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My Spector collection.... severe PORN warning!
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I feel your pain. I had three stolen along with a USA Jackson Concert bass. It took about 15 years to save up enough to buy my Euro 4LX. After maturing enough, I got smart and have insurance on this one. I would still kill to get my NS-2 back though.
Stunning collection!
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The gold bridges I got off eBay a few years back.... they are generic lookalikes and not Spector-made...
The inlays on the Rex are actually amazingly thin real- abalone stickers which I cut from a laminate sheet. You can barely feel them under your fingers and they look superb....
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Man, that's horrible...... I keep mine in three separate 'secure storage' places and swap them around regularly so I get to play them all. I'd never keep all of them at home....
Insurance helps as well... but it can never replace a much loved bass
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Sorry, no....
Do an ebay search for 'bass bridge gold' or similar. Trawl through until you find a lookalike. Make the search worldwide and I'm sure something will come up..... good luck!
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The pre-Kramer Spectors are pre mid 80's. They were handbuilt by Stuart and his staff to a very high standard and feature the classic Hazlab preamp. They are highly sought after and play/sound beautiful....
Stuart then sold a major share to Kramer who were able to massproduce his basses and promote them across the globe. The quality was still excellent and they gained many more endorsees (90% of 80's rock bassists!). However, come the 90's the grunge/anti-pointy headstock brigade destroyed Kramer sales and Spector (by association) with them.... this despite Spector not being just a 'rock' bass....
After a long fought battle Stuart managed to get the rights back to his 'Spector' brand and they are now going strong again...
The pre-Kramer Spectors are pre mid 80's. They were handbuilt by Stuart and his staff to a very high standard and feature the classic Hazlab preamp. They are highly sought after and play/sound beautiful....
Stuart then sold a major share to Kramer who were able to massproduce his basses and promote them across the globe. The quality was still excellent and they gained many more endorsees (90% of 80's rock bassists!). However, come the 90's the grunge/anti-pointy headstock brigade destroyed Kramer sales and Spector (by association) with them.... this despite Spector not being just a 'rock' bass....
After a long fought battle Stuart managed to get the rights back to his 'Spector' brand and they are now going strong again...
Thanks. I like these kind of stories.
So the quality of the us spectors went up after stuart got his shares back?
If I'm correct you have one pre-kramer, two kramer and one post kramer us bass. How does the quality differ between pre, kramer and post spectors?
And what about the european models?
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That's right....
Quality control when the quality is this high is VERY hard to differentiate between on each of these basses. Suffice to say they are all excellent....
The main difference is a personal feel thing combined with the different preamps. Personally I love the pre-Kramer most out of these four but that may be just because it was my first Spector and hence it has become part of me....
The Euro models are IMHO the best bang for the buck basses you can buy. There's very little obvious difference between these and the current US models but the price is incredibly competitive....
I'm trying to imagine that any particular bass gets it's share of playing time that would necesitate weeding out the black (cherry) sheep.I used to have a 5 string Euro in Black Cherry but, lovely as it was, I simply didn't play it very often.....
I'm a 4-string player through and through....
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They ALL get played, but if I needed any of the five extra notes a five string offers I'd simply add a hipshot or make one of my basses a detuned one (B, E, A, D).....
A while back I briefly had a Euro LX5. When I bought it I compared it to several other Spectors in the shop, including 3 (IIRC) USA models, and I preferred it by a long way. For the money it was an absolute steal.
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Awesome collection! although i feel at home on fenders and fender style basses, spectors are one of my favourite 'active' basses. killer tone... again, awesome collection...
You're forgetting the picture of the green one.....oh, wait - that's me. 
Gratz on the collection, that's a truly impressive collection especially all those older USA models.
Gratz on the collection, that's a truly impressive collection especially all those older USA models.
Very nice family you have there! I shouldn't feel too bad now about having two early 70's Precisions....
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I by no means am trying to be unpolite, this is in fact a polite question
Two answers to this....
1) Why not?
2) Because I can and it makes me happy....
