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10-06-2009, 07:36 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | Elrick New Jazz Standard semi-hollow fretless 5
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A very non-standard Elrick New Jazz Standard fretless 5 (deep-cut 35" scale). Set neck (NJS basses are normally bolt-on). Maple neck, Ebony board w/lines on the side of the board and small dots on the face of the board. Ebony head stock). Mahogany semi-hollow body with Spruce top. Bartolini pick-up in the bridge position. Passive electronics. Ebony bridge with Fishman piezo pick-up. The piezo pickup has been inoperative since I got the bass eight years ago. The Bartolini gives me all the sound I've ever needed. With HSC. Here's a review from back when I first got it...
"this is the most acoustically alive bass I've seen so far. This is my first real exposure to Elricks (not in a music store). This one is a serious hybrid. The semi-hollow body is built almost entirely from one piece of Mahogany, the Spruce top picks up every vibration. It's deeper that a standard Elrick, it has a set neck like the upper end Elricks, custom 5 in-line headstock with Hipshot tuners including a de-tuner on the B that I'd bet I'll never use, perfect neck. I can't believe how nice this bass is. The action is silly...touch it and it sings".
Nothing's changed since then, still an amazing bass. Offered at $2500 for this one of a kind bass. No trades.   http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attach...1&d=1091721897
Last edited by Brad Johnson : 10-06-2009 at 07:42 PM.
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10-06-2009, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ribwich, ZF | | I don't suppose the 4-stringer on the left (e-volution or Classic, I can't tell) is for sale as well? 
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10-06-2009, 08:12 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | Nope, I'm down to my last two... the fretless and the fretted NJS 5's. |
10-07-2009, 11:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Topeka, Kansas | | | When you say that the piezo is inoperative -- do you mean that you don't use it, or that it is broken? If it is broken, do you know what is wrong with it?
Thanks!
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10-07-2009, 11:26 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote:
Originally Posted by j.weaver  When you say that the piezo is inoperative -- do you mean that you don't use it, or that it is broken? If it is broken, do you know what is wrong with it?
Thanks! | It's inoperative. IIRC it's a Fishman and it worked intermittently. I talked to Rob about it years ago and decided it wasn't worth fixing since the Bartolini soapbar sounds so good. |
10-08-2009, 10:08 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | bump |
10-08-2009, 05:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Real nice bass Brad. Bump just because everything you have is killer. |
10-10-2009, 01:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | Man, I wish this thing was a 34" scale. I'd be all over it.
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10-13-2009, 07:28 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | bump |
10-13-2009, 11:21 PM
|  | The deepest grooves take time | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Houston | | You sell basses?
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10-14-2009, 02:24 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote:
Originally Posted by OrionManMatt You sell basses? | I've gone into the stash and offered up some of the keepers. I immediately had second thoughts about.  |
10-14-2009, 02:27 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveAceofBass Man, I wish this thing was a 34" scale. I'd be all over it. | I'd say it doesn't feel very big to me but I usually don't notice a difference in just the scale length. There usually has to be another issue like the overall ergonomics for it to bother me. Fortunately Rob designs his basses with the bridge near the end of the body so it's less of a reach than many other 35" scale basses I've played. Add in a very comfortable neck and who knows... 
My 34" scale Alembic was a great example of a bass with the right number but the wrong feel. Much more work to play in the lower positions than these Elricks IMO. |
11-04-2009, 11:16 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | bump |
01-29-2010, 12:08 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | PRICE REDUCED through this weekend. Either I move this or it's off the market. Offered at $2250 for this one of a kind bass. Might trade for similar high end bass. |
01-29-2010, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Brad Johnson I'd say it doesn't feel very big to me but I usually don't notice a difference in just the scale length. There usually has to be another issue like the overall ergonomics for it to bother me. Fortunately Rob designs his basses with the bridge near the end of the body so it's less of a reach than many other 35" scale basses I've played. Add in a very comfortable neck and who knows...
My 34" scale Alembic was a great example of a bass with the right number but the wrong feel. Much more work to play in the lower positions than these Elricks IMO. | Elrick makes the best 5 string "jazzish" neck I ever played. IT really feels to me like a regular old jazz bass with a little more width. Just hoping to help the sale along so I dont go sell a car and buy it.
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01-29-2010, 11:13 PM
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Thanks... and I agree. If I didn't have my main fretlesses I'd hang onto it. |
01-30-2010, 08:34 PM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | I have to take care of an electronics issue with the bass. I have a trade pending. |
07-22-2010, 07:54 AM
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Endorsing artist: Brubaker Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Gaithersburg, Md | | | Got the piezo element replaced and the output on the low B is still lower than the rest of the strings. The magnetic (Bartolini) pickup still works fine. Price lowered to $2150. |
07-23-2010, 11:14 AM
|  | M E T S ... Mets, Mets, Mets! | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NC. Residential Tourist | | Oh my! Dig'n that dotted board. Looking for a fretless fiver myself ... don't think this is the tone I'm searching for. But it does make me GAS! 
anyhoo ... BUMP for a super sweet Elrick!
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