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They even made a crazy 7 for a Mr Yamaguchi, with crazy LED inlays and wood pickup covers, solid flamed maple body, neck and fingerboard and a Karelian Birch top. Looks wild!

I'm mostly into various styles of rock and metal, but enjoy many styles of music. Hiphop and rap are well outside my comfort zone though. And yet, a producer friend once asked me to play bass on an album by a rapper friend of his... And actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Lots of rock and metal influences, that must have helped of course 😅 In the end the rapper decided not to release the album though 😣 Looks like some tracks are still on MySpace: https://resurrect.myspace.com/micgeeband/music/songs

I wasn't aware of a broadneck option on 4-strings, but their webshop indeed lists the current 4-string Just-a-nut 3 in 36.5, 38.5 and 44 mm. The old Just-a-nut with individually adjustable string height also has a 40 mm option. Cool! The 4-string bridges are listed in the webshop in one width only though, 19 mm at the bridge (whereas a broadneck 5-string has 20 mm spacing as opposed to the standard 16.5 mm spacing).

Had never heard of them before I saw the BBC footage of Glastonbury last Saturday, but I like what I heard!

I believe they use segmented frets just like Wal and Peavey did years earlier, mixed with piezo saddles. FretTrax claims to use standard frets. Otherwise the systems do look very similar.

Gotta love the period-correct Pau Ferro fingerboards 🤨

As a lefty, sadly this one is too easy to answer: almost every single time. If there's a lefty bass in stock at all, it's likely a black Ibanez Soundgear, some Richwood or a Squier VM Jazz Bass if you're really lucky. Here in the Netherlands we have a few bass-specific music stores that are a welcome exception (especially Bass Connection in Hilversum has some tasty stuff once in a while).

But you can't play the octave strings individually, so it's much more limited than an ERB.

Actually that's not what an extended range bass is. It is a regular 4-string neck with octave strings, so it has exactly the same amount of available notes as a 4-string would have. An extended range bass with 12 strings would look like this:

Glad that it's sorted! My Esh Stinger I took some tweaking too when I got it - the setting with piezo and magnetics combined had too much piezo to my taste.

There should be trimpots per piezo saddle in the electronics cavity. If the piezo's are still good, it might be the volume setting. The piezo setting is the one with the rotary switch turned towards the bridge.

This might be of interest to someone here: For sale: 1986 Vigier Arpege II € 1.600,00 http://link.marktplaats.nl/m1389018096 Not affiliated with the seller in any way, just thought I'd share. Had this been a lefty, then it would have gotten its own thread, starting with the letters N, B and D 😅

They weren't allowed to use that name. A violin maker owned the name Altus and threatened to sue so they dropped it. Rumour has it FNA is actually short for "F*cking Not Altus".

The $$ ("double buck") indicates a version with two humbuckers. As far as hierarchy goes, there's: - Custom Shop (I think they refer to them as Masterbuilt now). Crazy prices, crazy cool instruments too; - (German) Pro Series. Production instruments from the German factory. Also referred to as Teambuilt; - Rockbass. Asian instruments, with the same hardware and electronics as their German counterparts. There was a Chinese pro series for a while too, but everything imported is now called Rockbass.

Mine arrived yesterday, and I just scanned through it a bit. Looks great! I can't imagine paying the price that's on the back of the cover for it though. Seriously? 75 dollars?

Wow, that is a thing of beauty! Congrats!

I got roughly the same email this morning.

I was just thinking about this thread the other day. Looking forward to your pics when it's here!

LOL. Seriously though, they're great. Keep an eye on their sale page, it updates regularly. Up until last thursday they had a buy one, get one free offer with free worldwide shipping. https://www.italiastraps.com/pages/on-sale-now

Dakota Red?

NAMM news I liked most (although most is useless to me because there will be no lefties) were the Ibanez SR Mezzo medium scale series, the Dingwall D-bird 5, the new EBS MicroBass 3 and the Gibson Les Paul Jr bass. Looks great!

I'm a huge fan of Italia Leather from California, I have several. Fair pricing, made to order, thick leather, and choice of a smooth glove leather back or a rough suede back that will stick to your shoulder. I love them. They have loads of special deals for repeat customers too, by email almost on a weekly basis.

This Status S2 Classic that has been advertised twice on here now appears to be for sale again, this time for 1600 euros! It's on Arni's site. Same seller is also offering a lush 5-string headless. http://leftybass.com/secondhand_offer_65.htm