Author Topic: "police auction" bass (Read 208 times)

kungfusheriff · « **on:** December 02, 2005, 11:04:07 AM »

Hard to tell if this bass matches the description of known, stolen instruments, but the seller says he bought it at police auction, which I find suspicious:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ALEMBIC-SPOILER-BASS-GUITAR-very-nice-4-string-BASS_W0QQitemZ7371652045QQcategoryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

yggdrasil · « **Reply #1 on:** December 02, 2005, 11:58:26 AM »

what pickups are those?

David Houck · « **Reply #2 on:** December 02, 2005, 12:05:55 PM »

This looks to me as if it originally had Persuader electronics with P/J pickups. When you clean the picture up a bit you can see that the neck pickup is a J type with a large collar around it. I'm guessing the large collar is to cover up where the routing orignially was for the P type pickup. There are just three controls which also suggests this was originally Persuader electronics; thus the controls would have been volume/volume/filter. The knob on the filter is not stock; it may just be a replacement for a broken knob, or the electronics may have been altered.

longhorncat · « **Reply #3 on:** December 02, 2005, 12:43:33 PM »

I emailed the seller. The serial number has been filed off.

kmh364 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 03, 2005, 06:21:30 AM »

OMG, that neck p'up looks horrible! How bad could the P p'up have been in order to butch this bass like that? Between that and the missing S/N, it'd have to be priced like a gimme in order for me to take it home! Just my $0.02.

David Houck · « **Reply #5 on:** December 04, 2005, 06:50:26 AM »

There is a Persuader on the stolen instruments page.

kmh364 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 05, 2005, 07:38:30 AM »

Could it be the same one?

David Houck · « **Reply #7 on:** December 05, 2005, 12:32:50 PM »

I have been informed that it is not the same one.