FS: Spear Jamaican Green RFB Flextool with Basslines pickups

frootbooty · #1 06-12-2010, 06:24 PM

I really wanted to try one of these out, so I bought one online. I wasn't sold on the stock pickups, so I removed them and added Seymour Duncan quarter pound P and J pickups, as well as a Seymour Duncan musicman style pickup. These are all passive pickups. The controls are vol, vol, vol, tone. There is a mute switch as well. Bass is in excellent condition with a few tiny nicks here and there that were on it when I bought it. It is a very versatile instrument with the unique pickup combination. I tend to prefer the sound of the humbucker with the P pickup and just a slight bit of the jazz pickup mixed in. It plays very much like a jazz bass, with a similar feel to the neck. The neck has a smooth finish on it, not a heavy sticky poly finish like some basses. The action goes very low and everything functions as it should. The plastic is still on the pickguard. You're looking at about $220 worth of pickup upgrades on here.
Here is some more info from Spear:
Whether you are a beginner or top class player and your taste is for the traditional
or for something modern, you will find that the RFB offers much more than any
instruments in their class.
The Flextool has been designed with the player who requires just about every choice of classic bass pickup design with the 3 primary designs fitted as standard. This guitar as it's name suggests is a great flexible gigging tool. The specification is as follows:
Neck: Bolt on
Tuners: open gear
Neck: Canadian hard maple
Fingerboard: rosewood
Body: alder
Pickups: Spear
Finished in Jamaican Greenburst.
I'll ship it in a case and include the stock pickups as well. I'd like to get $350 shipped CONUS for it with the pickup upgrades.

smokey713 · #2 06-12-2010, 09:04 PM

is there anyway you could possibly post a video of this cause i have always wanted to hear how it sounds

frootbooty · #3 06-12-2010, 09:28 PM

There's a couple vids on this page:
http://www.schoolmusic.co.kr/Shop/in...&Good_no=13285

The Basslines pickups sound much better than the stock version, especially the humbucker. The stock humbucker was pretty weak and really midrangy

frootbooty · #4 07-02-2010, 08:46 AM

lowered the price

electracoyote · #5 07-02-2010, 08:51 AM

Is that maple fretboard blocked and bound neck in the picture included in the sale?

frootbooty · #6 07-02-2010, 08:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by electracoyote

Is that maple fretboard blocked and bound neck in the picture included in the sale?

It's a cheapo sx neck that has been defretted. I don't know if it will fit the spear.
I'd sell you the sx it went to. It's a natural orange just like the one that is currently listed for sale on TB (that one used to be mine as well). Currently it has a rosewood B&B SX fretted neck on it and a drop d tuner

frootbooty · #7 07-11-2010, 04:18 PM

$400 shipped CONUS with the upgrades and the original pickups. Or I'd sell it for $300 shipped CONUS with the stock pickups in it only

madbassplaya · #8 07-11-2010, 04:34 PM

where is this made?

Jaymi · #9 07-11-2010, 04:51 PM

CHINA!

frootbooty · #10 07-11-2010, 04:51 PM

I think it's made in China, sold predominantly in the UK.
I don't see "made in ______" anywhere on the bass

gm2_in_co · #11 07-11-2010, 07:30 PM

Where in Nebraska are you? (I'm in Fort Collins, CO)

frootbooty · #12 07-11-2010, 07:58 PM

Luxurious Scottsbluff/Gering
It's a 2 hour drive from Fort Collins

gm2_in_co · #13 07-11-2010, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frootbooty

Luxurious Scottsbluff/Gering
It's a 2 hour drive from Fort Collins

Believe it or not, I had a taxi run from Loveland to Scottsbluff once!

funkingroovin · #14 07-11-2010, 09:41 PM

I SOOOO wish I had 4bones to play with!! I've wanted one of these since they came out,and seriously,with the pup-ups,this is a deal....stupid bills.

morguedoc71 · #15 07-12-2010, 04:51 PM

That's a pretty sweet lookin' bass!

**sleepy_monkey** · #16 07-13-2010, 10:11 AM

I had one of these basses. I thought the stock bass was pretty sweet. I also changed the pups just b/c there were so many tonal possibilities (EMGs). The mute switch is cool and the finish was a matte (no gloss) finish....very cool green/yellow 'sunburst'. I actually put a Fender neck on mine although the stock neck was fine. Put some ivory topped knobs on it.

I think whoever gets this will be pleasantly surprised....I had a ton of people come up to me at shows every time I took it out of its case.

bdowd · #17 07-13-2010, 11:15 AM

what's the weight on this bad boy?

frootbooty · #18 07-13-2010, 02:23 PM

I'd have to guess it, but I'd say it's between 8 and 9. It feels light to me compared to my other jazz basses

frootbooty · #19 08-05-2010, 09:05 AM

$350 shipped CONUS?