Brubaker NBS 1, Last drop £1,000 - *SOLD* £1750 Bournemouth

[graham1945]

FINAL PRICE DROP TO £1,000
 

Part one of my five string bass sell off due to my arthritic left wrist telling me that it doesn't want to stretch across five string fingerboards any more! Rarely use the G string anyway! 😂

This is quite a rare one now from Kevin Brubaker's earler days. It is the sequel to the Lexa bass and is from 1999, in a stunning transparent flame (front and back) double cutaway ash body. This is also edged in natural edging, and is beautifully finished. The strong point is the super smooth and flat deep set bolt on maple neck with a lovely rosewood fingerboard and is 34.5" scale. The nut is 1.75" and there are 24 frets. The bass originally came to me via Elderly Instruments of Lansing, Michigan as a lined fretless bass. After a while I had the bass refretted at The Bass Gallery (beautiful job) and was told that it had left the factory fretted. There is no evidence of any of this previous work on the fretboard. There are swirls in the finish but I can see no dinks or through finish chips anywhere. The pickups are Basslines soapbar and they are complimented by a Seymour Duncan 3 band active pre amp, all working fine. The preamp and battery is accessed via a large SINGLE screwed cover, now isn't that a good idea? It is fitted with a Hipshot bridge and tuners. A few of the pics below are from the original advert, notably the fretboard finish, which shows it when it was lined fretless. I've weighed it at around 9.5 lbs or just over 4kilos.

You're welcome to try the bass in Bournemouth. I would ideally like to hand the bass over personally rather than send it via carrier. 

Please let me know if you need to know anything else. No music files I'm afraid.

Edit new pictures to reflect a truer colour.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by graham1945
True colour pics

[bearhart74]

here's mine they are great basses

[graham1945]

How about that! Looks a beauty.

[graham1945]

I'm sure this deserves a bump?

First bass I've put up which hasn't raised a single question!

[dutchwife]

I keep coming back to look at this beauty. Frankly amazed that it's still here. 

[graham1945]

18 hours ago, dutchwife said:

I keep coming back to look at this beauty. Frankly amazed that it's still here. 

So am I dutchwife. Mystified!

[W1_Pro]

Lovely looking bass, GLWTS.

[Aidan63]

rather than drop the price maybe offer it to bassbros or bassdirect or the gallery, it should sell itself if people see it and play it ?

[graham1945]

Hi Aiden,

Yes, that will be the next move. The neck is a joy to play.

 

[jmlbasses]

I would gladly compare it to you if it were within the European Union

[graham1945]

2 hours ago, jmlbasses said:

I would gladly compare it to you if it were within the European Union

Yes, wasn't coming out of the EU a great idea.😡😡😡😡😡😡

[graham1945]

Now sold.