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LAKLAND OWNERS GROUP #44

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Denis!!!

support a friend....I want to put a MM guard on like this:

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but no one but me seems to think it is a good idea....

and YES - those ARE stacked knobs....may "look like a sleeper" but may end up with Alot under the hood!



denchiq said:
interrresting... why mm shape though, it looks like an anorexic stingray






on another note, the 55-01 is probably the best Lakland bass for modding: least expensive, with pups and curcuit that encourages some to desire more, also wide pickup holes
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#872
Well there you go Denis!

as for a "B-stock" US BG5 - don't hold your breath...those are too few to even have a "b-stock" yet....

get a LOG bass and be happy! :D

denchiq said:
so I'm in Austria (which is a very nice place to be actually), currently in Linz, and just made a 3hr. footwalk to look around. Found a music store with a dozen basses. No Laklands there.
It was for the first time that I tried F****r Standard P5, they had 2 of them. I gave them a try. Well... they say the quality has crucially improved in the past few years - that may be. I won't object. With a tag of 1650, which I thought was a bit too much, there were two basses, not bad ones, indeed. Different weight, different neck feel, they even sound different - one is a P just as one would describe a P-bass, another a bit crispier on the high end, just like I personally would like better. The B strings were good, better than many basses (save for Laklands). The intonation was nowhere near perfect, the relief differed on the two basses, action was, obviously, also different, there was a fret buzz at the 3rd fret of the B string, and a sharp edge.
Now, just a minute, the price was in Euro, which makes it... roughly $2300. Nein danke!!! I can get two Skylines for that and be two Skylines happier.


P.S. ... or a used or a new B-stock US Lakland. A BG5, for a start.
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