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11-27-2012, 06:54 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Carl Thompson fretless 4-string, Price Drop
For sale is my mid-1990s Carl Thompson 4-string, fretless bass guitar. It has a poplar body, ebony fingerboard with inlayed fret lines. It has a single EMG pickup with volume, treble and bass controls, Sperzel locking tuners and a CT wooden bridge. The neck is maple, and is set into the body with a typically beautiful heel inlay and a 34 inch scale length. The bass and its electronics are in good working order, it was recently set-up at Gruhns. This bass is rather plain by Carl's standards, but he built it as his personal instrument for a while. By anyone else's standards, this is a very exotic bass. I bought it from Carl while I was a student of his, it's very light and perfectly balanced. It includes a Reunion Blues gig bag, the same bag Carl carried it in. I tried to sell this bass on TB a few years ago, it generated a lot of interest, but no sale. This time, I'm asking $3,000, dropped from $3,600 plus shipping in hopes of a quick sale.   
Last edited by Jeremy Darrow : 12-31-2012 at 06:21 AM.
Reason: Price Drop.
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11-27-2012, 06:58 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Ugh, having trouble with the pictures. I'll try to get that sorted out later today. In the meantime, PM and I can email images to you. |
11-27-2012, 07:55 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Traverse City, MI | | Sweet bass man! I had a poplar CT and it was truly outstanding.
Here are your original photos.   
Last edited by shrigg : 11-27-2012 at 08:01 AM.
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11-27-2012, 07:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: BASS Heaven !!!! | | Beautifull CT !!!
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11-27-2012, 07:50 PM
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11-30-2012, 03:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | | Beauty through simplicity! There's not much I'd change about this one! Fantastic.. and a 34" Scale AND wood bridge is super rare on a CT! Love it! |
11-30-2012, 03:56 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Zentner  Beauty through simplicity! There's not much I'd change about this one! Fantastic.. and a 34" Scale AND wood bridge is super rare on a CT! Love it! | Thanks, when I bought this bass from Carl the bridge design was brand new, I seem to remember that he was trying it out on this bass. As I mentioned before, this was his personal instrument before it was mine. I wouldn't go so far as to say that this bass was the first with the wood bridge, but it's probably ONE of the first. |
12-01-2012, 01:07 PM
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12-06-2012, 07:06 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Price drop to $3,300, plus shipping. |
12-06-2012, 04:01 PM
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Trade? Birdsong fretless Sadhana #20 (Mint !!) or a 80s Clarke Spellbinder (only 50 made and this was a personal bass bought from Stanley Clarke ) built by Thomas Leiber |
12-06-2012, 04:43 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CTbass&birdsong trade
Trade? Birdsong fretless Sadhana #20 (Mint !!) or a 80s Clarke Spellbinder (only 50 made and this was a personal bass bought from Stanley Clarke ) built by Thomas Leiber | Thanks for the offer, but I'm not looking to trade this bass. |
12-12-2012, 04:43 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Price drop. Now asking $3,200. |
12-22-2012, 08:39 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Another price drop. $3,100. |
12-22-2012, 09:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Madison WI | | | There is something wrong here, when ya can't sell a CT for $3000! |
12-22-2012, 07:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bucks County, Pa. | | | I remember this bass from our college days - cool bass!
good luck selling it |
12-31-2012, 06:22 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Price drop, $3,000. Plus shipping. |
01-13-2013, 04:44 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Sold. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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