wombatboter Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Traded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pierreganseman Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Nice geert been lusting about one of those for ages..... hmh.... what to trade..... :-p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junglerog Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Beautiful bass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 4, 2012 Author Share Posted May 4, 2012 I always thought this was one of the best looking basses ever but there is one flaw which "bothers" me..:-) This bass has such a huge (and beautiful) headstock so I can't understand why they put all of the tuners so closely together while you have all the space in the world.. It doesn't minimalize the value or the beauty of this instrument but they could have spread it a bit more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarno Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Very nice bass! Tuners will need to be this close together to allow the strings to be pulled in as much a straight line as possible. You can make the headstock as big as you like, but if you have tuners on each end, they will need to follow the taper of the neck, and it'll mean they are close together. They would be further apart if the nut would be wider, but that's not to everyones taste. For an appaling (IMHO) example of tuners too far apart and strings being pulled in weird angles: http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/54184.html?1323560356 (I'll put on my asbestos suit now, after all it IS an Alembic ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fendurt Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 PM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 6, 2012 Author Share Posted May 6, 2012 Sold pending payment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Deal didn't go through in the end... This is available again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbass13 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 hey whats the string spacing and is it adjustable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 I'll check the bass tonight as soon as I'm home, still at the office but I'll get back to you.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Stringspacing is around 7 mm, bridge is not sideways adjustable... [IMG]http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t247/wombatboter/BRIDGE001.jpg[/IMG] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensWest Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 That bass looks amazing! But 7 mm stringspacing? From centre to centre? You mean 17, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbass13 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 hey thanks for your answer. 7mm? that would be rather tight ;-) maybe you mean 17? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensWest Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Wow, this room is big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 [quote name='chrisbass13' timestamp='1336595784' post='1648258'] hey thanks for your answer. 7mm? that would be rather tight ;-) maybe you mean 17? [/quote] Think I got it wrong, sorry.. like I said : I know a bit how to play a bass but have never been interested in the specs of basses, they just feel comfortable to me or they don't :-) I started measuring the space between the strings near the nut and I came up with 7mm..but I guess that's not what you wanted to know. If I'm still mistaken, correct me.. always ready to learn :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensWest Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 (edited) When talking about stringspacing you'd most often refer to the space between the strings (centre to centre) at the bridge, which use to be in the range between 16 and 20 mm. Edited May 9, 2012 by JensWest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Thanks Jens, had just looked it up myself and made some new measurements.. It's around 18mm.. hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbass13 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 thanks for the info, thats it. and crazy chops btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 Thanks for the compliment but rarely get impressed by what I'm doing myself.. In fact selling this bass is part of a bigger sell-out which I have been doing the last years.. I used to own 29 basses but I found that all those great ambitions with certain instruments turned out to be a dead-end street in the present climate.. Never has the musical perspective for bassplayers been so little stimulating to own a wide spectrum of basses when in the end you seem to need only a plain bass which does every job.. Why own fantastic five-strings capable of alternative tuning with d-tuners or have fancy fretlesses when in the end I end up doing gigs where I have to play root-fifth basslines...Not that there's anything wrong with that but the climate has changed and it depresses me as a bass-player... Seems like I can only be creative anymore in my livingroom but as a free-lance bassplayer it's not that obvious anymore to do that on stage anymore.. Playing fretless live for instance doesn't seem to exist anymore, things have become so conservative.. Sorry for the off-topic but wanted to have that off my chest.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pierreganseman Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 I can see where you are coming from... I sometimes play a lot, and as you know, i own and go through quite a few high end bass... I did a gig the other day, guy calls me... " btw man for the gig, really, you got a Pbass with flats???" I do have one... a £100 bass..... ended up taking it to the gig and the guy was super happy with the sound and look etc... made me wonder.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 11, 2012 Author Share Posted May 11, 2012 Bump.... Possibly it'll turn out in a trade within a couple of days although a sale would have been preferable..maybe someone still turns up who wants to buy this bass. Thanks for the reactions so far...have a great weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 13, 2012 Author Share Posted May 13, 2012 Sunday bump... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 14, 2012 Author Share Posted May 14, 2012 Bump For the moment I have around four or five people who are "seriously thinking about buying this bass" ... Haven't got a clue what this will be turning into so just have to be patient until someone makes up his mind :-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lettsguitars Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 The bridge IS sideways adjustable. Nice bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombatboter Posted May 14, 2012 Author Share Posted May 14, 2012 Thanks for the info.. When I got this bass the set-up was perfect so never had to change anything.. I changed the EADGC into the BEADG tuning and that didn't cause a problem either, no damage to the nut or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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