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Lakland Owners Group #69

#11,161
I did a thing...but not a Lakland thing... :whistle:...but you guys are who I wanna tell.

For some of you who were LOGers and on this thread back in the Golden-Era of the Doude-Wave, you may remember that my unicorn bass has been the Warwick Dirty Blonde 2006 LTD. Some of you would post me the f/s links when they came up, and I never was at a good point to snag one. In fact, about a year ago I had to sell my beloved white DarkStar HoBo to recoup some losses. Well, I've accomplished some financial goals recently and began keeping an eye out for one.

I just won an eBay auction for the 4-string variant at a very reasonable $1400, and it should be here by Wednesday of next week. I know what they say: "Never drive your dream car" and "Never meet your hero," so I'm going into this expecting it to be "just OK". But it's been at least 8 years of me wanting to own this bass, and now is the best chance I've had to do so.

Fingers crossed! :nailbiting:

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Jellydonut said:
Woooow. Is that an actual Lakland bas with GB Packers paint job????
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Technically it's a "Carlo" built by Master Luthier ( and first Lakland employee) Carl Pedigo.

It's very much like a 5564 with a humbucker CHIsonics.

Painted by my favorite painter Pat Wilkins.... It even has a slight gold sparkle to it!

Love that bass!
 
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overbybr said:
I did a thing...but not a Lakland thing... :whistle:...but you guys are who I wanna tell.

For some of you who were LOGers and on this thread back in the Golden-Era of the Doude-Wave, you may remember that my unicorn bass has been the Warwick Dirty Blonde 2006 LTD. Some of you would post me the f/s links when they came up, and I never was at a good point to snag one. In fact, about a year ago I had to sell my beloved white DarkStar HoBo to recoup some losses. Well, I've accomplished some financial goals recently and began keeping an eye out for one.

I just won an eBay auction for the 4-string variant at a very reasonable $1400, and it should be here by Wednesday of next week. I know what they say: "Never drive your dream car" and "Never meet your hero," so I'm going into this expecting it to be "just OK". But it's been at least 8 years of me wanting to own this bass, and now is the best chance I've had to do so.

Fingers crossed! :nailbiting:

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Awesome!
Way to go.
Bay happy for you....

Yes Virginia..... Sometimes dreams do come true!
 
#11,166
I’m not very familiar with Lakland’s history... What time period are people considering the “golden era” of Lakland basses? And what makes the basses of that era different from their basses now? This isn’t a troll post. I’m genuinely curious, since my new US 44-64 should be finished any day now.
 
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There is a perception, and likely based some on reality, that the first several years of production, when it was more of a custom-shop and Dan had access to some killer figured top wood for bodies and BEM for fretboards (such as the ridiculous BEM from a flooring supplier that went under), with the 4-94s featuring dark Barts, which some like, (I don't personally), before going for higher and higher sale volume with the Skylines (although nothing wrong with Skylines), that was considered by some to be a golden age, or pinnacle of quality production. That's the perception. Certainly, the US basses coming out of Chicago these days are all very good quality. Fancy wood does not necessarily translate to a bass that sings to you, YMMV, and all that. I've learned that the hard way in my travels in bassdom.
 
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#11,168
Jellydonut said:
Woooow. Is that an actual Lakland bas with GB Packers paint job????
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It's a Carl Pedigo custom painted by Pat Wilkins. In a way, it's even more Lakland than Lakland.
(Carl is one of the original luthiers and Pat painted all Laklands back in the day).

Doug, why not blow his mind and show us all a photo of the complete collection? It's been a while...

Peace, SoundSupport
 
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Killens84 said:
I’m not very familiar with Lakland’s history... What time period are people considering the “golden era” of Lakland basses? And what makes the basses of that era different from their basses now? This isn’t a troll post. I’m genuinely curious, since my new US 44-64 should be finished any day now.
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There isn’t one. They’ve continued to get better, but you don’t see the same collection of topwoods and BEM now that you did in the first 5-10 years. Still. There’s no Golden Era - that’s just fluff to try and add value to a bass that’s on the block.
 
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soundsupport1 said:
It's a Carl Pedigo custom painted by Pat Wilkins. In a way, it's even more Lakland than Lakland.
(Carl is one of the original luthiers and Pat painted all Laklands back in the day).

Doug, why not blow his mind and show us all a photo of the complete collection? It's been a while...

Peace, SoundSupport
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Brandon warned you NOT to feed da Doude.... But... No... You wouldn't listen...

:)

I'll oblige.....

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Texan said:
I still love those cheese wedge knobs...they are my favorites.
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If you zoom in on the picture of the UPRIGHT and to the right of the bass (your left) you'll see me and 3 other cheezy Wisconsin guys in front of a cow statue wearing different cheese hats....

At a GREAT cheese sausage and beer place in Milwaukee!
 
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