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04-17-2013, 10:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | Lakland 44-51 USA
 Here's a rare bird!
Looking through the sold basses thread, I couldn't find another USA 44-51 that's been sold.
Here's a new one on Bass Club Chicago http://bassclubchicago.bizland.com/store/page6.html
This thing is still in GREAT condition. I dig just about everything about this bass, except for the lack of contours. I play quite high and it's a little uncomfortable, cramping my style 
It's not heavy. I do not have a scale.
The one on bass central is 8lbs http://www.basscentral.com/lakeland_...usa_2011.shtml
Comes in a really cool tweed Lakland OHSC. I'd like to see 2k shipped. |
04-17-2013, 10:16 PM
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04-17-2013, 10:17 PM
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04-18-2013, 04:33 AM
| | | | Wow! I've gotta 44-55 and these are great basses! |
04-18-2013, 06:30 AM
| | | | Bump! |
04-18-2013, 06:31 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Knoxville, TN | | I had the first one. It wasn't considered a prototype, but the stir it cause generated what became the 44-51. So it became known as the proto  .
Does yours have a Lakland/Hanson pickup?
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04-18-2013, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by JEDI BASS I had the first one. It wasn't considered a prototype, but the stir it cause generated what became the 44-51. So it became known as the proto .
Does yours have a Lakland/Hanson pickup? | Now THAT is cool!!
It has the lakland/hanson neopunch single coil |
04-18-2013, 08:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | Great pickup!! Mine came with a pickup that the builder put together, but I switched it out promptly for a split '51 Fralin and loved it! Should've kept that bass!
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04-18-2013, 01:59 PM
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A scuff |
04-21-2013, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | Man, the case alone is worth the cost!  kidding, of course  but it IS way cool. |
04-21-2013, 04:53 PM
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04-21-2013, 05:01 PM
|  | Jammin for the Lamb! | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Chicago - NW Burbs | | | wow...did NOT know you had one!
these are indeed rare..so yours is NOT the std P pickup...it is the "old style" single coil? man...I would LOVE one of these in a fiver version!
GLWTS......
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04-21-2013, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by basspraiser wow...did NOT know you had one!
these are indeed rare..so yours is NOT the std P pickup...it is the "old style" single coil? man...I would LOVE one of these in a fiver version!
GLWTS...... | Old style is right!! It's a sweet pup. Sounds good in a lot of applications. Has a surprising difference in tone between finger and pick, lots of good in favor of this bass. It actually wouldn't be too expensive/crazy to have Lakland make me a "modern" body for this...
The lack of contours is the ONLY thing that bothers me about this bass. It's just a killer instrument! Feel, sound, looks...it's all there! |
04-21-2013, 05:15 PM
| | | | What neck is on it? |
04-21-2013, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | 1.625 nut...comfortable width. Same as a lakland hollowbody...very nice |
04-21-2013, 07:59 PM
| | | | So the thickness is like the other laklands?? Not "vintage" profile. Which I believe is a D shape. |
04-21-2013, 08:00 PM
| | | | 44-51="1st Fret Neck Depth.87" (.77" optional)"
Hollow-body = 1st Fret Neck Depth .8"
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04-21-2013, 08:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | That's right. Hollowbody necks are slimmer by feel...this one has got to be the .87" deal.
Best I can tell, is it's all default measurements according to the site. I do know that not many were made and I'm guessing that most of them went to dealers, so probably very very few customized 44-51's exist. |
04-21-2013, 09:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Knoxville, TN | | | Yeah, neck dimensions felt the same as a 44-94 to me when I had the proto.
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04-22-2013, 04:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN | | | Man... I played this bass the other day, and it RULES.
It nails the single-coil P sound, and the neck? Daaaaayum!!!! Fast, comfy, and gorgeous (birdseye maple, ya'll!!). If I didn't have too many basses, I'd be jumping on this like a fat kid on a trampoline.
In hindsight, that analogy makes no sense.
The bass is great.
Lee is a great dude and seller.
He takes great care of his stuff.
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