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Dave Hope of Kansas. They were one of my favorite bands. I went into a music store in Atlanta in 1977 to buy some guitar strings for a crappy guitar I had picked up to learn how to play. Struck up a conversation with the guy at the store and it was Dave Hope from Kansas. The owner of the store...

Mine was a 5.

I had a brother to your bass. Mine was VERY similar, except it had a maple fretboard. The top on mine was Amboyna Burl. From the pictures it looks like yours has the same top. Mine also had the HazLab preamp with Barts. It was a really great playing and sounding bass. Ray builds super basses! GLWTS!

Very nice bass! I hope you like the Delano P Xtenders as much as I do. They are great pickups. I’ll bet with the double P setup that bass roars!

Tom builds wonderful basses. I have a fretted and a fretted bass that he built for me. Great bass at a great price. GLWTS.

The Dregs were the real deal. I saw them play a club in the early eighties from about 10 feet from the stage. They were better live than on the recordings. Steve Morse was and is an incredible guitarist. Andy West was a killer bass player. He played a Steinberger when I saw them. Heavy and deep...

Congrats on a beautiful bass!

I have the JPJ setup on my Fender Urge. Pretty versatile setup.

I have an original Urge 1. I would get an ohm meter and check the continuity of the switch first. The 3 way switch went bad in my Urge and I had the replace it several years ago. If the switch is good then I would start checking the pickups. Good luck.

I just picked up a 6.2 from great TBer last week. I am really impressed! Very versatile and great amp!

+1 on Hipshot tuners and bridges. Great hardware.

I would also check out the bass cabinet IRs from Dr. Bonkers and Bergantino. IMO MUCH better than the standard cab offerings. I know there are a lot of other good IR sites out there, these are just two that I have used and had good success with.

Keep in mind that Maruszczyk does use truss rods that tighten when turned LEFT (counterclockwise). This is different from most basses which tighten the truss rod when you turn to the right (clockwise). I am not sure if they use the left hand truss rods on all of their basses or just some models...

This is really well said and I couldn’t agree more. Having these very knowledgeable people give us their insight and opinions is to me one of the best things about TB. I have never felt they are just trying to “push product”, but I have gotten more detailed and useful info that has been really...

They all look great to me. I personally would not worry too much about the carbon rods. While nice to have, most basses still don’t have them.