nerkoids

Still waiting on mine. How are they, blablas? I know they had an issue with using the wrong spaced bridges not long ago, it seems yours has the correct bridge.

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1719376641721256/ Cory Mura, a huge Harley Benton booster, had a chat with the folks at Thomann and they agreed that if he could poll his viewers for which models to offer, they'd take the top 5. From Cory himself: [color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]LEFTIES LEFTIES LEFTIES!! [/font][/color][color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][font=inherit][size=1][/size][/font][/font][/color] [color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]I NEED THE TOP 5 of Harley Bentons LEFTIES want to have and HB will make them! (Existing HB models of course please!)[/font][/color] [color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]If you know a lefty guitar player, bring him/her here!!![/font][/color] [color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]NOW is the time! seriously! Voting until the 7th of september.[/font][/color] [color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]START[/font][/color] [color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]You do have to join the group in order to vote, but I think it might be worth it, folks.[/font][/color] [font="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"][color="#1d2129"]I added the PB-50 as a poll option (but instead of 3tsb and a black guard, I requested either Fiesta Red or Seafoam Green with a white guard)[/color][/font] [color=#1D2129][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]This might be our chance to get a Tele-bass, people![/font][/color] [attachment=252182:fiesta_red-P-bass.jpg][attachment=252183:seafoam-P-bass.jpg]

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1489508459' post='3257534'] Just want to let my good brother nerkoids know I've once again asked the Harley Benton players to email Thomann regarding the lack of left handed models. [/quote] That's mighty left of you :-)

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1489135291' post='3254554'] the only reason anyone gets upset when they're insulted about anything is because they feel inferior about it ... [/quote] Oh, I think there are several other reasons, and not all of them have to do with not being able to grow a thick skin...

I've once been the recipient of the notion that if I can't adapt to play right handed like supposed normal people should, that I simply don't have the talent to learn any stringed instrument and should not bother. (I've seen that mentality being used on one of my nieces too. She still can't play that 700 dollar guitar her father bought her on the ridiculous 'advice' of a guitar teacher that wouldn't accept left-handed students). I told them where to stick that notion. They retorted with some nonsense about all other types of instruments are right-handed for a reason and that I should stop complaining. Some of them even bring religion into it, imagine that.

mcarp555's lefty '67 Jazz bass... something like that... Macca's bass - would love to have that bass. There are some detractors when it comes to CBS-era Fender stuff, but I think CBS overhauled the Jazz Bass in the right spirit. I think it looks classy and blingy without being garish. Mind you, the bounded, dot inlay fret board version looks pretty awesome too.

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Oh. It's been a while, peeps. I've since gotten other instruments. Here's the family again... My first bass, [b]Spock[/b]. This is a Chinese-made, custom order through Equinox Musical instruments, a VB-01. Still use this bass on occasion, but I've since discovered that hollow-body basses like this one are basically a one-trick pony. They do that trick rather well, but aside from the comfortable scale and neck feel, this bass really can't cut it for some types of vintage bass lines. Here's my second bass, [b]Veronica[/b], or [b]Ronnie [/b]for short. Still being relatively new to bass, and buying into all the stereotypes about Fender-based designs, I was crestfallen to discover that getting a proper lefty P-bass that was affordable and not be saddled with silly looking tort photo was pretty much out of the question. The dude who sold this to me (new) assured me that Jazz basses, even with a maple fingerboard (and no tort) have plenty of low end, they definitely can sound warm and deep with the right playing and strings, so he set me up with some Fender flats. Then I heard about GHS, and swapped the Fenders out, and they are permanently on this bass. This remains my #1 bass. It's so easy to play, it feels downright professional. And it's a beaut. Remember the black P-bass from above? The S-101? Well, I christened him Donald, and took him out on the town to celebrate. Once he was released for jail, and the charges for public drunkenness and assault with a broken machine head were dropped, he returned home to basically look like the equivalent of Mickey Rourke: He's since gained character, mostly under the form of a nice Calig B75 pickup (10.86 kOhms) and a decent large potentiometer wiring harness. Oh, and a few different sets of flatwounds, groundwounds, nylon wounds and pressurewounds. Now he's got some Webstrings monster flats on there. Neck is like a baseball bat, though... Then there's this baritone, downtuned with a set of D'Addario Chromes to an open G. 3 semitones above bass E, so I think she qualifies. Her name is [b]Rosa[/b]: And finally, a P-bass from a kit, with some upgrades, such as Classic Vibe bass tuners (they're reversible, incidentally, in case any of you were eyeing them on e-bay or elsewhere), a Guitarfetish overwound Pro (16.43 kOhms!), a nice tortie guard from the fine folks at guitars_electric (UK eBay vendor, great stuff, really quick shipping to Soviet Canuckistan) and plenty of Varnathane and Minwax tints, lacquer, paints and poly. She's called Sweet Georgia Brown:

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1397406987' post='2423611'] I don't care what range they would make a P-bass in, a lefty Squier P would be nice anyway, at the moment they offer us nothing at all. [/quote] They don't even make MiM lefty Ps.

Thanks, and as promised, here are some pics: And the little family that has since grown...

Thanks for the welcome, folks. Pics are forthcoming... or perhaps videos...

Hi. I'm Canadian. I am not strictly a bass player, but I've fallen in love with them. I'm in the process of learning and using them in recordings and also I've found it's influenced the way I compose music. Glad to be here! I have three basses: A Squier VM 70s Jazz, a Violin Bass copy from Equinox (custom made), and a S101 P-bass that will be a project bass (changes to come). Pics a little later. Cheers!