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Bass VI options?

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Rondo often has 30" scale 6 string baritones, basically a string swap away from a Bass VI. Rather a bumper crop right now. Any of these with the "30" suffix in the model number would do the trick. Some modern shredder styling.


This one looks rather tasty (of course, I make eyes for the priciest one in the lot hehe):

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getBAK said:
Update: I ended up ordering the Thomann/Harley Benton Guitar-Bass. It arrived a couple of days later. I have to say, I'm impressed. Electronics are quiet, everything seems in good order. I have my local luthier doing a once-over/setup and adding a set of LaBella Flats, but thus far everyone loves this thing.
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Please let me know if your tech has any difficulty getting the 35.5” strings into the tuners. I’ve been worried the tailpiece is too close to the bridge and the speaking length of the string will become an issue with guitar tuners.
 
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HelpImaRock said:
Please let me know if your tech has any difficulty getting the 35.5” strings into the tuners. I’ve been worried the tailpiece is too close to the bridge and the speaking length of the string will become an issue with guitar tuners.
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Just by eyeballing it from pics, my bet would be on the stopbar-to-low-E-post being under 34".
If I owned one, I would relocate the bar at the very edge of the body, leaving a bar-type retainer in its stead,* after which procedure I'd be able to use whatever long-scale strings would tickle my fancy (...bar the still extant need for very long trebles).


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Uhm. I guess adding a second stopbar while leaving the original one in place would allow the use of both short- and long-scale strings. Just not (as in: not in a 'correct' way) bass-VI ones, funnily enough.
 
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Snert said:
Sweet. You very rarely see these even mentioned, let alone in the wild. My Bass VI class journey started with the OLP MM5 which I found locally for peanuts maybe 15ya, then sold sadly a few years after when I was broke. I can't afford an EBMM, so I looked for alternatives and am very happy with my SRC6.

I'd love to try the EB version one day.
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I had the MM5 as well. I’d love to get an EBMM but they pop up very rarely.

I bought a Sterling Silo20 (their discontinued version of the Silhouette Standard guitar) and had a custom 30” neck made for it, using Babicz Solo Rail bridges.

Right now the neck needs work (serious fret sprout and I need to thicken the headstock to sink the tuners for a better string break angle) but it’s as close as I can get. In retrospect I ought to have got the Eastwood Hooky…

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HelpImaRock said:
Please let me know if your tech has any difficulty getting the 35.5” strings into the tuners. I’ve been worried the tailpiece is too close to the bridge and the speaking length of the string will become an issue with guitar tuners.
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Just found out the hard way. LaBella’s do not fit. The strings are too long and go beyond the silks on the tuner side. Looking into a set of Pyramids instead as thomann recommends
 
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