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It looks much more black in person, I've not figured out yet how to get my camera (aka, phone
) to capture its true color 
I've made some changes to my sr885le, still a few hardware changes upcoming, but.....
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It looks good like that though. A lot of that color distortion has to do with image quality and the auto corrections most phones have built in. Even flagship phones sometimes don't do that great of pics.It looks much more black in person, I've not figured out yet how to get my camera (aka, phone
Black and purple always play well together. You could even swap knobs with the 5 stringer and it would go well.The way it shows up as purple-ish in pics is why I 0ut the purple-topped knobs on
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That's bad ass!I've made some changes to my sr885le, still a few hardware changes upcoming, but.....
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Thanks!
I'm kind of starting to like the way it looks with the black bridge against the chrome bits....I may leave it for a while yet.
The tuners the the factory Gotoh units, and work perfectly, but they're likely to get replaced with some chrome Schallers sooner or later.
But I'm really loving the EMG Rip Tide pickups, with the BTS System, just sounds so amazing in this bass
I bet! EMGs hit hard and sound so good.Thanks!
I'm kind of starting to like the way it looks with the black bridge against the chrome bits....I may leave it for a while yet.
The tuners the the factory Gotoh units, and work perfectly, but they're likely to get replaced with some chrome Schallers sooner or later.
But I'm really loving the EMG Rip Tide pickups, with the BTS System, just sounds so amazing in this bass
I was looking at those pickups recently, there's an army green Trujillo fernandes in the classifieds that would look great with a set of those rip tides.
Take pictures outside in sunlight. Direct or indirect.It looks much more black in person, I've not figured out yet how to get my camera (aka, phone
Ibanez SR 800 and Ibanez RoadstarII. Crappy picture but you get the point.
Lefty fist bump
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does it the wrong way.
Corvette $$ and Precision here...
...and Stingray, albeit not exactly "black", here:
...and Stingray, albeit not exactly "black", here:
Something old, something new - the '89 sr885le on the left, I've posted before, the '22 srms625ex "Ironlabel" on the right is new 
LOL,
I'm guessing you mean Kalamazoo? Yep, have been to the ole Gibson plant a few times over the years. Even knew some of the guys who used to work there when it had a big G outside. Sadly, those fellas have all passed, but at least Heritage guitars (mostly ex-Gibson workers) is still there. And Kal-Tone is in town too. Plus lots of live music venues!
Come on over for a visit!
