LeftyJ

Be sure to do so! It is a great opportunity to meet other lefties and to get your hands on some very elusive and rare lefthanded instruments. Some highlights were two Alembic 5-strings, a Wal mk.2 fretless, some vintage Fenders, Arni's Hamer Chapparal 12-string, my Rickenbacker 4003 and a couple of very nice German boutique basses.

I'm not from the UK, so I won't be able to be there I did attend Arni's Lefty Bass Day at CMS Musik in Duisburg though, and had great fun meeting other lefties (mostly from Germany, but also some other Dutchies and a Danish guy) and playing eachothers instruments. I will try to be there again when he organises the second Lefty Bass Day in September

[quote name='throwoff' post='778422' date='Mar 18 2010, 12:23 PM']My God man! Is that your's? We need to organise a lefty bass bash. And you need to bring that![/quote] No, I wish This is owned by a guy who calls himself Psycho Ward on leftybassist.com. He has the most outrageous collection of lefty EBMM's I have ever seen, including two unique one-offs that were built especially for him. This Sterling is one of them, its preamp had to be handsoldered by the chief designer Dudley Gimpel, because they're made to fit the cavity. I don't understand why the preamp of the HS has to be different from the preamp in the HB, as I always thought the only thing that's different is the pickup selector switch. But apparently there's more to it than meets the eye He was able to get it because he is a close friend of Sterling Ball.

I love the Dargie Delight! I just wish they'd finally start offering the twin-pickup versions of the Stingray and Sterling lefthanded. Currently, there's only ONE lefty twin-pickup (or actually triple-pickup, there's another SC hidden underneath the pickguard) EBMM bass other than the Bongo in existance. This custom and very expensive Sterling HS Dargie Delight (that's not for sale):

I love your Stingray! I'd get a black 3-ply pickguard for it, but otherwise it looks beautiful!

[quote name='rasher80' post='777007' date='Mar 17 2010, 10:09 AM']I'd suggest getting a 75 Jazz, they are highly sought after and are made to a fantastic standard. Plus, they never ever come up for sale (should tell you something about them!) so if you didn't like it, i'm sure someone would have your hand off for it :brow:[/quote] I agree! They're great basses. Could do with better pots and a better bridge, but other than that, they're fantastic. I wrote a review about mine a little while ago: [url="http://www.leftybassist.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1439"]http://www.leftybassist.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1439[/url] That Jazz Bass pictured above by rasher80 is the JB75-US/FC, aside from the specs already mentioned it also has an alder body instead of ash, making it slightly lighter and it sounds somewhat warmer. That version is only offered with a rosewood fingerboard though. Personally I would go for the Ocean Turquoise Metallic

How about a Fender HMV bridge instead? It may not be a direct drop-in replacement in terms of mounting screw placement, I'm not sure on that. But it's a nice, solid bridge that accommodates stringing both through-body and through-bridge. And reasonably affordable too.

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='776730' date='Mar 16 2010, 10:34 PM']His shadow on the ground could be a '70s porn star.[/quote]

This thread needs an update 1981 Ibanez MC924L 1983 Ibanez MC924L Both MC924L's 2003 EBMM Stingray 5 (Autumn Redburst Sparkle)

[quote name='throwoff' post='775014' date='Mar 15 2010, 11:44 AM']I was just about to say this is one of those threads I hate being a lefty for but thats quite pretty.[/quote] There are several nice lefty hollowbodies out there. The Eastwood Classic 4 and the Ibanez AGB200 for example. They're both in the same price range as my Italia, and all three are very nice and well-made, easy to play and great-sounding basses, especially the Eastwood. There's a nice review by Ed Friedland on Youtube.

My Italia Torino. Surprisingly affordable (I paid €400 brand new), yet incredible fun to play and it sounds great (deep, dark and big but with just enough brightness to still cut through thanks to that bridge pickup - which is really just a guitar humbucker underneath a closed cover):

The set of strings is a brand new set of Elixirs, and I think I must have mistakenly put an Extra Long Scale B-string on there, that I had laying around for stringing my Ibanez ATK305 through-body. So it's already at its thickest where it meets the tuner, resulting in this odd curve. The tuner itself and the nut are perfectly fine, this did not happen with the previous set of strings (as seen in this picture from the original eBay auction):

Took some new (slightly better) pics of my Musicians today: 1981 MC924L: 1983 MC924L (well-worn, but the neck is still flawless and it plays and sounds like a dream): Together:

I just replaced the tortoise pickguard on my autumn redburst sparkle Stingray 5 with a black one:

Did these MIM-versions of the Urge have the same 32" scale length? And I noticed the Kubicki-style control knobs. Surely these haven't got the Kubicki preamp, do they?

Here's my Bullet 5 fretless: Great bass, very well-made and the neck is superb. It almost plays itself. I'm not really a fretless player, so I'm actually considering having it fretted. The low B is the tightest of all the 5-strings I have (that includes an amazing Stingray 5 and a 35" Yamaha TRB5II I used to own) and the tone is punchy and powerful. It doesn't yet have the Glockenklang electronics and Sandberg bridge, instead this has a Noll preamp and an ABM Mueller bridge which are great.

[quote name='leftybassman392' post='759318' date='Feb 27 2010, 07:31 PM']Some single coils do have a certain reputation... I can still remember a mate of mine putting his vintage strat close to his face and singing - you could hear it clearly through the amp! [/quote] Don't underestimate the tremolo springs in a Strat too

Completely forgot the twins in my avatar I used to have one more ATK300 but sold that a couple of months ago after buying a Stingray 5.

And weekdays between 7:00 and 16:00, I may occasionally look like this:

I prefer maple for its looks, but in terms of tone and playability, I really don't care. When the instrument speaks to me and I like what it's saying, that's all that matters to me. I have basses with maple fingerboards, rosewood fingerboards and ebony fingerboards and they're all great and have voices of their own.

Had the same trouble with my Ashdown ABM300 C210T EVO II in the beginning, until I turned the bass knob to 9 o'clock. Works like a charm, I got rid of the rumbling subs messing up my definition and I gained a lot of cut through the mix. I also boosted the mids a little, but didn't necessarily have to.

[quote name='josh3184' post='756049' date='Feb 24 2010, 02:30 PM']I was lucky enough to have the cash and find the deals that got me my equipment, want to spread the love! Besides, you can't find Warwicks or Musicmen in a lot of music shops these days so it might be one of the rare occasions they get to try such briliant instruments. If they come away thinking "that's what I want when I have the money" then I feel I've helped [/quote] Agreed. When I buy or sell secondhand basses with local pickup, I always ask the seller or buyer if there's anything else in my arsenal they're anxious to try out. Everyone is always curious about my Rickenbacker 4003. I was at Arni's Lefty Bass Day at CMS Music in Duisburg, Germany, and everyone drooled around it. But unlike at your bash, nobody dared picking it up and playing it unless I encouraged it (which I happily did).