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Guild M-85 Bass semi-acoustic bass guitar

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Guild M-85 Bass semi-acoustic bass guitar
Product no: 9000-0009-2530 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

Guild's Newark St. Collection offers a number of modernised guitars that were at the height of popularity back in the '60s. This Guild M-85 bass is a semi-acoustic short-scale bass, very much akin to the M-75 Aristocrat and based on models from the mid-sixties. This black bass is compact, both in regards to scale length (30.75 inches) and body size - it's only 7 cm deep. Thanks to the potent Guild Bi-Sonic Bass pickup and the semi-hollow body, the M085 sounds much bigger than it really is.

Guild M-85 Bass

This semi-hollow body has a laminated spruce archtop with sides and back of laminated maple. An elegant ivory white binding runs along the edges, and you'll find that this bass has a warm, dark sound. You won't get any of that modern punch or overstated overtones, just a nice, old-school sound. The three-part mahogany neck features a vintage soft-U profile for a comfortable grip, and the rosewood fingerboard has 21 frets with pearloid position markers.

Bridge / tailpiece and tuners

The M-85 is a stable instrument, thanks to the combination bridge / tailpiece, which also features rosewood saddles for a woody timbre. You'll enjoy stable tuning with the Grover tuners, which feature striking tuning pegs. The guitar is finished in Jet Black with a glossy polyurethane lacquer. Plenty of bass players are bound to fall for the charms of the Guild M-85, and they'll have fun taking it everywhere in the plushy, lined case that comes with it.

Specifications

Product features

Number of frets	21
Number of strings	4
Active tone control	no
Pickup configuration	H (humbucker in bridge position)
Pickup type	humbucker (passive)
Neck connection	bolt on
Fretboard wood	rosewood
Includes cover	no
Includes case	yes
Colour	black
Country of origin	South Korea
Left-handed	no
Body material	maple + spruce top
Model	Hollow-body bass guitar
Bass guitar scale length	short scale (< 30 inches)
String-thru-body	no
Body type	hollow body

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging)	4,0 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging)	129,0 x 45,0 x 18,0 cm

Product specifications

semi-acoustic short-scale bass guitar
series: Newark St. Collection
finish: Jet Black, polyurethane high gloss
top: laminated spruce, arched
sides and back: laminated maple
neck: vintage soft-U profile
fretboard: rosewood, 305mm radius, pearloid position markers
frets: 21, vintage style
string nut: 1.5 inches (38.1 mm), bone
scale length: 30.75 inches (781 mm)
bridge: Guild Combo bridge / tailpiece with rosewood saddles
tuners: Grover, die-cast
hardware: nickel-plated
strings: D'Addario Custom Light (.045 - .105)
pickup: Guild Bi-Sonic Bass
controls: volume, tone
case included

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