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#921
Bassic Needs said:
It's admirable that Taylor has done what they've done to ensure that ebony will always be available and that other color variants of ebony, other than jet black, can and should be used.

What I don't know is if the streaked ebony has a different characteristic or density variance. If it is identical in nature to the black ebony then it was, and is, foolish not to use it. I love both.

Not sure if you can request a streaked ebony fretboard. I have seen some headstocks and necks before with some nice figuring in the maple as well. I wish that was also an option as I am a sucker for a nice wood grain.
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I saw a Taylor video once about Gaboon Ebony, and they said the grey streaked Gaboon Ebony was as good as the solid black, what a shame that so many trees were left to rot on the forest floor!
My Wal bass has a solid black board but its Indian Ebony. I still think the most beautiful is figured Macasser.
 
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#923
davidak said:
Is there a way how to guess a build year of Moollon basses? From serial number maybe?
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Serial numbers as penned in on each Moollon guitar/bass are nothing more than a sequential completion code (recorded in our books immediately before packing to be shipped out), so no dating information can be identified from them and one best check with us directly. That said, YJ's lovely handwriting is of its own sort, and roughly 1 in 4 requests for serial number checks we receive are.altogether read incorrectly and have to be seen to be identified ;) Just take a photo of the backside of the headstock and DM me... I can sort things out for you.
 
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#925
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Man I’m so impressed with this bass. It’s pretty different than the other 5 string jazz’s I’ve been using for the last few years which were more modern, with preamps and thinner neck profiles, but the vibe of this bass is just slammin, and it plays and sounds fantastic.

In particular I’m really digging the pickups. They are very balanced and dynamic sounding. All in all, I want another one now lol
 
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#927
J.Wolf said:
Man I’m so impressed with this bass. It’s pretty different than the other 5 string jazz’s I’ve been using for the last few years which were more modern, with preamps and thinner neck profiles, but the vibe of this bass is just slammin, and it plays and sounds fantastic.

In particular I’m really digging the pickups. They are very balanced and dynamic sounding. All in all, I want another one now lol
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Get a 4 string. They sound even better. Don't ask me why but they do.
 
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#930
I didn't think this was possible but I just put my Custom Shop '64 Jazz in the Classifieds. The goal was to find essentially a 5-string version of it, more or less. The Moollon J-Classic 5 is a worthy beauty. It records great, which was my main concern, and turns out to be incredibly comfortable.
 
#932
In the few weeks I've had the J Classic 5, I've done a lot of comparison-listening. I have two other J-basses and I have access to two more, so there has been a "Jazz-off" going on here lately. To my ears, the Moollon has a recognizably different tone to the other 4. It's the least "generic Jazz bass" tone of any of them. It's got a voicing that is slightly different from the others, maybe a little darker, but deep and creamy, too. It's a unique-sounding instrument. When I first heard the P, I could hear a similar difference. It's clearly doing the thing you want a J or a P to do, only it's its own thing somehow. Brilliant low end. I am really bonding with it.
 
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#933
600 Ohms said:
In the few weeks I've had the J Classic 5, I've done a lot of comparison-listening. I have two other J-basses and I have access to two more, so there has been a "Jazz-off" going on here lately. To my ears, the Moollon has a recognizably different tone to the other 4. It's the least "generic Jazz bass" tone of any of them. It's got a voicing that is slightly different from the others, maybe a little darker, but deep and creamy, too. It's a unique-sounding instrument. When I first heard the P, I could hear a similar difference. It's clearly doing the thing you want a J or a P to do, only it's its own thing somehow. Brilliant low end. I am really bonding with it.
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Have you gotten to compare your Moollon jazz to a truly vintage pre-CBS Fender jazz?
 

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