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LeftyJ

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  1. I love those aluminium Sadowsky style knobs. I have bought 8 recently, and 4 of them will be adorning my Warwick Streamer LX5 soon. I think they add a luxurious look that the standard knurled brass knobs lack, as much as I like them. The Warwick ones are pretty cool, the pointer on top of the knob is not just a small notch but actually a little hole that goes through the entire knob. It's near impossible to read though!
  2. I remember a website from a guy who sells replica SureGrip knobs and EQ knobs for Ibanez Musicians and Artists. They're identical to the ones used on these Greco's. I can't find it anymore though! Edit: Nevermind. Right here! Wickedly expensive at 12 dollars PER KNOB though, and there's a shipping fee. https://www.reproguitarparts.com/#!/EQ-knobs/p/5629649/category=1391098
  3. An 80s E-series Squier medium scale!
  4. That is a thing of beauty! Very nice find. What kind of parts? These have a few things in common with Ibanez Musicians (MC900 specifically), but also some distinctly unique features. I believe that serial number dates it to July 1978 btw, not 1977 as the auction reads. The bridge looks like it is slightly bent under de tension of the strings?
  5. Very true. But ugly as hell nevertheless!
  6. I can imagine your issue with left hand placement. It's fine on the lower strings, but on the high strings you're plucking closer to the bridge. For me it would miss a neck pickup as well, but mostly tonally. I would love to have a go on an NG3!
  7. Over time, yes. But on a brand new bass? My Warwick (4-piece Ovangkol neck) developed noticeable lines between the pieces of the neck. I had it sanded slightly and re-oiled, and it's been fine since (4 years ago). But that's a bass from 2003 that's ageing. Not a brand new Fender
  8. I beg to differ. Their bodyshapes, yes. Their headstocks, not so much.
  9. I especially find many British headstock designs rather dull, somehow. Guys like Overwater, Status, Eggle... Very similar in design, just a generic and bland shape. Could just as well have been a cheap Stagg or whatever. I like a headstock to be instantly recognizable by its shape or other features. Not something entirely featureless like this: Surely they could have thought up something better to match their well thought-out bodyshapes? And then there's gems like that D. Lakin headstock on the previous page, or this:
  10. That Precision with black binding and dots looks really nice! I like the Jazz too, but that Precision really is something unusual!
  11. I'm most comfortable on Jazz style nut width, but I play any neck type. I have big hands, so I'm fine with either. String spacing at the bridge is a more important factor for me than at the nut. I play all kinds of basses with all kinds of spacings. I have 5-strings with 16.5 mm and 19 mm spacing at the bridge, and 4-strings with 19 mm and 20 mm spacing, and all kinds of nut widths and neck profiles. My '81 Ibanez Musician and Roadster have very wide necks (1 11/16", roughly 42-43 mm) and I get along comfortably on them, but I also play a '75 Jazz Bass reissue which is 1.5".
  12. Indeed! And the 70s model has an alder body, unlike most PB57 and PB62 models which have basswood bodies. Very nice.
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    Lovely! I've been looking at lefties once or twice and played a lovely 5-string Passion, but I can't get over the looks of that big angled Kahler bridge (they installed righty angled bridges on many a lefty bass throughout the years ). I've seen some exceptions with monorails and Schallers, but most looked like this:
  14. Either Roger Waters' The Wall show in the Gelredome in 2011, or Rage Against the Machine on the Pinkpop festival in 2008. Both were magical experiences that I would gladly experience all over I'm 34, so I wasn't around when The Wall was released but I grew up going through my dad's record collection all the time. I've had a CD player since I was 12, and a record player since shortly after, and Pink Floyd has always amazed me. I unfortunately never got to see Floyd live, so this was the next best thing. Still doubting if I should buy tickets to the new tour as well. And Rage Against the Machine was magical in its own way too. Such brutal, raw energy! It was as if they'd never split, I've never experienced a gig so intense before or after. And I've never come home from any other gig with such a stiff and sore neck and throat One of the original Wall shows by Pink Floyd themselves would be even better!
  15. Nice! I've had two of these in the past, and I loved them. Solid, dependable workhorse with great tones and a very comfortable player, despite the 35" scale. I'm thinning down myself, but I would like to own one again at some point. An amber one like yours was my first proper bass (after a very crappy Japanese Condor Jazz Bass knockoff).
  16. Good call! Hadn't thought of that.
  17. That would be Blackwood Tek, processed wood (basically impregnated with resin and pigments and hot-pressed to a more compact form with higher density). Here's the website of a large supplier that explains it: http://www.madinter.com/blackwood-tek.html?___from_store=fr&___store=en
  18. Gibson has been using baked maple disguised as rosewood for a couple of years, a couple of years ago (they switched back to rosewood on most models). This was before CITES, and had more to do with their issues with the FBI after their wood stocks were raided and they couldn't use many of their usual tonewoods. https://blog.andertons.co.uk/guitars/gibson-baked-maple-fingerboard-guide
  19. I went for the Unitune clip because it costs just over half of a Polytune clip, and mine switches to the right side up almost instantly. I've only had it for two weeks, but so far I like it a lot!
  20. I like the look of that SG II. Is it just me though, or does that nut look really narrow compared to your SG to the left? I don't recognize that one btw, the mix of a gloss finish, dot inlays and chrome covered pickups has me wondering. Is it a modded Special, or maybe an Xtra Slim?
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