This is something I've dreaded doing- but medical reasons, an impending move, and my involuntary retirement from being a working bassist, makes it necessary.
O.K., I'm in Reno, Nevada, and I need to sell locally- meaning the Reno/ Carson City/ Tahoe/ Northern California areas- or anyone passing through here on their way to somewhere else. I'm close to the airport, as well.
Fly in, hang out, buy a bass or two, and rent a van to drive home! lol!
The reason- Shipping is stupidly expensive now, and the boxing, hassles associated with it all, would make what I am going to try to make a 'good deal' for someone- into a pass.
Some of you know, I'm a long time Luthier and repairman, specializing in string basses. About ten years or so ago, I began assembling 'gigging' basses to use on my numerous casino road gigs- where things sometimes disappear, or get damaged. So- I bought a lot of parts, and used some of my long term acquired inventory to assemble some really good sounding, playing instruments. I'm also going to list others, as time passes.
Here's a partial:
1. Squier VM Maple body, G&L Tribute Maple RW neck. rattle can blue enamel three footer paint job, pearl guard, tug bar, pocket and heel modded for this conversion, it looks stock, but isn't. EMG pickups, EMG BTC control, Gold Schaller BM tuners, Gold Omega (badass) bridge, gold control plate. Plays and sounds great. $400. I have more than that in the parts alone.
2. Fender Ash body in purple, string through- I think it's American, as no MIM's I've seen were string through. It could be a nicely done conversion, I don't know. It's a bit on the heavy side. Squier neck and tuners. It's a nice playing bass. Has Carvin stacks, passive circuit, mint green guard, tug bar, bridge is Chinesium. $350.
3. G&L- T bass USA Customs slab '51 P-bass body, finished in some awful rattle can yellow, just to spray something on it- Leather strap attacked the finish on the back- not my best work at all, but I didn't care- it's a road bass.
This is another G&L Tribute Maple/Maple neck, body and neck pocket modded to build this one off. Pickguard was fabricated custom for this bass only. Wooden tug bar. It has a Fender and a Duncan pickup in it, two volumes only. Wilkinson swivel saddle bridge- way cool design, that works great. Schaller tuners. This bass sounds a lot like an active Jazz bass. $400.
4. Squier Maple Jazz bass body, in excellent shape, with a 43 year old aftermarket neck of unknown origin- I think it could be a Chandler or an early Charvel- it has an ink stamped number on the back of the headstock. it is super thin, like a pre CBS 'A' Fender neck, and is absolutely identical in every way to a Pre-CBS Fender. Refretted with stainless steel frets about 15 years ago. Fender 'Super '55' noiseless pickups, aftermarket ABM copy bridge, tort guard, tug bar, a pre CBS headstock decal, and reverse wind Gotoh Kluson Fender pre-CBS tuners. $500.
5.Danelectro Shorthorn long scale bass from the late 90's Evets Korea era.
Only mod, is the pickguard/ control cover replacement. I used this bass for one session, and two gigs, it went into the gig bag in my closet, and I haven't played it since. Just saw one go for 899 on Reverb, these are going up all the time. If I can find the original guard, I'll include it. $650.
I may be able to provide a gig bag for some of these, depending...
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