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NBD-- Ibanez BTB

Rip Topaz

Rip Topaz

Aug 12, 2005
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Willow Street, PA
#1
Scored this in a trade today.
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Ibanez BTB405QM.

Tomorrow it'll get cleaned up (there's a couple stickers on the back that gotta go), setup and I'll have more time to get to know it. So far I'm digging it.

I'll be sure to add more pix when I take them.
 
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CoR Bass said:
Good score! Don't get why people put stickers on their bass, especialy the back where noone would see it anyway.
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Cover up buckle rash or perhaps put a really pointlessly thin extra defense of buckle rash? Not my thing either though. Only one of my bass's has anything on it and it's a plastic vinyl that isn't sticky and can just be peeled off with no residue if anybody bought it.
 
#7
Played it at practice a few days ago and was underwhelmed. The strings were worn out and it sounded kinda "blah".

Just put a new set of D'Addario rounds on it, and it completely woke up the bass.

I was considering trading it away right away. I think I'm gonna be keeping it for awhile now. Loving the feel of the neck. I normally play P's so the huge neck doesn't phase me.

This may actually make me give fivers another chance.
 
#13
I used to have this exact same bass. Never bought an amp for her so I ended up selling her cheap w/hardshell in upstate NY... I wonder where she is now... She had minor rust/corrosion on the frets and hardware.
 
#17
The BTB puzzles me. It is a great bass, but I every time I play one, I am left with the same thought: "This is really a great bass, and it does absolutely nothing for me." They are really consistent, and really nice, and apparently not for me.

As for stickers...I have a couple basses that I put stickers on. Why? Just because.
 
#18
I currently have two BTBs. One's a 405QM in black, just like yours, the other is a 785PB with Piezo and Bartolini MK2s. The 785 is my choice out of the two, but I scored the 405 as my first bass from Daddy's Junky Music about 8 years ago for $300 shipped. AWESOME bass. The tones that it's capable of are very wide. The playability is great too. I actually traded a 5 string Warwick Corvette due to not liking the string spacing on it. I actually traded it for the BTB785.

I've had my 405 BTB tuned down to Drop A for a band, and then I've slapped a set of .124s on it for my current band (C#F#BEA). So I've had it tuned up a step and a half, and down several steps. The neck is very capable of handling the BTB for anything you throw at it.
Great trade. I still couldn't bring myself to sell or trade either of my BTBs because they're that solid of a bass.
 

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