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Lakland Owners Group #69

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Gigging is slow right now, but this bass right here makes me wanna practice everyday! I've owned some US Laklands, Alleva Coppolo's and currently LowEnd LEJ's custom basses and this Indonesian model feels just as great for a whole lot less! Let me check and make sure they didn't use an US neck. LOL Loving this bass!
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diglo said:
Gigging is slow right now, but this bass right here makes me wanna practice everyday! I've owned some US Laklands, Alleva Coppolo's and currently LowEnd LEJ's custom basses and this Indonesian model feels just as great for a whole lot less! Let me check and make sure they didn't use an US neck. LOL Loving this bass!
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Well this says a lot about Lakland basses coming from someone who has LowEnd4Lyfe in their Disclosures.
 
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lomo said:
My new science project......
Bought a 5501 from TBer ModulusAcacia, who owns J. Kennedy Guitar Repair. It's a nat/rw under 9 lbs........he is gonna have Pat Wilkins paint the body and headstock Cleveland Browns orange (I'm no fan of the team, just the color), then I asked him to replace the stock pups with Lace Alumitones, wire it passively and swap the knobs for aluminum.....all of which will drop the weight about another pound (no battery, no pre, and the new pups are much lighter). The Alumitones will completely change the tone as well......it will be a looong wait, but come mid-summer I'll report the results.

On another note, I was struck again last night how different my 5594 sounds in the band context from when I play alone. When it's just me, it sounds warm and full but I can't seem to get a mid forward tone that punches......but with the band, all controls flat save a few degrees of mid bump, she cuts like a scimitar :) Essentially the same rig (home=SMax 9.2/ shuttle 2 112, band practice room Shuttle 2 210T combo).
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Another one I have to see!
 
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diglo said:
Gigging is slow right now, but this bass right here makes me wanna practice everyday! I've owned some US Laklands, Alleva Coppolo's and currently LowEnd LEJ's custom basses and this Indonesian model feels just as great for a whole lot less! Let me check and make sure they didn't use an US neck. LOL Loving this bass! View attachment 432964
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Nice!!
 
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lpcarter said:
My old fretless!! I loved that thing...how've you liked it? I still think about that badboy :)
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Well.. I haven't really played it much so it's hard to say. By "not much" I mean about 5 minutes (unplugged) when I first received and inspected it. It did have a great "mwah" unplugged, so I am certainly looking forward to when I finally have the opportunity to "need" it for something.
 
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Thanks. My only thing right now is I can't seem to find replacement string trees like the ones that Lakland and I believe EB use. Anyone have any idea who the manufacturer might be or model? Not a huge deal, I just prefer that look over the vintage Fender type I have now.
 

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