Text Box: Carvin 5 string (LB-75).  An E-bay purchase.  This instrument looks good enough to eat, sounds great and plays like a dream (for a 5 string that is).  The fit and finish are impeccable and the woods are first rate.  It took a couple of years of hard practicing to adapt to the low B but I finally have made it my daily driver.  When I pick up the Jazz Bass or the Ric they feel like broomsticks!  It's called a "quilted finish."  I've been told the wood grows that way.

 

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