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Headless Club???
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Ergonomics are exceptional. The drop D capo is genius. Laminated neck is very stable, as is the tuning. The electronics on mine are the 18 volt with two active voicings and three passive voicings. Wide variety of sounds that are easy and fast to navigate. If paint was sex, it would be Bahama Green. In my limited experience, (mine is the only one I've played), they are very good. I was fortunate to have Phil give it a refurbishing about a year before he became ill. Buffed out the body, rebuilt the tuning bridge, dressed the frets and took down the gloss on the neck, leaving it slick and satiny. It's easily one of the top 5 best basses I've held.
Tom makes a mighty fine build. He used the Hipshot Headless hardware, suits me fine.
So that's what that thing is! I've looked at pictures of these and wondered but never looked into it.
I wish those NS Radius basses came in lefty. (Along with the Jack Bass, and the Kubicki, and, and, and...) I'm toying with the idea of picking up one of the B-stock WAV basses on Reverb, and having my brother (who's a really skilled carpenter/woodworker) build me a lefty copy of the body.
I'm looking for the Jazz pickup model too, so not likely!
I have two Spirit basses pending to be traded off for a Steinberger XQ-2A Bass. I hope it's a good deal but man will I miss those Spirits 
even though generally it's more of an upgrade in tonality and quality. So I hope it's a good enough trade.
even though generally it's more of an upgrade in tonality and quality. So I hope it's a good enough trade.
Hadn't heard of them before.
Hey @Be_eM
Could you help me determine what year this Steinberger Bass was made? I wasn't having any luck when I was looking for it on the Confirmed Steinberger Serial Numbers website.
Serial number: N001514
Steinberger XQ 2A-DB
Thanks!
Could you help me determine what year this Steinberger Bass was made? I wasn't having any luck when I was looking for it on the Confirmed Steinberger Serial Numbers website.
Serial number: N001514
Steinberger XQ 2A-DB
Thanks!
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Yes, this is a bass made during the late Music Yo period (2002-2008), most likely in 2006. To get a better idea you could check out my Invalid Link Removed, and also the current and updated Invalid Link Removed (no longer maintained on SteinbergerWorld). In this serial list I've entered the Music Yo serial numbers with the prefix (MY)N00xxxx, in order to distinguish them from the old Newburgh numbers (Nxxxxx).
Bernd
That's very interesting to know which originally made me believe the bass I posted a picture of thought to have been the basses made from the 90's. What would this bass roughly go for in the market given that it's not 20 years old and is a model made from '06?
Well, if I see this correctly this bass has just been sold? The price is a little bit low, though. Something around $1,600 would also have been realistic, in my opinion …
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Yep, by me. Wanted to ask here before anything else. I also read through a few talkbass classifieds of these basses back in 2007-2013 when they were sold roughly between $800-$1400 price range. Not sure what they're worth now in 2019 but I should be happy with the score.
Thank you, you've been extremely helpful @Be_eM
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Damn you, now I have GAS again for the first time in a year and I'm trying to reduce my herd to substantially fewer units.
