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Kinal owners??

russjm

russjm

Aug 6, 2004
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Macclesfield, England.
theaoi.com
#1
I just wondered if there were any other Kinal owners over there? I've been through dozens of basses of the last couple of years and finally I think I've found "The One". It's a Kinal MK-5:

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Totally superb in every way, build quality, playability and tone, just fantastic, but very little is known about them over here.

Anyone else have one?
 
#4
I love them.

After trying everything at NAMM I was putting these up there as one of the nicest basses there (for me anyways) just base on playing and tone.
 
#6
bubinga5 said:
Beauty Russ... did you get this off Eubassix?

are the pups Nords?
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I did mate yes. Wish I could've had his fretless too. The pups are Aeros, and are just great, very jazz like, and very much like a Lakland DJ4 I had, with...er....Aeros in it !!

Tumbao, it was £1100 used, I'd probably need to treble that to get a used Fodera over here, mind you, everything is very expensive over here right now because of the weak pound.
 
#7
One of my basses is an MK-21 with Soapbars, coil tap switch for each P/U and an Aguilar OBP-3. Ash body, flamed maple top and rosewood board. The build quality is as good as it gets and it's a great sounding, versatile bass. You can check my profile to see what other basses I compare it to.
 
#13
That's my Kinal that you bought. Well, I wasn't the original owner just one of the owners of this bass. I bought it used and owned it for less than a year. I sold it to a guy in England and got my money back on what I paid for it.
It's a great bass. Very versatile. I used it on all my gigs from jazz/fusion, rock to R&B. Everyone loved it. The only reason I sold it was because I couldn't get used to the small string spacing.
Anyhow, congrats on the bass. It's a keeper. I've thought about ordering another new one with wider strings but Mr. Kinal is charging a healthy sum for the bass.
 
#14
I'm a recent Kinal convert myself as I just picked up bobunit's SKB-5 and I really love it. I have been looking at Kinals for quite a while and I finally pulled the trigger on this one and I couldn't be happier.

Here are a few photos and one from a show a week ago.

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#18
Thanks for the comments. Man, there's some nice basses there. Funkythumb, well it's a small world. Yeah, the string spacing is really the only issue. I slap a couple of songs in the set, and it's a squeeze to get my fat fingers in there, but I'm getting used to it. It's a fabulous bass, and really does play itself, it's so comfortable.
 
#20
winston said:
Are those gut strings on the 6? How do they sound?
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Yeah. They sound like this:



Wasn't the best tension across the strings though, so I didn't keep it strung that way for too long. Lately I've been using plain gut strings for the 2 highest strings (they seem to intonate better on the higher notes) along with my usual TI Acousticores for the rest. Tuned C#F#BEAD (usually). It's a work in progress :D
 

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