LeftyJ

The first time a bass tone really stood out for me and really struck me was when listening to The Gathering's album "How to measure a planet". It came out in 1998, and I got it for my 16th birthday. The albums before HTMAP were very much metal, and I was kinda expecting more of that, but was blown away by their new musical direction and the tone of all the instruments on the album. I really really really wanted to play guitar back then, but instead found myself playing air bass to the distorted riff that begins at 4:40: I believe it is a Stingray through a distortion pedal, and it's not particularly nice but it's bright and fat and saturated and it really hit me.

I think that's a Status Eclipse Artist 🙂

Interesting position of the lower strap button on the GB! Lovely collection, some proper p0rn there.

Wow, and HH too! They never offered more than the single humbucker version of previous Stingrays. If you wanted more, you had to get a Bongo.

I work as an environmental and geotechnical field engineer for a mid-size consultancy bureau here in the Netherlands. I'm a bachelor in environmental sciences, and through various internships during my studies, ended up specializing in soil and groundwater. I started as a consultant, but gradually discovered the office isn't the right place for me so now I spend my workdays outdoors for most of the time. My work mainly includes conducting soil surveys (by manually drilling into the soil with a hand auger and taking samples of layers, placing monitoring wells and sampling the groundwater) and supervising soil remediation projects. Our company's core business, however, is in soil mechanics and foundation engineering. For this, we have several CPT trucks (cone penetration testing) for testing the bearing capacity of soils for up to 60 metres deep. I can operate these as well, but unfortunately I don't have a truck driving license! I have just taken on a new job opportunity at my company though, and will start working as a project manager for geotechnical and geomonitoring projects somewhere in May.

It's usually recommended to loosen tension on all the strings when adjusting the truss rod anyway 🙂

Danelectro has a lefty Longhorn that's really good fun, and Eastwood built lefty Hi-Flyer basses (Mosrite copy) that are pretty decent. If hollow or semi-hollow is an option too, I'd look at Höfner, Hagstrom (Viking Bass) and possibly that new Schecter that's up on Andertons' site: https://www.andertons.co.uk/bass-dept/bass-guitars/left-handed-bass-guitars/schecter-bass-banshee-bass-owht-lh

Pretty, and I like the Kubicki-like drop D section! Is there a similar switch to lock the lowest string in E? Looks like you can raise a piece of nut behind a fret? Pretty cool!

I played a lefty headless Schack with a graphite neck once, and was struck by how heavy it was! I liked the tone and feel, the neck was wide and thin and really comfortable to my hands.

The Roadster always came without pickguard but, as far as I know, never as a factory fretless for lefties. This is definitely a defretted RS924, the factory fretless was the RS940 and can easily be told apart from the 924 by the lack of fretlines and by tiny off-center dots instead of the regular big dots on the fingerboard. Still a very nice bass in incredibly good condition!

Finally a pickup configuration that matches his old Gibsons 😛

That does ring a bell! Thanks for the heads-up 😀

Same! The founder of Rickenbacker was mr Adolph Rickenbacker 😛 And to be really specific, the 4000 series basses were developed after Adolph sold his brand to mr Francis C. Hall (current owner John Hall's father I suppose).

Same here, I couldn't be happier! I currently own: 1. Status Graphite S2 Classic bolt-on 5-string headless; 2. Status Graphite S2 Classic bolt-on 4-string headless; 3. Warwick Streamer LX5; 4. Ellio Martina Forza 5-string; 5. Fender MIJ 1975 Jazz Bass reissue with some killer mods; 6. Ibanez MC924 (1981); 7. Ibanez MC924 (1983, my YOB bass!); 8. Ibanez RS924; 9. Ibanez ATK305. And then there's a weird 2-string fretless Longbow and an acoustic fretless Cort NTL-B, but together with the ATK these don't get any use at all. The two Statii are the ones I play most frequently, though the Martina is the One Bass that I will never sell.

The change went into effect on November 26, so prior to that date it still needed a certificate.

Fender made a lefty Hot Rodded American Standard Precision around 1999-2001 with PJ pickups, all passive.

Wouldn't an LX have a flamed maple body? My 5-string does.

I can highly recommend the Koch Classic SE. There's a 6 watt version and a slightly larger 12 watt version, with the same circuitry but different power tube. I have the 6, and I love it. It's a no-frills design, single channel, no reverb, and just a tone control rather than a 3-band EQ, but the range of tones is huge and it sounds brilliant and responsive. I love mine.

And now it's probably wickedly expensive rubbish and still out there 😅

Pretty cool! Somewhere between a Wal and a Gibson.

Yes, with a headstock like that, it has to be one of those two.