Recent content by Mekana

That FedEx option looks great (almost as great as getting a new bass shipped to you and keeping the box!). Another option is possibly your local Postal Annex. I have walked in with a bass in my hand and they packed and shipped it for me. I don’t remember how much it was, but it was more...

Oh, no. I will miss him. My heartfelt condolences to his family.

Yep! The bass is going back to be looked at again. He’s very responsive and excellent to work with. No problems with the luthier! I’m just completely ignorant of how the electronics work and wondering in the meantime what the issue could be?

Hey everyone! I am a new (new to me) Sandberg owner. I have played short scale 5 string basses for about a decade and was convinced by an instructor to try a full scale bass again. So I found the lightest one I could to give it a try! I bought a TM5 superlight on eBay. It had been modified...

My tape measure isn’t terribly accurate, but it’s close to 2 1/4” at the 12th fret. HTH!

I picked up this Brice for a really good price a couple years ago (it was listed as B stock; the only thing I can see is a scuff on the finish that you can only see when the light hits it just right.) It does still need a set up; the nut seems a bit high, and a shim could help the action up...

I have a Birdsong Hy5, and played it almost exclusively for years! Love it... but it needs some repairs, and I’m mostly playing my Brice short scale 5 strings currently. (To answer your question, the Birdsong has regular scale TI Jazz rounds on it; before that I mostly used the Curt Mangan round...

My medium & short scale LaBella white tapes have red silks, and my medium & short scale LaBella black tapes have purple silks. (Have never tried the gold or copper white tapes because as far as I can tell, they don’t make them in medium or short scale 5 string sets... I’m happy with the ones I...

I like the maple board, too! (I have an Oceanburst like yours, too- it is cool looking!)

I have been looking for another short scale 5 string Brice to refinish in a pearl white color. This one popped up on Reverb, so I got it. Opened the box, and this beautiful blue flame top simply cannot be covered up. Keeping it as is! The fretboard really is that dark, too. Very happy with it-...

Sweetwater said April at first, but now they say June... (I saw somewhere, probably eBay, that we can get them shipped from Japan with a March estimated delivery date. It was about $400 more expensive... I decided to stick with Sweetwater and wait to get it when they have them.)

Thank you @nuage420b and @P Cheen That does help a lot! Sweetwater says they expect the Medium/Short multiscale in around April. Going to do my best to wait patiently, lol.

My first (and for a long time my only) bass was a headless Cort. So headless always feels like coming home to me. I have absolutely no idea how I will like the feel of the multiscale, but I can say the idea of how versatile it is has me really looking forward to it! I do have a...

Ibanez Bass Workshop EHB1005SMS Bass Guitar - Metallic Gray Matte Just preordered mine!

Ok, I’m in for the short/multi scale in silver. If it’s as light and easy to play as the Mikro, I will be in bass heaven.