Stanley Clarke Spellbinder bass

[Johnny Reggae]

I see Bass Direct have a Lieber / Clarke Spellbinder (No9 no less) on sale at 4k. While that is quite hefty for a bass, only 50 were made (they destroyed the mould to preserve value apparently). Does anyone have one or played one? They’re short scale and suffer from horrible neck dive due to the composite body but I’m curious to know more about this mysterious and super rare bass. 

[Bass Direct]

2 minutes ago, Johnny Reggae said:

I see Bass Direct have a Lieber / Clarke Spellbinder (No9 no less) on sale at 4k. While that is quite hefty for a bass, only 50 were made (they destroyed the mould to preserve value apparently). Does anyone have one or played one? They’re short scale and suffer from horrible neck dive due to the composite body but I’m curious to know more about this mysterious and super rare bass. 

It's a beauty, in fab condition! 

 

It does have some neck dive due to how light the bass is in general, but nails some of those Clarke tone from that period of his playing for sure.

 

 

[tauzero]

Could really do with a background other than black for the photos to show it to its best advantage.

[Bass Direct]

10 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Could really do with a background other than black for the photos to show it to its best advantage.

We use the black background on all of our images @tauzero, we have posted some more pictures of the bass in our showroom on Facebook though

[Chris2112]

It is certainly an interesting looking bass. Bass Direct seem to have had it since Jesus was a lad, so if you rang up and made a reasonable offer I suspect it could be yours. Looking at it, I had expected it to be quite heavy for the size of it, as composite basses often are! (Status and Basslab being the exceptions to that). 

 

Seeing this thread reminded me of the Spellbinder II bass, which I had thought would have been about 20 years old but was actually released in 2001! Much like the first Spellbinder bass, Stanley didn't use it much, if at all. 

 

 

[Bass Direct]

2 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

It is certainly an interesting looking bass. Bass Direct seem to have had it since Jesus was a lad, so if you rang up and made a reasonable offer I suspect it could be yours. Looking at it, I had expected it to be quite heavy for the size of it, as composite basses often are! (Status and Basslab being the exceptions to that). 

 

Seeing this thread reminded me of the Spellbinder II bass, which I had thought would have been about 20 years old but was actually released in 2001! Much like the first Spellbinder bass, Stanley didn't use it much, if at all. 

 

 

The Spellbinder we have in stock weighs 3.4kg so light as a feather