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That fingerboard almost looks like ebony - but it's rosewood, right?

Dang. Not in a position to move on this. It was built/dated on my 10th birthday. Sigh...

Wow. Your P Bass was born on my 8th birthday. Wish I had the extra dough lying around to take it off your hands!

Pm'd.

Are you the first owner? Thanks.

I haven't really checked in for a while... here's an update in case anyone's interested. I think I posted that I'd cut a new nut slot for the G string, which helped a lot. The tech/luthier readjusted the bridge - just tiny increments - and out of necessity I just put it out of my head and...

Thanks to all. Lots of good food for thought. Bass is acting pretty civilized today. I'm trying to do the same!

Wow... thanks for all the input, guys. Lessee... er, Matthew, I do see the smiley face, but just for the record, checking the harmonic dates back to my time in a repairman/luthier's shop. When something's not working like it should (or like you think it should), you assess all the parameters...

Thanks, Paul.

Hi, Paul. Thanks for the reply. I play VERY little arco, and only to work on intonation. However deep my involvement with upright gets, I expect playing out will be entirely pizz, considering the genres. After reading your question, I played test notes with the bow, and it does seem the same. My...

This is driving me nuts (no pun intended). Background; I've only been playing upright for a year, but I've played professionally on electric bass, guitar and trumpet since around 1977. I started gigging on upright a couple months ago, playing country/Americana. I also spent a couple years...

Yup, that's on the horizon. Might get the 900 & use it mostly with my 4x10 Bassman cab. My 600 is back. New chassis (doesn't rattle). Sounding & acting like new. They even put the newer knobs with the black lines on it; lots easier to see. I should mention that, thanks to threads on TB, I was...

"I have to question why you'd send a perfectly fine working head to Genz Benz. Usually you send stuff out when it breaks ;) You could spray contact cleaner on the pots, switches and jacks yourself." This amp's seen a LOT of use. Aside from some issues with the chassis closure and preamp tube...

Naw. That EQ thread helped a lot; gets me to the point where I can dial up a usable sound if I need to before my Shuttle comes home. Thanks, though.

Thanks for the replies, guys. I finally found a thread about the Streamliner's EQ scheme... very helpful. Although I still don't get it; yeah, it helped me dial a reasonable (actually, pretty good) tone on some very different basses, I don't understand how people get all frothy about an amp that...