Renaissance/Turner Basses Club

Cool licks! What was the clip with LaBella tapewounds?

I see another 6-string Renaissance fretless player in here... Welcome! That makes only 2 or 3 so far. Wonder if we'll see a Ren 7?

 

Sat in on bass with my Pop's Bluegrass band last night, using the fretless Renaissance 5. Used just a touch of MXR micro-chorus, rolled off some treble and punched up the low end.

Those guys play some pretty unusual tunes... very un-traditional, second/third generation of the genre, where many artists of the day were covering 60's folk-rock. Not much of that going around the mainstream anymore, but my ol' man and his buds get it done... and the fretless Ren 5 fits right in.

 

:thumbup::thumbup: Rare Blend!

These things really do fit into a wide variety.

 

Something I've noticed... not sure when this change took place or if it's specific to different basses. Note the difference in placement of the scale between these two Renaissance basses... the mahogany bass' headstock is longer than the maple one, and the frets go further out over the body. The bridge placement on the top is also shifted.

 

Fingerboard extensions...

 

Bridge placement...

 

The mahogany one is 2010, the quilted maple is 2013; both are 35" scale.

I noticed back on page 10, mimaz' two Ren 5's, a 2009 and 2011, are different in the same ways.

 

That ^^^ makes sense... so based on the pictures here, the transition must have been sometime 2010-11. Not a big deal, just never noticed the difference before... Cool.

 

Yeah, I thought about that too Jeff, but (I'll measure to be sure) I think the total length is the same on both guitars, it's *only the playable area* that's moved. Like - imagine sliding the bridge, nut, and everything in between them, towards the peghead, without moving the peghead itself... but rather *shortening* the headstock by an inch or so. There would actually be less weight in the neck if I'm correct... probably an insignificant amout... an ounce or two. As you pointed out, yeah, the Dingus extender is a must, at least on the fiver's. I have often wondered where the name came from... there's gotta be a story.