Lakland SL 44-94 Shoreline Series

For your consideration my Lakland 44-94 which is a Shoreline Series made by ESP in Japan in 2010. They're built exclusively for domestic market and combine Skyline (Hipshot licensed tuning pegs, regular and not quartersawn necks) and USA specs (graphite reinforced neck). 

The bass shows some signs of wear, but it's what you'd expect from a 10-year old bass being taken care of. Alder body and super comfortable to play, as it's light (4kg / 8.9 lbs), perfectly balanced and with a super fast neck (nut width: 38mm). Action is pretty low (2mm above 12th fret), no dead-spots, no fretbuzz anywhere. Neck's super stable, it just stay like this when season changes. Trussrod has loads of margin's left. Overall it's an instrument which received the same craftmanship and attention to detail as an American-made Lakland. 

As for tone, it's an amazing instrument. I dig the maple-alder combo, it naturally got the extra-sparkle and these sweet low-mids. Combined with Hanson/Lakland preamp and pickups, (Master volume / Blend / Bass / Mid / Treble and bridge coil selector), it's super effective. There are so many different tones in there ! Neck PU is thumpier and with more midrange than your 'usual' neck pickup on a jazz bass, and there many ways to use it with the quite versatile bridge pickup. Blend knob is super efficient. The bass nails the jazz 70s tones to me, and you can get pretty close to how a Stingray or a Precision sounds in a mix.

Choosing your mids frequency with dip-switches inside the cavity is icing on the cake. It's possible to choose a 250Hz center-frequency, and use your mids knob to get tighter or fatter bass tone in the mix... Brilliant !

It comes with an ESP gig-bag in nice condition, 45-105 fresh Lo-Rider strings. £1250 / 1380€ shipped to your door in European countries. These basses do sell for JPY 330 000 new in Japan (you can find it easily with google Lakland SL 44-94 ESP).