Metalmoore

Neck is pretty much gone but dont have the time to change the first post atm.

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I would gladly take that sexy jazz of yours off your hands gafbass, I think my jazz would like a passive twin. Hopefully this sells soonish, as I will be moving to the isle of man at the end of september and need the cash and it's gonna be difficult gettin my stuff across seeing as I have 4 basses (two of which are for sale and one is fit for a project requiring a refin) and a electric guitar.

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Monday morning BUMP!!

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I bought this bass off of Delberthot earlier this year and due to my lack of money and about to move away from my parent’s house I need to sell it. It's a great bass but I can’t seem to get along with a fretless. Here are pictures I got from Delberthot and a description he used for it when I bought it off of him. Finished in blue-black sunburst, this particular bass was built in 1983 going by Aria's website and features: *Gold Hardware *GB7 tuners rumoured to have been made by Gotoh with Aria's name on them *Alder body *Maple neck with rosewood fretboard *2 double coil pickups with volume, tone and 3 position pickup selector Before I go any further I am going to let you know about something unusual but which absolutely suits this bass: It has been professionally defretted at some point in its life prior to me owning it. Its been done really well as the fretlines have been filled with something very close to the colour of the rosewood board but there have been small white fret markers slotted into the fret board nearest the top to make it easier to see where you should be playing. Designed as a rock bass, this is one clear, articulate, punchy bass and the fretless angle to me gives it a sound similar to Tony Franklin. There are a surprising amount of sounds to be gained from the simple control layout from deep bassy tones to classic fretless Jazz bass honk. Anyone who's ever owned a pointy bass knows that they tend to pick up more dings and dents than a more conventional shaped bass and this is no exception. Luckily the majority of the marks are either on the back or the edges where no one can really see them and they have been touched up with black paint to match the black of the edges as closely as possible. The gold plating on the tuners has started to bubble slightly as all gold hardware does, even £3000 basses do this eventually. The bridge shows some tarnishing and the gold has worn off on part of the neck plate, presumably due to rubbing against the owner when playing. Everything is original except the input jack as I had to replace it due to it being a bit crackly. Everything on this bass works perfectly. The previous owner also moved the front strap button from the neck plate to where the top horn would be on a normal bass to help balance the bass. The bass could easily be refretted by a professional or by yourself if you are confident enough. These basses were made between 1982 and 1987 so this one is one of the first being made in 1983. Unfortunately, there is no way of dating the bass down to the week or month as this didn't occur at Aria until much later. And finally, this bass was made at the now legendary Matsumoku factory in Japan, home of some of the finest Japanese basses in the world and something like this is going to continue to appreciate in value due to the connection to this factory. This bass comes with its original branded case which is very slim as far as bass cases go. It has a few marks on it but then a case is meant to protect what's inside it when in transit. All hinges and catches work perfectly. [attachment=56544:dsc06307large.jpg] [attachment=56545:dsc06308large.jpg] [attachment=56546:dsc06309large.jpg] [attachment=56548:dsc06311large.jpg] [attachment=56547:dsc06310large.jpg] [attachment=56550:dsc06315large.jpg] [attachment=56549:dsc06313large.jpg] [attachment=56552:dsc06321large.jpg] [attachment=56553:dsc06325large.jpg] [attachment=56554:dsc06326large.jpg] [attachment=56555:dsc06327large.jpg]

String retainer is gone, the neck is a one piece maple neck with rosewood skunkstripe. If anyone wants pictures of any of this please dont hesitate to ask.

[quote name='Jono Bolton' post='923829' date='Aug 13 2010, 01:25 PM']Is the Might Mite neck for a 4 or 5 string?[/quote] 4 String neck, I was gonna use Ric5 from TB's method to make it a 5 string neck.