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Anyone else play a Kinal?

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rontalsaurus

Aug 19, 2002
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Just curious if anyone else has one. I love mine, an MK5B.
Pics here:
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http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/arontal/Basses/
 
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rontalsaurus said:
Just curious if anyone else has one. I love mine, an MK5B.
Pics here:
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http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/arontal/Basses/
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We almost have twins!

I'm really impressed with this bass. I just picked it up last week, and it plays and sounds unbelievably good. Overall, it's one of the best basses that I've played in some time, and I certainly would not hesitate to get another one with different specs if it were to come around.
 

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cptnhook said:
Does that bass have two different bart pickups? One appears to be wider than the other.
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Yeah, they're slightly different. To be honest, I don't remember which is what. :(
The preamp is an 18v Bart w/
-bass/mid/treble boost-cut
-blend
-volume w/ pull to passive
-3way coil tap for the bridge pup
-3 frequency mid-select (250Hz, 500Hz, 800Hz)
-All controls bypass switch (removes the preamp and sound shaping elements). To be honest, this bypass switch, there is a definite difference between it and passive, but I'm not sure what the switch actually does. Either way, it gives a very clean, even tone that sounds great when chording. Anyone know what it actually does?
 
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Halftooth said:
We almost have twins!

I'm really impressed with this bass. I just picked it up last week, and it plays and sounds unbelievably good. Overall, it's one of the best basses that I've played in some time, and I certainly would not hesitate to get another one with different specs if it were to come around.
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that's a beautiful piece of cocobolo. However, contrary to popular belief, mine is NOT cocobolo. It's a funky figured Goncalo-Alves. I was originally going to go for a figured walnut or claro walnut. But, when talking with Mike he suggested I take a look at some of the Goncalo-Alves boards he had. After a few emails and pictures, I went with the above. Pretty unique piece of wood.
The body is alder. Yours looks to be ash, right?
 
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rontalsaurus said:
that's a beautiful piece of cocobolo. However, contrary to popular belief, mine is NOT cocobolo. It's a funky figured Goncalo-Alves. I was originally going to go for a figured walnut or claro walnut. But, when talking with Mike he suggested I take a look at some of the Goncalo-Alves boards he had. After a few emails and pictures, I went with the above. Pretty unique piece of wood.
The body is alder. Yours looks to be ash, right?
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The body wood on my bass is actually Black Limba. It's the first bass that I've owned with the Black Limba body, and I'm really impressed. Overall i's pretty balanced tonally, but it does seem to have a nice midrange character to it. It's such a great bass...I can't believe that these haven't caught on more.
 
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Halftooth said:
The body wood on my bass is actually Black Limba. It's the first bass that I've owned with the Black Limba body, and I'm really impressed. Overall i's pretty balanced tonally, but it does seem to have a nice midrange character to it. It's such a great bass...I can't believe that these haven't caught on more.
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Black Limba, huh? Never heard of it. Cool!
I'm surprised he hasn't caught on more as well. He builds incredible stuff and at a great price. The necks he carves are incredible. Easily the best feeling neck I've every played.

He's a busy guy, though. I wonder if he'd prefer to keep the operation somewhat less known so he can still do it all himself by hand. When I bought mine the wait was about 8 months, maybe longer. He's a school teacher full-time, so maybe he's got other fish to fry than to get bigger...or maybe he'd rather be a luthier full-time? Who knows. Either way, fantastic instruments. Someday I'll hopefully have a DK5 as well. One of the coolest looking fretless' I've ever seen.
 
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rontalsaurus said:
Black Limba, huh? Never heard of it. Cool!
I'm surprised he hasn't caught on more as well. He builds incredible stuff and at a great price. The necks he carves are incredible. Easily the best feeling neck I've every played.

He's a busy guy, though. I wonder if he'd prefer to keep the operation somewhat less known so he can still do it all himself by hand. When I bought mine the wait was about 8 months, maybe longer. He's a school teacher full-time, so maybe he's got other fish to fry than to get bigger...or maybe he'd rather be a luthier full-time? Who knows. Either way, fantastic instruments. Someday I'll hopefully have a DK5 as well. One of the coolest looking fretless' I've ever seen.
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Black Limba is also known as Korina which has both Black and White varieties. Tonally, I'd say that it's similar to Mahogany or even Spanish Cedar but with a bit more bite.

I wasn't aware that Mike was a full-time teacher. That's even more reason for me to support him. I can't believe he's able to do this all in his spare time. I would assume then that he'd just prefer to keep his production low so that it's manageable.

Either way, I can forsee myself getting another one down the road.
 
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Halftooth said:
Black Limba is also known as Korina which has both Black and White varieties. Tonally, I'd say that it's similar to Mahogany or even Spanish Cedar but with a bit more bite.

I wasn't aware that Mike was a full-time teacher. That's even more reason for me to support him. I can't believe he's able to do this all in his spare time. I would assume then that he'd just prefer to keep his production low so that it's manageable.

Either way, I can forsee myself getting another one down the road.
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Ahh...Korina. Heard of that. I'd actually very much like to try a bass made of it. How does it compare to Alder?
 
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rontalsaurus said:
Ahh...Korina. Heard of that. I'd actually very much like to try a bass made of it. How does it compare to Alder?
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It's hard to say totally how it stacks up with an Alder Kinal, but in general, I'd say the Black Limba has a bit more life to it than the Alder basses that I've owned (and I've owned a lot). I'd say it has the full mids of Alder but with a bit more bite on the highs. It's very good body wood, and one that I'd very much recommend.
 

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