This was a fun project to put together. I detailed a lot of it on a post here. It started life as a pretty basic Squier Deluxe Active Jazz V (SDAJV) and I made it my point to add a lot of tone to this bad boy...
Standard features:
34" Scale
Basswood (?) body, sunburst
Maple neck / Phenolic resin board
20 fret
High mass bridge
Vintage style tuners, 4+1
Weighs 10.6 lbs, as it sits
Added features:
Sadowsky Humcancelling Pickups
Aguilar OBP-3 preamp (stacked bass/treb)
Passive Tone Control
Active/Passive (push/pull on Tone knob)
Selectable Mids (push/pull on Mid Level)
Series/Parallel switch for pickups
Vol-Vol configuration
18V for headroom
Sadowsky-style aluminum knobs (3 anyway)
Black metal knobs otherwise
Squier Pickguard (mod'd of course)
Ken Smith Tapercore Strings
When I tell you this bass sounds unreal, believe me! It's amazing. It sounds like a beefed up Sadowsky. It's a budget superjazz. I put it together as a backup for my other Jazz and it ended up sounding just a little better. But alas, I came across another project and this bass will have to fund that one.
I honestly love the bass, but I am onto something else. Whoever buys this will NOT regret it! It sounds and plays like a bass many times more costly.
$420 obo shipped in the US 48 with a Gator Bag,
$450 gets you the Warwick Rockcase (soft sided hardcase). Paypal only. Can include original pickups as well. Preamp is gone, though.
Unless you have some very specific items, I need to sell this outright. PM me if interested!
(Dog hair, not scratches on pickguard. It's new and staticy.)
FYI, to build this bass new:
$330 - Bass
$200 - Preamp and accessories
$160 - Pickups
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$690 and that's before the strings, case, tax, shipping... and forget the hours of labor!
You won't be disappointed. This sounds and plays loads better than anything similar new in the same price range.
do you have any sound clips?
