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NBD - Leo’s Final Masterpiece - L-1000 Content

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mrperkolator said:
check out the short scale Ibby EHB. Super comfortable and light. I’ve tried one, but it was more than my pocket had available.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I was also interested in one of those but it's outside my budget.

I've been on a quest for very light a shortscale for several years since the stroke and, this time, what I did was use the short scale neck (25.5" scale) from a Glarry bass that was on sale of $60, designed and built a hollow body using a paulownia frame, top and back plates from lightweight laminated floor underlayment from Home Depot, a DIY stick bridge, the bridge plate of the Glarry for a string anchor, a single inexpensive humbucking pickup from Amazon wired straight to an Electrosocket from an old project, and a set of Gotoh GB350 Res-O-Lite tuners form the same old project. That bass weighs 3lbs, 7 oz. using my fishing scale. It's still a work in progress but it sounds very good with nylon tapes and is very easy for me to play.

If the Fallout weighed less I probably would have bought one of the imports.
 
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2F/2F said:
It's a fine bass, and congrats on your NGD, but you seem to be misinformed about the timeline, and Leo's influence on the CLF Research model. Firstly, the L-2K came out after the L-1K, and most people who play G&LS consider that to be a masterpiece as well. Secondly, the Ls of today have been modified significantly since Leo died. They don't even look the same from across the room. The body and neck heel shapes shapes were changed (and not by Leo) over 25 years ago. The nut width is narrower today. The only feature these share with the originals is the shape of the headstock...and I'm sure Leo is spinning in his grave over the company's use of Asian made hardware and the discontinuation of the neck adjustment, which he spent years developing and refining from one company to the next.
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hey man, cool comment.
 
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fishdude101101 said:
Well Leo might have liked the neck adjustment but if it were still on there, there's no way I'd have bought 2 l series basses in thr last year. There is no way it is as stable as the 6 screw countersunk setup of today.
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That widespread belief is what BBE changed the neck mounting to combat. But it's beside my point, which is not about the relative merits of Leo era vs. current era ones. It's that the OP seems very gung ho about the "Leo aspect" of this bass, but it is pretty far removed from the L-1K that Leo and and co. designed. Plenty of reasons to own and like this bass, but the huge focus that the OP placed on Leo's involvement is off the mark. As I said, it literally doesn't even have the same shape as the original L-1K.
 
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2F/2F said:
That widespread belief is what BBE changed the neck mounting to combat. But it's beside my point, which is not about the relative merits of Leo era vs. current era ones. It's that the OP seems very gung ho about the "Leo aspect" of this bass, but it is pretty far removed from the L-1K that Leo and and co. designed. Plenty of reasons to own and like this bass, but the huge focus that the OP placed on Leo's involvement is off the mark. As I said, it literally doesn't even have the same shape as the original L-1K.
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I always like the information you provide about G&L as it is clear you have very detailed knowledge of the brand.

Was the original post edited or something? All I see is that the OP wrote "thank you" regarding a G&L bass series (i.e., the CLF series) that I thought was named after Leo Fender. As usual, I'm missing something (cause I'm old probably).
 
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2F/2F said:
That widespread belief is what BBE changed the neck mounting to combat. But it's beside my point, which is not about the relative merits of Leo era vs. current era ones. It's that the OP seems very gung ho about the "Leo aspect" of this bass, but it is pretty far removed from the L-1K that Leo and and co. designed. Plenty of reasons to own and like this bass, but the huge focus that the OP placed on Leo's involvement is off the mark. As I said, it literally doesn't even have the same shape as the original L-1K.
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The OP's bass literally would not exist without Leo's involvement. The whole idea of this bass was his, modern tweaks to the design aside.

Calm down, dude.

Awesome new bass! Congrats! :bassist:
 
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2F/2F said:
That widespread belief is what BBE changed the neck mounting to combat. But it's beside my point, which is not about the relative merits of Leo era vs. current era ones. It's that the OP seems very gung ho about the "Leo aspect" of this bass, but it is pretty far removed from the L-1K that Leo and and co. designed. Plenty of reasons to own and like this bass, but the huge focus that the OP placed on Leo's involvement is off the mark. As I said, it literally doesn't even have the same shape as the original L-1K.
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