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$925/shipped
Hey All,
It sounds cliche, but this one will hurt. I love this bass. I want to get out of my annoyingly stupid debt more, though. I'll be sticking with my workhorse, a Carvin B5.
Anyway, my Icon would cost around 3K today, for Kiesel to build one for you (check it out on their builder). There are a few small dings/marks present, but very minor compared to how phenomenal this bass is as a whole. I'm guessing the weight is around 10 pounds, but it balances perfectly. Only an ESP E-II AP5 (previous Japanese model) balanced as well, and I think for the same reason...body wood weighs more than the neck, as it should be. My Icon blows the ESP out of the water, though. The neck is nice and fast, too. Koa body sides with Kiesel are currently a $500 option, and mine have some nice flame figuring as kind of a bonus (shows up at certain angles). The Claro walnut top is $400, and I'm guessing the maple/koa neck is more than the priciest 5-piece neck in the builder ($250), so possibly $300 or more. Koa is getting pretty rare itself, so the cost makes sense, being that it's only found in Hawaii. The pickups are the previous, flat-style ceramic humbuckers, before they changed to the radiused alnico ones. Personally, I think these pickups have a beefier, or just fuller sound. Also, I changed one of the lower concentric knobs to chrome when...set screw from the stock wood one somehow went missing since before I put them back on. I'll still include that piece if you feel so inclined to find a replacement screw. Oh, and that's not a scratch on one of the tuners, it's cat hair.
I've been able to cop pretty much every tone from this bass, and the low-B is deadly. Not sure what the main contributor is, but this one has a nice growl to it. Koa supposedly is known for nice midrange, so maybe that?
Here's a rough recording of an original rock tune from my trio (no vox yet):
The specs are:
34"
17mm spacing
14" radius
10lbs, approx (again, balance is phenomenal)
2.75" at the 24th fret, 1.75 at nut
koa body sides Claro walnut top 5-piece maple/koa neck w/ graphite bar reinforcement (started in the second half of 2013)
black, non-streaked ebony board (currently a $40 option)
stainless frets
figured walnut headstock
Graphtech nut
18-volt, 3-band eq w/ mid frequency sweep and active/passive operation (push/pull on volume knob)
Quick-change battery doors
brass-threaded screw holes for control cavity (standard Carvin/Kiesel feature)
Rosewood knobs (before tamarind)
Dunlop straplocks
D'Addario XL strings
Carvin/Kiesel "ultimate" gigbag
This is a ton of bass for the money. I've recorded and gigged with it, and it crushes, every bit as much as the best basses I've tried, even from NAMM. Icons are very underrated, imo. I have the action set loooooow, so chances are you'll probably want to raise it (I like basses that are easy to play). I hope you enjoy this bass as I have. Lastly, I ship FedEx, fully insured, and only within the U.S (no international sales). Alaska and Hawaii will incur extra shipping charges.
Have a great day!
$925/shipped
Hey All,
It sounds cliche, but this one will hurt. I love this bass. I want to get out of my annoyingly stupid debt more, though. I'll be sticking with my workhorse, a Carvin B5.
Anyway, my Icon would cost around 3K today, for Kiesel to build one for you (check it out on their builder). There are a few small dings/marks present, but very minor compared to how phenomenal this bass is as a whole. I'm guessing the weight is around 10 pounds, but it balances perfectly. Only an ESP E-II AP5 (previous Japanese model) balanced as well, and I think for the same reason...body wood weighs more than the neck, as it should be. My Icon blows the ESP out of the water, though. The neck is nice and fast, too. Koa body sides with Kiesel are currently a $500 option, and mine have some nice flame figuring as kind of a bonus (shows up at certain angles). The Claro walnut top is $400, and I'm guessing the maple/koa neck is more than the priciest 5-piece neck in the builder ($250), so possibly $300 or more. Koa is getting pretty rare itself, so the cost makes sense, being that it's only found in Hawaii. The pickups are the previous, flat-style ceramic humbuckers, before they changed to the radiused alnico ones. Personally, I think these pickups have a beefier, or just fuller sound. Also, I changed one of the lower concentric knobs to chrome when...set screw from the stock wood one somehow went missing since before I put them back on. I'll still include that piece if you feel so inclined to find a replacement screw. Oh, and that's not a scratch on one of the tuners, it's cat hair.
I've been able to cop pretty much every tone from this bass, and the low-B is deadly. Not sure what the main contributor is, but this one has a nice growl to it. Koa supposedly is known for nice midrange, so maybe that?
Here's a rough recording of an original rock tune from my trio (no vox yet):
The specs are:
34"
17mm spacing
14" radius
10lbs, approx (again, balance is phenomenal)
2.75" at the 24th fret, 1.75 at nut
koa body sides Claro walnut top 5-piece maple/koa neck w/ graphite bar reinforcement (started in the second half of 2013)
black, non-streaked ebony board (currently a $40 option)
stainless frets
figured walnut headstock
Graphtech nut
18-volt, 3-band eq w/ mid frequency sweep and active/passive operation (push/pull on volume knob)
Quick-change battery doors
brass-threaded screw holes for control cavity (standard Carvin/Kiesel feature)
Rosewood knobs (before tamarind)
Dunlop straplocks
D'Addario XL strings
Carvin/Kiesel "ultimate" gigbag
This is a ton of bass for the money. I've recorded and gigged with it, and it crushes, every bit as much as the best basses I've tried, even from NAMM. Icons are very underrated, imo. I have the action set loooooow, so chances are you'll probably want to raise it (I like basses that are easy to play). I hope you enjoy this bass as I have. Lastly, I ship FedEx, fully insured, and only within the U.S (no international sales). Alaska and Hawaii will incur extra shipping charges.
Have a great day!
