PRICE DROP TO $400.00
I'm
interested in USA PEAVEY BASSES, PEAVEY ZODIAC DE SCORPIO, AND PEAVEY AMPS.
BUT...
I'M OPEN TO ALL TRADES or $400 plus shipping conus.
The
Focus 8000 is one of the Japanese made guitars and basses that Kramer began importing and distributing starting in 1983. Per
www.vintagekramer.com,
the 8000 bass is a relative rarity with not many being sold here in the early '80s. It's a 4 string, a solid, slab body with an Explorer type shape: a body style that
Kramer refers to as a Condor body, after the guitar of the same name.
WEIGHT IS A NICE, EASY 8.4lbs. NO NECK DIVE.
The neck is a bolt on maple with rosewood board, P-bass width nut, P-type headstock with the standard elephant-ear 4 in line tuners. Truss rod adjustment is in the base of the neck and so requires neck removal to adjust and is straight as an arrow, with low action. MOP dots, frets are excellent.
The bridge is a solid, German-made Schaller, top-loading with roller adjustment on each saddle. The passive electrics are a bit different for a bass: it has 2 pickups, the neck P/U being a standard P-type but the bridge P/U is unique. At first glance, it appears to be a MM type but it's actually more like 2 J-bass P/Us joined together. There is a toggle switch to select which of the 2 bridge single coils to use and there is a 3 position toggle to select either P/U individually or both together. Each P/U has a separate volume pot and there's a single tone pot. No pickguard: the electrics are accessed through a plate on the back. The only identifying markings is a serial number on the neck plate.
Obviously a refinish sometime in the past. Not too bad of a job. I like it and you might too. Gives it character and mojo.
With the 2 different pickups, the switchable selections, and the bridge P/U having 2 separate coils, the range of sounds can be from bassy with just the neck P/U selected with no tone to almost a trebly, baritone guitar sound with the rearmost coil on the bridge P/U selected and the tone up. The slab body and the Schaller bridge give a lot of sustain.
The tone is quite unique with the switches and such. Goes from deep muddy waters, clean P-bass, P-J, J-Growl, Jaco-esque tones from the bridge pups, really diversified.
Everything on this bass is
all original except the finish and I added one strap pin onto the body directly behind the 15th fret for better balance..
Hit me up with some offers.
I'M OPEN TO ALL TRADES or $400 plus shipping conus. I'm
interested in USA PEAVEY BASSES, ZODIAC DE SCORPIO, AND AMPS. This is a
RARE bass and should be regarded as such, I think my new, low price is as fair as it gets.
Here's 3 pics, with 12 more close-ups
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