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08-27-2007, 11:51 AM
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Owner - FretSpot.com; Vice President - Springfield Music | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Springfield, MO | | Here's a pic of a new F Bass coming to me. I'm a new F Bass dealer (I run a music store, and I'm doing a sideproject for highend basses and guitars called FretSpot.com).
Here's the specs:
BN5
buckeye-3 top, w/matching pickup covers and knobs
Surface Mount Dual Duty Schaller Straplocks
It might be for sale, if I can stand to part with it. I also have a cherry sunburst BN5 coming in. I'm supposed to be selling these, but I can already tell that it's going to be difficult to let them go.   |
08-28-2007, 12:08 PM
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Editor-in-Chief, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: North Central Ohio | | | Progress shots on the BN5
Here are some progress shots of my BN5. I opted for a solid northern ash body, and I love the grain on the piece we picked out. I also asked George for a drop-dead birdseye maple board, and 'boy, howdy!' did he deliver!   
The body will have a blue burst finish (with moderate brownish grain enhancement), and I opted for black hardware. 
Tom.
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08-28-2007, 02:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Awesome...Great match on the pu covers! That ash looks "whiter" than the standard swamp ash, what made you opt. for the northern?
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08-28-2007, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Hill  Awesome...Great match on the pu covers! That ash looks "whiter" than the standard swamp ash, what made you opt. for the northern? | In my own firsthand, unscientific, observations, northern ash bodied basses seem to have a bit more clarity, openness, and 'life' to them, along with a deeper, tighter low end. It could all be in my head, I don't know. But I know that at NAMM, the F Basses that really 'wowed!' me seemed to be the northern ash models.
Tom. |
08-28-2007, 10:19 PM
| | | Just got it today. Unbelievable tone and playability. I anchor on the top of the neck P/U. It is a stretch to the G, so I am actually doing what I should have done a long time ago- retrain my right hand to a floating anchor. Thats how good this bass is- it will make you change your right hand technique (for the better) to keep it.
Here are some pics http://gallery.mac.com/dean82#100038
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08-28-2007, 11:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Toronto | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tombowlus In my own firsthand, unscientific, observations, northern ash bodied basses seem to have a bit more clarity, openness, and 'life' to them, along with a deeper, tighter low end. It could all be in my head, I don't know. But I know that at NAMM, the F Basses that really 'wowed!' me seemed to be the northern ash models.
Tom. | I think your bass is going to be killer Tom! |
08-29-2007, 12:57 AM
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Editor-in-Chief, Bass Gear Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: North Central Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dean82 Just got it today. Unbelievable tone and playability. I anchor on the top of the neck P/U. It is a stretch to the G, so I am actually doing what I should have done a long time ago- retrain my right hand to a floating anchor. Thats how good this bass is- it will make you change your right hand technique (for the better) to keep it.
Here are some pics http://gallery.mac.com/dean82#100038 | Wow, I love that finish! Very nice. |
08-29-2007, 11:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Duluth, Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tombowlus Here are some progress shots of my BN5. I opted for a solid northern ash body, and I love the grain on the piece we picked out. I also asked George for a drop-dead birdseye maple board, and 'boy, howdy!' did he deliver!
The body will have a blue burst finish (with moderate brownish grain enhancement), and I opted for black hardware.
Tom. | That birdseye board is really something! And the grain of the ash follows the body contours nicely. It's off to a great start!
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08-29-2007, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Duluth, Georgia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dean82 Just got it today. Unbelievable tone and playability. I anchor on the top of the neck P/U. It is a stretch to the G, so I am actually doing what I should have done a long time ago- retrain my right hand to a floating anchor. Thats how good this bass is- it will make you change your right hand technique (for the better) to keep it.
Here are some pics http://gallery.mac.com/dean82#100038 | Really nice photos, dean. The Mac Ebony board goes great with that finish!
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08-30-2007, 07:33 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Vancouver CANADA & Blaine USA | | | My BN6 - Delivered!
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08-30-2007, 09:16 AM
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Congrats!
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08-30-2007, 09:21 AM
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Oh my! That is a beaut! Love the oil finish.
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08-30-2007, 09:55 AM
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Owner - FretSpot.com; Vice President - Springfield Music | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Springfield, MO | | I'm in lust! I can't wait for my two basses to show up! Only 7-8 more months!  |
08-30-2007, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by speyer |
That was a great bass my friend......!! I was happy to see it up here because it stands out in my mind. Its a particularly killer 6. Congrats.
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08-30-2007, 12:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Comfort, Sweden | | | Blue burst
Good luck, great looking bass Tom. Be shure to have the ordinary blue burst. I opted for lighter blue burst and the lightest blue color is fading away. I got mine in january. Maybe northern ash differ from swamp ash and take light color better? Mine is more grey than blue nowadays. George have given me some compensation
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08-30-2007, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by ursus Good luck, great looking bass Tom. Be shure to have the ordinary blue burst. I opted for lighter blue burst and the lightest blue color is fading away. I got mine in january. Maybe northern ash differ from swamp ash and take light color better? Mine is more grey than blue nowadays. George have given me some compensation
/ursus, Sweden | Thanks for the heads up. I will drop George a line to make sure that mine is the more 'blue' blue burst. I am sorry to hear that it didn't pan out quite how you wanted it to. |
08-30-2007, 01:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southern Comfort, Sweden | | | Blue burst
Yeah go for that blue, blue burst Tom, or else....approx seven months between these photos.
/ursus Sweden
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08-30-2007, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ursus Yeah go for that blue, blue burst Tom, or else....approx seven months between these photos.
/ursus Sweden | Whoa!!!  Man, something went wrong, there, I am thinking. Did George have an explanation for why this happened?
Tom. |
08-30-2007, 02:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Just north of Baltimore, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tombowlus Here are some progress shots of my BN5. I opted for a solid northern ash body, and I love the grain on the piece we picked out. I also asked George for a drop-dead birdseye maple board, and 'boy, howdy!' did he deliver!
The body will have a blue burst finish (with moderate brownish grain enhancement), and I opted for black hardware.
Tom. | I have the same board on my BN4 and LOVE it!! Lookin good@
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