SOLD Tune TWB5 Maple on hog: Lowered to 550 plus shipping

Used Tunes are phenomenal buys. I've had three and the Japanese fiver I never should have sold. Killer necks. GLWTS.

 

Country or Origin? Scale?
Thanks.

 

Is there a s/n on a back of headstock? Easiest way to tell Tune's producer is by number of digits in serial.

 

Looks identical to mine. Long S-number is Korean. I think these are some of the most underrated and under the radar basses around. They have their own modern yet organic sound. Great 3 band preamps. 34” scale is easy to reach. The low B is excellent. Mine has been not only a workhorse, I t’s been nearly indestructible. The bass survived a vicious 3 foot fall as it launched itself off the stage and across the dancefloor with a Violent strap peg failure midsong. Suffering only cosmetic injury’s. I love these and plan on a fretless 5.
All to say buy this people it’s a great deal. GLWTS. Only thing I’d add is for me it didn’t hang as comfortably as I like, so I changed the strap button positions. Now I love the way it hangs and balances. If someone gets this and doesn’t like the “hang” contact me. I’ve got soutions.

 

I figured it wouldn’t last long. Lol. The way the bass hung on me was the ONLY thing I didn’t like. I got mine a little beat up used to begin with. So, for me, it was a no brainer to move the strap buttons. If it had been a $2000 instrument I may not have. It’s taken me 50 years to really hone in on all the minutiae of exactly what I like. I love the neck on these basses. Not to wide with 18mm spacing and the neck profile is not too fat front to back, they just feel good in the hands. Also the whole 24 frets are easily accessible.

 

So! Is this for sale or has it been sold?

 

Yes. "Sold in principle" is somewhat akin to saying someone is slightly dead or partly pregnant.

Please clarify.

Nice bass.

 

Underrated for sure.

 

You guys are saying that you don't like the ergo....is that hanging on a strap or is it that wack downturned lower horn digging into your thigh?

I want a sleek 5-string with great upper access. Are there any jazz-bass tones?

Thanks. -K

edit: didn't realize this thread is so old...

 

What was the hang solution

 

Ok, I’ll preface by saying, @Kevinlane please feel free too remove my my comments. Here’s my solution to what I considered a SMALL problem of MINE. Strap attachment points.
I’ll add in the last couple of years, I have started analyzing small details about what I like and dislike on my different basses. Since I have quite a few, I have gleaned a few insights. One of which is strap attachment points positioning. Locations I dislike are things like Strap buttons that are on the back of the base rather on the side or the edge of the body.
If you look closely at the strap button on the bottom of the bass in the picture you will see that it is sitting closer to the front edge of the body, than the back edge, it is not in the middle of the body depth wise or front to back. And this is so the bass will naturally lean back slightly at the top, instead of tending to lean forward. In a similar way when strap buttons are on the back of an instrument I find that the instrument wants to lean away from me, (top of body) and I prefer that it is very slightly leaning back towards me, so I can see a bit of the top or face of the fretboard. I found this helped even more when I had a bigger beer belly. Lol
And the strap button on the Horn was repositioned to the tip of the horn. (The black Schmutz on the tip is a torn up felt washer that needs replacing) It’s been so long I forget if this button was on the back or on the bottom of the horn some weird place that I couldn’t stand. So that was a simple fix. Or so I thought. Turns out that is the tip that broke under heavy playing one night and sent the bass flying out of my hands across the dance floor. A buddy rebuilt the tip with some epoxy wood mix. LOL this bass has Been a beast of a work horse. It has been my back up for 8 or10 years it just is the one that I keep grabbing when other things don’t feel right because it always feels good and sounds good

 

The bottom, I think I can do. The top horn??? I’m a little hesitant of not having enough wood to drill

 

Nice turn, is that you?
Definitely not eastern hard pack
Don't need edges in that fluffy stuff
Hope your having a good season out there!
Decent year out here except for the faux virus lockdown