I live in Copenhagen together with a terrific electric bass guitar – it is an Essence 5, that plays amazingly well, and it is really some experience playing it, because the quality of the instrument makes a shortcut between ideas and the actual sound.
It's actually my girlfriends' bass. She lives here too. She got the bass as a present from her father, who bought the instrument in a guitar shop in New York City some years ago.

I am curious about the wood and everything else that it is made of. I'd love to learn more about this lovely instrument.

Here are a few quick photos of the bass.
Thank you.

Regards,
Tobias

Beautiful essence 

I'm guessing you have a flame maple top over a mahogany body.   Neck is maple with small walnut veneers.  Standard Essence electronics. 

Love that blue !!

Lovely bass and having black body on the back is a cool touch too.

Thank you for your comments.
Yes, it is a nice blue. The back of the body looks almost black on the photo. In brighter light it is a dark azure/blue-green, with visible wood structures.

Interesting to see a mahogany (?) core on an Essence.

Beautiful bass Tobias, my Congratulations & Compliments to your girlfriend. (hopefully this is a shared asset) 

Hi Tobias,

Here's the details about the bass you live with:

serial number: 97K10834
model name: Essence
model number: KLB5
top: Flame Maple
accent: Purpleheart veneer
body: Mahogany
neck: 5-piece Maple with 4 Walnut veneers
scale: 34" long
fingerboard: Ebony
inlays: none
side markers: bronze dots
finish: Saphhire Blue
pickups: MXY56
controls: "Essence" volume, pan, filter, mono output
originally made for: Manny's, NY
birthday: June 16, 1997

The original owner was in New Jersey.

The Essence model originally was only in Flame Maple with a Maple back. A few years into it we opened up to some other restricted wood choices, and now it's custom anything of course

Thank you for taking the time to look in the archive.
It was great to learn more about this cool bass. It even shares the birthday of my band mate's 1-year old son.

I think the original owner was my father in law. He is Norwegian, but perhaps stayed in New Jersey at the time I guess. I remember someone in our family told me he bought it in a "famous guitar shop in New York". That makes sense - Manny's.

Fascinating with all the different kinds of wood used.
What a bass, it makes the world a better place.