Recent content by Hornet Mikey

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    short scale bass recommendations

    Surprised at how few mentions for Sandberg. I've just taken delivery of a California short active Jazz (TT). I have a S/S Sterling Ray, and although great I found it tonally a bit one-dimensional, and I wanted a 'quality' main guitar. The Sandberg is fabulous, with a ridiculously wide range of...
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    SBMM Stingray Short scale

    Bought one of these s/h on ebay in April (daphne blue) as dropped copper not available back then. Arrived badly packaged and pretty beaten up - one of the tuners bent to 90 degrees, pickup only working single coil, ding in body. After being given the runaround by the shipping company, I decided...
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    Available Short Scale Sets

    What is the issue in cutting long-scale strings down? Just wondering as I am trying to get a bit more twang out of my Sterling SS Stingray. I've heard about potential breakages if you bend the string round the machines, but on a SS the tension is pretty low so seems unlikely. Anyway I used a...