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    Kubicki !!!

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    3 hours ago, spectoremg said:

    There's another just popped up on FB bass player market UK from I think an American seller. Blue with a maple board (one of only ten allegedly). $5800!!!

    Good job I don't have that sort of money - blue with maple would be my bass kryptonite :D (that and yellow...)

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    Kubicki !!!

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    27 minutes ago, spectoremg said:

    It's up to £1300 - that £1200 BIN suddenly seems very attractive. Is anyone serious about this? Was gonna bid but I won't if it's pushing the price up for someone else. 

    Nah, gone over what I would have been prepared to pay and @edstraker123 made a good point about hanging on to my EBMM Sterling anyway.

    If it had stayed around or under a grand I would have been mighty tempted at this point - so probably for the best it's gone way over :D

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    Does anyone have a Steinberger Spirit XT?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    @machinehead the carbon fibre extension is pretty impressive - is it something you made yourself, as in, at home, or was it outsourced? One thing I like about the Anygig straphook, and also the Steinberger Synapse hook is that you don't get a twist in the strip once you've put the strap on the hook because the end of the strap rest perpendicular to the hook (same as at the strap button at the other end). I'm wondering whether a combo of your extension and the Anygig/Steinberger type hook would be worth making...

     

    Does anyone have a Steinberger Spirit XT?

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Planemo said:

    Alright chaps

    Well I haven't updated because I had such a mare with my XT2. The one I initially received had a siezed truss rod so it went back and its taken months to get a replacement which arrived only last week, and that was only after I had to put the hammer down and start pressurizing people. I won't go into the details but suffice to say I will never buy from DV247 again unless the item is on the shelf and I can walk away with it.

    Anyway, I have now fitted Franks carbon strap extension and I have to say its awesome. I fitted it differently to Chiliwailer and used the original strap button as the stop rather than the pivot point. This allows the extension to swivel back behind the body when not in use. I put a felt pads behind the pivot and extension button screws so the extension never makes contact with the body (avoids scratches). I countersunk the extension button screw hole and used a countersunk allen head 3mm bolt, secured with a nyloc nut. I also dremmeled a notch into the extension so it can slot nicely into the stock button. It works really well, and there is zero flex from the 4mm carbon. I measured the difference in body position with and without using the extension - using the top screw of the neck pup as a reference point - it shifted the body around 3". Brilliant.

    I am so impressed that I had considered approaching a cabon machinist to see if I can get more extensions made at a reasonable price but I am very mindful that they are Franks design.

    A few pics, particulaly note the elbow angle of my fretting hand - very different!

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    @Chiliwailer Very nice!! But very sorry to hear of your hassles with DV247. Glad they finally came good. My XT2 came from GAK (though they reduced the price about a week after I bought mine... grrrr) and seems OK so far though frets could do with a little bit of attention.


    The straphook I acquired from Anygig should also fold back like you've done on yours. It's shorter than the extension, very similar to the straphook on the Steinberger Syna[se but not quite as well made.
    When I get round to installing it I'll do some pictures...

    If I wasn't mad on.... I think I'd try...

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Impeccable construction, fanned frets were no real problem, lightweight and well balanced, looked very nice, but couldn't get a sound out of my ABZ4 that I liked. Maybe that was down to it being the passive version. Also found the slanted pickups left me nowehere comfortable to play - but that's mostly muscle memory I guess, I maybe would have persevered if I'd liked the sound. Try one though - you may like it... or not :D

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    Kubicki !!!

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    1 hour ago, edstraker123 said:

    The Akai Deep Impact was my holy grail for a period of time - when I finally got one I was completely underwhelmed.  You already know your Sterling will sound much better  !

    Yeah, that's kind of my suspicion - the Sterling is gorgeous, probably the nicest bass I have ever owned... and sound is, pretty much everything I've wanted from a bass. GAS is a harsh mistress :D

    Kubicki !!!

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    2 hours ago, BigRedX said:

    Collection only which may keep the price low and a bargain for anyone prepared/qble to go in person.

    Yeah, I'm contemplating whether a 220 mile roundtrip is worth the effort... that and the fact I'd probably have to sell my EBMM Sterling...

    Kubicki !!!

    in eBay - Weird and Wonderful

    Posted

    Started out as a £1,200 BIN and I was so so tempted (even if it means selling a bunch of stuff...) then someone bid and we'll see where it goes. Based on prices for Kubickis on here it might go for a decemt price, but looking at completed sales on eBay (of which there are only two anyway) it could be severly underpriced. I guess these are rare enough that it's difficult to judge the value. Plus they're kinda weird :D Looking at sound demo videos last night - all anyone seems to do is play slap on them :(

    Rare Basses

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

    Just had a quick shufty through that list and I have to say it's tragically incomplete - none of the various Hohners I own or have owned are on it, it makes no differentiation between Japanese & later MIK etc guitars - and not even their arguably best-known instrument - The MadCat Tele copy, played and made famous by Prince - features.

    Needs work. And consultation with geeks! :D

    Yeah, you'd think Hohner would have better records of their own instruments... maybe a new Hohner thread is in order to try and gather together everything known about B2s Jacks, B basses and all the rest. When I started out playing back around 89-90 I had a Westone Spectrum Series 2 in red, it was... a bass. A mate had a Hohner B Bass (black I think) and, wow, would have loved that bass but so far outside my price range at the time it was unbelievable. Got my first B2A in 95 from the classified ads in the back of the local paper. It was listed as simply a Hohner B2A, no other info, guess you had to know what that meant. He was asking £100 for it and, to be honest I was expecting a bit of a dog at that price - but it was immaculate. Seller was a semi-pro bassist retiring due to arthritis, he just wanted it to go to a good home. I like to think it did, had it as my only bass for nearly 15 years and it travelled a lot. Finally sold it to a friend who was just learning bass - one of my few regrets.

    Rare Basses

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    Yeah, the B2 five-string is definietly worth a mention (and a picture). It doesn't feature in the PDF I linked, but I'm not convinced that everything is in there anyway - there's no mention of the B2A, though the B2A FL is in it... strange omission really.
    The Jack II is a very nice oddity, for which I have plans :D

    Rare Basses

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by anzoid

    Not sure how rare this is - a newly acquired Hohner Jack Bass II. It's passive with a bolt-on neck and PJ pickups. I knew that Hohner did a bolt-on B2, but I've not seen one of these before. Don't think these are the original pickups, but they sound very good. Tone pot does absolutely nothing though :D

    For those interested in old Hohners - found this recently: https://www.hohner.de/fileadmin/documents/service/guitars/Gitarren_Hohner-HistoricalModels.pdf - the Jack Bass II didn't come out until 1991... whereas the (more common?) 4-string Jack Bass was in production from 88 to 93.

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