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Dingwall Owners Club
- Thread starter FroggyOne2
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the 4003xc will be interesting. It is a bit of a rare bird and instant collectable in the ric world. But i hear they are neck heavy. And Already my ab1/dg is my favourite tone by far… but the rics are sweet. I feel like i will struggle with a quirky busy look of the 4005xc… and short scale… after basically melding with my minimalistic multiscale 5er ab1.
i think the biggest threat to the rics might be a four string sz or spj. And my gas for a 60’s reissue fender jazz is basically dead.
The advantage is they make me want to eliminate quite a few bases. Bad side… they make me want more dingwalls. Need a sj or spj… and a z with fancy wood. Then i would be done. :-O
I've played and owned many nice mono-scale basses over the years (Fender, Lakland, Hofner, Yamaha, Gibson, Rickenbacker, Ampeg, Kinal, LeCompte), but none have satisfied like Dingwall. I dallied with a few after I began playing Dingwalls in '07 out of curiosity, but none of them stayed. They ended up getting sold to fund another Dingwall. 
My last attack was caused by playing an NG-2 which lead to a custom Afterburner build. Number 3 is april. Going with porsche lizard green. I am sure it is near identical to Ferrari green… but porsche all the way!
Yeah that colour if they can match it (and i am sure they can as it is an active Porsche colour).An Afterburner in this color?
I never really cared much for green basses until I began to see what Dingwall can do with them.
It was going to be an ab2… and i struggled to decide on my colour (i had 5 options i would die happy with). But i needed to solidify my build. I have a green ng2 that has become a bit iconic as the “green bass” so i had to have a green ab. (Ng2 will be sold).
so i went ab1 because i decided that i liked the simplicity of the body… and i felt the tone chamber distracted from the simple lines. I am sure an ab2 would be great also… but i promised myself no more changes.
so it is basically a six string version of my yellow ab1.
ab1
Six string
F#
3x fd3
Wenge/wenge neck
Dg preamp
Standard offset fret dots
Green lumenlay fret dots, side dots, and headstock D logo
Porsche lizard green
i am sure it will be 99% identical to ferarri green (LG seems a bit less yellow… but they are both yellow-greens). But i am a Porsche guy so Lizard green it is!
Not sure how accurate things are with photos (lighting, saturation) but here is what i think the comparison will be.
A bit less yellow from what i can see. The colour codes would tell me. But i dont know the FG code. FG is apparently not an actual official Ferrari colour.
Oh for sure. But i mean the actual paint codes… looking at pigment composition. I dont trust internet photos… but the general colour trend is there.
when someone says “nice ferarri green” on this thread… i want to be able to say… “no… porsche green!” The rest of the world will have zero clue. :-O
