1979 Odyssey 4 string
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 12:04 am
I'm cleaning out the closet a bit to raise funds for another bass. This is a very rare bass made by Odyssey, a defunct company from Vancouver BC (not to be confused with the Italian company using the name these days). I've never seen another lefty Odyssey of this type.
Passive bass (controls are vol/vol/tone/tone/pickup selector), neck thru, (I believe) mahogany and maple construction, ebony fingerboard, brass bridge, Bartolini pickups (I think they're called Hi A pickups?).
The good:
This bass sounds huge, with a very clear, piano like tone. Resonant and loud unplugged sound.
This is the closest you'll get to a passive Gibson bass sound in a lefty package.
The bass is a tank. You could chop a man in half with it and it'll still play fine. But don't.
The bad:
The bass is well played and has lots of finish wear, scratches, dings and checking. The pics don't do a good enough job showing the wear, I'll take more picky pictures of the wear asap.
The bass was (of course) played by a righty, so it has the obligatory bottom horn hole for another strap button, and the nut (which is brass) had the G string groove widened to accommodate the E string. i put a bit of paper under the string and it plays without buzzing for me, but obviously it was a quick (lazy) fix on my part and you should get a new nut if you want it 100%, but it plays fine as is.
I don't know the exact weight of the bass, but it is heavy. I'd guess around 10 lbs.
It has a fat neck profile that you'll be fine with if you play P basses, but for guys who regularly play a 1.5" nut width neck (like me) it feels big.
I guess this seems weird to me because I expect tiny sleek necks on boutique-y basses, having a P feeling neck seemed odd to me.
It was not made with side dots, so it has had them dotted on with white paint, on both sides of the neck.
Ultimately this is a very nice bass that has been well played. Not a pristine collector's piece by any means.
I'm asking $950 plus shipping for this bass. The only other two examples of the same model I could find were righty ones, one fretted for $1500 and one fretless for $1400.
Passive bass (controls are vol/vol/tone/tone/pickup selector), neck thru, (I believe) mahogany and maple construction, ebony fingerboard, brass bridge, Bartolini pickups (I think they're called Hi A pickups?).
The good:
This bass sounds huge, with a very clear, piano like tone. Resonant and loud unplugged sound.
This is the closest you'll get to a passive Gibson bass sound in a lefty package.
The bass is a tank. You could chop a man in half with it and it'll still play fine. But don't.
The bad:
The bass is well played and has lots of finish wear, scratches, dings and checking. The pics don't do a good enough job showing the wear, I'll take more picky pictures of the wear asap.
The bass was (of course) played by a righty, so it has the obligatory bottom horn hole for another strap button, and the nut (which is brass) had the G string groove widened to accommodate the E string. i put a bit of paper under the string and it plays without buzzing for me, but obviously it was a quick (lazy) fix on my part and you should get a new nut if you want it 100%, but it plays fine as is.
I don't know the exact weight of the bass, but it is heavy. I'd guess around 10 lbs.
It has a fat neck profile that you'll be fine with if you play P basses, but for guys who regularly play a 1.5" nut width neck (like me) it feels big.
I guess this seems weird to me because I expect tiny sleek necks on boutique-y basses, having a P feeling neck seemed odd to me.
It was not made with side dots, so it has had them dotted on with white paint, on both sides of the neck.
Ultimately this is a very nice bass that has been well played. Not a pristine collector's piece by any means.
I'm asking $950 plus shipping for this bass. The only other two examples of the same model I could find were righty ones, one fretted for $1500 and one fretless for $1400.
. Cool bass!