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Mystery head stock
- Thread starter mdalamond
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Not if youre a fan of Ibanez SR 5 string spacing....like me.
It'd take me an hour to get from the B string all the way to that C... (I think its a C, its so far away I cant tell from here. )
You’re in luck then, because finding a 16.5mm 6er is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Wu Tang bass with double trussrod Protect-ya-neck technology!
I have no idea what that is
I have no idea what that is
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Another vote for a home made. I would go in with that impression, and unless the seller can provide provenance, it should be priced accordingly.
See how it sounds and plays.
See how it sounds and plays.
Made in China probably? looks really good with cheap pickups and bridge and some build carelessness, but the neck/frets look good (Based loosely on pics).
I owned a 8 string (NOT octave!!! F# to F strings!!) MIC bass - nice wood, sounded good, played horribly, had terrible fretwork, uneven, and the bridge was the unirails (8 of them, of course). active, bad preamp but still was cool. It was a monster and too big for my hands or I might have kept it. well, string muting was impossible too...
My point being - MIC no name basses can look good and can have double truss rods with that kind of finish - and they can be quite good. You will yes likely have an upgrade or two you want to do eventually, but right now it might be really good if it's setup well and fretwork and neck are actually good (can't tell enough without playing it and examining it up close).
Considering that used low end Ibanez 6 strings (GR and SR 300 to 500 series) go for a few hundred and used 6 string peavey grinds go for 2 to 300 hundred, and they're both excellent quality instruments, I would say that no name star wars bass should not be any more expensive, possibly less expensive, even if it's good.... again assuming it's a made in china thing with someone's aftermarket logo on it. Looks maybe like the company that used to make some of the older MRW basses, based on the design, but that's a pretty uneducated thought (there are so many builders who make basses that look like that now).
It'll be a loss for the seller, financially, and maybe an experiment for you.
Don't over pay or over trade, but I personally would probably go for it if I had bigger hands. that string spacing would kill me.
I owned a 8 string (NOT octave!!! F# to F strings!!) MIC bass - nice wood, sounded good, played horribly, had terrible fretwork, uneven, and the bridge was the unirails (8 of them, of course). active, bad preamp but still was cool. It was a monster and too big for my hands or I might have kept it. well, string muting was impossible too...
My point being - MIC no name basses can look good and can have double truss rods with that kind of finish - and they can be quite good. You will yes likely have an upgrade or two you want to do eventually, but right now it might be really good if it's setup well and fretwork and neck are actually good (can't tell enough without playing it and examining it up close).
Considering that used low end Ibanez 6 strings (GR and SR 300 to 500 series) go for a few hundred and used 6 string peavey grinds go for 2 to 300 hundred, and they're both excellent quality instruments, I would say that no name star wars bass should not be any more expensive, possibly less expensive, even if it's good.... again assuming it's a made in china thing with someone's aftermarket logo on it. Looks maybe like the company that used to make some of the older MRW basses, based on the design, but that's a pretty uneducated thought (there are so many builders who make basses that look like that now).
It'll be a loss for the seller, financially, and maybe an experiment for you.
Don't over pay or over trade, but I personally would probably go for it if I had bigger hands. that string spacing would kill me.
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That was my first thought as well. I guess we're all a bit of Star Wars geeks, aren't we?
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That might be an early Adamovic. Nikola Adamovic is a fine bass builder in the Netherlands. He's been around a long time, and builds beautiful high-end basses these days. This bass looks like his style, and the logo looks like an earlier version of his current logo.
Adamovic Basses
Adamovic Basses
That is a klingon war bird vintage, Pre the galactic buy out. But, I hear they're junk though.
Glad to see a legit response.
If you're right, it's likely worth buying. OP, I'd email and see!
Adamovic logo...
Star Wars, rebel alliance logo...
Wu Tang Clan logo...
None really match this one...
I asked the seller if he knew what it was. He said that all he knows is that it sounds great and that there is the letter P inside the logo on the headstock.
