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Roscoe Club

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Chuck M said:
The Pedulla Buzz basses are very good as is the Ibanez Gary Willis bass. The last Ibanez GWB that I owned was one of the ones with the natural finish and it was made in Indonesia. It was a fine instrument and very easy to play with the small neck. I briefly owned a Muckleroy 5 string fretless that was Brady's take on a Fender style instrument. It played very well but had a very snarly and in your face tone that could not be tamed. It did not have the tone that I like when played through my amplification so I sold it.

However, my Century FL 6 does everything better IMO. The Roscoe Bartolini electronics seem perfectly suited for this bass and the Diamondwood FB lets me play round wound strings with no worry about fingerboard wear. The neck is simply wonderful and there is NO place on the neck that sounds different or produces more or excessive buzz. That was one of the problems I had with the Gary Willis bass. It had a spot near the nut where the D string had more buzz and it was something I had to be careful of when I played it.

I now have an SKB 6 that was brighter sounding than the other Roscoe basses I have owned. It has a figured Mahogany body, Maple top and an Ebony fingerboard. I was considering selling or trading it for another Roscoe 6 with different woods but finally decided to put a set of TI flats on it and now it is the most wonderful sounding bass as it has a sort of "Jaco" tone but with a very full sounding bottom to it. It sounds very much like a fretless and, incidentally, was built as a fretless and later converted at the factory to fretted.

Keith and company simply make some of the very best basses and I am privileged to own 3 Roscoe basses.
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Thanks for all that info! My fretless Century has a diamondwood fingerboard too and it growls evenly all over.
 
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New Bass day! SKB Redwood on Spanish Cedar. Has a thinner neck like the ones from around 2013. Quad Coil Roscoe Wound.
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JOME77 said:
Beautiful bass! Congratulations! That top is gorgeous!!!
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Thank you, it's really interesting to see the neck profile verses the newer ones. This one being new from 2021 but with an older thinner neck with a light oil finish that Keith had sitting around. It's just like my Box Elder topped 2013 with by coincidence the same quad coil Roscoe Wound Bartolini pickups. The other 4 have the thicker neck profile and CB Bartolini pickups which are a little brighter in my opinion.
 
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SteveC said:
Jealous. Still waiting to say new refinished bass day.
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Let’s try to look at the positives on your somewhat long wait.
  1. You’re saving money on strings
  2. You’ve got something to look forward to.
  3. They say absence makes the heart grow fond so you’re learning to appreciate it more.
  4. The finish has more time to cure.
  5. There’s no risk of you scratching the new finish (since you don’t have it).
  6. You’ve developed a great support group among us fellow Roscoeheads.
And those are just a few positives….
 
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Life of Brian said:
Thank you, it's really interesting to see the neck profile verses the newer ones. This one being new from 2021 but with an older thinner neck with a light oil finish that Keith had sitting around. It's just like my Box Elder topped 2013 with by coincidence the same quad coil Roscoe Wound Bartolini pickups. The other 4 have the thicker neck profile and CB Bartolini pickups which are a little brighter in my opinion.
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My Century 3005 was completed in January of 2012. The neck profile seems to be a bit thicker than I remember other earlier Roscoe 5's being. It is perfectly comfortable and I never would have thought anything about the neck until I read the posts here. My other Roscoe basses are 6's and the FL is an early one and my SKB fretted 6 is a recent one. The necks feel similar but the SKB may be just a little bit thicker. That said, I was playing the SKB 6 in church Sunday and was enjoying how wonderful it plays and sounds.

Sometimes I think we think too much about this stuff. Okay, my 5 has a little bit thicker neck than some. I care about the fact that it plays and sounds terrific and I really don't think about the neck thickness.

These are not cookie cutter basses made by machines and that is what I love about them. That said, I respect the fact that some of you have opinions about this and your opinions are certainly valid.
 
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Life of Brian said:
It sounds great! I was anxious about the wood combo as all my others have an Ash Body. The lows seem fuller for sure. They all play great no matter what it seems.
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Great news. I’ve found with Roscoes that have maple fingerboards the tone is more about the extra graphite reinforcement strips than the maple board. All of them that I’ve owned (Roscoes with maple boards) had a really phat tone.
 
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Let me ask you all a question. I have had my LG3000 for sale for a while. I had a couple people looking.
My last concession was $1,850 shipped to a buyer offering $1,800 shipped, plus the PayPal fees I'm out. I know things are moving slowly these days, especially a 4 string Roscoe (5's and 6's still go) but do I really have to take a $400 hit? Was $1,850 not a steal? I had about $2,100 into the Sadowsky MV4 I traded for the LG3000.

I know sometimes you have to just take a hit and move the gear and move on. I'm just having trouble accepting that I need to take a big hit on a really nice bass.

Thanks for listening.

I'm close to taking it out of the box for this weekend as I won't have my Century 5 back. I plan to use my Classic P and it'll be fine, but some rounds might work a little better for some of the tunes.
 
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