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#23,222
AB Nate said:
Thank you. They are sooo beautiful. I’m guilty of spending too much on a functional art collection. I’m glad my wife likes art too!
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You might have just hit upon a very cool new marketing tagline:
"Dingwall: Where Art Meets Function"™
or
"Dingwall: Functional Art at its Finest"™
 
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Nightman said:
Right! But I'm glad my wife is into shoes and designer hand bags, which gives her no grounds to complain about my 'functional art collection'!! :roflmao:
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Oh man. My wife threatens to adopt that same hobby every time she steps into my bass room and sees the collection. So far, she has not made good on the threat. But please do me a favor and keep your wife away from my wife! :)
 
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xnewyorka said:
Oh man. My wife threatens to adopt that same hobby every time she steps into my bass room and sees the collection. So far, she has not made good on the threat. But do me a favor and keep your wife away from my wife! :)
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:laugh::laugh: And you are in NYC, too!!! I’ll tell you what, you can’t string and play those bags!! :roflmao::roflmao:
 
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Nightman said:
:laugh::laugh: And you are in NYC, too!!! I’ll you what, you can’t string and play those bags!! :roflmao::roflmao:
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That has always been my exact argument. Unfortunately, the argument starts to lose strength as soon as you have multiple basses that are all capable of doing the exact same thing. Regardless, it is a scenario where one has to temporarily set rationality aside or at least drastically redefine it.
 
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monsterthompson said:
B Bird is in the shop for the BEAD conversion :)
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Cool, will be interested to hear how you like it. Which strings are you putting on there? When I put new strings on mine, I used Dingwall long scale nickels. (Little bit of a bummer to have a leftover G string with nothing to do with it.) They feel and sound fantastic. For comparison, when time permits, I plan to try the Payson medium lights on there to see how they feel and sound.
 
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xnewyorka said:
Cool, will be interested to hear how you like it. Which strings are you putting on there? When I put new strings on mine, I used Dingwall long scale nickels. (Little bit of a bummer to have a leftover G string with nothing to do with it.) They feel and sound fantastic. For comparison, when time permits, I plan to try the Payson medium lights on there to see how they feel and sound.
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DR Hi Beams. When I got it, that’s what was strung up, in EADG. I thought about Lo Riders, but I couldn’t find any, and they are stiffer, which I didn’t want. I’ll know in a week :)
 
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AB Nate said:
A couple of the main differences these days that come to my mind is

- the finish. AB1 and 2 have the shiney gloss finish( nitro I think. Correction probably required here). The ABZ has the more natural satin with exposed grain finish.(poly maybe....ugh probably soo wrong on proper name). I believe this finish does play a factor in the sound.

-Cost wise it used to be ABZ being the lowest. AB2 being the highest but now that you can really trick most of them out I think that varies more bass to bass

- body wood. On an AB2 you can have a few different body wood options. On the ABZ it’s always ash if I recall correctly.

- body chambering. The AB2 has the body chambering with the F holes. ABZ does not.

- AB exotic top. ABZ no exotic top.

- the ABZ used to be all passive with combustion style pick ups but that’s kind of out the window now with optional preamps and such and all being rounded pick ups.

I think that covers most of it between the 2. Hopefully hat helps
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Thank you! I suppose it does help. Regarding the sound it comes down to the the woods and the tonechamber, in older versions of ABZ the pickups aswell.

I am still curious about the bodyshape though, it looks like the ABZ is slimmer but I have never seen a afterburner for comparison.
 
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Decided to try to get back into bass and picked up an NG2-5 this week. For those of you longtime players with the same/similar bass, where do you put your thumb while playing on the B string? Mine ends up on the upper corner of the pickup, corner closest to the neck, can't really see it going anywhere else, but didn't know if this is considered a "correct" placement? Trying to not develop bad habits early on because I know how hard they are to break from years and years of guitar.
 
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I've had the Super P/J in the classified section for a month. There has been a fair amount of interest. I want to find a good home for it, so I'm going to drop the price to $2,700 in a few days. If any Dingwall forum members want to jump on this ahead of time, let me know. Someone is going to love this as much as I do (I hope).

For Sale - Dingwall Super P/J 5-String

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NathanC said:
Decided to try to get back into bass and picked up an NG2-5 this week. For those of you longtime players with the same/similar bass, where do you put your thumb while playing on the B string? Mine ends up on the upper corner of the pickup, corner closest to the neck, can't really see it going anywhere else, but didn't know if this is considered a "correct" placement? Trying to not develop bad habits early on because I know how hard they are to break from years and years of guitar.
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That sounds like a great place for your thumb anchor when playing the B-string. I do the same. I use a 'floating' thumb placement for the other strings. I've been told it is always preferable to have an anchor for your thumb. No where to 'float' for the B'string, but to the pickup.

Enjoy your Dingwall!
 
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jellew said:
Thank you! I suppose it does help. Regarding the sound it comes down to the the woods and the tonechamber, in older versions of ABZ the pickups aswell.

I am still curious about the bodyshape though, it looks like the ABZ is slimmer but I have never seen a afterburner for comparison.
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I cannot confirm this but I believe they are cut the same. The afterburner template doesn’t change model to model is my understanding.

When you move to a Z that’s when the body changes happen
 
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AB Nate said:
A couple of the main differences these days that come to my mind is

- the finish. AB1 and 2 have the shiney gloss finish( nitro I think. Correction probably required here). The ABZ has the more natural satin with exposed grain finish.(poly maybe....ugh probably soo wrong on proper name). I believe this finish does play a factor in the sound.
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The Afterburner I and Afterburner II have the poly finish.

Yes, the Afterburner Z has a natural exposed grain satin finish.

AB Nate said:
- AB exotic top. ABZ no exotic top.
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I have seen some Afterburner I's with no fancy top; just straight alder. Most of the Afterburner I's I have seen have a flamed maple top over alder. With Afterburner II's, anything goes.

AB Nate said:
- the ABZ used to be all passive with combustion style pick ups but that’s kind of out the window now with optional preamps and such and all being rounded pick ups.
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As far as I know, Afterburners (all of them) never had Combustion-style pickups, at least in the early days. They were FD-3's. It is possible that has changed with the newer rounded pickups.
 

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