EssentialTension

No offence intended and each to their own of course, but I really don't get this at all. To me it looks completely unrealistic and, if I did have a bass in that condition, I would be desperate to get it re-finished or to strip it totally to natural wood.

[quote name='Highfox' timestamp='1466232076' post='3074251'] Yes, I know. I never had one go snap on me yet (still) [/quote] I'm just repeating La Bella's own advice. I don't usually string anything through body as I can't hear or feel any difference. I've never broken a La Bella flat but I have once broken a TI flat and once a Pyramid flat too.

[quote name='Funky Dunky' timestamp='1466204938' post='3074197'] ... Also, will they be alright for thru-body stringing? [/quote] Ordinary La Bella flats are NOT for through body eg 760FL.

Acoustic basses need amplifying. There's a reason a double bass is as large as it is.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1465930734' post='3072256'] Exactly. Had he been playing with the tone up we would have a better idea. [/quote] But I mean they always sound like a P bass to me with typical variances for strings, pick/fingers, etc.

Tech 21 VT Bass almost always on. But I could manage without it too. I rarely use much amp EQ.

You can't tell with any certainty what a bass is going to play like by year of manufacture alone. I had a 1976 P and it seemed fine at the time.

Very nice. I like the colour.

[quote name='4stringslow' timestamp='1465922337' post='3072149'] I did once have a broken rear window in an estate car and when the Autoglass chappie came out to fix it he was full of sympathy and asked if anything was stolen, but I had to explain that the window had been broken from the [u]inside[/u] when a less than careful cornering manoeuvre caused a PA cab to tip over against the rear window! [/quote] Back in the early 1970s I had an Austin Mini Countryman ... ... and one day when the rear door was pushed shut, my bass in its case pushed one of the rear windows out completely, which I then caught before it hit the floor. Fortunately it pushed back into place without any problem.

'Possibly made from 1 piece of wood.'

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1465390267' post='3067758'] Assuming it is a Slab on the recording, the fabled Slab sound seems to be in the treblier end of the tone - thumb-plucking at the neck with (presumably) the tone turned down is always going to result in a more trad sound. [/quote] Just sounded like a P bass to me.

Story has it that bandleader Tommy Dorsey said there were three 'sons of bitches': Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, and Adolf Hitler.

[quote name='Treb' timestamp='1465839592' post='3071481'] Nice! They should make a DJ-Sonic too... [/quote] I imagine if you go US, then a DJ-Sonic would be available.

[quote name='hiram.k.hackenbacker' timestamp='1465838506' post='3071458'] Erm, I'm no mathematician.... [/quote] I think you underestimate yourself.

http://youtu.be/m6zvPHRZP8c

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1465835408' post='3071420'] Depends on what your looking for in a band, friends, music, money? Blue [/quote] ... and which of those are you looking for Blue?

[quote name='Grahambythesea' timestamp='1465816321' post='3071140'] Perhaps with an anodised gold scratch plate and gold hardware or is that too much of the Midas touch! [/quote] Definitely a step too far.

[quote name='NJE' timestamp='1465814730' post='3071110'] ...They do it with Tort pickguard as well. [/quote] That's an option on the US model but then you can have any colour finish too. No doubt one could get a tort guard for the Skyline version if preferred.

Even in that colour with that fretboard and that pickguard ... they will sell quite a few.

[quote name='Machines' timestamp='1465803831' post='3071001'] Hmm not bad. About time they did something new with the Skylines - i'm just not sure about that colour. [/quote] Each to their own, of course, but I rather like the colour ... but probably a new pickguard.

Stay with that band for social reasons and join another one too for musical reasons. First date in the diary gets your attention.

Very nice.

Yep, single coil Chisonics.

...in Aztec Gold

Just to be clear, the Roto Top Tapes are not black nylon tapes, they are monel like the Roto Jazz Flats.