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Merton
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[quote name='eude' timestamp='1381310952' post='2237229']

Having heard Owain's stuff, the low B on his basses certainly sounds amazing, would be inetersted to see what it feels like!
The OBS model is insanely expesnive though, but Callowhill are doing a cheaper bass based on some of the same principals, a kinda P Bass style thing called the MPB, they start at $1950 with a passive jobby with a single pickup, with upcharges from there. There's more details on the Facebox page, the Callowhill website is always behind the times a bit...

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The first picture of a complete MPB is up on the CallowHill FB page, looks pretty cool. I'd still like to know how the neck is made and get some recordings though!

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I've done some experiments with my fretless 6 string, capo-ing it 4 inches from the nut and the B-string sounded good and probably only needed a slight raise in action to be realistically playable. But because that has a 5 piece thru-neck I also did the same with my lakland - sort of, it's fretted and 35" scale - and similar results.

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