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kungfusheriff
Senior Member Username: kungfusheriff
Post Number: 428 Registered: 8-2003
| Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 11:04 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
Member Username: yggdrasil
Post Number: 85 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 11:58 am: | |
what pickups are those? |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 2682 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 12:05 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
Junior Username: longhorncat
Post Number: 29 Registered: 8-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 02, 2005 - 12:43 pm: | |
I emailed the seller. The serial number has been filed off. |
kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364
Post Number: 1360 Registered: 9-2003
| Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 6:21 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. |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 2685 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 6:50 am: | |
There is a Persuader on the stolen instruments page. |
kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364
Post Number: 1397 Registered: 9-2003
| Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 7:38 am: | |
Could it be the same one? |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 2704 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 12:32 pm: | |
I have been informed that it is not the same one. |