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#5,961
Found this gem at GC in New Orleans today. It plays and looks great. The only issue is the stacked pot is loose. Either needs tighten or replaced. Either way, this is an awesome deal. Action is low and neck feels great.

They are asking $1699. It's on the 30 day hold till 12/18/17.

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Tewest86 said:
Found this gem at GC in New Orleans today. It plays and looks great. The only issue is the stacked pot is loose. Either needs tighten or replaced. Either way, this is an awesome deal. Action is low and neck feels great.

They are asking $1699. It's on the 30 day hold till 12/18/17.
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That is really a great deal for what looks like a LG Custom 5 string bass.
 
#5,965
GC in Raleigh has a couple used Roscoe basses. Unfortunately the LG3000 ($1,799) has had another Bart pickup added right behind the neck pickup. A real hack job, brought a tear to my eye. The other Roscoe is in their little test room, it is a SKB 5 string standard plus $1,999). The person who owned it must have been an upright player as the action was terribly high but the neck was straight.
 
#5,968
Hey Roscoe fans, can anyone tell me about the standard Bart pickups on older Roscoe customs? Are they split coil, or dual coil? I find myself eyeing the gorgeous and ridiculously priced SKB 3007 down in the classifieds (For Sale - Roscoe SKB 3007 - Price Drop ), wondering if it could be made into a wide-spaced 6, and if so, what it might require. As it happens, I already have a 20mm 6-string Hipshot A-type bridge, but if the pickups are split coils, the split might fall under one of the strings if it were converted to 6-string...
 
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mikezimmerman said:
Hey Roscoe fans, can anyone tell me about the standard Bart pickups on older Roscoe customs? Are they split coil, or dual coil? I find myself eyeing the gorgeous and ridiculously priced SKB 3007 down in the classifieds (For Sale - Roscoe SKB 3007 - Price Drop ), wondering if it could be made into a wide-spaced 6, and if so, what it might require. As it happens, I already have a 20mm 6-string Hipshot A-type bridge, but if the pickups are split coils, the split might fall under one of the strings if it were converted to 6-string...
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They're quad coils, and I would be suspicious about them working well with 6 strings instead of 7 for that reason - I'd be concerned that one of your middle strings might end up in the "dead zone" between a couple of coils.
 
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Gard said:
They're quad coils, and I would be suspicious about them working well with 6 strings instead of 7 for that reason - I'd be concerned that one of your middle strings might end up in the "dead zone" between a couple of coils.
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Thanks, Gard. That's kind of what I was afraid of. I love the sound of the Bart quad coils in my Curbow, so I'm sure the bass sounds fantastic as it is, but 16.5mm is too small for me. It sounds like a conversion might require a pickup swap in addition to the stuff I would expect like a new nut...
 
#5,972
Just received this a couple days ago - an NOS 2007 fretless LG3005 with a Bubinga top on a Swamp Ash body, standard neck with a Birdseye Maple Diamondwood board with lines. It's given me a ton of relief & satisfaction after years of owning fretless basses that felt weird or didn't sound right no matter what adjustments were made. I wish I could have gotten this earlier but everything works on its own time... Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
 

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The Roscoe Fretless tone is pretty awesome. I was always a Pedulla guy when it came to fretless then about 5 or 6 years ago I played Gard's SKB3006 fretless and it changed my mind. Right now I am using a set of DR Nickel Low Riders and really like the feel and tone.

My three Roscoe Basses (Hopefully the 4th one will be here before Christmas ;)) The green one below is my Fretless and came to me pre-loaded with Kim Stone's MoJo.

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I have an LG soapbar pickup question and figured this is the right place to ask the question :). I've seen slanted pickups, straight pickups and reverse slanted pickups on LGs. Most of them seem to have the slant. Can someone tell me why? What would be the sonic benefits of each configuration?
 
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Jim Dandy said:
I have an LG soapbar pickup question and figured this is the right place to ask the question :). I've seen slanted pickups, straight pickups and reverse slanted pickups on LGs. Most of them seem to have the slant. Can someone tell me why? What would be the sonic benefits of each configuration?
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Mostly because Kieth thought that it looked cool. Some say the reverse slant thickens up the G string.
 
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