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[quote name='wesfinn' post='1127775' date='Feb 14 2011, 11:46 PM']I have gone with Suhr vintage pickups which are absolutely fantastic on the stack know circuit. It weighs 9lbs with the allparts neck which isnt particularly nice so Im hoping it will be just under 9lb with my flamed neck! Sounds incredible too and is strung with D'adario chromes flats.[/quote] Awesome work Wes! I'm more than a little envious and a matching p-bass would be the bees proverbials. Any chance of some sound clips?

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='1126311' date='Feb 13 2011, 08:34 PM']Mid 80's 'rays have very little to offer over the current models except mutes and mojo (how about that for the name of a second hand bass shop? ) so the canny buyer has to ask "what am I getting?".[/quote] About 20 years of breaking in and settling?

Thats a remarkably good price, in my favourite finish. As instruments, they have superb necks and overall build quality. The B string wasn't particularly authorative on mine though. You may need to replace the pickups and install a more versatile eq.

One of the nicest Thumb basses I've ever seen! Nice score.

as far as I'm aware, Fender never used basswood on seventies instruments.

MY preEB bass is made up of parts from late 77 and early 78 basses only because I got incredibly lucky with getting an equally mojo'd 77 body on Ebay. The instrument in total cost me 800 quid. All the parts are authentic and accurate for the period. Could I sell it for 1800 quid? No idea and I'm in no hurry to find out. I'm pretty sure a shop would sell it on for that though.

I've got my sound. Its warmth and growly with soft, clean attack like a Ken Smith but with more midrange bark. Other basses I own are for other sounds but MY sound is the one I've created by modding the Spectors.

The heaviest bass I've ever owned was the Alembic Elan 6. It weighed something in the region of 13-14lb.

[quote name='Musicman20' post='1124446' date='Feb 11 2011, 10:17 PM']A HH will give you the option for a big fat neck H tone [/quote] I played one and was hoping to find this, but was bitterly disappointed.

Do you plan to make the finish look as oxidised as Herbies bass?

+1 EB started rationalising and updating the design very subtley once they took over, as the musicman.org site will clearly show. The specification sort of stabilised around the mid 90's.

...or a bit like puberty, you shouldn't avoid it.

I've played one a couple of times and didn't like it. The tone was nasal, lacked lows and reminded me of countless cheap 80's japanese basses with agathis or basswood bodies. Bleuch! OK flameproof coat is on...

I tend to assume all strings are crap so buy the cheapest I can find. I've found the Olympia and Hartke sets pretty damn good value and failing that I'll go for Warwick Red Label. Had them all on the basses for the last 18 months and only changed the main Spector 5's last week because they were getting a little dull, rather than they were dead sounding.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1124143' date='Feb 11 2011, 06:04 PM']I haven't seen a bad quality pre EB yet, crazed finish yes but my 82' is a well made as my 2010, neck pocket and nuns chuff spring to mind on mine [/quote] There were neck issues with SOME (but not all) of the Stingray guitars from around 83 and 84. Leo made them without truss rods in protest at various issues within the company at the time. Not sure if the same issues cropped up with the basses though. There was one '83 bass for sale on here a while back that seemed to be perfectly ok. Best EB basses are late 80's, early 90's IMO. Great build quality as they had something to prove back then. These days I think the company is paying too much attention to superficial aspects and marketing. I think their forum has given them a really distorted view of their potential market and they're losing their way. Give it another 2 years and I expect they'll be loudly trumpeting a back to basics approach.

Not too bad! I noticed Herbies bass has a lot of chipping rather than rubbing wear, maybe because the paint was applied fairly thickly?

Fatboytoo

Plantation Lullabies and Peace Beyond Passion are the best in my view.

I've followed her since her second album, and have seen her live a couple of times. I haven't been so keen with her more recent forays into rock but her attitude is that she's on a journey and you're either with her or not.