Lakland Skyline 55/02 Deluxe (2020) - Ash with Quilted Maple Top/Ebony Fretboard | 9/10+ condition | £875 inc free UK Shipping - *SOLD* £875 Durham DH2

[Paddy777]

Up for sale is my absolutely stunning 5 string 2020 Lakland Skyline 55/02 in trans purple. It has an ash body with beautiful quilted maple top, an ebony fretboard on a flat-sawn maple neck with graphite reinforcement bars.
 

This bass is in excellent condition, it’s been gigged but has been very well looked after and there’s no obvious damage - it’s just not a brand new bass, I’d say it’s 9/10 and can’t find anything specific to note that’s negative about it 

 

35” Scale with a 1.81” nut width, 22 fret with a radius of 10-13”. It is strung with Sadowsky blue label nickel 45-130T’s with the Tapered B string, so the combination of these strings and the Lakland neck gives this bass one of the best sounding B strings you could ask for.

 

Pickups and preamp are both Lakland’s own LH3 which are in both the U.S. 55/94 and 55/02’s as stock. The preamp is Vol/Blend/Treb/Mid/Bass (cut and boost), however you can open the control panel in the band and change the frequency of the Mid control using the dip switches (275/600/900/1100hz).
 

There is also a coil tap for the bridge humbucker pickup - towards the neck and engages the front coil only (60’s jazz) mid position is the full humbucker (both coils - stingray mode) and pointed towards the bridge is rear coils only (70’s jazz). The front pickup only also does a pretty convincing P Bass sound for a bass that’s clearly not a P Bass making this one of the most insanely versatile basses you can get - it’s extremely hard to get a bad sound out of this (trust me I’ve done my best! 😁) 

 

Included in the sale is an almost new ‘Protection Racket’ gigbag and Shipping via DPD Next Day (within the UK). It’ll be extremely well packaged and boxed so it’s safe for the journey, or collection from DH2, County Durham is also welcome 

 

Priced for a quick sale, no trades and no offers - this is a superb quality bass, at a very good price. Thanks for looking

 

£875 shipped

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Paddy777
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[jassbass]

Oh my another fantastic bass your selling

[dub_junkie]

I owned this bass for a year and a half. I bought it from Paddy and sold it back to him in a moment of weakness 😂. And I would have bought it again had I not just bought the blue/maple 55-02 on here.

 

This purple/ebony one is absolutely stellar and it's typical of the breed -  but just that bit nicer still. Easy to see why so many players favour these basses. They're super versatile and sound great in a band setting. 

[flippyfloop]

Lovely.

[Machines]

2 hours ago, dub_junkie said:

And I would have bought it again had I not just bought the blue/maple 55-02 on here. 

 

And I pulled out of the blue one as I was waiting on a sale that's now happened! Unfortunately I'm being sensible this month due to life demands. Very tedious.

[krispn]

Used to play a JO5 love a Lakland 5 neck. 
The colour is top class and the ebony board looks great. 

[super al]

I love my 55-02 but I always take a look when they come up on here. One day, when the missus isn't looking, I'll just blow some big cash on a US made one.

 

Good luck with the sale!

[Paddy777]

1 minute ago, super al said:

I love my 55-02 but I always take a look when they come up on here. One day, when the missus isn't looking, I'll just blow some big cash on a US made one.

 

Good luck with the sale!

I’ve had a US 55/94 and it was great no doubt, but these are easily 90% of the way there, there’s an awfully large premium on the 55/94’s when the electronics are identical so they sound no different, the difference is the neck. The U.S. Lakland necks are really amazing, but they’re not worth and extra 2-3 grand - I think it says more about how good the Skylines are than anything negative about the U.S. ones.

[dub_junkie]

1 hour ago, Machines said:

 

And I pulled out of the blue one as I was waiting on a sale that's now happened! Unfortunately I'm being sensible this month due to life demands. Very tedious.

I feel obligated to say buy this purple one and let the rest take care of itself