This is an SX brand Jazz bass guitar with one J-bass pickup and one Music Man style pickup. The body is made of American Swamp Ash with a beautiful sunburst finish and nice figuring in the wood. The neck is maple with a black blocked and bound fretboard. The blocks are real inlays - not painted or decals. The fretboard has some nice quilting to the maple as well.
I have copper foil shielded the control and pickup cavities (which you can see a bit in one of the pictures). I installed a switch between the tone control and the output jack that allows you to select the front coil, both coils, or the rear coil of the MM type pickup for a variety of tones. I also replaced the volume control with a push/pull pot which allows you to choose between parallel (normal Jazz) and series (thicker, P-bass like) wiring between the two pickups. I also fully leveled the frets and filed the fret ends smooth, so this neck is a joy to play! The nut is about 1.6" so very close to Fender J-bass dimensions, but I like this neck much better than any Made in Mexico Jazz I've ever played! The stock tuners have been replaced with nice tuners from a G&L L2000 Tribute bass. The bridge is a nice high-mass version with brass saddles. I have the action set low and the intonation is spot on. It's currently strung with Sadowsky flats which sound great on this bass. I'd say it's in 9 out of 10 condition.
This comes with a very nice padded G&L gig bag which I've been tempted to keep for the bass I'm buying next (but it comes with a hard shell case). The little rosewood thumbrest you see in the body pic was just applied with double-stick tape and came off cleanly. Sorry about the fingerprints on the control panel and pickguard - I'll make sure to wipe it down well before you buy it (and you know you want to buy this bass guitar!).
Here are some pics:
$230 shipped CONUS. The bag sells for $75 new, so this is quite a deal. This bass was about $200 shipped to my door before any of the upgrades. If you're looking to buy an SX or just want a great backup bass then this is the one to buy.
