So apparently if you're a broke college student Chase Bank hates your guts. It takes 3-5 business days to process a credit card payment made in cash. My last payment was paid on time but didn't process to the 8th, so I've got late fees and an automated machine has been calling me at 5am and 445pm every day telling me I'm going to default and I owe X dollars unless I paid up by the 4th. A real person called me today and told me I really didn't owe X, I owe Y now which is a considerable bit more (for July-August) which I don't have. Since a month long family/looking for work trip depleted my total cash reserves to a grand total of $22 I'm going to sell gear and just pay them off completely and tell them to screw themselves. I haven't even had a card with them since January.
This is part 1. Part two where I sell my amps is
here. . I come back to NY tomorrow morning so I'll take pictures then.
For Sale:
Fretless P/J at $600 + shipping
Awesome and huge sounding fretless that I've played for a few years. This is the bass I kept when much more expensive basses such as the Jaco CS bass went out the door. I keep debating whether or not to get rid of it but I guess this means its leaving now.
Body is a featherweight jazz body made of 130 year old seasoned ash made by Carmine Street Guitars. Stained dark mahogany and then finished in nitro. There is some play wear on this, particularly around the edges of the body but its not terrible. A bunch of it is on the bottom edge from resting the bass on stages.
Neck is warmoth. Bubinga with an ebony board. It was defretted and its a pretty decent job. Fretboard is coated in epoxy where there is some very light round wound wear. It took me about 2 years to do that. New bone nut. Fender RI tuners. Really low action with DR Lo Riders or Hi Beams (sorry can't remember) that have some play time on them. Tons of fretless mwah but this bass cuts like a fret bass when need be. I think its due to the board coating.
Neck is super stable and I've never needed to adjust it. Back of the neck is finished in tung oil. There is a flying monkey decal from the wizard of oz on the headstock.
Nordstrand NP4 and NJ4SE pickups. CTS pots with cloth wiring. Shielded cavity. This is a ballsy sounding fretless. I've used it on punk, R&B, and rock gigs without issues.
Bridge is some weird Fender thing. It was their answer to the Badass bridge. Many call this the 'claw bridge.' Either way it weighs a fair bit and eliminates any neck dive you would've had from the steel bars in the neck. Because the body is so light and you've got a fair bit of weight on both ends you end up with a well balanced bass that weighs about average weight. This one probably weighs around 9lbs or so.
I've got sound clips if anyone is interested.
PJ Fretless pictures by ImSuperPoor - Photobucket
