I'm telling myself I'm trying to purge myself of gear... I have an early Tobias Standard 6 available. I am the original owner of this one. Purchased it new in 1992. This was my first 6 and main bass for at least 10 years. On the MTD site, Mr. Tobias makes reference to this basses. These basses were kind of the pre-cursor to what we see with the Sadowsky Metros and Lakland Skylines.
There were only 400 of these total. Quote from the website: "...and then we got the Terada factory in Nagoya, Japan to make the "Standard" bass for us. This was and is a great bass, but the $/yen ratio killed the project. There were about 400 Standards".
Final assembly was done in California by the Tobias team. If I'm not mistaken here are the specs: (please correct me if I'm wrong)
Body: Ash
Neck: 5 piece neck thru with Rosewood fingerboard
Scale: 34"
String Spacing: 17.5mm
Pickups: Bartolini
Preamp: Bartolini TCT (mid control in cavity)
Tuners: Grover
It's got some "beauty marks" from being a real bass used for real gigs. I really couldn't photograph it, but there is a long scratch on the back when it fell off a stand (no breaks or physical damage, just a scratch). Tomorrow, I can probably get better pics with outside light. On a scale of 1-10. I would rate it a 7.5 at worse. I've probably played well over 1000 gigs with that bass and it NEVER let me down.
This bass is more for trade than for sale. I am looking for the following
Millenia TD-1
5 string 34" jazz style bass with maple board
Cash price: $1100
Not in a hurry, just really have used this bass much in the past few years. It needs to be played.
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