FT feeler Benavente custom 5st

Nashvillefunk · #1 05-31-2011, 05:33 PM

Please forgive me DCR I'm stealing the description pretty much straight from you.

Up FT is truly a one-of-a-kind piece. This bass is a Benavente Greg Edmondson Custom 5. One of only two or three originally built for Greg Edmondson of the Memphis-based band BREAKING POINT, this bass features an Amber tinted Spalted Maple top, Maple back, 24-fret Maple board, 7-piece neck (maple/wenge/maple/purpleheart/maple/wenge/maple) with abalone blocks, and a truly unique body shape reminiscent of a mix of both a Carl Thompson and the Benavente "SCA" body shape. Weighs about 10 pounds or so; balance is fair-to-slightly body heavy. Black Hipshot "A" bridge and keys with inset Dunlop straplocks.

Electronics were completely redone with all new "stuff" by Mike Lull. Pickups are custom Aeros wired SERIES ONLY at Mike's recommendation. Preamp is Bartolini NTMB; controls are the standard Vol/Bal/B/M/T and 3-way freq selector. Bass is in Very Good condition, with only a few nicks and dings, including a couple that were repaired by Mike. Normal swirls on the back as you'd expect from a gigging bass, but nothing major.

This bass is no longer produced by Benavente. Per Brian Barrett at the Low End, retail of a new piece like it by Chris Benavente would hit somewhere in the $5k range, as built by Divinity Guitar Works.

I will consider high-end exotic 5-string trades only, but they must be at least similarly unique. F-Bass, MTD 535-24, Nordstrand NJ Deluxe/SC/NX, Ken Lawrence, Jerzy Drozd, Stambaugh, Benavente, Roscoe, Smith and other custom builders...you get the idea. SINGLECUTS are high priority! Will consider other trade offers.
I love this bass, but I've had it for around 6 months and there are lots of other basses I'd like like to play.

*also wish I could find my old dolphin pro 1 5st, I never should have let that bass go.