NS Fin (Steinberger for 2025)

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

I’ll just wait for the Harley Benton version for £500 in yellow 🙂

[Bolo]

Stupid. 

They could make 18 if they only used four strings per bass!

[Woodinblack]

2 hours ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

I’ll just wait for the Harley Benton version for £500 in yellow 🙂

 

or the hofner wooden version!

[LeftyJ]

That would probably be Hohner 

[Russ]

On 28/09/2025 at 13:21, Misdee said:

Bear in mind that most bass manufacturers have had to acquiesce to the fact that the prevalent trend is for P Basses and retro instruments in general. Kudos to Ned for completely ignoring that with this offering. There's no dressing this bass up as being anything but futuristic and hi-tech. 

 

 

I think that may have been the case maybe 5 years ago or so. You're starting to see a lot more interesting stuff showing up these days - headless and multiscale (and headless multiscale) have taken off in a big way, to the point where almost every major guitar manufacturer (except the dinosaurs like Fender, Gibson, etc) have added them to their ranges. I think Ned has come in with this at the right time. The people who like his NS stuff *really* like it, and are prepared to pay for it, to the point where nothing else will do. 

[Misdee]

28 minutes ago, Russ said:

I think that may have been the case maybe 5 years ago or so. You're starting to see a lot more interesting stuff showing up these days - headless and multiscale (and headless multiscale) have taken off in a big way, to the point where almost every major guitar manufacturer (except the dinosaurs like Fender, Gibson, etc) have added them to their ranges. I think Ned has come in with this at the right time. The people who like his NS stuff *really* like it, and are prepared to pay for it, to the point where nothing else will do. 

You might well be right; I'm getting too old and confused to understand what young  people  really want. (That was the basis of my defense in court, anyway.) That whole math rock, new metal thing is unlistenable for me so I don't pay too much attention 

 

  In terms of sales numbers I have no idea, but traditional designs still seem to proliferate in the mainstream.

[tauzero]

3 hours ago, Misdee said:

You might well be right; I'm getting too old and confused to understand what young  people  really want. (That was the basis of my defense in court, anyway.) That whole math rock, new metal thing is unlistenable for me so I don't pay too much attention 

 

  In terms of sales numbers I have no idea, but traditional designs still seem to proliferate in the mainstream.

 

I do quite a few open mics which have featured bands, and 90% of the bassists have 4-string FSOs.

 

Having had both fan-frets and parallel frets, I prefer the parallel. I also prefer 5-strings to 6-strings (and 4-strings). For those reasons, this doesn't interest me except in the sense that I'd like to see if NS comes up with the CF equivalent of the Hohner B2AV or Spirit XT25 (with a nicer neck). It does look like a better thought out body than the symmetrical cricket bat.

[Bagman]

I think the L2 is the best bass guitar design of all time 

[Russ]

19 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I do quite a few open mics which have featured bands, and 90% of the bassists have 4-string FSOs.

 

Having had both fan-frets and parallel frets, I prefer the parallel. I also prefer 5-strings to 6-strings (and 4-strings). For those reasons, this doesn't interest me except in the sense that I'd like to see if NS comes up with the CF equivalent of the Hohner B2AV or Spirit XT25 (with a nicer neck). It does look like a better thought out body than the symmetrical cricket bat.

The current NS Radius range of basses are rather nice - I was surprised. The higher-end ones have a graphite/maple sandwich neck, but even the cheaper wooden-necked WAV models are really nice and apparently super-stable. They're more a spiritual successor to the 1990s XQ series than the good ol' cricket bat though.