As WezV as hinted, Santa was good to me this year. My Bravewood Jazz Bass arrived on Christmas Eve. It is brilliant! It is finished in burgandy mist (with matching headstock), and is a stackpot 61 bass. The feel is awesome and the sound is totally perfect. It is by far the best Jazz bass I ever played and it gives my 66 Precision a run for it's money. It has a set of BK Jazz Bass pickups and I can say that once again Tim has produced an amazing set of pickups. However the star of all this has to be John Elliott who made the bass. To say that the bass is a relic is to really demean it. Not only does it look old but it feels it too. When you pick the bass up to play it feels like this is the 10,000th time that it has been plugged in and it is all ready to hold down the bottom end once more. I have lots of original old guitars and all I can say is that there is some sort of Cornish magic happening here. Once you pick up the bass you can't put it down. The sound doesn't have the bottom end growl of my Precision, but it has a smooth even tone that you can hear on all the old James Jamerson Motown riffs through to Jaco Pastorius and can still get into the more modern sounds that Jazz Basses have been famous for through the years. The pictures don't really do it justice but here are a few.
