I know I am going to regret this. But I am going to part with one of my older Series basses. It is a 1974 and serial number 49. It can be seen in the Showcase section. I am going to post some decent pictures later, but I am going to be brutally honest. It is a small body, with a short scale neck. The top laminate is birds eye maple, that is really pretty, and sort of figured, almost quilted. The core is mahogany and it has a walnut back. The neck laminates are made up of maple with walnut. The headstock veneers on the front look like cocobolo and it has the hand cut inlaid sterling silver logo. The back of the headstock looks like walnut and maple. The bass is in VERY GOOD overall condition. It does have its share of problems though. This bass originally came with Schaller keys. The owner of this bass before me had to have them replaced in a hurry and they were replaced with Grovers. Not bad, but not original. The frets could use some work. There are spots in the higher register that the frets seem too high. This is around fret 20 or so. Way up there. The frets close to the nut are worn and have obviously been filed before. A fret dress is in order. It is playable as is, but not perfect. Also this bass would benefit from the Alembic series upgrade. It works as it should, but is noisy. I have used this bass on small gigs where going through the PA was not needed. That way, I could keep the noise down to a minimum. Running this bass through a PA would be ok, but hum would be noticible between songs. In the showcase section, the bass is pictured with black pickups. I got these pickups in an attempt to quiet things down. It worked a good bit. But I am selling the bass with the original diaper tan pickups in it. I would like to keep the quieter black pickups for another noisy bass I have! The bass comes with an older Alembic power supply that is stereo only, with no mono output. It also comes with a hardshell case and power supply. If interested shoot me an email or something. I will try to post some detail pics later. $1800.00
Michael
(Message edited by dela217 on April 16, 2004)
