I do hope you like Rosewood & Mahogany...

[HeadlessBassist]

Well after a series of trades, I picked this up today from a very strange dealership in Manchester, which takes up a whole upstairs factory floor.

 

So it's an Overwater Perception Custom Classic made in 2006. The main differences from the Inspiration/Progress series is that the older basses have the pickups  further back towards the bridge & closer together, producing quite the punch in the mids department, not unlike a rampaging horde of angry Stingrays. I particularly liked the Rosewood on Mahogany spec as it reminds me of my first Status bass which I bought in 1990.

 

After putting on some new Elixirs and adjusting the truss rod, the only issue is that despite the string height being just about perfect from frets 1-7, the huge brass blocks on the bridge don't allow the strings to go low enough between frets 12 & 24. I'll call Overwater tomorrow and see if they have any smaller string blocks for these old bridges, and visit my tech to see if the string grooves on the E & B blocks can be widened/deepened. 

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by HeadlessBassist

[chris_b]

Nice bass.

[Grooverjr]

Nice. You just need a bit of teak in there and it could be the Fawlty Towers breakfast tray bass

[skej21]

Trapped my sciatic nerve just looking at this, but it is aesthetically beautiful! 

[chris_b]

These are fantastic instruments, but I've never seen one that's light enough for my back, so I'll just have to look at the pictures. If Chris May brought out a Super Light series I'd have several in a heart beat.