visog

Well I'm not short of opinions! Probably wont get to try one until BD get a sixer or the Manchester Bass Guitar show next March. Suspect the six will be in the order of £3.5 kilopounds. Possible more if Brexit actually happens.

So minor pedantic point is that you posted in 'Bass Guitars' which may not get you the best response compared with 'General' or 'Technique' forums. So admin out of the way, go tell your guitar player to f**k off. As long as you play the music, technique is secondary. And your technique whilst uncommon, is not unusual and I suggest you seek out the work of Damien Erskine to see how far you can take it. He's written a whole book on it called, 'Right-hand Drive' and he incorporates fingers 1 & 2 together with the thumb to get some serious dynamics and expression down. Some of his lines are phenomenal.

I think this is a case of try one to see if it suits you. On paper it doesn't look good: £2,900+ for an off-shore build and a shape that looks like garden implement. But I suspect the standing weight, and sitting positions, together with that compound neck and fan frets will tell a different story. If your value proposition is ergonomic - you have to try one! Keen to hear feedback from that perspective?

Very nice. Agree with all the posters previously. Built like tanks!

My knobs are different to yours (!) but I'm confident both sets are the originals from Bernie. I've tried a few GBs with your style knobs and I think it's just a case of him running out of them for mine. I certainly didn't specify a smaller knob! With regards to being out-Spitfired - I wouldn't over-think it - they're all built to a very high standard and beyond that, have their own personality. That six-bolt neck joint Bernie helped popularise isn't going anywhere and I think the electronics are the same. Enjoy your GB.

Here we go... I'm ashamed as pics prior to Jon Shuker's wonderful wash and brush-up, had half a cat and dog collected around the pick-ups... Bernie has some pics of my bass on his site too: http://www.gbguitars.co.uk/gb_spitfire_gallery3.asp Mine's the second to last row right (Spitfire 5 with matching ramp) and then the first of the last row showing the through-neck. Specs I think is the same as yours. Mine's a 35" scale too and assumed yours would be. Not sure if I've not played yours at Bernie's (which was the inspiration for my purchase).

Thanks all for input. I've clarified that the you can freeze on the Oceans 11 itself (without an external pedal) and I like the sounds of the Shimmer too as I recognise @radiophonic's points about the tone on the HoF2. Still open to suggestions though so keep them coming. Will report back when I get round to sourcing one...

@mattbass6 Just think how much better this bass will make you! With this Excalibur, you'll realise your full potential that previous puny instruments have held back from you... Or another way of looking at it is, Jaco did all his stuff on a $90 second-hand Jazz bass. Paul McCartney played a Hofner which has the playability of potato and doesn't even stay in tune much past the seventh fret. Also a starting price of 2.5 kilo-pounds is pretty steep for an off-shore build. Full disclosure - I'll want one too when they do a six - coming soon apparently.

Good luck. Heard good things about these basses...

Hell yeah!

Crikey that's a looker! Just like mine 😁

Can't wait. The Manchester shows were great. Last one I attended I saw Billy Sheehan, Victor Bailey (RIP) and tried beautiful basses from Shuker (Dan Veil's 7-string monster) and Goodfellow. Well done all involved...

You'd be mad to move a Fodera or Pedulla anywhere but BC... And if you own such a bass, I don't believe you wouldn't be aware of this...

Thanks MrTea, Loved your work with Hannibal and the team. Yes this looks good. I've since found the ElectroHarmonics Oceans 11 does both too but you need and external footswitch to freeze. Will investigate further. Visog

Great video... the clean sounds work best for me. Seems to be a running theme of preamps like this that have a frankly nasty (not in a good way) fuzz.

Is there such a beast? Pedal me a solution...

Yes, don't disagree - a bit like Foderas in that regard but I think this BD 'bic is from new. So if and when the purchaser of this bass decides to move it on, I don't see it holding its value - at least in the short-term. Five much better 'bic deals here (@ the time of posting): https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass

The first double-neck Warwick (only?) I ever saw was at the Bass Centre thirty-odd years ago. I think it was ex-Colin Hodgkinson and so obviously left-handed. And maybe it was a Wal. Hmm, no fairly sure it was a Warwick.

Well it's gone! http://www.bassdirect.co.uk/bass_guitar_specialists/Alembic_basses.html £27k in the end... Don't know who to? That's over £6k a string!

Some hardcore GB porn... EBS_Freak - you referenced a through-neck Spitfire so here we go with a cross-over to Jon Shuker who set-it up with the strings underneath the frets as John Entwistle would have it. (I would have gone to Bernie of course but I'm 300 miles from him and it's just over the Derbyshire hills to Jon.)

Hmm... potentially a good a deal but... what's the provenance? Is it structurally sound? Proceed with caution.

Gumpf!