The Last Bass Outpost

The bass came in on Sunday, no issues to speak of other than the missing knob.  Still has the plastic film on the cavity cover!
It just needed the truss rod tightened up a bit, and then I raised the saddles a hair.  Nice action, but there is a slight rise where the fretboard lays on the body.  Nice & light also, maybe about 7 lb.
The neck is very wide though, which I'm not a big fan of, so I most likely won't use it much or may just pass it on.  Anyway, I think I got a pretty good deal on it, so I'm happy.

I won this Ric Plexi TRC and it's a US-only shipping, can anyone please receive this beauty and send it to me in Israel? I'll need your shipping address... Thx

BTW is says "sold for $200" but he accepted my offer for $150, I couldn't pass

I can do it for you.  I'm in Texas.  I'll PM u.

Nice looking bass. I like those natural finish IVs. I kind of half agree with Uwe - black does look good against the maho. But nothing beats chrome tuners on a black headstock. My cherry sunburst Guild Pilot 5 currently has a black bridge and chrome tuners. Kind of messes with my OCD, but when it was time to replace the old Gotohs, I couldn't get myself to buy black ones. 

That's an idea, but I'll most likely just leave it stock.  While I'm no fan of black hardware, it does look sorta elegant against the natural mahogany, and I got plenty axes with chrome. 

Looks like there's chrome strap buttons on there though.  Gibson, they can never fully commit. 

Thank you for the responses.  Just bought this one on Reverb, should get it Saturday.  I may have to go full chrome on this one.   

Anyone got side-by-side pics of 760's and Chinabuckers (or EY or HK 'buckers)?  I have Chinabuckers on hand but unfortunately no 760's (excluding original '60s 760's).

Looks like you could hide a body in that bag.

No idea what Gibson was thinking with this one.  I bet it'd be great for a long-scale 335 bass, but unfortunately I don't own one and would probably have a hard case for it if I did.   

Here's what I wrote down years ago.  These are taken from my own measurements, not the actual specs, so there's some variation.  Looking at these numbers now, I suppose it would only take a slight amount of "clearancing" to fit the bar bridge to the Tilt-O-Matic posts.

The blue stain guitar was only really blue on about 1/3rd of the body, the rest looked closer to black.

My blue bass is also pretty dark, but at least the 3-piece body is well-matched, so I'm happy about that.  I once bought a new cherry-finish Firebird Tribute model that had a 4-piece body (if I remember right), and one small piece near the knobs stuck out like a sore thumb, way darker than the rest.  Sent it back.  That wasn't the only reason though, it neither felt good nor sounded good.  Ordered another one from a different retailer and got a good one, still have it.