1993 Kubicki Factor Bass

A key figure in the history of the electric guitar, Philip Kubicki worked alongside Roger Rossmeisl in the Fender R&D department, ushering in the Kingsman and Concert acoustic guitars, LTD and Montego archtops as well as the Thinline and Rosewood Telecasters before leaving in 1971 to pursue his own guitar projects, culminating in the Factor Bass. First seen in the hands of John Taylor of Duran Duran on Saturday Night Live in 1985, the bass quickly found favor with luminaries such as Stu Hamm and Vail Johnson. Its got a very rare Dark Blue Metallic finish in great shape. The neck is made of 34 pieces of hard rock maple & designed to be stiffer to counteract the weight of the vibrating string and is glued perpendicular to the ebony fingerboard to provide some glue joint tension and thus resist twisting. This particular example was made in August of 1993 (the last four digits of the serial #  denote month and year). Tuning is done via a patented tuner/bridge module where the string is held in a ratcheted wheel with fine tuning done via the tuning knobs. The pickups are Kubicki designed humcancelling pickups that work both active and passive. As this is a Phil Kubicki made bass, the active circuitry operates at 18v (those licensed by Fender between 1988 and 1991 utilized a 9v active circuit) A rotary control lets you select between two active modes and three passive with a mute function. Overall she’s quite excellent overall & comes in its original black tolex square case.