbar pickups, or the 83-up model with beveled edges and PJ pickups? I could take a picture of the guts of one of my 924's to verify. They have the same electronics as the 940.

My E-serial (1984-1987) Strat does, my K-serial (1990-1991) Silver Series Strat does not.

I've owned an ABM300 Evo II 2x10 combo with an ABM115 Compact cabinet, and I liked it as long as I kept the bass knob at 9 o clock. Otherwise it would just drown in any mix. It was just all subs, taking up all of those 300 watts. I never really liked it, and sold it around 10 years ago. I once damaged a knob during transport, and Ashdown sent me a new knob free of charge.

I started out on guitar, on a then made in China Squier Affinity Strat through a small 15 watt amp I can't remember. After two more guitars and a huge amplifier upgrade I got my first bass. That bass was a 1970s Japanese-made plywood Condor Jazz Bass that was surprisingly good! It was heavy, but it played fine and sounded like a proper Jazz Bass. The neck was all-maple with white bindings and pearloid block inlays, and the body was 3-tone sunburst with a tort pickguard. The amplifier I got with it when I bought it somewhere in the early 00's was a The Animal practice amp that I quickly blew up when I got my first active 5-string (Yamaha TRB5II). I then got my first proper bass amp, a used EBS Gorm 300 2x10, that I absolutely loved. My love for EBS gear has never faded since, and I still have a lot of EBS gear including a NeoDrome 12, HD350 and ProLine 410, MicroBass II and several pedals.

There's not much out there in terms of semi hollowbody bass guitars available left-handed. Ibanez comes to mind, and I once owned an Italia Torino that was shortscale but big-bodied and with a solid maple center block that was much heavier than it looked.

No, then it would have a serial number starting with JV.

EBS are top notch! I love their stuff.

Great find! If it plays and sounds anywhere near as good as it looks, you are one lucky guy. Very nice.

Hohner has a rather excellent online shop for spare parts: http://www.hohner-cshop.de/en/Guitar/Headless-Bass-Series/Basses-Bass-Headless-BB/Hohner-B2ADB-Headless/ Looks like there are no D-tuner bridges in stock though. Only for the headed models.

Don't forget about Laurus 😎

I have owned three Carvin basses, and still own a 7-string Carvin guitar. The basses were a B4 (that I believe I bought on this site) which was rather excellent, with a natural gloss ash body, and a lovely birdseye maple fingerboard, a J and MM pickup and passive electronics. The other two were LB75's, with that same pickup configuration but an active 3-band EQ. One was all black, and the other was natural walnut with a flamed walnut top. The black one was all stock, played nice, very versatile but a little dull (as in boring). The walnut one sounded a bit weak, and the previous owner had the neck sanded down to remove the gloss finish and a couple of mm of wood and I hated it. I like Carvin as a brand, but I would never buy one new. Resale value is terrible. On the plus side, you can get a really nice used one for great prices. All three Carvin basses I owned cost me less than 500 euros (I believe the B4 was just 250 pounds even).

Gretsch Billy Bo bass? Based on the (fairly recent) Billy Gibbons / Bo Diddley signature guitar version.