Modified Embassy on CL Minneapolis

[Bionic-Joe]

By any chance....do you have any EXTRA nickel T bird pickups??? I need one..

[gearHed289]

All maho basses make nice fretlesses.

Unfortunately that's not true. I had a Hamer Cruisebass back in the 80s that I de-fretted. I never managed to get a good tone out of that thing. Different strings, different pickups, nothing helped. I even considered one of those brass plates for the back of the headstock, but never bothered. I sold it and eventually had my alumi-Kramer de-fretted. Now THAT one kills!

[uwe]

That Hamer was maho neck and body? 

[Hörnisse]

That Hamer was maho neck and body? 

The first series Cruise Basses were all Mahogany.  I like the earliest ones with the West German Schaller branded tuners best!    (they went to Hamer branded tuners/bridges around 1983)

[the mojo hobo]

It arrived safely yesterday. It's definately 1.5" at the nut. The back cover hids a huge counterweight that the bridge id through bolted to. That will probably be the first thing to go as I prefer light weight to lack of neck dive. There was a very slight bit of routing for the jazz pickups, but not enough to show if the proper pickups and trim rings were installed. There is a problem with the wiring though; turning down either volume control down completely turns down both pickups. With the volumes up though it sounds great.

[Barklessdog]

Unfortunately that's not true. I had a Hamer Cruisebass back in the 80s that I de-fretted. I never managed to get a good tone out of that thing. Different strings, different pickups, nothing helped. I even considered one of those brass plates for the back of the headstock, but never bothered. I sold it and eventually had my alumi-Kramer de-fretted. Now THAT one kills!

Same with my Guild b402 fretless with a mahogany body. Just a dead sounding bass.

[the mojo hobo]

It's hard to say anything about the mods without really knowing what state the bass started in.  If the seller started with a shell, then it's fair game from there, but I wouldn't have done DiMarzio pups.

What did you end up paying for it?  The body seems to be in really good shape, however, and completely intact.

From the previous owner:

"guitar had been stripped of all hardware (including frets) when i bought it in 1985.  my intent was to have a fretless that played (and sounded) like my fender jazz so adjusting between songs would be a little more seamless.  the entire guitar had been extensively slathered with exterior enamel paint.  i was able to salvage the serial number - which i needed to provide to the retired master inspector of epiphone production to order the head stock logo.  during refinishing, the serial number became lost and i've since misplaced the envelope i put it in some 25 years ago."

I bought it for $1000.

[Dave W]

You got it for an excellent price. Wiring is fixable and pickups can be replaced with something you want.