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Roscoe Classic Owners Club

Any of you cats have a poplar body Classic? Pros/cons? Lots of online verbiage about poplar as a body…too heavy, too soft, liked, not liked etc.
I do! First year run 2017 serial number 12. I have an alder one too. So , poplar is a little heavier that's really my only observation. If you told me it was ash I'd believe you as far as tonal properties, slightly scooped and a little bright compared to my US Lakland with Alder and Rosewood. They are great and craftsmanship is exceptional. They are very underrated compared to other F shape US made boutiques. I think Keith does great work with his relic nitro finishes too. The necks are perfect. So my other is a hybrid. It's an alder P bass with an Uber skinny J neck and PJ Nordstrands. The J has Howard Ulyate's and an Aguilar OBP1 boost only with a passive tone control. This formula is just like a Sadowsky. It's a tried and true formula for a modern classic Jazz tone .
 

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Ash body
Maple neck
Katalox fingerboard
Aggie 60's pickup
Passive
35" scale

Very articulate. B string is nice and just sounds like an extension of the rest of the bass.
Clear all the way up the fingerboard.

I have a metric ton of gigs this week, definitely taking it with me tonight and this weekend along with my old PBass.
 
Found the pics from the Roscoe FB page
 

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