Surine Homage NTIII 5 string
 

Just had a rare for me recent bad experience with Guitar Center, basically just a wasted trip to an out of town store to see a bass that had an undisclosed major headstock repair. Waste of gas and time.

I check the used section of their website often and it pays. This time they had this bass, an Homage NTIII.

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I received the bass and it needed a couple of tweaks and now it's pretty sweet. The Homage series is Surine's tip of the hat to Fender Jazz basses, of which I'm a big fan. This is not a Jazz clone or copy.

Neck through, Southern Ash wings, Birdseye board, ABM bridge, Gotoh tuners. Surine branded levy's Cordura bag. Bartolini single coils and custom NTCT-H preamp. The preamp is three bands boost only. Turn all three bands down and there's no output. Once I figured this out it was easy to dial in killer tones.

Turns out this is serial number 001 in this model. There's a full color brochure featuring the bass I bought on the Surine website including front and back pics, specs AND retail pricing. Not sure why someone let it go...

http://www.surinebasses.com/download...II_0534Med.pdf

This is the bass I received.
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Saw that one on the gc website, Great price and a nice score. Glad to see it made it into good hands.

Very nice!

The Surine Homage series is a bass that I brought to Surine, it's basically based off of my Surine sub contra bass, I suggested to Scott to offer the sub contra bass in a standard version and we collaborated further and it was Scott who suggested calling that model the Homage, in homage to Leo Fender of course.

Man, that it hot. :cool:

Brad, once again on the ready for a great boutique deal!

This one was apparently the first Homage NTIII. I was amazed (I guess I shouldn't be;)) that it turned up at GC so cheap, particularly when they knew the exact model number and there's alot of info available through a google search. Lots of detailed photos of my actual bass along with a product sheet with retail price.

I played it again at church on Sunday, just a massive sounding instrument. Had the other musicians and folks in the congregation just looking at me and smiling. I didn't necessarily intend to keep it but of course I had to set it up and see what it could do. Now I'm stuck with it. I just had Kevin Brubaker build a ramps for it and my AJC.

It's definitely not yellow like the GC photo.
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When I received it there were a couple of things... there was a nut that was stripped on the stacked bass/treble control and the Surine decal is worn off under the string tree, the screws were shorter than they should be. That's it as far as issues and I fixed the control. It took a minute to figure out how the preamp (NTCT-H) worked, now I can dial in whatever I want. Typically just a big mean fingerstyle tone.
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The Surine Homage series are some very nice basses overall. You definitely got a keeper.

Man, I'm usually not an ash guy, but that is a fantastic looking bass. Love the gold hardware too.

That's a great design.

Thank you.

Here's a pic of me live with my Surine sub contra bass (that the Homage series derived from).