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02-03-2013, 08:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | Yamaha Custom BB300 w/ Fralins FS
This older Yamaha BB300 has been completely modified featuring:
* Custom paint job on body & headstock (I call it vintage automotive green)
* Fralin P-bass replacement pick-up
* Custom metal pick guard
* Replacement volume & tone knobs
* Replacement tone pot
It has a very cool jazz-like neck - not as wide as most Yamaha BB's. Old school vibe with new school improvements.
It's a little on the heavy side, although I have not weighed it. With the refin, the artist chose to customize the identification logo on the headstock.
Professionally set up at Elderly Instruments. Great P-bass tone and easy playing neck. PRICE REDUCTION: $350.00 shipped CONUS.   
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Last edited by Hudsobass : 02-27-2013 at 09:19 PM.
Reason: Price reduction
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02-04-2013, 05:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | Fogot to mention that it comes with a Road Runner gig bag.
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Last edited by Hudsobass : 02-04-2013 at 05:38 AM.
Reason: spelling
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02-04-2013, 06:56 AM
| | | | BB300
Bump for a great Yamaha bass in a superb one of a kind finish.
How can you beat the look, feel and sound at this price point?
Will someone please buy this before I break my latest gear-restriction promise! |
02-04-2013, 08:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | It really is a unique finish, and it plays and sounds great. Priced below a Mexican P-bass, but features a better pick-up and cooler looks.
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02-04-2013, 12:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | Bump for prosperity
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02-05-2013, 04:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | | |  Wow...
Friends,
I started out on a Yamaha BB300 (28 years ago this month, in fact), and I still have that bass. It would be the very last one to ever go - it plays that well.
I love the deep, throaty tone of these basses - this one is sorely tempting me... 
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02-05-2013, 06:34 AM
|  | Mediocre Doubler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | Love the reverse P tone. Is it MIJ or MIK?
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02-05-2013, 08:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | It must be made in Japan because of the age. I can supply the serial # for anyone interested.
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02-06-2013, 11:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | Bump
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02-06-2013, 10:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | Upon just looking at the stamped serial # on the back of the headstock, I see that it does say "made in Taiwan", so I was wrong with my assumption that it was made in Japan. Come to think about it, it's possible that BB300's were never made in Japan - but I could be wrong there too.....
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02-07-2013, 06:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Mass. | | | I think you are right, I own a few 300's with both the regular and reverse P set up and all say Made in Taiwan on the back of the headstock.
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Bass, it only has 4 strings, how hard could it be??
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02-07-2013, 07:49 PM
| | | | Why do I keep coming back to this one? Is it because it reminds me of my first car, a '68 Cutlass Supreme in a Green Gold finish?
Bump for the memories. |
02-08-2013, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | Bump for the intersection of auto body finishing on guitar bodies
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02-10-2013, 09:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | Headstock 
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02-10-2013, 09:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: OKC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BritFunk  Friends,
I started out on a Yamaha BB300 (28 years ago this month, in fact), and I still have that bass. It would be the very last one to ever go - it plays that well.
I love the deep, throaty tone of these basses - this one is sorely tempting me...
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Kurt | +1 If i hadn't just purchased my Pulser 600 PBass 3 days ago it would be very hard for me to pass this one up. Plus it would go nice with the rest of my Yamaha family. If you still have this in about 3 weeks i would be interested. Keep me posted |
02-10-2013, 09:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BritFunk I started out on a Yamaha BB300 (28 years ago this month, in fact)... | My very first bass was a colossal piece of crap short-scale Cort (actually almost 28 years ago!). After that however was a BB300 in black. I wish I still had mine!! 
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02-10-2013, 09:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | Scale length?
Nut width?
Weight?
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02-10-2013, 09:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: East Lansing, MI | | | Scale: 34"
Nut Width: looks like 1 3/4" or less
Weight: not sure - don't have a scale. Probably around 9 lbs?
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02-11-2013, 07:48 AM
| | | | Bump for an unconventional Yamaha bass at a working class price. |
02-11-2013, 01:42 PM
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