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CWB: Big 10 Inch

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#822
TodB said:
I got to try my first Dingwall bass at Axe Music in Edmonton. (Soon, very soon now).
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Which one did you try out? I have a 2011 Dingwall, ABZ5 that I picked up in October. Amazing bass! I get lots of compliments on the sound and the look.

Bass:
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Bass:
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Bass with chicklet:
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#823
pringlw said:
Cool. I'm outside of Chicago now and it's been years since I've seen Sundogs. Never in Chicago area anyway. I miss them actually.

Anyway, hope you didn't take the wrong conclusion from my post. If you're from Edmonton - clearly you know Winter. I'm just relating with you as "ice brothers" - not competing.

By the way, FM - these are the places where you find your vibrating men. Technically it's shivering but... Same difference! :bassist:
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Are you going to go to the TB Chicago GTG?

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f158/chicago-gtg-844388/

If you go, I wanna hear about it please, since I won't get to be there.
 
#831
Tat2dHeart said:
Which one did you try out? I have a 2011 Dingwall, ABZ5 that I picked up in October. Amazing bass! I get lots of compliments on the sound and the look.

Bass:

Bass:

Bass with chicklet:
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They only had a Super J. I was fine with the fanned frets but not so sure about the short scale. Then it was a Z3 and ABZ at Bass San Diego.

A 2000 five string Z1 will be coming via the Brown Step Van of Happiness once a Dingwall endorser gets his PayPal account sorted out. It's purdy! I can't wait!
 
#832
TodB said:
They only had a Super J. I was fine with the fanned frets but not so sure about the short scale. Then it was a Z3 and ABZ at Bass San Diego.

A 2000 five string Z1 will be coming via the Brown Step Van of Happiness once a Dingwall endorser gets his PayPal account sorted out. It's purdy! I can't wait!
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Everything I have is 34" scale or longer. The only short scale I've ever played was an early 70's Fender Musicmaster. Fast neck, but it felt like a toy.
 
#834
Tat2dHeart said:
Everything I have is 34" scale or longer. The only short scale I've ever played was an early 70's Fender Musicmaster. Fast neck, but it felt like a toy.
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Me too, and it seemed to me that if the point of the fanned frets was to give a longer scale length for the B string then a short scale bass kind of defeated the purpose.
 
#835
TodB said:
Me too, and it seemed to me that if the point of the fanned frets was to give a longer scale length for the B string then a short scale bass kind of defeated the purpose.
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Too true. I wanted to play a Dingwall the first time I saw one. I wasn't convinced about five strings, though. I'd tried a couple of other fives, but I have really short fingers and I couldn't even touch the B string on them without putting my wrist in a terrible position. The day I bought my Dingwall, I played three others besides the one I bought - an ABZ4, a Lee Sklar 5, and a Combustion 5. I liked them all, but the one I bought had the highest WP Factor that day. The Sklar was in my Top 5 of the day, but I bought the two basses that generated the most WP-Factor (the other was the amber Lakland you see in the stable pic).
 
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Tat2dHeart said:
Too true. I wanted to play a Dingwall the first time I saw one. I wasn't convinced about five strings, though. I'd tried a couple of other fives, but I have really short fingers and I couldn't even touch the B string on them without putting my wrist in a terrible position. The day I bought my Dingwall, I played three others besides the one I bought - an ABZ4, a Lee Sklar 5, and a Combustion 5. I liked them all, but the one I bought had the highest WP Factor that day. The Sklar was in my Top 5 of the day, but I bought the two basses that generated the most WP-Factor (the other was the amber Lakland you see in the stable pic).
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I've always played small necked 4s, a J bass and a Rick I wanted a five but never found one with a neck that felt right until the Dingwall. The first thing that caught my eye (or ear) was the sound, when I saw Lee Sklar play with Phil Collins, and then James Taylor.
 
#837
TodB said:
I've always played small necked 4s, a J bass and a Rick I wanted a five but never found one with a neck that felt right until the Dingwall. The first thing that caught my eye (or ear) was the sound, when I saw Lee Sklar play with Phil Collins, and then James Taylor.
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I tried my first Dingwall in 1998, not sure which model it was but I believe it might have been a Voodoo. I was intrigued by the fanned frets but the it was out of my price range. I swore I would get a Dingwall one day and finally got my Combustion last Christmas. I've played a lot of basses since but haven't picked up one yet that makes me want to play anything else but my Combustion.

Once sufficient funds are accumulated I already have my ABII picked out.
 
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Tat2dHeart said:
Everything I have is 34" scale or longer. The only short scale I've ever played was an early 70's Fender Musicmaster. Fast neck, but it felt like a toy.
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I am not a fan of short scales either. I have a couple Jazz basses, but I have started leaning toward 5 strings because I have very large hands, and I am finding the larger necks more comfortable and easier for me to play
 
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