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#42,022
TheEmptyCell said:
Are they for 4 or 5 string? Are they nickel or steel? I bet someone would buy them all.
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They are Medium scale Nickel for 5 string made for the super series
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these are the ones I normally use for my 37” Dingwall
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I ordered them on my iPhone. So I very well could have been my fault. I’m not blaming Dingwall saying they screwed up the order. Just frustrated. I went ahead and ordered 4 packs of the correct strings. Taking extra time to make sure I ordered the right ones. I’m gonna try a set of the medium scale strings on my fender. If they work then I’ll just use those on that bass for a while, if they don’t work I guess I’ll sell the other three packs
 
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#42,023
Nephilymbass said:
I literally have been ordering them online and I recently got 4 packs of medium scale strings that are designed for the super p and j basses not my 37” bass. Ordered 4 more sets of the correct “long scale” today. I guess I’ll try the medium scale strings on my fender jazz. If they don’t work out I might just sell the other 3 packs of them.
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Just send em back if it’s their mistake. If it’s yours surely someone will take em off your hands around here.
 
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#42,024
ThisYouCanTrust said:
I've seen enough canadian dingwalls that I know I would trust them blindly regarding build quality, Sheldon and crew definitely know what they are doing.
Now this may seem obvious to everybody on this thread of course, but since I unfortunately can't say the same about some other high-end brands I thought it was still worth saying anyway.

However regarding tone I'm still certain that if you ordered exactly the same bass twice you'd get two different sounds in the end.
That's just the nature of wood and woodworking imho.
Maybe the differences would be small, or maybe not so small.
This is where having a real music shop was great, and yeah it's dead here too alas :(

But it was also cool to meet other musicians, and see them playing.
I remember in the 90s I often heard some marshall 410 combo from the next room and thought wow this sounds so great what is it, only to come in the room and see that amp, and well long story short after trying it myself facing the amp I never could make it sound like that, so great amp but not for me somehow.

Oh and often you would test stuff that you simply would not have thought of but it was hanging on the wall and you had some time so you tried it anyway, and sometimes that yielded great (but expensive) surprises too, something which just never happens with online shopping.

Yeah I'm getting old I suppose.
And I'm also very eager to see when this covid thing will end and how the world will look then.
I'm really not a people person at all (an understatement if I ever wrote one), but after more than a year of this even I am starting to get seriously annoyed.
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A lot to agree with here. I could have said the same thing.

That said, I was at my local L and M this eve. They are the Canadian “chain of power” but they are the best store in town with the best staff.... whattdya do?
It was nice. Picked up a head in for repair and chatted for a good 45. this store used to carry smith, Warwick, and some other decent gear.... they actually still do no wand then.... but that mostly means expensive fender or musicman.......
Or Dingwall!!! But they are scattered. Pretty regularly there is a Chinwall on the wall though. Anyone currently looking for a 4 string combustion or NG?

either way, I go I pretty regularly just for the chat and maybe a deal on something used.
 
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AB Nate said:
A lot to agree with here. I could have said the same thing.

That said, I was at my local L and M this eve. They are the Canadian “chain of power” but they are the best store in town with the best staff.... whattdya do?
It was nice. Picked up a head in for repair and chatted for a good 45. this store used to carry smith, Warwick, and some other decent gear.... they actually still do no wand then.... but that mostly means expensive fender or musicman.......
Or Dingwall!!! But they are scattered. Pretty regularly there is a Chinwall on the wall though. Anyone currently looking for a 4 string combustion or NG?

either way, I go I pretty regularly just for the chat and maybe a deal on something used.
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Chinwall? Lol.. is that a Dingwall that was currently being made in China but somehow never made it back to the USA for final assembly?
 
#42,027
Got my Combustion just recently from small local shop (https://www.wentworthmusic.ca/vernon). I was in a hurry to get a new bass (after house fire became bassless) and always wanted to try Dingwall. They had one Combustion dinging on the wall and Rick (store owner) brought it's own D-Rock to try. So I actually had the privilege to try two totally different necks - can't be more appreciative. Ripped the 'Made in China' sticker off from the back of the neck of Combustion and I'm happy Dingwaller now :thumbsup:
Sound is deep and playability is great! Here is the 10 min sample of yesterday NINJAM jam where i tried different sounds (the whole session was more than 1 hour :bassist:
 
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#42,028
LowD said:
Got my Combustion just recently from small local shop (https://www.wentworthmusic.ca/vernon). I was in a hurry to get a new bass (after house fire became bassless) and always wanted to try Dingwall. They had one Combustion dinging on the wall and Rick (store owner) brought it's own D-Rock to try. So I actually had the privilege to try two totally different necks - can't be more appreciative. Ripped the 'Made in China' sticker off from the back of the neck of Combustion and I'm happy Dingwaller now :thumbsup:
Sound is deep and playability is great! Here is the 10 min sample of yesterday NINJAM jam where i tried different sounds (the whole session was more than 1 hour :bassist:
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Congrats -it already sounds like you are bonding well with your Combustion!!!;)
 
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LowD said:
Got my Combustion just recently from small local shop (Vernon - Wentworth Music). I was in a hurry to get a new bass (after house fire became bassless) and always wanted to try Dingwall. They had one Combustion dinging on the wall and Rick (store owner) brought it's own D-Rock to try. So I actually had the privilege to try two totally different necks - can't be more appreciative. Ripped the 'Made in China' sticker off from the back of the neck of Combustion and I'm happy Dingwaller now :thumbsup:
Sound is deep and playability is great! Here is the 10 min sample of yesterday NINJAM jam where i tried different sounds (the whole session was more than 1 hour :bassist:
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Nice, I love my Combustion and I have a D-Roc on the way. How would you describe the difference between the necks?
 
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Nephilymbass said:
They are Medium scale Nickel for 5 string made for the super series View attachment 4244259these are the ones I normally use for my 37” Dingwall View attachment 4244261I ordered them on my iPhone. So I very well could have been my fault. I’m not blaming Dingwall saying they screwed up the order. Just frustrated. I went ahead and ordered 4 packs of the correct strings. Taking extra time to make sure I ordered the right ones. I’m gonna try a set of the medium scale strings on my fender. If they work then I’ll just use those on that bass for a while, if they don’t work I guess I’ll sell the other three packs
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I'll trade with you for a couple sets... I have sets of long scale on hand and don't have any shorties right now.
 
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Nephilymbass said:
If you have the long nickel I’d be happy to do that
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Yeah, I just checked my stock and I'll even trade for all 4 if you want. Yep. they're nickel/steel long scales. Lets discuss by PM.

Hoarders, bass string edition:
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Actually some additional ones since I took this picture...I have some Newtones and I bought a handful of extra-long scale 6's to try on my BTB Fretless.
 
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BurningSkies said:
Yeah, I just checked my stock and I'll even trade for all 4 if you want. Yep. they're nickel/steel long scales. Lets discuss by PM.

Hoarders, bass string edition:
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Actually some additional ones since I took this picture...I have some Newtones and I bought a handful of extra-long scale 6's to try on my BTB Fretless.
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Since it won't let me edit/add a photo...

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NaH said:
That would last me quite a while. :laugh:
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I'm 'frugal' with strings, cleaning them a few times before changing them out, but I also seem to kill them pretty quickly while playing live. That's not as mucha problem anymore but what with 4 of the longscales and one of the medium scales, not bad to have some strings on hand.
 

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