Early-mid 90s SKC Bogart Graphite 5 string.
Specs:
- Zebrawood top over 2-piece Ash body
- Carbon Fiber 34” scale neck w/ zero fret.
- Headless neck w/ string locks at the ‘head’
- Bartolini humbuckers thru a 3-band (w/ mid freq selector switch) Bart NTMB preamp (housed in a Warwick style electronics compartment)
- Three-way adjustable bridge w/ Steinberger style tuning
- Weight: 9.5 lbs.
- Spacing: I measured 18-18.5mm at the bridge.
- Nut/24th fret width: I measured 2” at the zero fret and 3.1” at the 24th fret.
- Condition:
~ I refinished the body in a high quality tung oil. It is in excellent condition and is a semi-pro job. I hand polished the new tung oil finish, so it's a bit glossier than the pics show. It's also brighter because of how much dirt the original finish had soaked up over the years! The neck is good, but the clear coat I used is flaking off in a few places, so I can redo it to make it near perfect if you wish.
~ Two of the strap buttons are black like the rest of the hardware, but one is chrome.
~ Lastly, the string locks WERE a bit of a problem. The steel shafts that pinch the string (like on Sperzel tuners) were breaking the strings. (I guess too small of a surface area on the pinch point.) My remedy was to cut pieces of copper tubing to use as shims between the string and the end of the string lock shaft. It took a bit more force to squeeze that copper tubing over the string, so I foolishly used a string winder to tighten instead of just finger tight. I ended up shearing a string lock shaft clean off. I had it repaired by drilling and tapping a new hole with the proper metric threads. After a mess of trying to make my own string lock, I finally had 5 of them sent to me direct from Bogart in Germany. Problem solved! So if you were to over-tighten a string lock (won't happen if you only go finger tight), it’s not a tough fix. Bogart was very helpful and even though they now make headed basses, they still have parts left over from their older generation basses.
~ For an overall condition, the bass is a modest 8 out of 10. I really don’t want the buyer to have any surprised with this (except for how well it plays and sounds!), so I am disclosing everything! It should not scare you off.
This is an amazing sounding bass and the thing plays itself! The graphite neck is wafer thin, yet it does not need a truss rod. I always strung it with light gauge strings just in case (I’m paranoid!) and the neck has NEVER given me any issues. I took this bass camping with me (in a small cabin, not a tent!) and had cold humid rainy days and then dry hot scorchers. The bass not only didn’t show any neck movement….it stayed perfectly in tune! Tone wise, it can do it all. It nails smooth and warm. It’s great for powerful ballsy rock. It is even more amazing with slap ‘n pop style. And for what it’s worth, Bogart is a German company, but this bass (according to the folks at Bogart) was assembled in the States by Uwe Salwender.
I’m looking for $1250 + S&H anywhere in the world.
More pics:
http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...0Graphite%205/
