1981 Gibson Victory Standard Bass silver

Good condition, 6,5/10, Made in USA, weight is 5.10kg, single pickup model, all original parts except for one replaced knob, some fret wear, worn edges of the body, yellowed top coat of a cool golden effect over the silver finish, rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, more info: The Gibson Victory bass Standard was launched in 1981, It was designed by the then Research and Development team. The team was headed by Bruce Bolen, but the actual body/neck design was by Chuck Burge, and the electronics by Tim Shaw. Stylistically, it was unlike any previous Gibson bass, asymmetrical with a deep lower cutaway, allowing access to the 24 frets, only the Thunderbird-esque headstock suggesting its heritage. It was Gibson's attempt to woo Fender Precision players. Chuck explains "It should be indistinguishable as to playability - where everything is, from a Fender P bass. Because they were doing it right, and everybody liked that" It had it's share of improvements too though. It was Gibson's first two-octave long-scale bass, and the first to have a rectangular steel bar either side of the truss rod, to increase 'Structural rigidity'. They were the first basses to feature the TRI-4 wedge bridge - This was a sturdy design, sitting flat against the guitar body and held in place with just three screws. It was the first Gibson bass bridge to offer 3-way adjustment of each saddle, allowing perfect intonation, height and side-to-side positioning of each string. Intonation is set by turning the screws at the rear of the bridge unit. As publicity at the time states: 'the mass of the heavily chromed, die cast, bridge/tailpiece adds appreciably to the brilliance and sustain of the Victory bass guitars'. And it came with the series VIIIB humbuckers. The Victory standard pickup used thinner diameter wire than the Artist, in order to produce more mid-range and presence. According to Gibson, "due to the exceptional efficiency and balance characteristics of this new design pickup, no adjustable pole pieces are necessary". instead of using the traditional side by side placement of the humbucking pickup coils, and "end to end" coil placement design is incorporated. This enables each string to pass over only one coil of the pickup producing the pure, sweet, full frequency response of a true single coil pickup. However the pickups incorporate standard "humbucking" wiring to cancel the unwanted noise and hum frequencies unfortunately inherent in a simple coil pickup design. // Model: Victory Standard Pickups:1 series VIIIB humbucker (3 core wire - red, black, white - small diameter coil Electronics: Passive Scale: 34 Body: Eastern hard rock maple. Neck Three-ply maple neck with rosewood fretboard. Offset dot inlays. Width at nut 1.6875". Hardware: One volume, one tone control, series/parallel switch, Gotoh machine head Finish:Silver