SR5000SM with saman, walnut & basswood body and Oil finish (more images)
The SR5000SM is a Soundgear series solid body electric bass model introduced by Ibanez for 1996. It was produced in Japan by FujiGen as the initial Soundgear model in the upscale Prestige line. It was also referred to as simply the SR5000.
The SR5000SM has a special arched, double-cutaway nine-piece body constructed of three pieces of saman separated by 5mm strips composed of basswood/ walnut/ basswood which is bolted to a bubinga and wenge SR4 neck with a 24-fret wenge fingerboard with abalone oval position markers and a "Custom Made" inlay at the 24th fret. The headstock features a striped ebony veneer and a valoot. Components include individually mounted Mono-rail fixed bridges with a D-tuner on the bass (E) string, a pair of Ibanez Active Full Range (AFR) active P/J pickups channeled through a Vari-mid preamp with a 3-band EQ and sweepable mid-frequency crossover control, a graphite nut, pearl gold hardware and deluxe Gotoh tuning machines.
The SR5005SM is a five string version. The SR5000MM is a similar model with mahogany in place of saman in the body construction. The SR5000MPW is a similar model with a seven-piece maple, walnut and bubinga body. The SR5000MW is a related model with a mahogany, walnut and bubinga body and different electronics.