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  1. LeftyJ
    Hold on, Fender do a faded aged sage green too. Getting closer!
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    OTM was a standard finish option for several MIJ Fender basses for years. It's a shame they don't use it more, it's so tasty! I'm with @BassAgent though. When I Google aged OTM most results have a more blueish hue. I think it might very well be an aged sherwood green finish. The Fender Custom Shop do a finish they call "faded aged sherwood green" which looks like this:
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    That's lush, but the combination of sparkle AND crackle is a bit much IMO. I can't help but think of crackled gold foil.
  4. LeftyJ
    No glittery basses for me at the moment, unfortunately. I love a good sparkle finish! My Status 5-string is somewhat metallic (anthracite) but very subtly. I do have this though: Carvin DC727 7-string guitar. One-piece maple neck-through, alder wings, ebony board with MOP blocks, matching headstock and very elaborate active electronics: 2-band active EQ, passive tone (only works in passive mode), coil split for each pickup and a phase switch. She's a real beast!
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    Absolutely nothing, but it looks cool. This was the earliest iteration of the Jaguar Bass, built in Japan with 70s bridge pickup position and somewhat noisy active 2-band electronics (that can be switched off). I believe the roller knobs up top are the EQ controls. The one in the pic appears to have had its bridge replaced with a Gotoh 201. In a way it is more limiting in tonal options than a Jazz because the pickups have on/off-switches rather than separate volume controls or a pan pot. They look tremendously cool though.
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    Yep, that's accurate.
  7. LeftyJ
    Nice! I don't really like the tort guard, but I love everything else about it! These are great little basses, I love mine. Mine is a brownburst with pau ferro board and black guard.
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    Dear lord, the fingerboard on that sunburst one is gorgeous! What is that wood?
  9. LeftyJ
    Ned Steinberger just announced a limited production carbon composite multiscale 6-string . According to someone on Reddit they're only making 12. I'm afraid to find out what it's going to cost. NS Fin
  10. LeftyJ
    If my instruments have any signature wear, it's from standing in my rack for too long in neglect... I'm not even kidding. Some of my guitars and basses have a light spot on the back of the neck where my rack blocks the sun. I have too many and only have a few in active rotation Currently it's my Sandberg Lionel, my Status S2 Classic 5-string and my Music Man Silhouette Special that get all the playtime.
  11. LeftyJ
    I use shortscale strings (currently LaBella flats) on my Sandberg Lionel which is top loading, and medium scale (DR Sunbeams) on my Atelier Z Baby Z-4J which can go either way, but I chose to string it through-body.
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    And the fact Atelier Z don't build these themselves. I think they're made by Fujigen. Any Atelier Z with the KTS titanium rods in the neck is not made by them.
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    I love the look of these! I love my Baby Z, but it lacks the contouring of the ZPO (it's a slab body, there's no tummycut or forearm contour) and mine has a slight tendency to neckdive whereas the ZPO looks like it might balance a lot better. If all else is the same (neck, electronics, pickup positions) the ZPO Jr might be a real winner!
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    Aye, same - but it was a long journey for me to come to that epiphany. I've spent years looking for ultimate versatility in a single instrument before coming to terms with that. Now I just need to convince my girlfriend that I really DO need all these different instruments with their unique characters and that yes, in fact, the audience will hear it too
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    Is this a triple-coil like the original ATK pickups, or is it just disguised as one with the three rails? Because the original ATK300 wiring is very functional too, and maybe worth investigating. It uses the center coil as a phantom coil for hum cancelling in the single coil positions, and rather than offering series/parallel/single it gives you parallel/single/single with treble cut. The latter gives very useful P-like tones despite the pickup being closer to the bridge on the ATK's than it is on your Jaguar. Having owned both a couple of ATK's and a "proper" Stingray 5, I would say the series/parallel option on the SR5 was the more useful switching option to have - but I would have loved to have the treble cut of the ATK in the singlecoil setting on the SR5.
  16. LeftyJ
    Is... Is that a Boss delay in a huge box with a tap tempo switch added? Lovely setup, and beautiful basses!
  17. LeftyJ
    If you mean this, it's a Peavey T-40:
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    Thanks for the reminder, I need to check that Gator one out! My Atelier Z Baby Z came with a similar gigbag as Fender Japan used to include with their guitars and basses, and it gets the job done but it's low quality and nearly all zippers have had their tab broken off. And my Sandberg Lionel came with a flimsy Sandberg longscale bass gigbag where the little fastening loop for the neck ends up somehere between the A and D tuners. So I could really use something better...
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    Never saw this thread before (as a lefty I have very little business in this part of the forum) but WOW! This thing has absolutely no right to look as cool as it does but I love it! I think this is the first time I've ever said anything positive about a Bongo.
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    I've got one of these as a lefty but in natural and love it. I would love a PJ too, and I think it looks great in that white finish with competition stripes, matching headstock and rosewood fingerboard! Classic looks but a very modern bass (as is the JJ - the titanium reinforced neck is very rigid and the pickups and 2-band boost-only EQ are quite powerful and modern-sounding).
  21. LeftyJ
    Graphite-reinforced quartersawn maple neck, ebony board, 10-14" compound radius, Luminlay side dots, new noiseless pickups, redesigned preamp with 3-band EQ, switchable mid frequency and a passive tone control, and the S-1 switch is back for choice between active and passive. Wow! I guess you could call it pretty cutting-edge... FOR A FENDER. What really got me though was the bit about "unparalleled access to the upper register". Yes, if you exclude anything out there with 24 frets and deeper cutaways. Which is a LOT of other basses. American Ultra II Jazz Bass® | Electric Basses (fender.com)
  22. LeftyJ
    Was this a fretless bass that later had frets installed? The lack of position markers on the front might be an indication too. If they were installed at a later moment, whoever did it did a beautiful job keeping the fret tangs hidden from the side, as to not interfere with the side dots.
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    And a black one with maple board AND a lefty too! Schecter still is one of the most lefty-friendly manufacturers out there. They already had the Doug Pinnick signature 12-string DP12, also in lefty (the man himself is left-handed). I can't think of any other factory lefty 12-string basses
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    Sweet! The Zon Sonus is way up there on my GAS list. So many major metal bassists of my youth played them! I love graphite and composite necks and they look great.
  25. LeftyJ
    Early (1990s) versions of the Fame Baphomet and the Mayones Be4 and Be5 it was based on actually did have the 2-piece Warwick bridge!
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