Whut the....?

[lungimsam]

Black and red opaque are my least favorites.
I have sworn off opaque finishes.
I want to see the wood grain!!
So bursts, natural, and walnut are good.

 

[davismanLV]

This is a very fun thread, but @fronobulax's "One Bass To Rule Them All" comment kinda killed me! Thanks for that!! Now.... as you were bassists....

 

[lungimsam]

I really wish they would do an NS M-85 with a neck position Bisonic and preferably any finish BUT black. I would 100% for sure buy one.

Voila:

FS - 1972 Guild M85-II Bass (Cherry)

1972 Guild M-85 II Bass, AKA the Sheryl Crow bass, additionally it's the same kind of bass used by Prescot Niles from The Knack's to record My Sherona. This one is a very early solid-body example. Cherry Finish over a Mahogany Body, Two Humbucking Pickups, Chesterfield Guild Headstock Inlay, and...

letstalkguild.com

 

[fronobulax]

Voila:

FS - 1972 Guild M85-II Bass (Cherry)

1972 Guild M-85 II Bass, AKA the Sheryl Crow bass, additionally it's the same kind of bass used by Prescot Niles from The Knack's to record My Sherona. This one is a very early solid-body example. Cherry Finish over a Mahogany Body, Two Humbucking Pickups, Chesterfield Guild Headstock Inlay, and...

letstalkguild.com

Not Newark Street (so vintage priced and less compatible with value changing mods).

The seller chronicled some of the search for that instrument here.

I think what @mellowgerman wanted was more like a NS version of



(which belongs to @The Guilds of Grot and I have played )

 

[mellowgerman]

Yes indeed, I want a hollow or semi-hollow M85 with a Bisonic in the neck position (no bridge pickup required). I already have a 1976 Hagstrom Swede bass that I'm quite fond of, which is similar to the solid-body M85 in many ways.

 

[edwin]

Thanks, mellow. I appreciate the response. Sorting this mess has always been on the list to do. The guitar pickup sounds bad, the second three way switch is complicated beyond belief. I just set it to pure bisonic and that's it. Ideally I'd find a piece of wood or pick guard material or something to cover the hole the guitar pickup would leave. Then the tone suck circuit... it's a circus. Some day. After all that I might likely just play the neck pickup anyway.

Might as well go full Alembic series!