Sterling Bongo...worth the wait?

[tauzero]

I'd forgotten just how hideous they are.

[Stub Mandrel]

"One man's Bongo is another man's G&L."

[NancyJohnson]

11 hours ago, tauzero said:

I'd forgotten just how hideous they are.

 

Perhaps it's just the way I'm wired, but when someone says they're hideous, it just makes me love them even more.

 

 

[Woodinblack]

3 hours ago, NancyJohnson said:

Perhaps it's just the way I'm wired, but when someone says they're hideous, it just makes me love them even more.

 

See I used to think they were hideous, and then one day it just switched. Now I have one and wouldn't be without it.

[Russ]

47 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

See I used to think they were hideous, and then one day it just switched. Now I have one and wouldn't be without it.

At one point, I had four. I sold three of them thinking I was wanting to go in a bit of a different direction, but I miss them!

 

Here's three of them. I still have the red 5-string. 

 

 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

 

See I used to think they were hideous, and then one day it just switched. Now I have one and wouldn't be without it.

 

Just wait until you see my Sire at the SWBB 😍

[Woodinblack]

14 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Just wait until you see my Sire at the SWBB 😍

 

Even if I could get past the hideous headstock, the string spacing is a non starter for me.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Even if I could get past the hideous headstock, the string spacing is a non starter for me.

 

19.5 is unusually wide at the bridge, but the nut is 37mm, so where you pluck it's 'precision comfort' with 'jazz ease' up the neck 😁

[Woodinblack]

22 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

19.5 is unusually wide at the bridge, but the nut is 37mm, so where you pluck it's 'precision comfort' with 'jazz ease' up the neck 😁

 

Not sure what precision comfort is - the further away from 16 it gets, the worse it gets at finding strings!

[Stub Mandrel]

15 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Not sure what precision comfort is - the further away from 16 it gets, the worse it gets at finding strings!

 

You have a diddle on my Performer then. Bareroom for a credit card between stings and a lovely headstock

 

 

[Woodinblack]

59 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

You have a diddle on my Performer then. Bareroom for a credit card between stings and a lovely headstock

I have already played it and it is testament to the fact fender could do the right thing if they wanted