SOLD FS/FT Hotwire HWDB fretless

I hate to do this, but I have an embarassment of riches when it comes to fretless basses and this is the one I've decided I should let go of.

This is a tremendous fretless bass with an incredible warm, woody tone.

Here's an excerpt from the Hotwire site:

"The Hot Wire designer team has developed the Hot Wire Double Bass, a fretless electric bass in the well-known jazz bass format combining a modern fretless bass sound and an acoustic sound getting very close to the traditional upright bass - in one single instrument!

A state-of-the-art pickup system paired with calculated tone chambers inside the bass body produces a very convincing double bass-like tone which can be shaped from a fat Ron Carter tone to a sleek Eddie Gomez sound. Inside the bass body is a B-Band EMF piezo system mounted on a piece of spruce, like an upright bass's soundboard. As you can imagine, this partially hollowed-out bass is really light in weight - but not in tone! This system was five years in the making ...

Take a look at the special bridge system - precision machined ebony bridge saddles on ebony posts! String height and intonation can be adjusted here.
The Hot Wire designer team has developed the Hot Wire Double Bass, a fretless electric bass in the well-known jazz bass format combining a modern fretless bass sound and an acoustic sound getting very close to the traditional upright bass - in one single instrument!"


More information:

Hotwire site (click on "Basses" then "Double Bass" for full specs and sound samples)

Review: Bass Player

Review: Guitarist Magazine

There's one tiny ding on the back of the neck that keeps this from being mint.

Traded

-thanks,
J.

 

The fingerboard wood is ebony.

Also, I forgot to mention the control layout, which is:

-vol (neck pickup)
-vol (bridge pickup)
-stacked tone (top is for magnetic pickups, bottom is for piezo)
- vol (internal piezo)

Here's a back-from-vacation bump and a price drop!

 

Bump! Current price on a new one of these is 2260 Euros, or $3230.44.

Also, here are a few new pictures.

 

More pictures, including a closeup of the birds-eye on the back of the neck.

 

Very interested in the Flea 5! PM comin' your way.

-thanks,
J.

 

Bump. Price lowered.

 

Bump. Pictures of the side fretlines added.