A while back I owned a Signature brand bass. A real Canadian one. Not the crappy chinese impostors sold by Slonk on eBay. The real Signature was a well built bass. It reminded me of a high grade Ibanez.
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2 Fbass BN5's here. Just great bases overall.
beautiful!
https://www.talkbass.com/members/pillo.294715/ : have you played a stash? i've glorified "cheap" basses in two different threads today, but i gotta' say: that instrument has my attention!
just wondering if you have played one --- since you're so close to the builder. thanks. i'll be about two hours away from burlington for our 'canadian summer vacation' in a few weeks --- might be a worthwhile day trip to play a fretless stash.
I owned a great Canadian bass from Dingwall. Nothing bad to say about it and fanned frets are easy to adapt to.
Being a Canadian, I'm embarrassed to say a lot of these names are news to me. The only basses I knew were Cdn are Lado & Godin.
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I'm the proud owner of this awesome Vadim Robtsov 5 string fretless. He's a fine Russian fellow, living and building in Canada.
beautiful!
https://www.talkbass.com/members/pillo.294715/ : have you played a stash? i've glorified "cheap" basses in two different threads today, but i gotta' say: that instrument has my attention!
just wondering if you have played one --- since you're so close to the builder. thanks. i'll be about two hours away from burlington for our 'canadian summer vacation' in a few weeks --- might be a worthwhile day trip to play a fretless stash.
Was that post meant for me? I'm not near anything in Canada unfortunately. I'm 579 km away in CT.
I also don't have a current passport, so I'd need to renew that first before I drove up. (Thank you former Prez Bush. So much for the old open border.)
What? No Dingwall photos in this thread yet? Let me fix that.
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Stumbled upon this earler in the year. This is a Larrivee LB-2 'Vancouver' bass from about 1990, when they were still building in Vancouver. They don't build basses anymore.
This poor photo is from the cheesy pawn shop that was selling it, they always use the same dirty blanket to showcase instruments. I tried it out and it played nice but really needed a set up, the strings could of been original. Hardly worn, 34" scale, ebony fingerboard, black paint with a tiny sparkle. '80s pointy headstock. Something like $400 Canadian, a lot of bass for low money. It was available for at least four months. Would be cool for a retro metal band.
Could be a nice bass but the active pickups did not even work, I passed on it. Regret not buying it.
Funny thing, another Larrivee bass exactly the same was available in another pawn shop here that I checked out at the same time.
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There's some off about the dimensions of that 6 string. It looks closer to being a Bass VI than a 6 bass.
I think it's the bad camera angles. Nothing wrong with the proportions in person.
yes: i was admiring your godin! very nice.
and then i messed up:
i was also asking a question of https://www.talkbass.com/members/pillo.294715/ . but i wasn't clear about that in the post. sorry/thanks.
Qualify? Just qualify? Don't be absurd. A Dingwall gets you an automatic upgrade to 1st class.
Beautiful basses those are.
Finally found a pic of my own Godin L.R. Baggs Acousitibass. Thank Goodness for Mega.nz!
