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Lakland Owners Group #69

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Phillip B said:
And his "extra" will help me get a rare Lakland back on the streets..."
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And for those of you who didn't remember my ad, here's the story:

About 10 years ago I came across a one-of-a-kind book-matched solid Rosewood USA Lakland 55-63 dual-J body. I did a little emailing with Lakland (I think it was with Dan himself) and found out this story:

Lakland artist Jake Willemain (Clint Black's bassist) was convinced that he needed a bass with loads of sustain, and that a dense body would be the path to it.

So Dan called his exotic wood supplier and asked for the most dense piece of wood that they had. That turned out to be a block of beautifully figured rosewood, and so Jake's bass ended up being made of a book-matched piece of that rosewood. From what I understand it did indeed fulfill his need for sustain.:thumbsup:​

In my ad I included a pic of Dan Lakin with the bass as well as a pic of Jake at a gig with the bass. You could see by the grain that it is obviously the same instrument.

Those "Girly-men" among you :rolleyes: who worry about the difference between an 8lb bass and a 9lb bass need to keep your distance - this one is 15 lbs! That may explain why this one became available - I assume Jake replaced it with something lighter!

Anyway, here's a picture of the instrument. It sounds just as solid as it looks!

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Texan said:
Hell officially froze today.
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BigDBass said:
I figured someone hacked his account or something, but your explanation is more feasible.
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Nah, just a little polar vortex blowing through. :D

overbybr said:
I think I actually agree with The Dark One on this, that natural DJ looks good with Chrome. I seem to remember a similar looking natural Lakland (5501 maybe?) with black hardware and a similar neck. It looked a little off to me.
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I like black hardware, we all know that, but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing as mentioned above, and then sometimes you need this!

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Black Bart said:
Nah, just a little polar vortex blowing through. :D



I like black hardware, we all know that, but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing as mentioned above, and then sometimes you need this!

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Sexy! I especially like the pickguard shape above the fingerboard, the way the curve from below is carried thru!
 
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BigDBass said:
I buy a lot of stuff through Amazon, but I haven't bought an instrument, nor do I think I ever will. Of course, I haven't bought a brand new bass since 1999. Just 25-30 used ones...
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funny....the 25-30 part....!!!

My son buys a lot of stuff through Amazon and I have purchased a few things (including some fairly expensive watches) and all of the items seem to be new and 100% "correct"....
 
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Phillip B said:
And his "extra" will help me get a rare Lakland back on the streets...

Those of you who peruse the classifieds will remember that I had a Solid Rosewood Lakland "kit" for sale a while back. (by kit I mean that everything was Lakland, but it didn't come from the factory on the same instrument. I had to steal the neck from a US model, and the bridge off a different US model, and so forth.)

So I ended up with some incomplete Lakland instruments in my closet.

The fellow I sold it all to put it all together with some high end parts (Pope preamp and Ultra Jazz PUs), but then decided he needed to sell it, so he gave me first crack at it.

I bought it back and so I am in the process of sort it all out so that all my Laklands are "as they should be"
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I do remember that bass....was interested in it actually...thought a solid RW body would be cool...heavy but cool.

GLAD you are putting everything "right" with it!
 
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Phillip B said:
And for those of you who didn't remember my ad, here's the story:

About 10 years ago I came across a one-of-a-kind book-matched solid Rosewood USA Lakland 55-63 dual-J body. I did a little emailing with Lakland (I think it was with Dan himself) and found out this story:

Lakland artist Jake Willemain (Clint Black's bassist) was convinced that he needed a bass with loads of sustain, and that a dense body would be the path to it.

So Dan called his exotic wood supplier and asked for the most dense piece of wood that they had. That turned out to be a block of beautifully figured rosewood, and so Jake's bass ended up being made of a book-matched piece of that rosewood. From what I understand it did indeed fulfill his need for sustain.:thumbsup:​

In my ad I included a pic of Dan Lakin with the bass as well as a pic of Jake at a gig with the bass. You could see by the grain that it is obviously the same instrument.

Those "Girly-men" among you :rolleyes: who worry about the difference between an 8lb bass and a 9lb bass need to keep your distance - this one is 15 lbs! That may explain why this one became available - I assume Jake replaced it with something lighter!

Anyway, here's a picture of the instrument. It sounds just as solid as it looks!

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whats' with the extra chrome knobs???

15 lbs!!! wow....that is heavy!
 
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basspraiser said:
whats' with the extra chrome knobs???!
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yeah, that's something I'm trying sort out till it makes sense. the stack knob is neck PU volume and master passive tone. THe other chrome knob is the bridge PU volume. I'd rather have 1 volume and a blend, but I didn't get to choose.

The rest are bass/mid/mid sweep/treble knobs and active/passive and kill switches.
 
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There is a company I used a few years ago to "black-out" the hardware on a Skyline JOBO. The company I used was called Black Ice Coatings. The owner's name is Lee. http://www.blackicecoatings.com. Black Ice is a teflon infused coatings primarily used for firearms. It's extremely resistant to wear and corrosion. There are a great deal deal of similar coatings currently being used in the gun world. A lot of gun guys prefer these coatings over tradition powder coating since they are more durable in the field and in some cases, even have self lubricating properties.

Lee couldn't coat the bridge springs, so I left them alone. I also chose to leave the saddles alone as well. I didn't want to coat the saddles in fear of a tonal change. I though the uncoated springs and saddles looked cool on the otherwise black bridge. FWIW; he did every other tiny, small, med, or large piece of hardware on the bass....I mean every screw, bushing, plate, etc. I personally didn't want to f' with the tuners. So instead of break down the tuners and having them coated, I just sold my old ones and used that cash to buy a black set.

The Black Ice coating was around $100 (maybe a tad more, can't remember).....after flipping my chrome tuners, I prob sent about $35 out of pocket to grab a black set of UL's.....so all in all, it was prob about $150 to uprgarde all of the hardware to black. Oh, and Lee did an awesome job. It looked phenomenal when he was done!! Highly recommended.
 
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One of the things that we're discussing getting "blackened" is the string retainer

I assume we can believe the reviewer (who may well be one of us!) that says "I like black hardware, and Lakland 5-string basses use this same string retainer bar. I ordered this after checking the dimensions on the StewMac site and it's a perfect fit!"

So this may be an easy $3.09 plus shipping fix for the string retainer color change:

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