For sale Roscoe SKB6 - Price drop

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$1,200.00
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I've got an older Roscoe SKB 6 ebony FB, quilt maple top, maple and purple heart neck, with red stain for sale.
I'll post pictures later today.
Its got an interesting history....Long story short the body was cracked almost clean thru, one of the tuner holes was cracked and the pickups were missing when I bought it.
I was going to try a rebuild as a winter project but it was way more than I wanted/could handle.
Sent it to Keith/Gard at Roscoe and they put it back together, installed new pickups and strings, sold me a hard case, and got it back to a playable condition.
It's only required one slight tweak to the truss rod in 2 years so everything is stable.
Stays in tune as nicely as my Modulus Genesis 5 with carbon.
Actions is fairly low but not slammed because i don't like that kind of setup.
I'm selling everything that is not essential so this is on the chopping block.

Make me an offer that i can't refuse.
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bearhart74

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As I wrote the top is quilt maple. Don't know what the body under that is. Perhaps Roscoe could tell you but I think this is "pre fire" so they don't have records.

This thing sounds unreal and if it was a 5 I would be selling the Modulus instead
 
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As I wrote the top is quilt maple. Don't know what the body under that is. Perhaps Roscoe could tell you but I think this is "pre fire" so they don't have records.

This thing sounds unreal and if it was a 5 I would be selling the Modulus instead

I think you may have confused us and Dingwall? :) Or, if it was NC that caused confusion, Wish Bass?

No fire here, either way. Just incomplete record keeping prior to #5000, and the paper copies have been lost in a move. :D
 

bearhart74

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I think you may have confused us and Dingwall? :) Or, if it was NC that caused confusion, Wish Bass?

No fire here, either way. Just incomplete record keeping prior to #5000, and the paper copies have been lost in a move. :D
Ok sorry.. thought in our discussions you guys had fire right around the same time as Brubaker. I was obviously mistaken. Gard,
Do you perhaps remember the body wood of my bass?
 
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Sorry, no I don't remember, but if you can post a couple photos (front & back of the body), I can probably nail it down. :)
 

bearhart74

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pic 1 you can see the exposed body wood where the crack used to be. Went from just above where the neck bolts start to the neck pocket. See crack thru top in pic 4. Pic 3 has crack near b string tuner but its fixed so well you can barely see it. pic 5 shows ding near the output jack. The body has other very small scratches and dings. The neck, other than pic 2 is perfect. Serial number is 4570 so Roscoe does not have any docs on it
 
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Difficult to be certain from the photos above - could be either Spanish cedar or mahogany. If you can send me a closeup of the back, I will try to be more definite.
 

bearhart74

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close up of the back for Gard to ID the wood
 

bearhart74

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Difficult to be certain from the photos above - could be either Spanish cedar or mahogany. If you can send me a closeup of the back, I will try to be more definite.
closeup posted
 

SteveC

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Make me an offer that i can't refuse.

Shoot, this bass - regardless of its history - is already a great deal at $1,500. If Roscoe did the repairs, I'd have no worries. I have a Roscoe 6 already, but anyone looking for a fantastic 6 string bass need look no further that's for sure.
 
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I'd also be interested in the weight. I picked up a bass scale in the fishing dept of Walmart for $6. If it's certifiably under 9 lb, I might get very interested.
 

bearhart74

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Forgot to mention that a like new hard case is included. I would guess the scale length is 35.
 

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