Vintage VJ74NAT Bass, Natural Ash Overview
With its defined sound and incredible playability, the Vintage VJ74 ReIssued bass has gained a reputation as a solid and dependable workhorse with a wide ranging versatility.
Inspired by classic designs, this VJ74's Ash body feels tight and comfortable, and provides excellent resonance and tone, which when coupled with the Hard Maple bolt on neck and its 20 Medium profile frets, combines to create an instantly playable instrument.
Pickups are two Wilkinson WOJB single coil pickups providing ultimate clarity and articulation, which can easily be manipulated by way of the two Volume and one tone controls. A Wilkinson three saddle compensated brass bridge provides improved intonation all over the fretboard, while a 38mm white graphite nut and Wilkinson WJBL200 machine heads ensure smooth, and stable tuning.
FeaturesSlapped, plucked or picked, the Vintage VJ74 Maple fingerboard Natural Ash bass. is a real winner.
What Vintage say:
Ash as has often been described as a complete ‘musical tree’ and, along with alder, has been the popular tonewood choice for building bass guitars for decades, including the outstanding Vintage VJ4 Series of ReIssued bass guitars.
The Vintage VJ74 ReIssued bass has a reputation as a workhorse bass guitar with professional, semi-professional and bass players around the world who just love its defined sound and playability.
Solid ash is the perfect choice for the body, not only to support the solid construction, but for this popular tonewoods ability to distribute an equally fine balance of high, and low frequencies, with a slightly scooped mid-range, delivered uncoloured to a pair of Wilkinson WOJB single coil pickups which enhance this tight, piano-like tone, with extended clarity and articulation.It goes without saying that ash of course with its wide distinctive grade pattern, looks stunning to the eye under a skilfully applied clear translucent finish, seen here on the VJ74 Maple fingerboard Natural Ash bass.
Pair ash with the VJ74’s bolt-on, hard rock maple neck and maple fingerboard with classic black, block fretboard position markers and you know you just can’t go wrong, for rocky-blues bass, or, just wind the tone control back a tad and enter a whole new world of jazzy, mellow soothing bass lines. This classic bass design continues with chrome plated pickup and bridge cover, while smooth, open-geared Wilkinson machine heads and a friction free white graphite precision cut nut, ensure tuning stability. The addition of revolutionary Wilkinson designed three-saddle, compensated brass bridge, increases sustain and improves string intonation.
The sonic versatility of this classic bass design with its timeless style, has proven itself over the years as the perfect bass for practically any style of music and, with its characteristic narrow neck design and medium weight tonewood construction, playing a 2 hour gig is just not a problem.
