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#5,681
kevk said:
Thanks for the info, Gard! :thumbsup:

Looking at my post again, I meant to type "Standard Plus" as some of the Rocket Buckeye Burl's looked really appealing to me, at a good price point...

I always keep an eye out for 34" custom's...you guys do incredibly beautiful work with those! :)
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Always happy to help out - the Standard Plus is still a "Standard" to us, just with a nice veneer top, so the same concept for production applies - streamline, streamline, and then streamline. No corners are cut in quality or playability, but we do our best to eliminate any expense that would by definition add to the cost, and push that number up for the customer. We did add an option for high gloss finish on the Standard and Standard Plus recently, however, if anyone was interested in that!
 
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SteveC said:
Had our first ortho appointment for Grace today...I may not be able to buy back my 6 even though my wife had pretty much accepted it. $4,600 out of pocket. $2,000 next week and $175 a month for a couple years...
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Straight teeth are overrated. Crooked with gaps adds character.

SteveC said:
I'm actually thinking of getting it before something else pops up.
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Atta boy! Now, we're back to our senses.
 
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I have yet to hear of someone not happy with a Roscoe fretless (best fretless made in my opinion) or Roscoe service. I don't say "always" very often but I think I'll always have my Roscoe. I've said it before, when I ordered my basses they treated me like a pro and I'm just some shmo in North Dakota. The basses were amazing in every way. The communication was great. I can't say enough about the people or product, but I guess I'm a Roscoe thread it's preaching to the church.
 
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I thought PLEK was a fret leveling tool, so I'm curious about how it works on a fretless.

staccatogrowl said:
Just wanted to share that I've spent the past week thoroughly enjoying the fruits of Roscoe's PLEK work and subsequent setup service on my lined fretless 5-string bass. This is definitely now the best playing fretless bass that I have experienced (have played a multitude of fretless basses over many years). The note bloom, mwah, and intonation are all spot on.

Communication with Gard has been top notch. Turnaround was a matter of days. The price is extremely reasonable in terms of the value added in playability and enjoyment. I definitely recommend that anyone experiencing less than optimal fretwork, setup or fingerboard characteristics give the Roscoe folks a try.

Thank you Gard and Keith. Your basses and customer service are superlative.
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oren said:
I thought PLEK was a fret leveling tool, so I'm curious about how it works on a fretless.
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The Plek does a lot more than "just" dress frets - we are presently using it to level and true the fingerboard as well as slot for frets, in addition to actually leveling and dressing the frets. Oh, and it rough carves and slots the nut too. If we wanted to add in doing inlay work, it will also do this. Very flexible, and impressive machine. I really dig working with it. :cool:
 
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Active Reasoner said:
Here's a Musician's Institute concert featuring the Yellow Jackets from 2007. Nice Jimmy Haslip solos at 4:00 and 52:40. The Musician's Institute YouTube channel has been releasing full concert videos for a while now. I highly recommend checking them out.
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I like converting from the youtube video to an mp3 and using that for driving music.
 
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Gard said:
Well, I'll respond to the question about Standards and custom scale length. :) As much as we'd like to be able to offer a bunch of options on those lines, it would defeat the purpose of a "standard" model - we limit the options in order to streamline production and keep labor costs down, which in turn keeps sale price lower. Note that it doesn't have a matching headstock either: this allows us to build necks in "batches" - i.e. 10 pau ferro 5 string necks, as an example - so we can maximize production time and effort with minimum waste. Making a 5 string neck with a 34" scale length changes more than just the fret placement, the neck is a different size as well as length, the neck pocket on the body is different, the pickup rout placements are different, and the bridge location is different, so we'd have to also change how the body is built, adding even more labor cost, and this is the reason we charge $300 for that on Custom or Signature. When we were planning the line, this was a discussion in the shop - if we had more requests for 34" 5 strings than 35" 5 strings, we would likely have opted to make 34" the default scale length, but the reality is we are talking about 1 out of about 100 instruments being requested with the 34" on 5 and 6 string basses.

Hope that 'splains why we don't offer it on Standard and Standard Plus models without being snarky. ;)

There are the odd used 34" Customs out there, so if you keep an eye out, you might find a great deal on one someday, if you're interested.

And, the Roscoe family is open to anyone that wants to be in it - doesn't matter to us if you have a Roscoe or not! :cool:
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So I assume this means if you wanted something like 19mm bridge spacing and a wider nut, you would need to go the Custom route.
 
#5,698
Mostly love the aesthetics of the bass (color, matted/non-gloss finish) but it's mostly the tone that convinced me! The century model would work better for me as I'm a bigger dude and the LG or SKB just looks a little small- Gard, I'll be calling soon!
 

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