This is the 535 I recently obtained in a trade (photo by previous owner). Last year I was discussing a possible trade involving this bass and my old Sadowsky. There was someone in line before me so I ended up trading my Sadowsky with someone else for a black limba 535. One year later I put that black limba 535 up for sale and was contacted by a guy who wanted to trade me his alder 535 for my black limba MTD. Turns out his was the 535 I'd been looking at the year before. So, in a nice little twist of fate I ended up with the bass that I'd almost landed a year ago.
Jerry (Vroom Vroom) had mentioned that he really liked this bass (after having tried it) and I have to say that, so far, I'm very happy with this instrument. My main bass for the past year-and-three-quarters has been an ash/wenge 535 and I'm convinced that the wenge/wenge is my favourite MTD neck combination (though, to be fair, there are several wood combinations that I have yet to try), but playing the new 535 this past week I can't say I was missing my wenge (well, not too much at least
). I'm hesitant to be too lavish in my praise of my newly acquired play pal as I haven't used it in very many settings yet but I can tell you that this is one great bass! Very different from the ash/wenge combo. A bit less in-your-face but it still has tons of punch. The slap sound is a little more "elastic-y" than the ash/wenge (I'm not sure if that sonic description makes sense, but that's what comes to mind) but it still cuts through nicely. The specs are: alder body, burl/quilt maple top, maple neck, rosewood fingerboard. Thanks, Jonathan!
