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I stopped in my town pawn shop (mostly because it's right next to the Subway where I bought lunch) and they have an Ibanez Soundgear 6-string on the wall. It was behind the counter, and I wasn't interested enough to ask the clerk to get up off his stool and hand it to me. But thinking about it...

So, does anyone else think that Gibson is stretching things a bit with their "120 Year" anniversary this year? Here's what the Wikipedia article has to say about the company's founding: So... by my count, their 120th anniversary shouldn't be until 2022. Then again, they did do their 100th...

I was watching the YouTube video of Paul McCartney teaching bass and notice him doing something that looks like fretting his E string with his thumb. Is that really what he's doing, or is he muting the E with his thumb while he plays the higher strings?

Howdy, folks. I'm in the process of paying off a vintage Japanese bass from the local(ish) vintage guitar store. And I've noticed that one of the pickups is canted... the top edge is further from the body of the bass than the bottom edge. I also saw the same thing on a vintage Gibson Les...

So, Gizmag has an article about a new kind of pickup, the Fluence by Fishman, which they (Fishman) are claiming is the first real renovation in guitar pickups in 80 years. So far as I can tell, the idea is that the coils are in PCBs instead of being wound, and that this configuration gives...

It's snowing here. It doesn't usually snow more than a couple of centimeters, about once a year, and it's generally gone the next day. Tonight's forcast is calling for 6-10 cm of accumulation. It's amusing listening to my coworkers. You'd think they were afraid of their tauntauns dying...

I didn't want to derail someone else's topic, so I brought this over here to a topic of its own. I play a short-scale bass: a Gretsch Junior Jet II (G2220), with a scale length of 770 mm / 30.3". I'm also working on paying off a 35" scale Daion from the localish vintage shop. And I have...

I wanted to buy some colored strings to match the Rocksmith colors, because, hey, I'm like that. I found I had pretty much two choices: DRs, or Auroras. I've read in various places that DR has issues with quality control, so I went for the Auroras. They're nice strings, and I'm happy with...

There's a one-owner Westbury Track-2 on eBay right now, and if I had the money, I'd buy that puppy. I mention this in hopes that some other vintage Japanese bass fancier might have the dough... nobody's bid on this, and it really sounds like it's the seller's baby. If it's going to be sold, it...

For me, it's Fish Story (フィッシュストーリー), a Japanese movie about an ahead-of-their-time punk band who recorded a song that saved the world. I love the portrayal of the band, and of the tiny handful of fans they attracted down the...

Not strictly guitar related, but I don't see a sub-forum for "accessories" so I'm posting it here. Mea culpa if it's the wrong spot. What's your favorite bass gig bag? What do you look for as must-haves when looking for a gig bag? What do you look at as deal-killers?

So(1), after several months of dinking around with my Gretsch Junior Jet II, (which I got because I was told that the short scale would make it easier for my "little girly hands" to transition from 6-string to bass) I'm ready for (as Tim the Toolman would say:) More Power. I want a long-scale...