SOLD FS: F Bass BN-6 Cherry Sunburst/Ebony FB/Flamed Maple Custom!! PRICE DROPPED!!

That is a beaut and a really good deal on a fabulous sixer!

Bump

 

Wow! What year is she? (It's in the serial number if you aren't sure.

 

that thing is sexy!

 

Must be someone out there that can deal with that extra string!

Bump!

 

Ahem! And what string might THAT be?!!!

I'm still wondering what year it is. I've tried zooming the photos of the serial number, but I can't read it.

 

Thanks. 2004. Same year as my BN5.

George used to make the basses with hum canceling mode as a default and pull up for single coil, then switched it so that knob down was single coil mode and pulled up is hum canceling.

This one is probably knob down for hum canceling, but I thought I should confirm that with you as well... and keep your bass at the top of the heap! ;-)

 

I wonder if everyone realizes was a DEAL this bass is at this price.

I just noticed that Bass Central still has photos of it on their website, listing it as $7,000 new, $3,999 on sale... delivered with new strings.

I have a BN6 I am VERY happy with, otherwise I'd have jumped on this myself. Heck, it's tempting even though I already have one!

Oh wait, maybe it's because people don't realize how great BN6s sound. Check out this Youtube clip for a BN6 in action.

 

Tom, I've never understood how to decypher the the serial#
to come up with the build year. Could you explain, please?

 

I don't know the cipher myself, but I've been told the LAST TWO DIGITS are the year it was built, which I can verify with my own three F-bass... all of them were built in the same year as the last two digits of their serial numbers.

 

I wonder if everyone realizes what a bargain this bass is. If I remember right, mine cost over $6,000 new.

Maybe if you guys heard a BN6... here is a youtube clip of an Fbass BN6 being played with piano and drums.

The pianist is smooth Jazz artist David Benoit, and the bassist is a GREAT player named Dave Hughes, and I don't know the name of the drummer, but it's probably Dave too.

At any rate, here's hoping this bass finds a great home.

 

Hi
It's my understanding that the dating of F Basses works like this:
Serial # = Number produced / Month / Year.
ie- # 310199 = 31st Bass produced/ built Jan.(01) / of 1999.

-What I'm unsure of is whether the number recycles to 01 at the start of each month or is a running, accumulative production count for the year.
I hope this helps.

 

It does, thanks.

Since his serial number is: 540504...

I'd guess that the first two digits, in this case "54," is how many basses made that year (2004), rather than that month (05), because it would blow my mind if George were making 54 basses a year!

But hey, who know? George has blown my mind plenty of times before!

 

So an 030801 would have been built in August of 2001? Thanks guys!

Bump for a VERY beautiful looking bass. If I didn't already have a BN6 I would have been on this one in a heart beat.

 

Technically, I think the serial # reflects the month the order was received for the bass, maybe a little before the build in some cases.

 

Oo! Good point.

So the number is the month of conception, not birth!