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04-07-2007, 10:20 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jasonheath  I haven't hear the Professor model before. This may have been posted before, but what is the price range for a Professor bass? | It's $5000 with their full setup. I decided to pull out all of the stops and went for the Rubner engraved plate ebony hat-peg tuners. With that and a new Rev. Solo, it's $5600 or so.
Up until last week, the only basses that I played that were clearly better than mine were also much more expensive. So much so that they were out of my price range. I could live with that. Then I played the Professor. It was all over after that!
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04-07-2007, 10:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Connecticut | | | fully carved must be heaven, my hybrid is amazing, so i cant even fathom fully carved. of the times that ive been up to mystic i havent had the opportunity to play a professor. congrats on the purchase, cant wait to hear the full report. and i should really go visit gary soon, i havent seen him in a while...
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04-08-2007, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Nick Ioannucci fully carved must be heaven, my hybrid is amazing, so i cant even fathom fully carved. of the times that ive been up to mystic i havent had the opportunity to play a professor. congrats on the purchase, cant wait to hear the full report. and i should really go visit gary soon, i havent seen him in a while... | To my ears and hands, there was a substantial difference between the hybrid and the Professor. Now, just for the record, the Professor is a flat-back, so I guess, technically, it cannot be called "fully carved." There hadn't been a Professor in the shop for a while and the one I played had just left the bench and had been strung with Olivs. As most of us know, some strings sound great on some basses and lousy on others. This was a case of the latter. The bass sounded muffled and thick. Gary was not pleased either. So, right there and then, he restrung it with Spirocore mittels. Holy ****! I fell in love. I ordered it in the dark finish that's pictured on their web site.
10 weeks, 6 days to go.
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04-17-2007, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Storrs, CT USA | | | *sigh* I just got an email says my bass should be ready the first or second week of may. It feels like ages ago that I made the deposit. Oh well I asked for a special varnish style and this is what I get I think. I just felt like filling in on the progress. |
04-17-2007, 04:38 PM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lloccmttocs *sigh* I just got an email says my bass should be ready the first or second week of may. It feels like ages ago that I made the deposit. Oh well I asked for a special varnish style and this is what I get I think. I just felt like filling in on the progress. | Well, that sounds good to me! You ordered it in mid-February, right? So that should be around 12 weeks. Mine will take around 15 so I'm looking at late July. BTW, I doubt the special finish caused any delay unless it was something more than a color specification. I asked for mine to be colored as identically as possible to the one on the web site.
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04-17-2007, 05:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Naperville, Illinois | | | Hey guys,
I'm new here but am in the bandwagon of an 'on order' Professor.
I also went with the ebony hatpeg tuners and dark brown finish as on the website. I'm getting it strung with Obligatos, but am having a set of Spiros shipped with it also.
I took a 'leap of faith' with this instrument as I did not get a chance to hear/see one before ordering. I sincerely hope I'm pleasantly surprised when it eventually arrives.
I ordered my on April 6th, so the end of June would probably be the soonest.
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04-17-2007, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BEEF Hey guys,
I'm new here but am in the bandwagon of an 'on order' Professor.
I also went with the ebony hatpeg tuners and dark brown finish as on the website. I'm getting it strung with Obligatos, but am having a set of Spiros shipped with it also.
I took a 'leap of faith' with this instrument as I did not get a chance to hear/see one before ordering. I sincerely hope I'm pleasantly surprised when it eventually arrives.
I ordered my on April 6th, so the end of June would probably be the soonest. | Welcome to the club, BEEF. BTW, "Where's the beef?"-- as in, where do you live? ( Edit: Ah Chicagoland!)
Wow-- sight unseen and sound unheard. That is a leap of faith.
I think you'll be very happy!
As I mentioned, I played the Professor strung with Spiros and it was fantastic. In the end, I decided to go with my beloved Dominants.
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04-19-2007, 08:32 PM
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05-01-2007, 08:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Storrs, CT USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by drurb Well, that sounds good to me! You ordered it in mid-February, right? So that should be around 12 weeks. Mine will take around 15 so I'm looking at late July. BTW, I doubt the special finish caused any delay unless it was something more than a color specification. I asked for mine to be colored as identically as possible to the one on the web site. | I ordered my bass to look as close as they could to the style of Edgar Meyers bass in tone so he's going to be doing some strange varnish aging technique to make the edges darken and give it an italian look.
Well I just ripped off April 30th and was excited to see May 1st meaning only one or two weeks left until my bass. It is getting close. |
05-01-2007, 09:53 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | Congrats you guys! The Upton basses seem really intriguing. I think that if i wouldn't have ended up with my Cleveland-i would own an Upton.
The BG side of me says to save up and get one of each just to have. Reality-says, ain't gonna happen.
The wait will be worth it. When i purchased my StingRay5 the shop had a bass identical to what i wanted, except it had a rosewood fingerboard. So i placed an order with them for one with a maple board. I placed the order December 26th [i think] and i got it i think mid-February. Thankfully, i already had several bass guitars and was busy enough where i didn't think about the wait all that much. When it came in-it was all worth it. Now, 4 years later, it's still my main electric bass and is my go-to bass for live work.
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05-29-2007, 08:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Storrs, CT USA | | | Today's the day supposedly. It kept getting pushed back and pushed back that I'm suprised all my waiting might be over. Now I just have to wait a few minutes for them to call and I can go pick it up. |
05-29-2007, 03:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Storrs, CT USA | | | Nevermind, it's going to be another week |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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