SOLD 2018 Mensinger Leaf Medium Scale.

***Update - I sold this one locally a while back but the buyer is a friend and got hit with a few unexpected medical bills so I offered to take it back, virtually untouched since then and still in the same fine shape that it was a year and a half ago, which is something that I’d hesitate to say about myself***

Try as many times as I can I am just not a good fit for short or medium scale basses, I was born a thirty-four incher and will die a thirty-four incher. Built by the Marusczcyk folks, this is one of the the foxiest things to come out of Poland since Anna Draganska. A very comfortable 7 pounds 12 ounces for those who like the light ones, thinner C shaped 32” medium scale 1.8” nut width / 2.475” at the 12th ebony board with a semi-hollow mahogany body and way swank flamed redwood top. String spacing at the nut is .375” and at the bridge .675”, all passive VVTT setup with Delano SBC pickups and separate series / single / parallel switching plus a factory battery box in case the desire to add a preamp strikes at a later date. Great string balance across the board including the B, very playable. In excellent shape with no dings or bruises or kielbasa stains, with the original Mensinger gig bag and all factory paperwork including the “Electric Bass Guitar User’s Manual” just in case the potential purchaser doesn’t know how to use an electric bass guitar. $1350 plus half of the shipping as UPS has apparently recently decided to replace their entire fleet at the same time.

 

Whoops, my apologies for leaving the thread open but this one is gone. I am way too much of a luddite to be able to post sound samples but suffice it to say that the B was tight and shakes walls. It has long been my opinion that the construction of a well-built fiver has virtually nothing to do with the nature and feeling of the B while the string itself is virtually everything. If I didn’t feel so cramped on a shorter scale I would have kept this one but a good .130 or so B on the Leaf was thunderous.