Dan Lakin has SOLD Lakland basses???

[tycobb73]

Guys great sales don't equal profit all the time. My dad works for Steelcase, the largest furniture manufacturer out there. they've been hemoraging money for a long time. Nor does high end mean great sales. Duesenburg made the best cars of anybody and went bankrupt. The key is watching revenue vs costs.

Plus, I'd bet that the % of TB that plays Lakland is much larger than the rest of hte bass population who probably doesn''t know about them.

 

[basspraiser]

Dan is thinking about alot of different opportunities....I am sure he will be back soon with something cool!!!

I hope Dan starts something new. I would want whatever he makes.

 

[basspraiser]

nope...

There has long been speculation that Dan was leaving to take over new-product design with another major American bass manufacturer. I wish him well.

 

[basspraiser]

if you want to read the entire press release, it can be found on the LOG site.

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[basspraiser]

not at all....John and Bo are committed to the same level of sevice that Dan provided.

this is very surprising news to me...
will this affects Lakland top notch customer service?

 

[basspraiser]

sorry to hear you are lakland-less!

you will realliy like the 44-02....i think this is what you were really "after" when you modded your DJ....

Also sad because its true.

And even sadder because i should never had sold them in the first place.

Im Lakland-less now. looking for a 44-02 to rectify this though.

 

[basspraiser]

had a 2002 CAR BG with the same configuration and now have a BG5 with the same confguration - killer!!!

Did that in 2008. Sounds great. My only Lakland now.

 

[dave_bass5]

sorry to hear you are lakland-less!

you will realliy like the 44-02....i think this is what you were really "after" when you modded your DJ....

Thanks.
In the past few months ive gone through a big change tone wise but keep coming back to Lakland.
If only the 44-02 looked a bit "classier", like the DJ or DD.

 

[basspraiser]

yup....many times higher quality production = less markup = less profit.

many companies are losing money these days....glad lakland will be able to continue operations....

Guys great sales don't equal profit all the time. My dad works for Steelcase, the largest furniture manufacturer out there. they've been hemoraging money for a long time. Nor does high end mean great sales. Duesenburg made the best cars of anybody and went bankrupt. The key is watching revenue vs costs.

Plus, I'd bet that the % of TB that plays Lakland is much larger than the rest of hte bass population who probably doesn''t know about them.

 

[basspraiser]

hmmmm......what are you looking for? blocked neck?

Thanks.
In the past few months ive gone through a big change tone wise but keep coming back to Lakland.
If only the 44-02 looked a bit "classier", like the DJ or DD.

 

[chunkstyle]

Also sad because its true.

And even sadder because i should never had sold them in the first place.

don't make me think about my CAR Hollowbody with Dark Stars...

 

[Joe Murray]

This is very interesting news. I was actually on the Lakland site today and for the first time noticed that they had changed some of their model names. (ie. The Joe Osborn is now the 44-60/55-60). I wonder if this is maybe so Dan can keep the model name in case he wanted to build them outside of the Lakland brand?
I was very bummed to see the DJ go away, so I will be very excited to see another small bodied bass released in its place. Best of Luck to Dan, although I never got a chance to speak with him, everyone I did have contact with at Lakland was a 100% class act....and that starts at the top.

 

[dave_bass5]

hmmmm......what are you looking for? blocked neck?

Spot on

The only way i can afford a new bass to it buy second hand now. So i cant order a custom one.

 

[JAUQO III-X]

I was very bummed to see the DJ go away, so I will be very excited to see another small bodied bass released in its place.

Here you go.

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[basspraiser]

no...BUT they DO get in spare necks at times.....Leo would be the guy to contact....just sayin!!!

Spot on

The only way i can afford a new bass to it buy second hand now. So i cant order a custom one.

 

[Joe Murray]

Thank you very much. That is exciting.
However I may be the only bass player in the world that didn't care for those block inlays on the DJs. I assume the blocks will continue to be a staple on the new basses by the '75 in the model name.

Thank you for sharing that.

Here you go.

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[JAUQO III-X]

Thank you very much. That is exciting.

Thank you for sharing that.

You're welcome.

 

[MarkusBass]

I assume the blocks will continue to be a staple on the new basses by the '75 in the model name.

Yes sir!

 

[dave_bass5]

no...BUT they DO get in spare necks at times.....Leo would be the guy to contact....just sayin!!!

Thanks for the heads up. its something to consider.

 

[Marlat]

I wonder if this will differ from all those other MBO's where at the time of the buy-out the management makes all the right noises about keeping the brand not making any changes etc. Cut to a few months later when the financiers have brought reality home and all of sudden its above cost cutting and improving cash flows to make the financiers happy. I could be wrong, but I see a lot of this stuff in my line of work and I have yet to see an MBO where all the "warm and fuzzy" noises arn't made at the point of acquisition. The test of brand continuity isn't at the point of acquisition, its 6-12mo's latter when the first interest payments start to fall due. Hopefully i'm wrong because I used to enjoy the US JO 4 that I had and Lakland really was a great brand to compete with the big 3 in the bass world.