Stanley Clarke’s Spellbinder Siblings Exclusive Sale
Two incredible basses built for and played by Stanley Clarke.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own these one-of-a-kind instruments. This offer is for the actual Spellbinder Black & White Sibling basses played by legendary artist Stanley Clarke during the Return To Forever Reunion Tour and the Thunder tour featuring Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten (SMV).
No other models exist. These are the only two of their kind built by Luthier Thomas Lieber. Not only are they incredibly unique basses in their design, sound and look – but they also bear significant historical value.
Born at the same time in 2008, these siblings are nearly identical twins but not quite. Both instruments are 32-inch medium scale. The Black Sibling was designed to be a Standard 4 string bass E, A, D, G set up with string gauges 105 through 45. The White Sibling was deigned as a Tenor 4-string bass A,D,G,C set up with string gauges 077 through 030.
The Spellbinder White Sibling
The White Sibling Tenor Bass (A, D, G, C) has a 32-inch scale with 24 frets. It features a sculpted solid Eastern Maple body incorporating the smaller 1980’s Spellbinder body design.
The neck is comprised of a three piece quatersawn Maple/graphite reinforced laminate with a Gabon Ebony fingerboard and a two way adjustable truss rod. Custom machined chrome plated Solid Brass Bridge and Tailpiece, Graphite string nut. Chrome plated Schaller tuning gears. Neck surface is hand rubbed to a natural patina with oil – not a painted surface.
Electronics: Custom wound chrome plated single coil pickups designed by Kent Armstrong and Thomas Lieber. The sonic thrashing stereo filters were designed and manufactured by John East.
Output jack’s feature : ¼ inch mono and a stereo 5 pin connector compatible with Alembic power supply and pre amps.
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– Low pass filters continuously variable – 70Hz-6.5kHz.
– Overshoot peak control continuously variable – 0-+12dB
Our Tenor bass strings are also custom wound to Stanley’s specification by Richard Cocco of La Bella strings.
Weight totals 7 ½ lbs.
The Spellbinder Black Sibling
The Black Sibling Bass (E, A, D, G,) has a 32-inch scale with 24 frets. It features a sculpted solid Eastern Maple body incorporating the smaller 1980’s Spellbinder body design.
The neck is comprised of a three piece quatersawn Maple/graphite reinforced laminate with a Gabon Ebony fingerboard and a two way adjustable truss rod. Neck dimension at the string nut is slightly larger than the Tenor Bass.
Custom machined chrome plated Solid Brass Bridge and Tailpiece, Graphite string nut. Chrome plated Schaller tuning gears. Neck surface is hand rubbed to a natural patina with oil – not a painted surface.
Electronics: Custom wound chrome plated single coil pickups designed by Kent Armstrong and Thomas Lieber.
The sonic thrashing stereo filters plus two additional treble filters were designed and manufactured by John East. Output jack’s feature: ¼ inch mono and a stereo 5 pin connector compatible with Alembic power supply and pre amps.
– Low pass filters continuously variable – 70Hz-6.5kHz.
– Overshoot peak control continuously variable – 0-+12dB
Our Standard bass strings are also custom wound to Stanley’s specification by Richard Cocco of La Bella strings.
Weight totals 7 ½ lbs.
The instruments are to remain as a set.
Phone: (607) 437-2614
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