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It's tough to live with regrets I suppose I should have kept my 1961 Les Paul / SG Custom with 3 PAF's, and my 1983 Reissue Korina Explorer, and many more...but all were let go for market value at the time Should have kept my Fretless Stingray several years ago and focused totally on fretless...

Can't believe I am going to say this...did not want to believe it... Skip the accoustic bass I have owned the Guild B-50, Taylor / Klein AB-2, Martin B-15 and a custom boutique build They are a lovely idea, but they don't work Believe me I tried...phospher bronze, la bella tapes, flats I...

Local shop had one briefly, sold it to CME via Reverb It was an 8 string Kramer bass with the super cool aluminum neck and Dimarzio pickup I would NOT worry about neck twisting, I would worry about a crushed femur if played while seated Can't imagine why you would replace the aluminum neck...

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OK...1968 EB 2 update Got mine from a friend who has a shop and tons of contacts, goes to shows, buy / sell / trade all used and vintage stuff He got it at the Philly Guitar Show, baritone switch NOT working, he placed value around $1500-1600 (know I traded for it, can't remember what) His...

I am way past late 40's, have a professional degree and career...and just said "**** it" Surprisingly no one cares, still get hired and get good results, think people are so into themselves they don't care about my hair Just say you lost a bet with your kid and keep growing

Had a Walnut Rickenbacker bass with adjustable mutes, which I liked initially...was always adjusting them...got to be ridiculous As a long time guitarist I knew palm muting and sort of switched to it Muting with palm heel and playing with thumb is a heavier thumpier mute than muting with knife...

Have 2 electric basses and 2 acoustic guitars - each is "the one" and all I need, but for different reasons... If I go busking in Cali or Amsterdam, my built like a tank 77 Guild F50 acoustic guitar is the one... Electric blues band, my 68 EB-2 is the one Distorted bass and singing, my USA P...

Not much of a fan of Lemmy or Motorhead, but makes me want to turn up distortion and play with a pick while singing...and use Root 5th 2 string power chords And Phillip Lynott makes me want to play with a pick and sing So far so good...though I still play some stuff with fingers and a bit more...

Here is my 1968 EB-2, which currently has Labella Tigers Blood Tapewounds The "baritone" switch is ridiculous.. one setting makes the house vibrate even at low volume through a cheap Ampeg combo ...needless to say I like that setting Other setting is not so ridiculous and more usable... Make...

Thought it was cool, and one of the cheap thrills of TB Forum - finding music I would otherwise never know existed

Martin, Gibson, Taylor, Guild, Collings, Santa Cruz, other boutique acoustic guitar builders.... Not a single acoustic guitar company / builder uses basswood (Maybe some lower quality / inexpensive models exist, but certainly zero high quality builds are basswood) Yes there are basswood...

Exhibit A of the axiom "it's worth what someone will pay" I suppose an unlined fretless is the easiest to build - no math required, no highly accurate precision skills required...doesn't appear to have any Alembic type electronics going on... If Eric Clapton plays one on MTV Unplugged the...

"Know Thine Ownself" I have had countless guitars and basses that were "lifetime keepers"..."I could be happy with just this, good enough to tour the world, etc." But I am a serial trader - any money I spend on upgrades / changes is inevitably wasted... IMHO, if you think you are going to...

Been through this with acoustic guitars As was mentioned it is primarily for nitrocellulose lacquer finish concerns The wood expands and contracts at a different speed than the nitro, so there is danger of cracking....and the nitro finish can fog due to rapid temperature changes...doubt your...

2015 USA P with Labella Tigers Blood Tapes If I ever follow through on going "minimalist" this should be the one No knobs to twiddle, nowhere to hide, nothing to do but play it

Wanted to learn bass the "right way" so I started out alternating index and middle finger to blues patterns, root / 5th stuff, getting percussive and almost drumming with 2 fingers... But watching classic rock videos I saw lots of pick players.... So now I do both, mostly pick with some thick...

Bitter boring truth is 2015 USA Precision Love the simplicity and it's the bass sound in my head...yes it's tort

I have had Guild B-30, Guild B-50, Taylor AB-2, Martin B-15, Epiphone El Capitan 5 string fretless, and the only acoustic bass boutique guitar builder Stephen Grossman ever made...and a Kali fretless uke bass which was surprisingly cool and closer to the mythical upright tone than would be...

Congrats... Must be very freeing to focus solely on playing and never again be burdened with checking classifieds, Craigslist, Reverb, on-line dealers etc May I humbly suggest you do NOT need to "keep up with the market" and look out of curiosity Much respect...tragically I have accepted my...

Nicely played, especially the "I was not in the market for a bass" intro... None of us ever are, it just happens...beyond our control Fate has dropped this cool piece upon you, deal with it...

Mine came with black, it's a classic look (classic on a classic, I slay myself)...but white, mint, tort and probably a gazillion other colors would look good too - ...but a black guard has an ethereal transcendent effect on tone so....

If I trust seller and their description yes...especially with return policy, but even without under certain circumstances Have bought instruments from forum classifieds and various music stores in different states

I have 3 one pickup electric basses and a no pickup acoustic so yeah, I get it... My origins / roots are on guitar, and between palm muting, playing with and without various picks, playing at bridge versus over soundhole, how hard you strike the strings --- there is a lot there to effect tone...

Fretless looks great... And my piety or lack thereof (waxes and wanes) has no effect on my opinion

It's a common tale Guess I look because it's what I do As new 2015 American Standard Precision with Ampeg BA 112 No need or use for either one, but the price was good.... Called, she was recently divorced, ex-husband got it for her she played it once, satisfied myself she did play bass, it...

Not my pix, (from the builder Stephen Kinnaird) but this is the Malaysian Blackwood back of my "boutique" acoustic bass The "advantage" was I had a pre-owned boutique guitar and a guy in Hawaii had this bass so we traded through another forum's classified... I have e-mailed the builder and we...

Believe this is the only acoustic bass built by "boutique" acoustic guitar builder Stephen Kinnaird Malaysian Blackwood, Bearclaw Sitka, forget the other fancy woods Have also had a Martin B-15, Guild B-50 and Taylor Klein AB-2... Can't say this is better, they were all cool, just stopped...

1968 Gibson EB 2 with non-original non-working baritone switch and non original volume / tone knobs... Stylishly adorned in tapewounds, had roundwounds when I acquired her, but wanted to protect frets and go all in on mud thump...with the tone turned way down she perhaps approaches the mythical...