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Dingwall Afterburner 1 4 String - Withdrawn


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[s]Ladies & gents

Possibly the saddest day of my bass playing life is upon me. For those that don't know, I quit my public sector job after 25 years to set up in business on my own & have been selling loads of gear off to help get my business moving. I've tried to keep hold of 1 Dingwall simply because I love these instruments so much but the money would allow me to bring in some hardware that will cut my operating costs.

I make no secret of how much I rate Sheldon Dingwall's work, there are 3 Dingwalls for sale at the moment on here & justice says they should have all been snapped up long before I added one to the list. Fanned frets may appear like a gimmick but 10 minutes with a Dingwall is all most people need to realise what a fantastic idea they are. Finally a bass where every string has the presence, punch & sustain of the G & where every string sounds like it's from the same instrument. Fretting is more comfortable & because a lot of the extra scale length is at the bridge end, the neck doesn't feel massively different to a normal 34 inch instrument. Having owned a lot of high end basses this is the only 1 where I found nothing I didn't love about it.

So, my bass then. It's an Afterburner 1 with a 5A flamed top over alder, maple neck with Wenge fingerboard, Hipshot Ultralite tuners, Hipshot bridge & a pair of Dingwall neodynium pick ups. The controls are very intuitive & completely passive. Vol, 4 position rotary pick up selector, tone & the EQube switch. The rotary p/u selector gives bridge, neck & bridge (series), neck & bridge (parallel) & neck. The Eqube is off in the down position & gives you a nice bright, modern tonality. Flick the switch up & you get a subtle treble cut with a smother mid-range. Difficult to explain but it's kinda like Mark King's slap tone v Larry Graham's, a bit rounder & less biting. The nice thing is that the switch sounds so natural that I had to check to find out which was the normal position. Oh, the tone pot is marvellous too, totally usable across the entire range, no woolly muffled nonsense.

The bass is pretty much mint, nothing to tell you that it isn't a new instrument. For weight I'll need to check the Dingwall owners card but it is sub-8lbs, let me say that again for the hard of reading, [b]sub-8lbs[/b]! Bass comes with the superb Dingwall gig bag, all the (colour coded) allen keys & the Dingwall owners card as mentioned.

I'm happy to pack well & ship this bass but the lack of a hard case means local collection would be better. If you must have it shipped it will need to be at your risk. Travelling to meet up is difficult for me at the moment due to my wife's ongoing chemo but I will try if needs be.

Anyway, a new AB1 with this spec is £2350 so how's about [b]£1199 £1099[/b]? Not interested in any trades or low-ball offers, if there's no interest I will be far from heartbroken because it'll cost me a lot more to replace it when I'm more financially secure. More pictures to follow but here's a taster;[/s]

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