KINAL MK-5

[elsharko]

Looking for a more traditional 5 string J bass for my Kinal. This is a beautiful bass with a gorgeous finish. Im looking to trade for 35" scale J-style 5 strings like US Laklands, Sandberg Cali Supreme JM5, Goodfellows Spitfire etc
Or a sale for $2499 ONO (shipped worldwide)

I cant upload pics atm but I will as soon as i can, in the meantime you can see a video of me playing it here

http://www.starnow.co.uk/RichardMurray/video/103270/

and theres a couple of pics kicking around there too.


Here are a few words from the website and original owner:

Kinal 5 string bass, MK-5 (M72)

Gorgeous Mike Kinal (Canada) bass for sale. It's a five string with a beautiful quilt maple top in an amber stain. Matching head stock (quilt/amber) with a very nice birds-eye maple cap to the rear. Alder body with a lovely quilt-maple top. Ebony fingerboard on maple + five-piece neck with graphite reinforcement. 2 Aero jazz pickups with Bartolini preamp, 3EQ and 3-way midrange selector switch. The scale length is 35" (for a better 'B'), with a 1 and 11/16" nut. String spacing is 9mm at the nut and 17mm at the bridge. Weight is 8 & 3/4 lbs.

Great condition - the only significant 'ding' (which has no effect on playing, and is hard to see) is a small (0.5cm) one to the side (only) of the ebony board, between frets 1 and 2 (below the G-string). This is one of the best constructed, 'all-purpose' basses I've ever played. Slaps well, is punchy for rock and can also produce more mellow tones

Comes with Hiscox HSC

Here's a link and some words from the Kinal website, from which this (uograde) bass can be compared to the standard Kinal MK-5

Kinal custom basses have graphite-reinforced necks, attached with six bolts for extra strength and better sustain. The fretted and fretless fingerboards are made from rosewood, ebony, maple, or pau ferro.

Pickups come from Lindy Fralin, Bartolini, EMG, Basslines, and other makers, with 9- or 18-volt active electronics available.

Scale length can be 34", 34.5", or 35". The necks and bodies are ergonomically sculptured to allow comfortable access to the extended scale. These instruments also balance extremely well and are lightweight for long playing periods.

[elsharko]

more pics

[RPIcka]

Always wanted to play a Kinal. She's a beauty. Wish I had the cash.

[madbassplaya]

WOW!

[portraitoftracy]

Just got my first Kinal, so far it is blowing my other basses away. Better than the Foderas, Laklands, and Celinders I've owned.

[rgwalker]

I'm on my second Kinal. I had an MK5B from 2002 - 2007 and have had a MK4 since 2008.

I've haunted Ebay for years and I was lucky to have the one guy who wanted a Kinal when I was selling mine. He told me that he had sold an MK5B several years before and had regretted it ever since. He paid me $2200 and called me every night for a week after he got it to say how much he loved it. However, he sold it three months later on a no reserve auction with a single bidder who picked it up for $1300. Go figure.

Ironically, there was a guy in Edmonton with one identical to mine who had been hedging whether to sell his for months and it was only fate that kept him from nudging me out of the one and only Ebay sale that year.

I absolutely love the 4 string and it's still in the lineup with two vintage Fenders and a passive Suhr VJ while some really nice Sadowsky, Fender CS and Modulus basses have come and gone.

[bassedsouth]

These are very,very good instruments .
The woods are always very well chosen and nice and light .
The necks IMO are the best in the business , just so comfortable.
Good luck with the sale