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07-13-2011, 07:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Latrobe, PA | | | Lakland 55-94
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I can't believe I am considering this.
Offering my Lakland 55-94 that I have owned for a couple years. Nicest bass I have ever had my hands on. Plays like a dream and sounds amazing but I have to admit I have trouble with 19mm 5-strings. Planning to go back to 4's with Jazz style neck.
Had a Aquilar ODB-3 preamp professionally installed to go along with the Nordstrand pickups I bought it with. Has 2 dings on the headstock that I tried to picture. ( One near the "L" and the other near the "D" string post.) Couple swirls in the finish and minor scratches by the pickups. Lightweight swamp ash body with curly maple top. Quartersawn maple neck, birds-eye fingerboard and graphite stiffening bars. The most stable neck I have ever seen.
Weight: Get this, this bass is really light but I never weighed it till tonight. Since I see everyone asking this question here I did so. 7.67 pounds! I weighed it 3 times because I didn't believe it. 7.67, 7.68, 7.67 pounds. Wow!   
Has a new set of Ken Smith Compressors installed and comes with a Lakland tweed and leather case in great condition. Asking $2000.00 shipped in ConUS only. I will consider shipping elsewhere for an upcharge if no sale in the US. Payment via Paypal is fine.
Last edited by vlad335 : 07-20-2011 at 09:36 PM.
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07-13-2011, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Louisville, KY | | | I don't play 5's, and I'm broke, but that is a gorgeous Lakland!
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'07 US Lakland 44-60(JO), '06 US Lakland 44-64(BG), '82 Rickenbacker 4001, EBMM "BFR" SR Fretless(DOB-01/19/11)
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07-13-2011, 08:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Lafayette, La | | | OH MY GOD!! |
07-13-2011, 09:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Latrobe, PA | | Thanks guys.
I have already received a couple PM's asking for soundclips. However, I have no way to record at the present I'm afraid. 
Here is a clip that I think nails the tone of this bass IMO. ‪Tori Amos - Taxi Ride‬‏ - YouTube
Granted this guy is a monster player and I can't hold a candle to him but here it is. The warm round lows with the growl that you can get by digging in just a bit. The fullness of the tone with sliding notes down the neck. Yep, that's the tone. |
07-13-2011, 09:40 PM
| | | | This one won't last. AWESOME bass. I wonder how the Nordstrand pickups have changed the tone from the original pickups though...? |
07-13-2011, 09:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Latrobe, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by papa gnush  I wonder how the Nordstrand pickups have changed the tone from the original pickups though...? | Never had anything else in it so nothing to compare to. It had a Bart preamp in it originally and I admit I hated it. Sounded muffled and wooly. The lows were boomy and I found myself cutting frequencies. May have been something wrong with the Bart I don't know but the OBP-3 cleaned up the sound bigtime. Added punch and clarity with a multitude of usable tones. This bass sounds absolutely great.
Now that I think of it, one thing I can say about the Nordie's is I have never even considered a pickup change... And I have changed out PU's in every bass I have ever owned. |
07-13-2011, 10:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: BC, Canada | | | trades? |
07-13-2011, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Latrobe, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RPIcka trades? | Consider maybe a 4 string jazz, Fender deluxe with bound/blocked neck or possibly a Sadowsky jazz. Plus or minus cash as appropriate.
I do have my eye on a new local Fender American deluxe at a great price. (Olympic white/Rosewood) The neck fits me like a glove. Have to be honest, I just don't play the 19mm 5-string necks well and that's the only reason I am considering doing this.
I reserve the right to have second thoughts, (already happening) and taking this off the block. |
07-14-2011, 02:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Bangkok, Thailand | | | PM's sent |
07-14-2011, 11:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Woodland Hills, California | | | PM sent. |
07-14-2011, 11:52 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Carolina Beach, NC | | | Any inherest in an SSD era Spector NS5P? Great bass in great shape! Has the Piezo!! One of my sound guys favorite basses!!! It is a 34" scale instead of 35" like the new ones are now. One of only 3 made with the piezo from that period as I understand it. Has been my main 5 for a while but would love to have your 594 to go along with my 494! Had a 594 just like this one and sold it like a fool!!
Peace,
T
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07-14-2011, 10:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tampa | | | nice, nice, nice. and crazy light! |
07-14-2011, 11:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Thailand | | | oh my God Very Very Very nice and light weigh |
07-15-2011, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Latrobe, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tommixx Any inherest in an SSD era Spector NS5P? Great bass in great shape! Has the Piezo!! One of my sound guys favorite basses!!! It is a 34" scale instead of 35" like the new ones are now. One of only 3 made with the piezo from that period as I understand it. Has been my main 5 for a while but would love to have your 594 to go along with my 494! Had a 594 just like this one and sold it like a fool!!
Peace,
T | Thanks for the offer but I am number one interested in Fender Deluxe Jazz basses, Fender Custom Shop Jazz, or Sadowskys. |
07-16-2011, 06:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: California | | | still available?
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07-16-2011, 10:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Virgin Islands | | | Is this the standard lakland 35" or one of the 34"?
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07-16-2011, 10:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Latrobe, PA | | | Still available.
It is 35" Scale. |
07-16-2011, 02:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Woodland Hills, California | | | Want!!! Wife agrees!!! Will buy!!!
PM me your paypal info please!!!! |
07-16-2011, 03:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Woodland Hills, California | | | Payment sent... |
07-16-2011, 03:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Latrobe, PA | | | And this Bass is SOLD! Thank you! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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