Recent content by highly_unlikely

The Chants as in Chants R&B? I'm a fan, what a really great band :D The Stage Door Tapes album is some killer stuff. It should be forced upon children in schools I reckon :hyper: My Wasp is now officially my longest serving amp ever. It just keeps sounding better.

Doh. Just clicked for the larger image :rolleyes: I see it is a newfangled master volume. That's some cutting edge Wasp technology you got there. :D

Seems like you'll have a mighty sweet rig going there :bassist: Your carpet has outdone my blue piping in the "what the heck were they thinking?" contest. You seem to have one more knob than everybody else. Is it a master volume? Looking forward to some pics.

Outstanding ... unless you invented that cherry ripe flavour in which case you are a freak, yuck! +1 on the pics. Please. Still gigging mine with the Lorantz as above, loving what it does and most amazing thing of all is I don't feel any GAS urges for another amp even after nearly two years...

Another quick question TD, if you don;t mind :) The 361 Merkur photos I've seen have a bolt-on style bridge. I was assuming mine had been modified with a trapeze. But it just occurred to me that my bass is full hollowbody with no centre block and I'm guessing (probably wrongly) that a...

About time I added mine to this thread. I bought it nearly a year ago based largely on Smo's constant ravings ;) This thread pushed me over the line. I'm glad I did, it's a great amp with a nice grind or a rubbery clean, the amount of dirt is easily controlled from the volume knob on my...

Thanks for the replies guys, I appreciate it. I had thought it might have been a family coat of arms type deal or a regional thing but purely cosmetic makes sense :) One guy had me nearly convinced that it meant "I have no particular preference for men or women". :eyebrow: Phew!

My old late 60's German Klira bass has an inlay on the headstock. I've been watching ebay and elsewhere for Kliras for a couple of years and have not seen another with this design on the headstock so I'm guessing it's a custom job or maybe something done by an owner post-factory. It's a little...

As well as the four of us musos, my band has 15 chick singers out the front and lays claim to being "The Worlds Biggest Girlgroup".

Thanks funkytoe :hyper: Here's my other shorty. 30.5" scale, MIJ probably early 70's, sort of an EB1 copy but not really. No branding on it, I guess it would have been Aria, Apollo, something like that. Hollowbody construction but with a big centreblock running east-west under the...

Heck might as well take a number. I'd be in good company, there are some mighty fine looking basses in this club. Thanks a bunch! :D I'll have to add some pics of my crazy old shorty MIJ EB-1 copy as well.

About time I posted here. This is my Klira 30.5" scale hollowbody. Pretty much like a Rivoli/EB2 but with Hofner sorta hardware. I got it about 18 months ago and love it to death. It sees regular use as my one and only bass for live and recording use. It needed a bit of love and money...

Got some dimensions there? I can ask around. If nothing else I've finally made my first TB post and you got a few free bumps :D Actually the real kick in the teeth with importing gear to Australia is that there's no tax for something under $1,000 but above that there's about 10 or 15%...

Just sent a PM about weight/dimensions etc. I'm keen but I think the shipping cost to Australia will burst my bubble :crying: