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Yep, local lefty moving out of the area so had a bunch of gear he needed to shift and fast.

Wanted a 5 string for a while as not had one for years. 

Then this pops up Facebay for £100(!) in the same town as me!

Strings dead as a dodo and a slightly noisy pot but nothing a squirt of contact cleaner and a new pack of strings won't fix!

It's new (old) amp day for me!

Ashdown Mag 300
EBS Classic 112
Ampeg SVT 112

Going to strip them and re-cover them all, probably black but I am tempted by white...

Good friend of mine sold these as a stonking deal!

5 minutes ago, LeftyJ said:

Not really! The gold label MEC pickups are active, and require 9V at all times to work. The push-pull only bypasses the tone controls.

 

I'll keep you in mind, but don't count on it! Ever since I got it it's all I've been playing and it's awesome 

Dammit didn’t clock the gold pups!

I always prefer the silver label with active electronics!

Really enjoying this thread!

Something about those 4 pole P pickups makes me uncomfortable

Up there with the best instruments made in the world right now. 

 All I need nowadays. 

USA P in Mystic Red with a 1/4 Pounder
Silver Series Strat with a knackered finish.

I have a similar age one, these are about the best P basses Fender have put out for a long, long time.

Good luck with the sale

On 08/02/2021 at 11:26, LeftyJ said:

My two Streamer LX's 

Left is my 2003 Streamer LX5 in Nirvana Black transparent HP (high polish), right is a 2002 Streamer LX4 in Burgundy Red HP that I recently acquired and have barely been able to put down since. The 5-string originally had gold hardware too, but when I got the bass around 10 years ago, much of the goldplating on the bridge had worn off. Both have chunky ovangkol necks, but I find them comfortable enough to play. The 5-string has been my main axe in my metal band, where it's had to punch its way through a full mix with two 7-string guitars and some keys, and it did so with ease. The tone is a bit scooped but thick and bright, and with just a tiny edge of Ampeg dirt it really does the trick. 

They're only 1 year apart, but have two striking differences: the 5-string originally came with a JAN2 (which was broken when I got it, I replaced it with a corian JAN3 but none of the available nut widths fully matched! I had to sand one down to the correct width) but the 4-string has an original JAN with individual string height. The 5 has the quick-access electronics cover, but the 4 has the old-style cover that is screwed on in threaded inserts in the body. I wonder if it's a lefty thing, I'm pretty sure the quick-access compartment had been around for a while in 2002 but maybe only on righties until then. 

That red one ever becomes surplus to requirements I will rip your arm clean off

19 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

I'll guess that one push-pull is active/passive, the other will likely be a coil-tap for the bridge pickup that kills the rearward half of the twinjazz, essentially leaving you with a thinner, more jazz bass oriented sound.

This, Warwick love putting the toggle switches in with their HB pickups to coil split. 

The push pull is a direct bypass for the Active, which is nice as if your battery craps out mid gig you still have a perfectly serviceable passive bass.

On 22/02/2021 at 21:00, LeftyJ said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Left-Handed-Sandberg-Classic-Bass/184676623495?hash=item2aff95a487:g:UYgAAOSwfeJgM-jr

There you go 

Odd indeed! 

I can't work out why you would do that, would it sit upright on your body like a psuedo EUD?

Did this go?

Go on then, I am interested.

PM'd

Didn't realise how old this post was!

Any interest in a trade for a USA Standard P in Mystic Red?

I don’t want none unless it’s got buns hun.

Lovely telebasses....

I can feel my wallet weeping.

ENGL are not my cup of tea sonically, but I have to say, there is something about their brutalist design that I love.

It's a cheap bass, in my opinion the perfect platform to try things you wouldn't dare on your more expensive instruments!

I will get a lefty ATK one day.

Yep, I am over that like a rash.

You get some very odd plates on Fenders, the left handers go even more crazy. They really should just use the same hole layout etc on every model..

Well, spoke to the seller, it's gone to Brazil!

Well, I need new trousers.