Ibanez EHB1005MS £750 £750 Chichester

[SumOne]

Ibanez EHB 1005 MS 

 

• £750
• Excellent condition, just some very small marks that won't show up on photos, a shop could probably get away with selling it as ex display or an 'open box' return. 
• With Ibanez gig bag.
• 3.4kg.
• Bought new less than a year ago.
• Collection from Chichester, or I'm in Central London on Mondays. I have the Ibanez box it could potentially be posted in if (will add a photo of that once I've retreived it from the loft. I just remembered I should add some ID to the photos too so will do that later). 

 

As a 5 string I think these are hard to beat: Clear 35" B string, even tone across strings and comfortable to play the multiscale, erganomic and about as lightweight as any 5 string you can get - but still well balanced with no neck dive, compact for carrying and using at pub gigs with small stages, a lot of different tones, passive/active switch, stays in tune, decent 3 band EQ with sweepable mids. 

 

These are great basses with just two annoying things: Fret markers are difficult to see and the locking jack socket needed two hands for you to remove the cable (one to press the button in and one to pull the cable out) which I found a faff. I've addressed both of those: Glowtec Lumo fret stickers (removable) and I took the small spring out of the socket so it doesn't push in to lock (I still have the small spring so it could be put back in).

 

I keep buying these Basses (this is my third one!) when I feel I 'need' an active 5 string, then after about a year I feel I 'need' a passive 4 string...no particular reason, sometimes there are some new songs for the band that require the B string and then sometimes a whole set with no need for it gets me thinking a 4 woulkd be better, but mostly it is that I'm just just fickle! I'm always a one Bass at a time sort of person, I don't like swopping between different ones especially if different scale lengths or amount of strings and I always need to sell a Bass to fund the next one so I continue the annual cycle of selling 5 string to get a 4 and vice versa.  I have seen one specific 4 string Bass I want, I might remove this advert if that sells first.....and this time next year when I feel I 'need' an active 5 string again I'll probaly buy one of these again!

 

 

 

 

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Edited 1 hour ago by SumOne