Bacchus Marcus Miller Jazz Bass

[ulli65]

Czech manufacturer Bach has a MM clone in its offering....finishing is below china or indonesian standards but they play very nicely after fixing some of this

 

[warnan]

I got this one directly from Japan which cost me $1050.00. This is a 20years old one but in great condition, only small chips on headstock.
There are differences between fender MM and bacchus MM. bacchus' neck is heel adjust and has 4 bolt neck plate.It also has noise free pickup. The stock preamp and my levinson blade preamp are the same. I guess bacchus and tune bass share the same pickup and preamp supplier. I've played fender japan jb77-mm and not impressed at all, to my ears the fender stock preamp sounds crappy. Bacchus sounds killer and far better than fender japan. The bacchus neck plays and feels superb.

 

[Basvarken]

Beautiful bass. Nice score!

When I saw the title of the thread I thought it was a typo, that should have read BaCH Marcus Miller Jazz Bass!

Here's a four string and a five string from BaCH (nothing wrong with the finish imho):

 

[steweDbass]

I dunno if Fender would let another company do something like this.*

Maybe its a MM body with a bacchus neck. The neck joint doesn't look to be as snug as it should be in the third pic.

But I could be wrong.

*to a signature model, not any of fender's basses[/QUOTE

I believe a licensing deal was in progress and Fender was looking to recruit another builder to make the MM for Japan's Market...I think the agreement was left hanging though hence Bacchus didn't make many of these. Atelier Z also made some MM models, but I guess the gig went to Fujigen (their original partner) in the end, quicker, cheaper mass production, not hand made (Fujigen use the laser cutting machines for routing and cutting) Bacchus is all done by hand, and so is Atelier Z as far as I know.

 

[Clark Dark]

steweDbass, which model Bacchus is that in your icon and can you put a link to the site?

 

[steweDbass]

steweDbass, which model Bacchus is that in your icon and can you put a link to the site?

Sorry Clarke Dark! Only saw this now.......my site is www.dannymstewart.com you'll see the bass Japan shop tab on that site.
Any questions / troubles accessing the page just holler! Cheers