(x) 88H5110

[navbass]

I bought this bass at a shop in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. Paid about 100,000 yen for it. I wasn't able to ascertain much about it from the people at the shop (language barrier).  I'd like to know a little bit about the history of it.
 
serial #88H5110
 
Thanks,
Richard Bruns

 
(Message edited by navbass on April 16, 2006)
 
(Message edited by navbass on April 17, 2006)

[mica]

Hi Richard,
 
Here is what I found out about your bass:
 
88H5110 HMB4 Elan 4-string bass
 
top: Quilted Maple
body: Rock Maple
neck: Maple and Purpleheart, 32 medium scale
fingerboard: Ebony with pearloid ovals, custom size 1.650 x 2.323
pickups: JZ
controls: a little confusion here*
output: Mono, face mounted
originally made for: Rokkomann, Kobe, Japan
birthday: not recorded, but in October 1988
 
It looks like it was a custom order. The pickup position is custom, the fingerboard width is custom, and there is a special instruction on the work order to make the neck EXACTLY the same as the fingerboard width at the neck to body joint.  
 
*As for the controls, the work order states it is a 2 volume, 1 filter setup. The wood card says it is a volume, filter, pan, Q setup. The picture looks more like the two volume set up. Let me know  for sure so I can ammend to file to not be amiguous.

[navbass]

It is a 2 volume, 1 filter setup, no Q.
 
Thanks for the info!