For sale Roscoe Fretless Six, with audio

Figured maple top over Spanish cedar.
Maple/purple heart neck.
Black diamondwood fingerboard with inlaid aluminum lines.
Bartolini pickups and electronics.
35" scale.
10.2 lbs on my bathroom scale.
Original case included.

Here's a brief demo. Mostly bridge pickup, because that's what I favor on fretless, but also little tastes of neck pickup and 50/50 blend:

There are so many great basses around. I've owned and played a ton (too many), but this bass is unusually fabulous. The Mwhahhhh/growl of it just KILLS and it is the best playing, most even, lowest action fretless bass I've ever played, (including the F Bass AC5 I now own). This Roscoe can sing so sweetly, bark like a beast, or sound incredibly angry (like, death metal angry without needing distortion)... which is why I've kept it for about 20 years, even though I never ever use the C string! I know, that's a certain kind of stupid, but is it stupider than letting something like this go? I have literally drooled while playing and listening to this instrument on more than one occasion, and it never gets old. I haven't wished for a fretless that played or sounded different or better. Not after 20 years, but I have finally found a good enough fretless five (the AC5 I mentioned) to let this bass go to someone who'll use all of its six strings.

It'd be nice if this instrument went to someone who knew the late John DiMaggio, who owned the great boutique bass shop "Bass Alone", years ago in San Diego. This was his main fretless for some time, even with all those incredible instruments passing through his hands. I was young and hung around the shop all the time. We became real friends and at one point he promised me if he ever let this bass go, that he'd pass it on to me. After a couple of years that day came, and I have loved it ever since.

Fellow bass enthusiasts living in San Diego around the year 2000 may remember it if you knew John or saw him play out. He's the one who added the non-stock ebony knobs, the burl veneer onto the original electronics covers, and signed the interior, by the way. Other than that, the instrument is stock as far as I'm aware. I've emailed Roscoe to get some more info and will update the posting if needed, when I hear back.

There is a ding on the headstock and a couple blemishes near the jack, which I tried to show in the photos. Other than that, you can tell it's been played, but treated well.

I just had the fingerboard very lightly planed and it just plays wonderfully and is ready for its new owner.

I'm asking for $150 for fully insured shipping.