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Was this actually a production model?

http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/msg/2749072033.html

I have seen the guitar version of that but never the bass version. Cool!

yes,i have seen these before,it looks like a gibson sg type body and has the auld world acorn carving. i have not played one,however. is this model all that different from the fretless guild that Chris Squire played? (i don't remember his having acorns.....)

Yep, Chris has acorns. BIG acorns...

d'oh! (groans)

That was, indeed, a production model, the earliest ones did not have the Lemmy stuff on it.

you said "lemmy stuff", *snicker*....

The first fretless I ever played was a fretless version of that model that was hanging in a store. A couple days later I dragged my EB0 over to my luthier and told him to tear off the fingerboard and install a fretless one.

That is a later JS-II, with humbuckers. Some folks like those pickups, most of us Guilders prefer the earlier Bisonics or replacement Darkstars. Wonderful thin necks, great sound with flats. Hugely "articulate" but unforgiving.

I had one back in the late 70's but because of the wood saddles on the tail pease, it was a lil too dul sounding for me. i replaced it w/a leo quan bad arss bridge and used it for a good while. wish i'ld left it original and kept it. very nice and well made bass.