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Roscoe Club
- Thread starter JOME77
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Yeah. Overall, I prefer the look of the wedge laminates.
Just sent Keith an email. I want fender skirts, but no chrome bits.
(car reference, of course)
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I do love my Koa Century 5. It’s the finest bass I’ve ever had...including more expensive Roscoe’s.
I still think about that “Pino” Roscoe Classic P that Greg has, and my GAS will be particularly bad after I see Pino with John Mayer in a few weeks.
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Wow! Best looking headstock in the business. Keith really has good taste in design. Have you noticed his Classic headstock? Familiar, yet so unique. So Roscoe.
That's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, I'm a nerd.
Can someone tell me what strings are on fretless basses that leave the Roscoe shop? Also, if you own a fretless bass, is your priority to protect the fingerboard, or the best tone? 3rd: what strings do you have on your fretless bass, roundwound or flatwound? Thanks for your input. I appreciate it very much.
That's what I've been told as well: D'Addario Nickel Rounds.
My Diamondwood fingerboard needs no special protection. Truth be told, most fretless fingerboard materials don't either. Tone trumps everything.
I prefer rounds - the D'Addario EXL170 that is the commercially available version of the Roscoe set (which is AFAIK available from Roscoeo....)
However, due to the musical genres of my working bands, I need to keep the mwah tamed a bit, so I've progressed from D'Addario HalfRounds to Ernie Ball Slinky Flats (Cobalts) which I like a lot and I now have a set of Tomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats I'm waiting for an opportunity to install.
My Diamondwood fingerboard needs no special protection. Truth be told, most fretless fingerboard materials don't either. Tone trumps everything.
I prefer rounds - the D'Addario EXL170 that is the commercially available version of the Roscoe set (which is AFAIK available from Roscoeo....)
However, due to the musical genres of my working bands, I need to keep the mwah tamed a bit, so I've progressed from D'Addario HalfRounds to Ernie Ball Slinky Flats (Cobalts) which I like a lot and I now have a set of Tomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats I'm waiting for an opportunity to install.
My fretless LG with the diamondwood fingerboard has pretty much always had roundwound or pressure wound strings in it. After 20 years of use, there was very little scarring.
1. I assume others are correct (D'Addario)
2. I personally prefer a balanced approach - if I noticed strings were eating up a fretless board, I'd probably swap them out to protect my instrument. That being said, I've tried flats and rounds on my diamond wood Roscoe, and for what I need/like, have gone with rounds. Very, very minimal visual wear when I bought it, and it has stayed that way.
3. Dunlop superbright nickel rounds, 40-120.
Best strings I've found for Roscoes or my Devons have been DR Pure Blues. Nothing sounds and plays as good as them in rounds IMO.
What I seem to be reading so far is to go for the best tone. And that is from roundwound strings. From my limited experience, roundwounds tend to give the best mwah tone that we search for. I agree! Go for the best tone. What do we have to lose? A little wear and tear? Make that fingerboard smile back at you!
Thanks, everyone.
Thanks, everyone.
OK. I will try those. Every DR set that I've tried were very impressive. Fat Beams, Low Riders, Sun Beams, Marcus Miller. They all had their own sound and tension. Loved them all.
Thanks, Fritz. Your new Roscoe fretless is absolutely gorgeous!
I didn't realize the green bass in your avatar was a fretless. You rock, Skip!
I bet there's someone in this group who would like this buckeye burl XYZ bass 
Devon J5 Modern Buckeye Burl | Dadsical
Devon J5 Modern Buckeye Burl | Dadsical
I’ve got the XL 170s on my fretted Roscoe, but flats on both my non-Roscoe fretless basses: TIs on my Sire V7 and Chromes on my Godin Acoustibass. They all sound great - variety is the spice of life!
I bet there's someone in this group who would like this buckeye burl XYZ bass
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Devon J5 Modern Buckeye Burl | Dadsical
That is the larger body style he makes and on the heavier side as I know the owner of this one. You would be hard pressed to find a bass that will compete with it for the money if the weight and size didn't matter. These are crazy good basses.
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Looks like a beast! Their price is 540,000JPY but deduct 8% sales tax for an international sale for 496,800JPY. You can use xe.com for an estimated cost in your currency. No idea of shipping, but I expect this is probably quite heavy.
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Looks like a beast! Their price is 540,000JPY but deduct 8% sales tax for an international sale for 496,800JPY. You can use xe.com for an estimated cost in your currency. No idea of shipping, but I expect this is probably quite heavy.
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