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Douglas MM Copy

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BobWestbrook said:
It appears, based on the facts as presented here, that EBMM does not have much of a legal basis for a challenge. Competitors have a right to sell similar product, even if it may resemble somewhat the original.

BTW, I've owned a couple Turser basses, and for the price they are pretty good quality. I've not often heard OLP basses described that way.
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Apparently you aren't reading all the facts.
 
#162
At the end of the day who cares if its a 3+1, 2+2, 4 in-line. When you consider all of the innovation that has gone into the bass guitar since 1950, it is sort of funny that lawyers and people get their pannies in a wad over the headstock. But Fender started it.

Let's just be glad that there are multiple companies making quality instruments at competitive prices. Competition benefits us all.

And I for one am glad that no one has decided to make Lake Placid Blue, Tortoise Pickguards, Rosewood Fretboards, or 3 in line knobs a trade mark. All that stuff does IMO is give the legal profession an excuse to burn money and raise prices for the market.
 
#164
Email from Kurt to me after I asked about more colors and stuff:


----- Original Message ----- From: "aasdasd" <asdasda>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 7:30 PM
Subject: Douglas WSB-704 MSV question


> Are you going to be getting more of these but in different colors? If so, when and what colors?
>
> Thanks.



No more in and no more colors

Kurt
 
#166
bovinehost said:
Really! Anyone with any sense would just keep making variations of Precisions and Jazzes.
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What does that have to do with the fact that the front pickups on EB basses are too big (wide), and the pickup pole pieces are not centered under the strings? It looks cheesy on a bass in that price range, and the slightest string bend causes a loss of volume. Fender uses a more narrow pickup in the neck position on Jazz basses to avoid this problem.

btw, Fender has nothing to prove, and the Js and Ps are selling just fine. Nobody really wants Fender to be cutting edge anyway -- there are plenty of other companies for that.
 
#173
You know, if TB would stop posting about every Stingray clone that Rondo starts selling, then they probably would just fly under the radar. It seems the moment a thread starts here about them, someone goes over to the EBMM forums and alerts Sterling Ball.

Quit posting about them, and then we can all enjoy them. Maybe we need a secret code word for Stingray clones.
 
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