For Sale - ACG Mule chambered fretless 30.5” scale REDUCED £1350 - *SOLD* £1600 Horley, Surrey

[Merton]

I bought this on a pretty crazy whim earlier in the summer when I convinced myself I needed a 4 string fretless. I don’t, not in any of my current bands. It has been used at precisely three rehearsals and one gig (for one song…).

 

Alan originally had it installed with a P Retro but I’m a fan of passive basses so he changed this out to volume, tone and pickup coil select (ceramic / both in parallel / both in series / alnico). The battery compartment is still there should you wish to change it back.

 

It is a lovely, lovely bass. Super lightweight, sounds amazing. I just don’t need it and have to be sensible as we head into winter, sorting out the credit card bills before the heating kicks in…

 

The specs:

Chambered alder body

Stripy ebony top with black binding

Maple/mahogany neck

Ebony fingerboard with pear wood fretlines

30.5” scale

ACG BZ1 pickup

Passive with vol/tone/pickup coil select (edit - the switch was active/passive when the P Retro was installed; now it’s a kill switch)

Hipshot type A bridge

Gotoh resolute tuners

Dunlop straplocks

Neutrik locking jack socket

Strung with La Bella tapewounds

TGI gigbag

 

More photos from Alan’s website:

https://acguitars.co.uk/project/0438mule4-30-5/

 

Price wise, commissioning one of these would set you back somewhere in the region of £2.5k I believe; I think a fair price delivered to mainland UK is £1600. Can’t deliver further afield due to that thing we do not name.

Not looking for trades at this point thanks.

 

REDUCED TO £1450/£1400 collected

 

 

Edited February 4, 2023 by Merton
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[ezbass]

That pickup selector is a brilliant idea, access to all the coil positions. If I was still living in Surrey, I’d be wanting to try this. GLWTS.

[SamIAm]

Oh @Merton, that is a thing of absolute beauty! Shortscale and fretless OMG … rocking horse sh!t springs to mind!!

The lack of a fifth string would not stop me snapping it up in an instant; However it would take me about 1,500 hours of work to pay for such a treasure …

 

I really hope you find a good home for her!

 

S’manth xx

[Merton]

Will potentially entertain sensible monetary offers, especially if able to collect/meet at the SE Bass Bash on Oct 23rd

[Merton]

Reduced to £1475 collected / £1500 delivered to mainland UK.

[Merton]

Heading up towards Cheshire tomorrow for a few days if it helps anyone in terms of delivery/trials etc. don’t mind popping this in the car too

 

[Merton]

Back from Cheshire now - lovely part of the world! Next trip is Finland and Denmark in a week 😀

Anyways… will accept £1400 collected/£1450 delivered. 

[Merton]

Well my wife’s car has decided that this is the right time of year to have a major issue. And of course muggins here gets to pay for that…

So, for the Christmas period* only this is £1350 delivered to mainland UK

*(now til 6th Jan)

[ezbass]

@Beedster

 

[Beedster]

12 minutes ago, ezbass said:

@Beedster

 

Thanks @ezbass

 

@Merton do you still have the P-Retro?

 

Could you explain the coil positions?

 

Thanks 👍

[Merton]

Hello!

 

The P-Retro was swapped out by Alan before I bought the bass, but I'm sure he would have one you could buy to put back in if you so desired.

 

The coil positions on the BZ1 are:

ceramic single coil -> ceramic and alnico parallel -> ceramic and alnico series -> alnico single coil.

I did a little video to show the differences, albeit with a different bass - will find it and link it

[Merton]

Here’s the video… I must make it clear that the bass in video is a solid swamp ash body and maple neck, so very different from the Mule, but it hopefully gives an idea of what the BZ1 can do:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/COpo2UGDc5v/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[Merton]

Bump. Had some interest, and some interesting offers, but still here. Wife’s car is semi-fixed but needs more work… this needs to find a good home!

 

£1350 delivered mainland UK