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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: lothartu on July 31, 2006, 07:56:21 PM

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: lothartu on July 31, 2006, 07:56:21 PM

All these great basses going up for sale over the last few months is killing me.  Here's another one.
 
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- Jim

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: dela217 on July 31, 2006, 10:45:49 PM

Me too!  This one is quite tempting.
 
Michael

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: claudio on August 01, 2006, 04:31:05 PM

Hello Guys....
Is this really an small body?
How this body compares in size with a brown Bass ? or with a Distillate? Do you know?
Thanks in advance.

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: David Houck on August 01, 2006, 05:54:40 PM

The body on a Brown Bass is the small standard body.

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: claudio on August 01, 2006, 06:07:12 PM

Thanks Dave...
Then is this one smaller or bigger than the Brown's small standard body?

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: oggydoggy on August 01, 2006, 06:56:15 PM

Claudio,
They are one in the same. The new brown bass body is taken from the old Small Standard Series body style.
And yes this little one is very tempting.
-Ed

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: claudio on August 01, 2006, 08:30:28 PM

Thanks Ed!!
I wondering if the PF-6 electronics that the seller mentionated are an upgrade from the original electronics, any idea?

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: David Houck on August 01, 2006, 09:03:36 PM

PF-6 would have been the original on a '78.

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: claudio on August 01, 2006, 10:41:09 PM

Thanks Dave!!!
Now with all this tips, lets see how shopping goes!

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: dwmark on August 02, 2006, 07:32:58 PM

one more tip.  am i seeing four PH lams?

Title: 1978 small body Series I
Post by: David Houck on August 02, 2006, 08:25:00 PM

Cool!  Yes, on this particular bass there appear to be Purpleheart lams between the body wings and the neck.