Recent content by trentice

Hello. Thank you for such a good review. What's the difference between all the TMB variants (i.e. 100, 300, 600, 2000, etc)? What country is the TMB 600 made in?

Thanks guys, I have laid the strings down over the E and A. For the E string, the nylon aspect of the string exceeds the winding bolt, though only just. (however, I know the bolts can wind the main string around it, as my current strings are wound around the bolts). With the A string, the thick...

Thanks for your input. Rest assured I have already laid the strings over the bass to see if they measure up. There isn't a lot of room for error, for if I apply the strings and tighten them up only discover they don't fit or sound right, then I cannot send take the strings back. They are...

Thanks Pilgrim, Your insight was very helpful. Just to be on the safe side I am going to take my strings and SG to a tech and get them to have a look before attempting to fit them. I'd rather they put them on and do any subsequent tweaking than myself having a go. Cheers!

Thanks guys, Once you have the strings on your non-Hofner bass, how do they sound? Are they any good?

Thanks. You sure they won't fit? The Beatle bass is 30" scale and the SG is around half an inch longer (so they are just about the same scale length).

Hello. I have a Gibson SG bass, and have found it quite hard to find short scale flats for her. The guy in the store sold me some Labella beatle bass flats. I was wondering if anyone has ever strung their bass (shortscale) with beatle flats before? If so, does it work? And how does it...