Guild Ashbory Bass, USA Made!

A very late 80's Guild Ashbory Bass, the original rubberband stringed bass! made in the USA by Guild. The serial number is either AJ-07 or AJ-97, stamped on the back of the headstock.  One of only 1235 original piece made in the USA by Guild!
It is in very, very good condition, no dings or dents at all. Some very minor surface scratches, but nothing that would show up on a picture.  NO serious cracks, marks or finish blemishes at all! Super clean because I owned it! (owner of Music Castle) Comes with the original Guild gigbag. We were a dealer for these when they first came out, and this piece was one of our stock pieces that I kept and used.
AND! I am including a boatlaod of strings for it. Looks to be about 4 full, new sets and a dozen or more singles, some used, some new.

Brief History of the Ashbory Bass: 

In 1985, Alun Ashworth-Jones, a maker of transducer pickups for guitars, notices by accident that a rubber band over a transducer makes substantial bass notes. He builds a very crude test mule to prove the concept, then contacts luthier Nigel Thornbory and after a couple of days he creates the predecessor to the Ashbory bass, which shortly after is improved with the use of rubber O rings to replace the rubber bands. The bass debuts at the Barbican Guitar Exhibition in London where it catches the ear of CF Martin IV, who commissions prototypes for the Martin Guitar Company. Prototypes are made, and research was also centered on development of better strings. Sometime after, a small amount of Ashborys were built by Thornbory. These lead to exposure and media praise.

Things fell through with C. F. Martin Guitars, but George Gruhn was familiar with the Ashbory and managed to introduce the instrument to Guild. Ashworth-Jones and Thornbory later visited the Guild Factory in Westerly, Rhode Island to collaborate on production and at the 1987 NAMM show in Aneheim, California, the Ashbory was introduced. Guild had undergone some ownership changes and the licensing for the Ashbory was terminated in 1988 or 1989, with a reported 1235 units of total production.

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