Recent content by screambasses

Any bass made for righty also made for a lefty. pete

Yes, it infuriates me, especially as a lefty. I don't have a problem with instruments being parted out because, say, the neck is warped, but "their right or not" it isn't a cool practice to just part them out so they can make more money on the individual pieces. shag these people and their brand...

Spector Bantam.

I own two LEFTY Spectors: a new Bantam and a DLX EX REBOP. I'm really interested in short scale lefty Spectors. A few years back, they made other short scales - i.e. an artist model for Garry Tallent. Does anybody own other short scales other than the Bantam? In lefty? Thanks!

Yeah, I've been playing mine (same as yours) and have fallen in love with it. I then went and bought a Czech-made 34", but it doesn't compare to the ease and comfort of the Bantam. Been trying to get them to build me one in pearl white...

After 40 years of playing and well over 100 basses, I've landed on the Spector Bantam short scale. To me, it's perfect.

It's funny, I always thought I was a J-bass guy (the smaller neck), but the older I get, the more I prefer the wider P-bass neck. Should have my Bantam by XMAS. I'm a lefty, so they ordered one special for me.

Found this on the Sweetwater page: Nut Width:1.65"

I have sent them three basses. This is my experience: First bass: an old Hondo, painted black. They received it on October 17, 2017, and it was shipped back to me on November 21, 2017 - so, about a month. Second Bass: Ibanez Iceman, painted purple sparkle. They received it on January 9, 2018...

Well, this is my daily player, which I built and painted myself. It's got a graphite neck with cocobolo inlays and an Audere four-band pre-amp.

I used to build them like that.

USACG are the best out there IMO. Whatever you do stay away from Bernie Hefner. He's an arrogant A-Hole and his finishes are pretty crappy. I've used all of these guys. pete

Somebody on this board gave me this idea but I can't remember who it was! This is a J body I had lying around. I painted it in nitro LPB and put a clearcoat on top, also nitro. The design is painted with acrylic colors and took me a week to do. As you can see in the photo on the left I used...

That new one looks very nice. I use a Dremel every day - they're one of the tools a luthier must have. pete

Two (or more) piece bodies are glued at the center-line, like yours. Check out the photo attached. I hired a new finisher who insisted that he knew how to finish bodies so the first body he did was this flame maple SJ and proceeded to do the same job as Warmoth did to your bass, which is...