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03-10-2010, 01:50 PM
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Staff, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Central Illinois | |  FT/Feeler NEW Benavente double cut 5
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I JUST bought this at NAMM and I'm not sure if it's "me" or not, so while I'm definitely in no hurry to sell this at this time, I just thought I'd drop the hook in the water and see what happens. Retail on this bass is $4100 as configured.
This is one of the new double cut models, also with the new "B neck", which he also calls the pyramid neck. That's because it's two pieces of walnut over three pieces of (flamed) maple, so the seams overlap in a pyramid way. Makes the neck very strong despite its particularly slender profile from front to back.
It's a 34" scale, 24 frets, feathered walnut top, lightweight mahogany body, heavily flamed maple board (bound in ebony I believe), and has 18mm spacing. It's LIGHT... I think around 8 pounds, but I can put an accurate weight up later. It has a pair of his custom dual coil pickups (with logo'd wood covers), so they're humbucking, and the proprietary Benavente two band preamp with a passive tone control and passive bypass. It's also currently vol-vol, though I might switch it to vol-blend. It has hipshot ultralight tuners and A style bridge, and embedded dunlop style straplok receptacles. It comes with a Pro-Tec Contego case.
The playability of this bass is totally off the chain. Stoopid easy to play. Ridiculous. The tone is a fairly even cross between hippie sammich modern and a J bass, and it's particularly punchy. Strong in the low mids and a sweet sizzle up top. Bounce back and forth between fingerstyle and slap without touching a knob. Very sweet yet also very present high end without being harsh at all. The Passive tone is also the passive bypass control, which I like.
Bottom line is, this is a drop dead beautiful bass with tone and playability to match. Seriously.
I would ONLY be interested in fretted 5's, and nothing heavy (like 10 pounds or more, and I fairly strongly prefer 9 pounds or less).
Anyway, let's see what happens...
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03-10-2010, 02:02 PM
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03-10-2010, 04:20 PM
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03-10-2010, 04:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | Lots of fretted 5's out there....looking for anything in particular? Besides <9 lbs.
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03-10-2010, 04:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Ann Arbor, MI | | | This bass is absolutely beautiful - looks like it's made out of chocolate! |
03-10-2010, 05:04 PM
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Staff, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Central Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Zooberwerx  Lots of fretted 5's out there....looking for anything in particular? Besides <9 lbs.
Riis | Hmmm, good point, but not sure I wanna' limit what lands on this right now. I generally prefer 18-19mm spacing over 17mm, and I generally prefer 34" scales these days, but I'm not against 35's, either. Dunno... we'll see.  |
03-10-2010, 07:47 PM
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03-10-2010, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by RockBoxBass howz about a cash price??! please | Robert shouldn't you playing tonight?
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03-10-2010, 08:16 PM
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03-10-2010, 09:27 PM
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Staff, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Central Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gkbass13 Effin' hawtttttt! Good luck, Vic. Somebody must have an MTD 534 for this man... | LOL, if it was an MTD, I'd definitely stick with the 535. |
03-10-2010, 10:02 PM
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People, this bass is as awesome as it looks. I played it a bit at NAMM and it's just...wow.
Oh, and that Vic guy's pretty decent to do business with as well. 
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03-10-2010, 11:27 PM
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Staff, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Central Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by honest abe What would be the cash value you would put on ur bass for trade purposes? | Typical street pricing should be just over 3K on this bass, so something in that vicinity at least. |
03-11-2010, 01:06 AM
|  | Hecho en Indonesia | | | | | wow Vic, that's a gorgeous bass.. |
03-11-2010, 08:16 AM
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Sales Rep: Benavente Guitars - Endorser: SIT strings, & Epifani Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Atlanta/Lexington | | | Vic, so soon? Dang. best of luck with the trade/sell, that is one of the sexiest DC shapes that has come out in a long while. |
03-11-2010, 08:22 AM
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Staff, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Central Illinois | | Quote:
Originally Posted by j-raj Vic, so soon? Dang. best of luck with the trade/sell, that is one of the sexiest DC shapes that has come out in a long while. | I know, that's why it's a feeler. The bass definitely has NO issues WHATSOEVER. Just a personal fit thing... and even more specifically, just this point in time with my current prefs. Plus I've never really done this kinda' thing before, and thought it'd be interesting to see what happens. If nothing shakes out of this, trust me, it definitely won't break my heart at ALL.  |
03-11-2010, 08:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Atlanta, GA | | Man, I wish I had some trade bait right now. I don't have anything, at least anything in that value range. Well, anything I am willing to part with anyway!
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03-11-2010, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Vic I know, that's why it's a feeler. The bass definitely has NO issues WHATSOEVER. Just a personal fit thing... and even more specifically, just this point in time with my current prefs. Plus I've never really done this kinda' thing before, and thought it'd be interesting to see what happens. If nothing shakes out of this, trust me, it definitely won't break my heart at ALL. | ok I see. The only thing that I have that might come close is my Blue Nordy vJ5, but it's so versatile that there really isn't a way for me to get all of the basses that Nordy covers in one bass at the moment. |
03-11-2010, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by j-raj ok I see. The only thing that I have that might come close is my Blue Nordy vJ5, but it's so versatile that there really isn't a way for me to get all of the basses that Nordy covers in one bass at the moment. | Yeah, and I already have one of the VJ5 Classics on the way anyway. |
03-11-2010, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by JoshB I played it a bit at NAMM and it's just...wow.
Oh, and that Vic guy's pretty decent to do business with as well. | Ditto 
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