Check this out guys. Thanks to Coop (most recently) and CraigB I think I just might qualify to join the G&L club! Here's a pic of my two Ash beauty's. Took me a little while to start getting used to the neck on the tribby (Korean) but I'm totally down with the neck on the American honeyburst. Very comfortable. The thing that blows me away about the honeyburst one is how light it is. It seems to be considerably lighter than the tribby even thought they should be pretty close to the same. And that's good considering the only other American sb-2 I've played is an alder one and it's a tank! I can see that the tribby is made of three different pieces of ash where the American is one solid piece which may contribute to the differance, dunno. What's wierder to me is that the American one is allmost 3/8 to1/2 an inch shorter when placed back to back. They basically sound identical with the exeption of the stacked volume knobs with the extra tone contorll knob on the American model. I think this feature it very usable. The first thing I did when I got the honeyburst one (this morning basically) was to clean it up and install a new set of rotosound swing 66's and the tone knob really helps chill the super bright harmonics and string noise from the roto's. These basses have so much balls that it's crazy, and it seems like you could allmost punch a hole in the wall with the sound of the split MFD. I'm most pleased.
Can't wait to take them to practice tommorow and plug it (homeyburst) into a real amp (vintage svt) and see what happens. We've been working on several Zeppelin songs lately and I can't wait to try my lemmon song chops out on this baby! Again, thanks again Coop for letting it go as I'm sure it must have been a hard decision.
Glen
