FS: Stambaugh 5-string Single-cut Fretless
PRICE REDUCED! (as low as it's gonna go) $1050 shipped w/gig bag... via PayPal eCheck.
Sorry, no longer considering trades!
Tried this before with little luck (man, it's a tough market right now)... then I was going to give it away... then I decided I might ebay it to put toward some cheaper basses I was going to give away (more on that another time)... but I decided to hold onto it until things improved market-wise. Well, not sure when that's gonna happen, and I'm just saddened by the thought of this beautiful instrument sitting around going unused. So, here it is, again.
From the magic hands of luthier Chris Stambaugh (I'm sure you're all familiar)...
http://www.stambaughdesigns.com/home.html
I purchased this bass used and have owned it for about two and a half years. It is in very, very good condition overall, anything out of the ordinary is noted below. According to Chris Stambaugh (in an email to me after I inquired about it), this is a bit different than what he typically does (not exactly sure what he meant by that)... the shape seems slightly different from his standard, and it also has dual truss rods in the neck. Weighs in just over 8 pounds.
Originally owned by a few other TB'ers before myself, including original owner Brad Johnson, someone else I'm unsure of, and then D.A.R.K.
The specs:
Body:
2-piece single-cut Black Limba wood body, with a really funky book-matched Quilted-looking Birdseye Maple top. Finished with a light varnish and tung oil. Very resonant. A few minor scratches and dings on the back and around the edges of the body... nothing severe enough to note, or that I could get to show in the pics. Light-weight and well-balanced.
Neck:
Bolt-on neck. Amazing feeling/playing 5-piece neck composed of Maple and Purpleheart, with an Ebony fingerboard. Fret lines are inlaid with maple. Headstock matches the Birdseye body face. The profile of this neck is sweet... fairly slim and fast. Incredibly stable (I've actually never even adjusted it) even though it's slender, because of the dual truss rods. Easily one of the best necks I've played. Nothing wrong with the neck beyond some extremely light (barely noticeable) wear on the fingerboard from using roundwounds (same strings have been on there since I got it... I've always wanted to try half rounds, tape wounds or flats on it, but never got around to it). I have a 5-string set of GHS Boomers (mediums) that I'll throw in the bag, if you want them.
Width at nut - 1.75"
Width at bridge - 3.00"
String spacing at bridge - .75" (19mm)
Scale length - 35"
# of frets - 24
Electronics:
Bartolini NTBT 2-band (bass-cut/treble-cut) preamp electronics with a single Bartolini MM5 triple-coil soapbar pickup. Even though it has a single pickup it's fairly versatile tone-wise... goes from articulate to fat, and plenty in between with with some tweaking of the controls.
3 Ebony knobs (I replaced the original lame plastic Bart knobs with these. Still have the Barts and will include them if you want). Controls sre Volume, Bass, Treble. I believe the switch is a coil tap.
Hardware:
Hipshot bridge and Gotoh tuners. Dunlop strap lock buttons installed... may have the other strap hardware as well, that I will include IF I can find it.
Case:
Will ship (well protected and packed with great care) in a Fender Gig Bag.
Couple things to note:
A previous owner sanded off the Bartolini logo on the face of the pickup. According to Brad Johnson, he had traded this bass to a friend, whom decided he wanted the pickup to look like it had a wood cover, so he sanded the logo off and put some wood-looking contact paper on there. The contact paper was later removed. It was dull and scratched looking when I got it, but I polished it up somewhat and it looks pretty decent now, though blank. This doesn't affect the pickup performance at all.
The other thing is the nut. It's made of Ebony, I believe, and part of the top corner of it above the low B string cracked off at some point before I owned it. I had planned on having it replaced after I received the bass, but never got around to it. Again, this is nothing that affects playability at all, and I've never had a problem with the B-string popping out or anything in the time I've played it. Likely a $50-$70 repair/replacement I would guess. See pic below.
If you were to order one of these new from Stambaugh, it would cost you more than $2000, and you'd probably have to wait months and months to get it.
CONUS (may consider CAN).
Buy with confidence, I've had 60+ transactions between here, www.gearslutz.com, and ebay, all under the same user name, all 100% positive.
Thanks for looking. Any questions, feel free to PM me.
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PRICE REDUCED! (as low as it's gonna go) $1050 shipped w/gig bag... via PayPal eCheck.
Sorry, no longer considering trades!
Tried this before with little luck (man, it's a tough market right now)... then I was going to give it away... then I decided I might ebay it to put toward some cheaper basses I was going to give away (more on that another time)... but I decided to hold onto it until things improved market-wise. Well, not sure when that's gonna happen, and I'm just saddened by the thought of this beautiful instrument sitting around going unused. So, here it is, again.
From the magic hands of luthier Chris Stambaugh (I'm sure you're all familiar)...
http://www.stambaughdesigns.com/home.html
I purchased this bass used and have owned it for about two and a half years. It is in very, very good condition overall, anything out of the ordinary is noted below. According to Chris Stambaugh (in an email to me after I inquired about it), this is a bit different than what he typically does (not exactly sure what he meant by that)... the shape seems slightly different from his standard, and it also has dual truss rods in the neck. Weighs in just over 8 pounds.
Originally owned by a few other TB'ers before myself, including original owner Brad Johnson, someone else I'm unsure of, and then D.A.R.K.
The specs:
Body:
2-piece single-cut Black Limba wood body, with a really funky book-matched Quilted-looking Birdseye Maple top. Finished with a light varnish and tung oil. Very resonant. A few minor scratches and dings on the back and around the edges of the body... nothing severe enough to note, or that I could get to show in the pics. Light-weight and well-balanced.
Neck:
Bolt-on neck. Amazing feeling/playing 5-piece neck composed of Maple and Purpleheart, with an Ebony fingerboard. Fret lines are inlaid with maple. Headstock matches the Birdseye body face. The profile of this neck is sweet... fairly slim and fast. Incredibly stable (I've actually never even adjusted it) even though it's slender, because of the dual truss rods. Easily one of the best necks I've played. Nothing wrong with the neck beyond some extremely light (barely noticeable) wear on the fingerboard from using roundwounds (same strings have been on there since I got it... I've always wanted to try half rounds, tape wounds or flats on it, but never got around to it). I have a 5-string set of GHS Boomers (mediums) that I'll throw in the bag, if you want them.
Width at nut - 1.75"
Width at bridge - 3.00"
String spacing at bridge - .75" (19mm)
Scale length - 35"
# of frets - 24
Electronics:
Bartolini NTBT 2-band (bass-cut/treble-cut) preamp electronics with a single Bartolini MM5 triple-coil soapbar pickup. Even though it has a single pickup it's fairly versatile tone-wise... goes from articulate to fat, and plenty in between with with some tweaking of the controls.
3 Ebony knobs (I replaced the original lame plastic Bart knobs with these. Still have the Barts and will include them if you want). Controls sre Volume, Bass, Treble. I believe the switch is a coil tap.
Hardware:
Hipshot bridge and Gotoh tuners. Dunlop strap lock buttons installed... may have the other strap hardware as well, that I will include IF I can find it.
Case:
Will ship (well protected and packed with great care) in a Fender Gig Bag.
Couple things to note:
A previous owner sanded off the Bartolini logo on the face of the pickup. According to Brad Johnson, he had traded this bass to a friend, whom decided he wanted the pickup to look like it had a wood cover, so he sanded the logo off and put some wood-looking contact paper on there. The contact paper was later removed. It was dull and scratched looking when I got it, but I polished it up somewhat and it looks pretty decent now, though blank. This doesn't affect the pickup performance at all.
The other thing is the nut. It's made of Ebony, I believe, and part of the top corner of it above the low B string cracked off at some point before I owned it. I had planned on having it replaced after I received the bass, but never got around to it. Again, this is nothing that affects playability at all, and I've never had a problem with the B-string popping out or anything in the time I've played it. Likely a $50-$70 repair/replacement I would guess. See pic below.
If you were to order one of these new from Stambaugh, it would cost you more than $2000, and you'd probably have to wait months and months to get it.
CONUS (may consider CAN).
Buy with confidence, I've had 60+ transactions between here, www.gearslutz.com, and ebay, all under the same user name, all 100% positive.
Thanks for looking. Any questions, feel free to PM me.
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c