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Matsumoku.
- Thread starter Marc DLarosa
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I always have to 'fact check' what spell-check does to anything I write -
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Twenty-five years ago and knowing what I know now, if I was going to be collecting basses I would have collected these Cardinal Series instruments.
Love 'em. Did any 5-strings ever come out of that factory? Arias, maybe? I recently acquired an MIK Spector for my 5er needs, but would give any Matsomoku 5er a shot.
My first ever bass, age 12. Medium scale perfect. I got an SB1000 a few years later and turned the Cardinal into a fretless.
Don’t count out Washburn up to 1984
From the right: 1984 Washburn Force-8 BBR w/ single humbucker, 1982 Washburn Force-8, with a retrofitted perloid PG and DiMarzios. For the sake of completeness (obviously not Matsumokus): 2012 Sandberg California I fretless and 1999 L2.5k
From the right: 1984 Washburn Force-8 BBR w/ single humbucker, 1982 Washburn Force-8, with a retrofitted perloid PG and DiMarzios. For the sake of completeness (obviously not Matsumokus): 2012 Sandberg California I fretless and 1999 L2.5k
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'66 Conrad - non-org pu/hs badge/knobs
Thanks (everybody). I actually have a fretted version to match, too. It is supposed to be my dedicated round-wounds bass, but it needs a pickup repair — and I find myself playing fretless all the time now.
That they are 32" mensure, a comfortable size and reasonable weight, and have enough variety in color and (IIRC) pickups offered to make one feel like one is not just collecting the same instrument over and over. And that pickup on yours is just BAD@!!! (In a good way) I would have taken a CSB over the similar Lotuses and Vantages any day of the week.
All good things to know! Yeah, the pickup is pretty great. It's sort of like a P-bass but tighter on the lows.
They seem popular candidates for fretless conversion.
Jeeze.. I mean, I've heard stories of people having their non-Fender style basses getting turned away when it came to electronic work (One in particular mentioning his bass happened to be an Aria). But dang, do all the old Aria basses require rocket surgery to fix up?! Or is it just the SB1000 in particular?
I don't regret selling mine since I only play hard rock, punk, and metal these days, but I do miss it. Picked it up at a pawn shop in some little town in North Carolina for like $300. Killer bass.
I was 16 when I got my SB1000. The electronics sounded weird to me, and the 2 9v batteries used to last about a week. In hindsight, it obviously needed repaired. I just played it in passive mode and loved life.
Oh, and someone told me it had an Alembic pickup in it. I seriously doubt that but it was a fun idea at the time.
