Jacqueline TB2 32-Inch Medium-Scale Bass in Pearl Gray with Fralin Big Single T-Bird Pickup Set (Passive) and V/V/T (Passive) Electronics

Offbeat Guitars "Jacqueline" 32" Scale Bass in Pearl Gray dyed finish on textured Eastern White Pine, featuring a Cherry Medium Scale Neck with a Wenge Fretboard, Custom Fralin Big Single T-bird Passive Pickups, Gotoh Res-O-Lite Tuners, Gotoh Vintage-Style, Solid Brass Bridge, DR Dragon Skin Strings, and Aged Hardware.

I find it interesting that medium scales aren't more popular than they are. As someone who played mostly 34" scale basses for 25 years and switched to predominately short scales for the last 15 years, I feel like it's kind of the "Goldilocks" of scale lengths. It doesn't feel like a huge change like going from a 34" scale to a 30" scale, but you play this one all night instead of a 9.5+ lb. Jazz bass, and you'll have a lot more energy at the end of the gig to wrestle that SVT back into your vehicle. You might even have enough energy to help the drummer load their kit into their vehicle. (I am so kidding about that.)

The bass body is made from knotty and textured Eastern White Pine with a dyed Pearl Gray finish. The pickups are Fralin Big Single T-bird set that we have custom made for us. These pickups have a fat single coil tone in a hum-cancelling package. They are based on Fralin's hum-cancelling P-90 design, just without the screw slugs, giving it a smoother attack. They have definitely become my new favorite pickup set.

The 21 fret cherry neck with a wenge fretboard features carbon fiber stiffening rods. The nut width is a Jazz bass sized 1.5", and the finish is a satin oil/poly blend. The neck gets sanded to 600 grit, while we bullet nose the fret ends and polish them to a smooth 12,000 grit. All of which makes it a real joy to play.

A set of DR Dragon Skin coated round wound strings runs between a Gotoh vintage-style, solid brass bridge over a Tone Ninja nut to a set of Gotoh Res-O-Lite tuners.

The bass weighs in at a nice and light 7.1 lbs, but it balances perfectly on a strap thanks to the lightweight Res-O-Lite tuners (and also because it's a short-scale, in case you missed that earlier).

The bass comes with a 20mm padded Gator 4G gig bag.