1960s “Conrad” Matsumoku bass. This is a wonderful medium-scale Japanese bass out of the legendary Matsumoku factory. It has a new rosewood fingerboard, frets, bone nut, tuners and electronics, the truss rod has been upgraded to a contemporary double-acting rod, and spiffy new woodburned pickguard. At some earlier point someone replaced the tuners with Schallers and it was an excellent move - at this point it’s an absolute joy to tune, play, and hear. It has that thumpy, beefy vintage single-coil sound and a very solid feel in hand.