Should I bite? (Blake Steinberger)

KillerNeuron · #1 08-07-2011, 01:34 PM

This thing has me curious, so I wanted to ask if there was anyone here who has owned one of these and what they thought of it... also, is this a good deal? Seems like a pretty fair price but I can't find too terribly much about this particular bass...

Blake Bass Guitar (Steinberger)

bassteban · #2 08-07-2011, 01:39 PM

I wouldn't call that a great deal- OK at best. I have a Honer Steinie copy- I'm stalled on doing some major mods on it ATM, but before I butchered it, it sounded great & played just as well. I've never heard of *Blake* though.

number11 · #3 08-07-2011, 01:46 PM

I wouldn't

Its just another knock-off, and its top dollar for what it is.

Wooden Bergers that small SOUND small

darkstorm · #4 08-07-2011, 05:11 PM

Its an inexpensive steiny knockoff. Most of those used lic or actual steiny bridge and end of neck thing along with the cheap qaulity emg select pups. It may have sold for $300 new with case, but hardly worth it today imo.

MTMTEX · #5 08-08-2011, 11:31 AM

I bought this thing on friday. Pretty much a cheap knock off but it does have a Newburgh era steinie bridge that I am putting on an XM-2 I have that someone cannabalized somewhere along the way. I must say the thing does sound pretty damn good though.

neptoon · #6 08-08-2011, 11:39 AM

i imagine that 'blake' is ron blake, one of ed roman's ex-luthiers who actually worked with carl thompson a lotta years ago...ed roman mopped up a bunch of steinberger parts when they stopped making them so he could knock them off...just saying...ed roman sucks, but ron blake is a pretty doggone accomplished luthier that's been around for a while

Blake Bass · #7 08-08-2011, 11:44 AM

Hey wait a minute, I am Blake Bass and I did not authorize this!!!

MTMTEX · #8 08-08-2011, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by neptoon

i imagine that 'blake' is ron blake, one of ed roman's ex-luthiers who actually worked with carl thompson a lotta years ago...ed roman mopped up a bunch of steinberger parts when they stopped making them so he could knock them off...just saying...ed roman sucks, but ron blake is a pretty doggone accomplished luthier that's been around for a while

Thats kind of what I was thinking as well. This thing really isn't poorly made at all for a cheap knock off. I looked all over the interwebs and could'nt find anything at all about it.

MTMTEX · #9 08-08-2011, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Blake Bass

Hey wait a minute, I am Blake Bass and I did not authorize this!!!

Tell me you built this so I can stop wondering about its origins.

throbgod13 · #10 08-08-2011, 12:14 PM

it's a Cort..

number11 · #11 08-08-2011, 01:32 PM

Thats not a Newburgh bridge. Its a Hohner / Cort licensed bridge.

ZedZed · #12 08-08-2011, 01:55 PM

A Throbgod & Number said, it's a Cort. I have the exact same bass in black and it says Cort where yours says Blake. It should go for what a used Cort with a Steinberger tuner goes for, $200ish but definitely not $300.
I love how the guy says that it has a Steinberger tuner and Steinbergers sell for thousands of dollars, lol.

MTMTEX · #13 08-08-2011, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by number11

Thats not a Newburgh bridge. Its a Hohner / Cort licensed bridge.

Hmmm. Not according to the Steinberger world website.

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Originally Posted by ZedZed

A Throbgod & Number said, it's a Cort. I have the exact same bass in black and it says Cort where yours says Blake. It should go for what a used Cort with a Steinberger tuner goes for, $200ish but definitely not $300.
I love how the guy says that it has a Steinberger tuner and Steinbergers sell for thousands of dollars, lol.

Yeah I paid 2 bills for it.

GM60466 · #14 08-08-2011, 04:31 PM

It is a CORT bass made in the late-80s and it looks refined. $200 is more than I would pay.

number11 · #15 08-08-2011, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by MTMTEX

Hmmm. Not according to the Steinberger world website.

If you have a link to prove that, link to that for me, please, because nowhere on the SW website does it say your "under license" bridge is "newburgh era"

Because a real Steinberger bridge - and I've owned Hohners, Corts, XLs, Ls, Xps, XMs, Transtrems etc - does NOT have the word "licensed" on it. Its Steinberger, why would it be licensed TO steinberger FROM Steinberger?

No licensed hardware parts fit real Steinbergers.

The Version 2 bridge looks a little like a licensed bridge, but it won't retrofit.