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Roscoe Club

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I’m turning 64 this January, and having retired from playing gigs (for a number of reasons), I’m enjoying my basses on my own time. Playing and practicing when I feel like it. It feels good too. Lots of good memories of playing onstage on and off over the last 45 years.

This year’s custom Roscoe order was just a bucket list check mark. It ends my seemingly endless search for the bass of my dreams. I don’t even long for the high end basses that I’ve owned in the past.

Maybe these are just thoughts that the end of each year seem to conjure. A look back. What I have learned over the years is to be grateful. To be thankful. This year has given me lots to be thankful for. I hope that you’ve had a great year also. God Bless!

Gary
 
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Freddy-G. said:
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I’m turning 64 this January, and having retired from playing gigs (for a number of reasons), I’m enjoying my basses on my own time. Playing and practicing when I feel like it. It feels good too. Lots of good memories of playing onstage on and off over the last 45 years.

This year’s custom Roscoe order was just a bucket list check mark. It ends my seemingly endless search for the bass of my dreams. I don’t even long for the high end basses that I’ve owned in the past.

Maybe these are just thoughts that the end of each year seem to conjure. A look back. What I have learned over the years is to be greatful. To be thankful. This year has given me lots to be thankful for. I hope that you’ve had a great year also. God Bless!

Gary
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Love that Wenge neck!
 
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Hey guys, I'd like to (re-)join the club here. I had a Roscoe LG3000 a year or so ago that I'd bought off of a friend of mine, but financial stuff came up and I had to sell it back to him. Now, things are better, but he's realized that he shouldn't have let the bass go in the first place. I'm not that upset because there were two things about that bass that I didn't 100% love: the small LG body shape didn't fit my body very well, and I'm not primarily a four-string player anyway. So I did what I always do: I browse GC's used site, where I found this:

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I've reached out to Roscoe to get more info on this model, but here's what I do know: it's an SKB3006 with Nordstrand Big Split pickups, an OBP-1 Aguilar pre, and mounting points for a MIDI pickup if I ever want to do that. Fun story: while searching for information on this bass, I actually found a TalkBass thread where this bass was put up for sale almost seven years ago! KerryG sold it to ElMon in 2012 before it found its way to me. Unfortunately, in true GC style, it wasn't treated very well in the store.

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Good news: This knocked $800 bucks off the price. Bad news: Now I have to get it repaired. Good news: I can get it fixed for about $50 if I don't mind about color-matching. Bad news: Roscoe said that he could refinish it and make it good as new, but it would be $450. I think I'm just going to get it filled so it doesn't get worse and then call it good.

I'm not sure if I ever got a number here, or if you even do numbers; but if you do and I'm not on the list, could I get one?
 
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Persona87 said:
Hey guys, I'd like to (re-)join the club here. I had a Roscoe LG3000 a year or so ago that I'd bought off of a friend of mine, but financial stuff came up and I had to sell it back to him. Now, things are better, but he's realized that he shouldn't have let the bass go in the first place. I'm not that upset because there were two things about that bass that I didn't 100% love: the small LG body shape didn't fit my body very well, and I'm not primarily a four-string player anyway. So I did what I always do: I browse GC's used site, where I found this:

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I've reached out to Roscoe to get more info on this model, but here's what I do know: it's an SKB3006 with Nordstrand Big Split pickups, an OBP-1 Aguilar pre, and mounting points for a MIDI pickup if I ever want to do that. Fun story: while searching for information on this bass, I actually found a TalkBass thread where this bass was put up for sale almost seven years ago! KerryG sold it to ElMon in 2012 before it found its way to me. Unfortunately, in true GC style, it wasn't treated very well in the store.

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Good news: This knocked $800 bucks off the price. Bad news: Now I have to get it repaired. Good news: I can get it fixed for about $50 if I don't mind about color-matching. Bad news: Roscoe said that he could refinish it and make it good as new, but it would be $450. I think I'm just going to get it filled so it doesn't get worse and then call it good.

I'm not sure if I ever got a number here, or if you even do numbers; but if you do and I'm not on the list, could I get one?
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Nice score! Congrats!
Your number on the Roscoe forum is your serial number.
 
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It’s easy for us to spend your money for you, but you probably got this bass for a nice price so I’d say send it for the ful “spa” treatment.
I haven’t done it yet with my fretted, but my fretless was there and everyone who touched it says it’s the nicest fretless they’ve played.
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At some point I might, but $600 for a refinish and plek is a bit much for me at the moment. I’ve been planning a fret job on my US Peavey, and I’ve had this crazy idea about getting a Warmoth baritone conversion neck for my telecaster. On top of that, I’m saving up for a car by the end of next year. Lots of little expenses are adding up.
 
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Persona87 said:
Hey guys, I'd like to (re-)join the club here. I had a Roscoe LG3000 a year or so ago that I'd bought off of a friend of mine, but financial stuff came up and I had to sell it back to him. Now, things are better, but he's realized that he shouldn't have let the bass go in the first place. I'm not that upset because there were two things about that bass that I didn't 100% love: the small LG body shape didn't fit my body very well, and I'm not primarily a four-string player anyway. So I did what I always do: I browse GC's used site, where I found this:

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I've reached out to Roscoe to get more info on this model, but here's what I do know: it's an SKB3006 with Nordstrand Big Split pickups, an OBP-1 Aguilar pre, and mounting points for a MIDI pickup if I ever want to do that. Fun story: while searching for information on this bass, I actually found a TalkBass thread where this bass was put up for sale almost seven years ago! KerryG sold it to ElMon in 2012 before it found its way to me. Unfortunately, in true GC style, it wasn't treated very well in the store.

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Good news: This knocked $800 bucks off the price. Bad news: Now I have to get it repaired. Good news: I can get it fixed for about $50 if I don't mind about color-matching. Bad news: Roscoe said that he could refinish it and make it good as new, but it would be $450. I think I'm just going to get it filled so it doesn't get worse and then call it good.

I'm not sure if I ever got a number here, or if you even do numbers; but if you do and I'm not on the list, could I get one?
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How do the big splits sound in the Roscoe?
 
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That SKB has been at GC for a long time. SKB's are great sounding and playing basses. Keith will always work with you should you ever want to gt it restored. I've done that twice and have been very happy both times. First time he restored a severely damaged SKB3006 which i subsequently sold and he refinished the neck on an LG3005 that i bought from GC for a steal and will probably never sell.
 
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Persona87 said:
At some point I might, but $600 for a refinish and plek is a bit much for me at the moment. I’ve been planning a fret job on my US Peavey, and I’ve had this crazy idea about getting a Warmoth baritone conversion neck for my telecaster. On top of that, I’m saving up for a car by the end of next year. Lots of little expenses are adding up.
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Man! $600.00 for a Plek and a refinish is a killer deal. I've gotten quotes on refinishes at various places and they are much more than that! After subtracting the Plek that would be a refinish for $450. Removing a Diamondwood finish requires it to be sanded off. There isn't a finish removal product out there that can cut that finish.
I'd jump on that price like white on rice!:) You'd pretty much have a new playing and looking bass when it was completed.
 
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But I get putting it on hold, Holidays, taxes coming up, a car to buy. Basses are usually a luxury, not a necessity.
Even though I have a slush fund, I am holding off on buying the last item on my Thunderjazz project in the interest of optics, even though my slush fund is a coffee can cash stash closing in on $2k.

Just texting this is making my trigger finger itchy and twitchy.
 
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