Under Offer: price drop. SGC Nanyo SB310 - two available £120 each £150 Cleethorpes

[Skinnyman]

Edit: Offer made and in negotiations.

Now £120 each.

Asothers have pointed out, my addiction has reached epidemic proportions and I must thin the herd. So, here we have two of the highly-regarded SGC Nanyo SB310 basses.

First up, the red one....

I bought this in 2014 from BC member basskit_case who had in turn bought it from bassbiscuits.

The bass itself is in pretty good condition for a 30-odd year old - a nice translucent red that just allows the wood grain to peep through.  There's a small ding on the back of the lower horn which looks to have been coloured in with touch-up paint - its not noticeable from a distance. The pickups are the original SGC pickups. The original wiring was getting quite tired and I started to get a few issues with buzzing and cutting out so I tidied it up and replaced the pre-amp with.....er, something else. I can't remember which preamp I got but I suspect it was the most reasonably-priced I could find on Amazon that had decent reviews. It works fine and the bass sounds rich and full especially with the flats I have it strung with.

The serial number is very faded and needs someone with better eyesight than mine to decipher it but it begins with an 8 and ends with a 3. Or maybe a 2. I dunno.

There's been a lot of positive stuff written about these little basses and deservedly so. They're light, well put together and sound lovely.

For this one, I'm asking; £120 (collected).

Next up is the black one.....

I spotted this on eBay three or four years ago. It was a complete shed cosmetically but under the covers I reckoned there was a decent bass hiding and it was worth getting as a project bass. I've cleaned it up, put new strings on and, most importantly, fitted Entwistle Neo pickups. I also removed the preamp and converted this to passive spec (which I guess makes it an SB301 now?). I added new volume and tone pots (the knobs are Neck Volume, Bridge Volume and Tone) and this left me with a hole in the front of the bass which, after some head scratching, I used to hold a second, front-mounted jack socket. So, you can plug in at the side or, jazz-style, at the front.

I've also added a Roland GK-2B Midi Pickup which I used with the GR-55 guitar synth.

Structurally, the bass is superb, the neck is lovely and the Entwistle pickups are brilliant. Cosmetically, there's some minor cracking in the lacquer but nothing too serious.

I'm asking £120 collected which I think is reasonable if only for the Entwistles and GK-2B.

 

 

So that's £150 each or £275 for both together if collected. I will post (at cost) within the UK mainland or I can meet within a sensible distance - please PM me to discuss  options.

I'm not really after trades as the object of the exercise is to cull numbers but if you have something to swap, let me know and I'll consider it

Any other questions, please get in touch!

Thanks for looking

Dave

 

 

 

Edited March 4, 2019 by Skinnyman

[bassbiscuits]

Yay I was only thinking about that red Sb310 last week. Good bass that.

It's taken me to own several more basses since then to realise how good these actually are.

 

[Skinnyman]

Price reduced to £120 each.

[Skezza]

wow great prices

[Soledad]

Surely these won't hang around - love them both but I don't allow myself spare basses

[b7l4s]

PM'd (re. the red one)