For sale Brand New Linc Luthier 5 String

I didn't realize he was still building. Best of luck with the sale.

schmef said:

This is hands down the finest instrument I have ever laid my hands on, it is brand new, has only been plugged into an amp once.

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That's confusing, but bump for a beautiful bass

I guess that does look like a bit of a contradiction. I guess I should give a little back story. Linc is still building, he moved his shop, building a few to order.

20 or so years ago I worked for a high end guitar shop in KC, this is where I had my first exposure to Linc Luthier instruments. I am primarily a guitar player, playing for my own enjoyment these days. I have dabbled with bass over the years and have always dreamed of owning one of Linc's basses. I know he makes guitars too, but the bass is what blew me away 20 years ago. I have played the 5 string a couple of time since it arrived, but I do not own a bass rig or amp, I had to borrow one to plug it up and listen. It has been in a climate controlled environment since it arrived earlier this year, it is in brand new condition. I would argue that it has been handled much less than anything sitting new in a store. When it arrived, I did not know whether to play it or frame it. I honestly have never seen a more gorgeous assembly of wood in my life.

The plan was to have an amp and everything, but that is not what life had planned for me.

I would be willing to take $2500

Ok, needing the cash pretty bad here.... $2,000.00 plus shipping. I will not go any lower than that.

Need some more info - string length? String spacing?

beautiful bass

The nut width is 1 3/4" - the string spacing is 3/8" - the distance from the nut to the last fret is 25 1/2", from the nut to the ball end of the string is 35 1/2"

Hope that helps. Thanks,

Jeff

schmef said:

The nut width is 1 3/4" - the string spacing is 3/8" - the distance from the nut to the last fret is 25 1/2", from the nut to the ball end of the string is 35 1/2"

Hope that helps. Thanks,

Jeff

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Jeff,

Don't mean to be difficult, but string length is typically measured from nut to where the string meets the bridge.

From nut to ball end of string can vary so much from one instrument to the next, depending on the type of bridge, how the instrument is construct, ect, that is is not a useful metric.

Length from nut to where the string meets the bridge would be more useful for any one interested in this beautiful instrument.

Actually, (length from nut to 12th fret) x 2 is probably most accurate, since bridge saddles are offset, one string to the next.

I played one... very nice instrument

I will see about getting updated measurements posted for you this afternoon or evening.

I called my friend that I traded a Linc 6er for ....

Yes the company is still in business... they don't really promote as they have a waiting list.

Ok here goes:

16 1/2" from the nut to the 12th fret, so x2 that would be 33"

33 3/4" from the nut to the edge of the bridge

34" from the nut to the saddle for the G string

34 1/2" from the nut to the saddle for the low B

And yes Linc is still around and building, since he moved, he is pretty much a one man shop. He has quite the waiting list. I waited more than a year for this one only to have to sell it. Every time I think about that is just drives me nuts.

Does this help answer what you are looking for?

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If I had the money....

Linc usually does 34" scale. You would expect 17" from the nut to the 12th fret. If this bass were a fretless....

I've had three Linc basses, two customs and one I bought from eBay. I still have one. Linc is a great guy. His instruments are top notch, but one flaw I have found on all of his basses is the truss rod. The bass I have left was my most detailed, expensive custom bass. The truss rod broke after less than a year. Insurance covered the repair and I had my local tech replace the fingerboard and truss rod system. It played and sounded great before it broke, but even better since the repair.

Since this bass is apparently newer, I'd be interested to hear how well the truss rod functions and if he's made the improvements I talked to him about then. He swore that had never happened before and was terribly sorry. He even helped with the repair....he is really a great guy. His build time is REALLY slow because he teaches at Cal Poly Pomona and builds in his spare time, which must not be much.

One of the nicest basses i've ever had was a Linc. The neck design (don't know if it has changed) is what set the bass apart.
It was very much a "v"shape. It was ultra rigid and I found that the setup was so particular that in order to be correct you had to use the string gages prescribed in the paperwork. I thought it had issues because I tried different gages, resulting in buzz at first position, even with the truss fully relaxed. As soon as I tried the "correct" gages (I remember the e being a .104) everything came into focus and the neck stabilized perfectly. My point is that at least on the model I had, the neck design was so rigid and set up so precisely to a particular tension (string gage) that it was fighting the instrument to try to fix it with the truss, and it could be quite easy to go too far with that (At least the one I had offered a much more limited range than most basses, and needed much less).
These are amazing instruments, with a unique neck.
Wish I had the dough bump.

D.A.R.K. said:

One of the nicest basses i've ever had was a Linc. The neck design (don't know if it has changed) is what set the bass apart.
It was very much a "v"shape. It was ultra rigid and I found that the setup was so particular that in order to be correct you had to use the string gages prescribed in the paperwork. I thought it had issues because I tried different gages, resulting in buzz at first position, even with the truss fully relaxed. As soon as I tried the "correct" gages (I remember the e being a .104) everything came into focus and the neck stabilized perfectly. My point is that at least on the model I had, the neck design was so rigid and set up so precisely to a particular tension (string gage) that it was fighting the instrument to try to fix it with the truss, and it could be quite easy to go too far with that (At least the one I had offered a much more limited range than most basses, and needed much less).
These are amazing instruments, with a unique neck.
Wish I had the dough bump.

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I agree. That being said, the truss rod does not work the same as most instruments.

I love mine and I dare say that bass rivals the beauty of my Linc ,just stunning . The "V" necks are indeed rigid and after reading Dave's post I went to check my truss rod I think I have adjusted it once in all these years , it never shifts , having said that a few things came back , 1 , you must be very careful not to crack the truss rod cover which is actually a part of the fretboard extended up as a trussrod cover , it's very thin and one slip of the tool and goodbye , ask Dave 2 the trussrod end is a slot for a flathead screw driver , this broadens your chance of slipping . The thing that always strikes me about my Linc is the warm , organic tone that has this rock solid & focused bottom .He also makes his own case , which is built like a bunker and weighs 800 pounds .

fretno said:

I love mine and I dare say that bass rivals the beauty of my Linc ,just stunning . The "V" necks are indeed rigid and after reading Dave's post I went to check my truss rod I think I have adjusted it once in all these years , it never shifts , having said that a few things came back , 1 , you must be very careful not to crack the truss rod cover which is actually a part of the fretboard extended up as a trussrod cover , it's very thin and one slip of the tool and goodbye , ask Dave 2 the trussrod end is a slot for a flathead screw driver , this broadens your chance of slipping . The thing that always strikes me about my Linc is the warm , organic tone that has this rock solid & focused bottom .He also makes his own case , which is built like a bunker and weighs 800 pounds .

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Well Fretno should know, he bought the bass off of me that I bought from eBay. That was a great bass by the way, super light and GORGEOUS! In fact, the truss rod in your bass worked better than the other Lincs I have/had. On my 6 that I sold, which was my first Linc, the neck was wide and VERY stiff. It was mostly purple heart, with a zebra wood layer and a macassar FB. It was ridiculously hard to move, and the truss rod never worked, but it never really needed to. I took that bass on a cruise gig around the world and never had a problem. With Fretno's bass, the truss rod cover cracked but was fixed (it cracked at the glue seam, not the wood itself). My local luthier is incredible and he put it back together no problem and used some acrylic to match the finish exactly. And Fretno is right, it probably cracked due to the tool (flathead screwdriver) not being centered on the truss rod properly. That bass you have Fretno actually did adjust no problem, just the cracking was an issue. As for my 5-string, I had all of the above--the cracking in the cover and the barely moveable rod that was unusable. It moved very little, not enough to allow me to use any strings I wanted. I had gotten some Black Diamond strings and was trying them out, and the action was getting wacky, so I went to adjust the rod right before a gig, and boom--the weld snapped. Now, I was using a lot of muscle, which I had learned from setting up Fenders in the music store, but that bass didn't like that apparently. Why? A poor weld joint on the truss rod, which apparently was a custom rod that Linc had made from someone he knew. He said they were better than the original design. Well, apparently not. So my 5-string had extensive surgery that took several months. The result is a new fingerboard with inlay just like the original, a new truss rod system with a different nut that REALLY moves when you need it to, graphite reinforced neck, and no more cracking of the truss rod cover. (I recently converted it to E-C tuning with a Hipshot D-tuner.) When all of this was going down Linc said that he planned to redesign the truss rod cover, and he also was going to try to figure out what happened with the rod, and maybe find a new one. That's why I asked, because the bass for sale here is even newer, and it would seem as though Linc may have resolved some of these issues, and I was wondering if he did. If this bass was a fretless, I'd be all over it after I sold my own gear!