Maruszczyk - Elwood 6 string bass - *WITHDRAWN* £1300 Co.Down

[Gareth Hughes]

Hi Folks - up for sale is a Maruszczyk Elwood L 6P bass. Original owner, I had the bass made in June 2017. Here's the specs:

 

24 fret - flame maple neck with a bound ebony fingerboard, 34 inch scale

Passive Volume/Blend/Tone controls, Sadowsky-style knobs

Olympic White on alder body

Hipshot A bridge - 19mm adjustable spacing

Hipshot Ultralite Y-tuners

Delano JSBC-HE pickups

Weight is 4.3kg

Deluxe gigbag included.

 

The bass is in excellent condition, with a few minor nicks on the headstock.

 

The neck originally had a rosewood fingerboard when it was made, but the truss rod was made of cheese and snapped in early 2021. I had the fingerboard replaced with ebony and had carbon fibre rods added at the time. Work was done by Balazs Prohaszka at the Avalon Guitar company in N.Ireland. Here's some of his own work: https://prohaszkaguitars.com/

 

The same bass spec'd today from Maruszczyk is €2620, working out at £2275. I'm selling this for £1350 £1250 including shipping within the UK. Insured shipping at your cost. Bass comes with a semi-rigid deluxe gigbag and will be very well packed.

 

And now the pics:

 

 

 

Edited October 31 by Gareth Hughes

[binky_bass]

Beautiful bass.

 

Elwoods seem to be prone to truss rod snappery. Seen others with the same complaint! Great peace of mind for the buyer that it's been replaced with a much more stable one. The bound ebony I think looks better than Rosewood anyway...

[Gareth Hughes]

Yep, I've seen that a few times. It's an odd one, but glad to have it sorted here. Lovely low action since the repair and no issues at all.

[Gareth Hughes]

And for your viewing pleasure - enjoy the wobbly chorus at the end (if you get that far). And yes, I'm reading this, so excuse the flaws.

 

 

[basexperience]

Another Maruszczyk owner here whose cheesy truss rod snapped. Best description I read was "That looks like soviet era technology" 🙂

 

I too had the neck repaired and carbon rods put in, by the amazing @Manton Customs - mine's an elwood 5 and Robin even managed to match the aged binding around the board.

 

They're lovely basses, once the truss rod issue is sorted, I love mine 🙂

 

GLWTS!

[basexperience]

Also - BC advises putting ownership into the pictures (like including a post-it note with your BC handle or something) so the pictures can't be used to rip someone off elsewhere (or on here)