1980's ACME Custom Bass

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1980's ACME Custom Bass

What can I say about this one... It's a one-of-a-kind ACME bass, built for New York Musican/Producer Eli Janney, and was used throughout the 1990's on tour with Janney's band Girls Against Boys. It has a palm-tree motif (think National Style O) etched on to the galvanized tin top, an MDF back and wooden sides. The whole thing is held together by 7 bolts through the body. There are all kinds of machined aluminum parts on - and in - it, from the wing headstock thing, to fingerboard "dots", and the overall effect is that of a second year art-school-meets-industrial-design project. It's fitted with EMG Select pickups, Schaller tuners, and a broken truss-rod. It plays, albeit slightly difficultly, and sounds good. Have a peek at those sound-holes - E and J for Eli Janney!
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1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass
  • 1980's ACME Custom Bass

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