RARE: 1997 Gibson Custom Shop Leland Sklar Black Bass (Ex- Nonnie Rosenberg) Gypsy

Very rare ALL ORIGINAL Gibson Bass with active EMG electronics. Gibson manufactured this for only 1 year; 1997-1998. The bass was designed by Mike McGuire and  It resembled a Fender bass with its double cutaway solid body. It came with a bolt-on 21 fret neck with a rosewood fretboard. The headstock had 4 on a side tuners with unusual beveling. The bass scale was 34”. The hardware was chrome plated. The 3 controls were volume blend and tone. The bass had two EMG split coil – P-Bass style pickups. The bass comes with a hipshot low E tuner that allows the low E to be dropped to D with a flip of a switch.

This guitar was gifted by Gibson in 1998 to Nonnie Rosenberg of the famous Rosenberg Trio. He owned and used it (25 years) until this month when I traded it from him.

THIS GUITAR HAS NO SERIAL NUMBER WHICH COULD HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH GIBSON GIFTING THIS GUITAR. As I can't find much info on this topic online.

This baby had a lot of stagetime with the world's best gypsy jazz bass player of the world! (See attached video) so it comes with weatherchecking and normal playwear. It still has Nonnie's flatwounds and plays marvellous with them. All original very rare guitar from the Gibson Custom Shop.