Here's the deal on this bass. It was a project for me over the last year.
Its a 1992 MIM standard neck (7.25" radius, smallish vintage style fretwire) great profile, a nice flattened oval that feels great in the hand. mated to...
a 2006 MIM Fender OEM standard Chrome Red body that I picked up off of ebay.
Tuners and bridge are aftermarket, decent stock looking allparts type stuff.
The bass came to me with a duncan QP P-bass pickup, I had a local luthier add a route and a duncan QP J pickup, so now its a nice versatile P/J settup with Volume/Volume/Tone configuration. It comes with a B/W/B pickguard and a W/B/W pickguard, but the white pickguard will need to be routed for the extra volume knob.
The body is almost mint, maybe some light swirling here and there. The neck is 18 years old and has darkened nicely with age. It has a light burn mark near the E-string side of the nut (how rock and roll...). I however have owned it the last year and a half and its been in a smoke free home since then. The rosewood fretboard is nice and richly colored. The bass is fairly light too, under 9 lbs on my digital postal scale.
Couple of nitpicky things. The nut has a hairline crack under the string in the D-string slot. BUT I'm going to give you a brand new uninstalled Tusq nut that I bought and never installed? Why, cause I'm lazy, and functionally the nut is fine, no buzzing at all. The strap button on the upper horn is a little loose and the strap button screw should be replaced. There's a small ding in the neck that is pictured, but doesn't affect playability at all. The single coil J pickup will pick up some buzz, but is quiet under most conditions. Bonus: I'll throw in a roll of copper shielding tape and a cheap gig bag.
This thing gets a very solid rock tone. Even with the J pickup dialed in full, the P pickup mostly dominates, so it always retains that P-bass character, but with a little added bite. With a new set of round wounds, and a pick, its a rock and roll monster. With flats, it thumps with the best of them, and will shake the walls.
I'm asking $395 shipped in the CONUS. for an extra $15 I'll throw in the set of D'Addario Chrome flats that were on it for a while. Its got a fresh set of DR hi-beams on it now.
Here's some photos.
So... to review...
You get one of the "good ones" as far as MIM basses go
You get the extra TUSQ nut
You get some shielding tape
You get a cheap @ss gig bag.
For $395 shipped.
Oh yeah, here's a hastily assembled sound clip. First part is both pickups full on, then goes to neck only, then to bridge only.
SOUNDCLIP
http://www.mediafire.com/?aoluxa57dzm6n6s
