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09-13-2011, 09:44 PM
|  | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | FS: Nordy VP5 (with Big Split) dead mint
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SOLD
I recently bought this new from the crew at Nordstrand and it is an awesome bass. VP5 with ash body, maple neck (incredibly comfortable profile) with rosewood fingerboard. The finish is clear aged vintage white body with vintage tint on the neck (satin finish on the neck). It has a Nordstrand P pup along with a Big Split, passive, vol/vol/tone. It'll do the great Nordy VP tone but you also can get an awesome slap tone or a snarling bridge sound. Playability is stunning. This is easily the easiest 5-string bass I've every owned - and I've owned some great ones.
So if it is so amazing, why am I selling? The main reason is that I have decided that I want to focus on 4-string for the time being, and I hate having a bass around that I'm not regularly playing. The other thing is that I occasionally struggle with tendonitis and playing a 5 tends to make that flare up.
At any rate, new this would cost close to $3K (I believe that prices just went up) and you'd have a number of months wait. This is spotless (I used it on a handful of gigs and am very careful with my gear).
Nordy VP5 (with Big Split)
ash body
maple/rosewood neck
19mm bridge
34" scale
8.5 lbs
$2175 shipped in a brand new case (CONUS). Sorry, no trades as I just splurged and bought a Fodera 4-banger (another factor in the sale).       
Last edited by nostatic : 09-23-2011 at 11:40 AM.
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09-13-2011, 09:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The wild wild midwest | | | Dang, you just got that too and raved about it! |
09-13-2011, 10:06 PM
| | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | I still rave about it. It is the best playing 5'er I've owned and it sounds awesome. Seriously - the neck is amazing. My hands just don't like a wide 5. In retrospect the only 5s I've been able to play all night long were my Zons and my Deep 5. Getting old sucks... |
09-13-2011, 11:39 PM
| | | Bump from a fellow Nordy lover!!!! 
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09-14-2011, 11:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by nostatic My hands just don't like a wide 5. Getting old sucks... | Yep :-)
Good thing all you really need are a couple good 4's. ;-) |
09-14-2011, 08:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The Land of Leo | | | Love the bass. Love the band. You guys are great!
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09-14-2011, 09:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Frisco, TX | | | That is awesome. |
09-14-2011, 10:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Los Angeles | | | Where in Playa Vista is this? I'm there every week. Sounds awesome man!
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09-15-2011, 10:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Edgewater Maryland | | | Perfect pup combo... Bump for a great TBer!
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09-16-2011, 09:18 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Nordy P love bump.
Someone should be on this like you-know-what on you-know-what. |
09-16-2011, 10:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Missouri, near Branson | | | What are the neck dimensions?
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09-16-2011, 11:32 AM
|  | I play the bass and design things. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Brockton, MA | | | awesome!
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09-16-2011, 11:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA | | | I do not need a backup!
I do not need a backup!
My VPJ5 is alder/maple, kinda cool to have an ash/rosewood combo.... hmmm.....
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09-16-2011, 11:53 AM
| | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kevinlane  What are the neck dimensions? | I'll get exact measurements when I'm back at home later today. It is 34" scale, 9-14" variable radius, and iirc the nut is 1-7/8" and it is just under 3" wide at the 20th fret but I'll verify. Neck shape on the back is not huge/beefy - very fast and comfortable. |
09-16-2011, 07:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by nostatic
I'll get exact measurements when I'm back at home later today. It is 34" scale, 9-14" variable radius, and iirc the nut is 1-7/8" and it is just under 3" wide at the 20th fret but I'll verify. Neck shape on the back is not huge/beefy - very fast and comfortable.
| All the above is correct. And the string to string spacing at the bridge is 19mm.
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09-17-2011, 01:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Edgewater Maryland | | | How is this still here? It's the perfect : P
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Nordstrand | Smith | MTD | Roscoe | '33 RB3 | Epifani | Aguilar | Berg | GB |
Just do the work.
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09-17-2011, 02:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bourbon Street, New Orleans | | | geez.....do I really need 7 Nordy's???!!!
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09-17-2011, 08:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Atlantic Beach, FL | | | Wow, that board looks Ebony up close! If I had the $, you would have a PM, etc....This will go to one happy player for sure.
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09-17-2011, 12:50 PM
| | zulu as kono
Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by drnknmstr Where in Playa Vista is this? I'm there every week. Sounds awesome man! | Thanks, it is "Central Park" on Waterfront Dr. Nice soundshell and amphitheater setup. Quote:
Originally Posted by jimc I do not need a backup!
I do not need a backup!
My VPJ5 is alder/maple, kinda cool to have an ash/rosewood combo.... hmmm..... | You could be a double contrarian! Quote:
Originally Posted by RockBoxBass geez.....do I really need 7 Nordy's???!!! | Is that a rhetorical question?  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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