My fretless conversion combustion is in progress and my new AB2 just made it to this country. Can’t wait!
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Hey my BFG just arrived!! If you like green this color is phenomenal. None of the photos I’ve seen (including my own) capture it’s awesomeness. Winner.
Goes without saying the fit, finish, playability, set up and sound is as you’d expect.
Goes without saying the fit, finish, playability, set up and sound is as you’d expect.
I thought you meant a Barely Finished Guitar like the Gibson series. That would be a look too.
IvanBassist
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The red one.
I think what troubles me with the Z body is already generally less visible in 6-string models, but on this one .. it's just perfect !
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I’d have to have something converted, but I’m telling myself not to do any such thing since I’ve got my AB1-6 on order.
I'd love to see one of these in person, to convince myself that this is the colour I want for my Super P. Congrats on the buy!
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These just showed up today.
My first thought on just feeling the strings is that they could be a good pick for my fretless. They've got the slightly more friendly/smooth feel that's close to the Dingwall nickel/steel rather than the D'Addario nicke/steel I just put on my 6 string which are a bit rougher than I enjoy.
My first thought on just feeling the strings is that they could be a good pick for my fretless. They've got the slightly more friendly/smooth feel that's close to the Dingwall nickel/steel rather than the D'Addario nicke/steel I just put on my 6 string which are a bit rougher than I enjoy.
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Nice! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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May take me a few days...I've got to be motivated to put 'em on and re-do the intonation on the fretless. It doesn't take terribly long but you know...
Also, I got these after having flats on the fretless Combustion and moving back to Dingwall rounds. At the time I was looking for something that gave me a little more smoothness to my fingers but roundwound tone...then something miraculous happened...I got pretty used to doing fretless stuff with the Dingwall strings anyway.
I also have a few other stock sets to try on the BTB fretless 6...The D'Addarios (light top-medium bottom) aren't winning me over due to their feel, but I have a set of GHS round boomers and a set of DR Pure Blues to try as well.
Edit to add: The Newtone strings both have the tapered lower strings, and are sized for multi-scale (you enter the scale lengths)...so they're legit. The slightly odd gauges are my attempt at seeing what a true 'balanced tension' set will feel like.
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Don't cut until installed? What if you have to cut them to poke them in the tuner or end up with 16 wraps around the post? Or is their length just right?
That's only for the round core strings. I believe you can bend them at a 90 degree angle at the spot they will enter the tuner, then cut and install them.
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Yeah, there was another custom stringmaker giving this advice on Facebook too and I stepped in there and had some words asking not to instruct bass players to string their instruments incorrectly. These guys are all generally focused on guitars and give the same advice for basses though it's not workable.
I've been using roundcore strings almost exclusively for what, decades? Bend the string hard, cut it about 3/4 of an inch after the bend. If you're extra fussy grab a good pair of needlenose pliers and give the wraps a good hard squeeze to crimp after the bend. String as you would. I haven't lost a string in the hundreds I've changed over the years.
It never occurred to me to crimp the wraps after the bend. I guess I'm not very fussy. I've never 'lost' a string either...
Hopefully putting these on today, went ahead and ordered a Platinum set in this same spec because my taste atm is leaning towards a more balanced middle of the road thing so we will see which I like more.
We'll see how the .110 does for drop D.
Payson has a 20% discount going on popular sets.
