Willcox Guitars Saber VL5 Fretless Trades £500 Manchester

[bigmuff69]

Looking to sell/trade this Willcox Guitars Saber VL5 Fretless for a 4 string fender,the bass is currently strung with flatwounds with a high C,plays beautifully and very lightweight,comes with charger,also a fender case,but 2 latches are broken,can post or meet up,

 

 

would trade for a four string fender,P or J or anything in between 

 

 

The All NEW Saber Bass with our exclusive, patented LightWave Analog Optical Pickup System is a forward-thinking high-performance professional instrument with an ultra responsive natural tone unlike any other. It features a chambered swamp ash body with resonant chambers to enhance the tone, as vibration is key to coaxing the most sound from the wood. It also includes a beautiful AAAA flamed maple top, black basswood quarter-sawn composite fingerboard.  Every bass can also be equipped with HexFX Technology that provides individual string outputs, along with a summed mono output, to a 13-pin DIN connector. The resulting output enables full synth access, individual string processing and modelling, as well as the use of a fanout box. The optical pickup technology provides ultra-fast and accurate tracking, glitch free and with no latency and no false triggering. The tonal possibilities are unlimited!

Willcox Guitars Saber VL5 Fretless – Pre-Owned

•Body Wood: Ash with flamed maple top

•Colour: Natural

•Finish: Gloss

•Neck Finish: Satin

•Neck Material: Maple

•Fingerboard: Diamondwood

•Pickups: Willcox

•Electronics: Willcox

•Pickguard: N/A

•Hardware: Black

•Gig Bag/Case: Padded Gig bag

•Frets: 24

•String Spacing: 19mm

•Nut Width: 46mm

•Scale Length: 34”

•Weight: 8.6/3.7

Edited 10 hours ago by bigmuff69

[Beedster]

That looks like it can really sing, also a hell of a lot of bass for the money 👍

[Hellzero]

A few months ago I would have bought it instantly, but as I don't play bass, but only piano, anymore since then...

 

Excellent bass, I had a few over the years.

 

That said, this one looks like a very first generation model made by the original company: Lightwave, not Wilcox.

 

Beware that you have to know how to set up the optical system ("sensing diodes"), which is explained in PDF here: https://www.willcoxguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Willcox-Guitars-LightWave-Systems-Saber-User-Manual.pdf

 

And with a video here:

 

 

And how a fiver sounded in 2009 under Ed Friedland's fingers:

 

 

 

[binky_bass]

I had a 6 string Lightwave fretless for all of about 4 days before I traded it for a 9 string fretted ACG with @7string about 400 years ago...

 

I'm not a fretless player, but I remember thinking it was an excellent bass and tempted for a few scary moments about keeping it! T'were it a fretted, it may have remained with me as the ACG has. 

 

This is a very good price for an excellent and quite unique thing! 

[Richard R]

Wow! Not seen a 5-string Lightwave. Does this also have the hex output?

 

Very tempted, but I would have to have it converted to fretted. And I really need to play the basses I have. 🎶

 

GLWTS!

 

[Hellzero]

16 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Does this also have the hex output?

Nope, as you would see the added MIDI volume and the two extra switches (blend and up/down) and the 13 pins out...