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#10,321
I dropped by corner music a couple of weeks ago while passing through the city and held a Gould for the very first time. Very, very nice!

The graphite pattern on the neck is different than a modulus, I'm curious about how it's different than modulus necks other than the visual shape of the carbon patches.
 
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Modulus 96 said:
I dropped by corner music a couple of weeks ago while passing through the city and held a Gould for the very first time. Very, very nice!

The graphite pattern on the neck is different than a modulus, I'm curious about how it's different than modulus necks other than the visual shape of the carbon patches.
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No functional difference. Just some different size pieces I guess.
 
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btw, I just stumbled across my old Photobucket account -- which I hadn't used ever since they stopped offering free hosting -- and all my pics were still there ...including this one of an old Modulus 8-string bass. Not mine (I wish!) just a pic I had found on the internet a dozen or so years ago. But man what I wouldn't give for one of these...

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Once again calling the Modulus community, i'm about to close a deal on a M-92 (for about $800) it has a terrible paint job done by one of the previous owner but beside that looks clean). My idea is to have a solid sounding single pick up, probably would seek to get it refinish, a sparle color of some sort. Any thing i need to be careful?
 
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Benko said:
Once again calling the Modulus community, i'm about to close a deal on a M-92 (for about $800) it has a terrible paint job done by one of the previous owner but beside that looks clean). My idea is to have a solid sounding single pick up, probably would seek to get it refinish, a sparle color of some sort. Any thing i need to be careful?
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Sounds like a really good deal to me. Even if you had to refinish it and refret/PLEK it, you’ll end up with a sweet bass!
 
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Benko said:
Once again calling the Modulus community, i'm about to close a deal on a M-92 (for about $800) it has a terrible paint job done by one of the previous owner but beside that looks clean). My idea is to have a solid sounding single pick up, probably would seek to get it refinish, a sparle color of some sort. Any thing i need to be careful?
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As long as the neck hasn't developed a bad curve, that'd be a screaming deal. You could even add a second pickup to it!
 
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Benko said:
Once again calling the Modulus community, i'm about to close a deal on a M-92 (for about $800) it has a terrible paint job done by one of the previous owner but beside that looks clean). My idea is to have a solid sounding single pick up, probably would seek to get it refinish, a sparle color of some sort. Any thing i need to be careful?
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Any update? IMHO and my experience playing Modulus for the last 22 years, a M-92 for that cheap currently would scream neck bow to me. If you are aware of it up front and know a accomplished luthier, look at additional $400+ in frets and neck work, plus a refinish ($350 around me) Again, even at $1,600 total, still a great deal
 
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iriegnome said:
Any update? IMHO and my experience playing Modulus for the last 22 years, a M-92 for that cheap currently would scream neck bow to me. If you are aware of it up front and know a accomplished luthier, look at additional $400+ in frets and neck work, plus a refinish ($350 around me) Again, even at $1,600 total, still a great deal
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The deal is done so I should get it next week and will post picture. From my research I saw more M-92 (5 strings) going for 1~1.2k mark, and cleaner, so the price was ok. If the neck is straight then I'd allocate a bit more to get it professional refinish. Thanks for all your advices
 
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Ok it arrived.

Well not completly surprising but frets are quite worn and pots are noisy.
- The neck looks straight though (and nice)
- The self-made paint job is terrible
- the bridge looks mis aligned (maybe from the paintjob?)
- B string buzz a lot (i'll try to adjust at the bridge)

Right now it's not really playable so i'll bring it to a shop at least for a new paint job and let's see what they say on a fret dressing / plek / pot cleaning (change?), probably n another 500-600 dollars to add but i want to give it a chance (neck is wonderful, pick up sounds good and it's light)

Also i got to choose the color (sparkle? shell pink? candy red?)




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landrybass said:
Curious if anyone could ID this bass. Seems like an odd mix of old and newer parts? I like the idea but something about it seems off.

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Well if it’s a 2012 neck, it should have a truss rod/relief adjustment system, and they weren’t using neck plates then either, so it is weird. But who knows- if it was for an artist, they could have requested all that…
 

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