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Travis Bean TB2000 Aluminum Neck Bass — SHORT SCALE PROTOTYPE #00! - $3,999 (Richmond)

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condition: excellent
make / manufacturer: Travis Bean
model name / number: TB2000 Short Scale Prototype

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IT'S A TINY TRAVIS BEAN! Lil' Travie! Prototype, serial #00 stamped into the headstock. About as cool as it gets, but this one just isn't getting played as much as it deserves. This is a 2019 Travis Bean TB2000 in "Stormtrooper White" made as a prototype for replicating the two short scale basses Travis Bean made for Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones in the 70s (which is interesting because this is not at all a bass I would associate with that kind of music). Two were originally made for Bill, and I read four (including this initial prototype) have been made since. First short scale Travis Bean made since the Rolling Stones two made in the 70s, thanks to Electrical Guitar Company (EGC) buying the Travis Bean rights and resurrecting these sick instruments. Second pic for size comparisons, it's even shorter than a Mustang Bass overall but the full size body means it doesn't look dinky on you. You'll quite literally never see one of these again...

This is the only short scale bass I've ever played that sounds as big, growly, and aggressive as a full scale bass. It just sounds like a Travis Bean... if you know, you know. It's like a Rickenbacker 4001 on steroids. The pickups are super growly, defined, clear, high output, punchy, percussive, electric. The neck pickup is surprisingly fat and sounds great with the tone rolled off, but I think (like me) you'll just live on the bridge pickup and play with a pick for some heavy heavy sounds and just play Conduit by Russian Circles over and over until your fingers are raw. The pickups are bolted directly to the single piece of aluminum that's the neck and center block of the bass, which the bridge is also directly bolted to. It kinda forms like... one resonant thing, and the metal interacts with the pickups, and the strings, and it really forms like a closed system that leads to HUGE amounts of harmonic content and sustain. Like almost infinite sustain. Which are absolutely not qualities you normally associate with a short scale bass, right?

You can play whatever you want on it, but if you are into heavy music and wish you could play it on a short scale bass that's just way easier to play and get around on... this could be the one for you.

Great condition, zero issues, set up well and plays like a charm. Comes with a heavy duty custom-made flight case for it, which you definitely want if you're touring with it cuz it's not like there are cases for a short scale Travis Bean anywhere. It's relatively indestructible being mostly aluminum (ever seen a TB with a headstock repair? haha), but it's even more indestructible with the flight case.

$3999 — not cheap, but I'm pricing it at about the same price more ordinary newer TB2000s sell for used. Except you won't exactly find another one of these, because there's only a handful of short scale TB2000s ever made in the last 50 years. Could be open to trades or partial trades for vintage/interesting guitars/basses/synths, but mostly just looking to sell.

Who says cool gear doesn't pop up in Richmond?!

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