SPECTOR® Club - Part 32

[ynot12]

Bazinga!

Current Family photo:

Legend Custom 5, Forte 4, Rebop 4

A retrospective of Spectors I used to have (still have the Amber Rebop 4 of course):

Zebop 5, Rebop 4, NS-2A

NS-2JA-R

Awesome basses!

So who can educate me on the Zebop. Mine is a black stained Rebop (it's Zebrawood under the black stain). I've seen a few of the clear zebrawood ones. We're these released standard some years or are they some type of special order? Is mine considered a Zebop or does the stain take the Z away?

Thanks guys!

 

[basstones]

In! I really need to get some new pics

 

[String Cheesus]

Wow....another thread all ready

 

[Clearwave]

I've always pictured Jeff as...
male.

 

[iceboxbass]

Wow - #32 already?

I'm in - with pics....

And video...

Dead Flowers.mpg - YouTube

Cool!

 

[Mrfstop]

Beautiful bass!

In! I really need to get some new pics

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[iceboxbass]

sweet. good luck. and so you know, recording sucks lol

Oh boy...thanks for the heads up!

Thats a pretty big deal. Are you the first Coda guy in this group?

How soon until you get it?

I believe I might be the first hmmm...not thought about it. Anyone here own a Coda? Besides Abe Millet? I hadn't seen any pictured.
4-5 month wait time for USA basses. I was told Stuart and his 3 craftsmen are building 40 a month right now. That's a lot of Guitars!

 

[JPSBassist]

Nice shots JPS. Have you put a USA brass bridge on the NS2a yet? I've thought about doing that. I'll have to get someone to do the routing.

It's not advisable to do this. The NS-2A, like the Legend, has a smaller string spacing of .66 instead of the standard .75 of the NS-2. So there's a good chance that installing the USA Bridge will cause your E and G strings to sit too close to the edge of the fingerboard.

I have a spare USA Bridge that I can use to install on my NS-2A if I want, but haven't made the measurements yet to do so, basically I just haven't had the time to try and figure out if it would work. And since my NS-2A is in beautiful playing condition as is, it hasn't been a priority really.

But anyone thinking about doing an upgrade on their NS-2A to any other Spector bridge needs to look at the string spacing issue seriously.

 

[delucajohn2000]

Awesome basses!

So who can educate me on the Zebop. Mine is a black stained Rebop (it's Zebrawood under the black stain). I've seen a few of the clear zebrawood ones. We're these released standard some years or are they some type of special order? Is mine considered a Zebop or does the stain take the Z away?

Thanks guys!

I would say yours is definitely considered a Zebop since it's made with Zebrawood. The natural wood ones seem to be more popular but black gloss Zebrawood still shows up on the Spector site as an available finish so I don't think they are special order. JPS can definitely give more info on that though but I love the look of yours.

Bass Central has a green one too with Zebrawood which looks really sweet.

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[5string_phunk]

I do believe icebox will be the first in the club to own a coda...but once you give rave reviews there will be several more that show up! ...I know I want one!

Stuart and his crew are freaking machines to push out that many hand crafted instruments a month!!

 

[JPSBassist]

Oh boy...thanks for the heads up!

I believe I might be the first hmmm...not thought about it. Anyone here own a Coda? Besides Abe Millet? I hadn't seen any pictured.
4-5 month wait time for USA basses. I was told Stuart and his 3 craftsmen are building 40 a month right now. That's a lot of Guitars!

Lots of people besides Abe own one... as far as who on this board has one... don't know.

But Spector Artists... Doug Wimbish has a Coda-5 he loves, Matt Sinner, Dave Moody, Scott Snyder (Great White), Lane Baldwin, and I think Carlton Armstrong may be taking the plunge soon if he already hasn't. And he's on this forum...

 

[FunkySpoo]

In! I really need to get some new pics

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Me too.

That's beautiful basstones

 

[delucajohn2000]

I believe I might be the first hmmm...not thought about it. Anyone here own a Coda? Besides Abe Millet? I hadn't seen any pictured.
4-5 month wait time for USA basses. I was told Stuart and his 3 craftsmen are building 40 a month right now. That's a lot of Guitars!

The Coda is seriously becoming a popular model for Spector. I know PJ just posted some pictures of the bass player for Great White using a Coda 5 and I believe he also posted a picture of himself with Arif from Protest the Hero with a new Coda as well.

Coda's are showing up everywhere now from Justin Bieber's bass player to Cass Lewis from Skunk Anansie's band. I remember way back in the day, Cass played bass for Terence Trent D'arby on his Hardline CD and he used an NS-2 back then.

 

[5string_phunk]

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What a sweet pic of a beautiful bass! Is that a fretless NS-2A? Did you convert it? If so, did you epoxy it or is that just a polished finished?

I really want a nice Spector fretless with that sweet *mwah* sound!

 

[spector_boogie]

NS-5 pics coming soon, and my ReBop 5 DLX will be en route on Saturday..........

 

[basstones]

Beautiful bass!

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In! I really need to get some new pics

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Me too.

That's beautiful basstones

Thanks!

 

[JPSBassist]

What a sweet pic of a beautiful bass! Is that a fretless NS-2A? Did you convert it? If so, did you epoxy it or is that just a polished finished?

I really want a nice Spector fretless with that sweet *mwah* sound!

Yes! This was a stock NS-2A from around 1988. The gloss black paint was in really good shape, some pretty bad swirls on the back, but the front was good.

I upgraded it to active EMGs and the TonePump (new trimpot version) and I put a set of Schaller Straplocks on it.

The frets were trashed on it. Worn down really bad. So I decided to have it professionally defretted (sorry Sam LOL!) and the luthier that did it for me inserted fine pieces of maple where the frets had once been.

He moved the side neck markers to the position of the frets, so I have correct reference points and he used ultra-bright, extra large dots.

He removed the pearl dot markers in the neck and filled the holes in (masterfully matching the wood grain).

And yes, seven hand-applied layers of boat epoxy were applied to the neck.

Add the Dogal Carbon Steel ultra-smooth flat wounds and this is an amazing playing/sounding bass.

I'm so upside down in it that it's not funny. Which is why I'd never sell it. I mean, I have twice what this guitar is worth in the repairs/defretting.

So it's a keeper.

And good luck finding a USA Spector fretless from the Kramer Era. Only a very small handful were made. As a matter of fact the only one I know for sure was made during the Kramer Era is a gloss black NS-2 that belongs to Garry Tallent (Bruce Springsteen).

 

[spector_boogie]

I saw JPS has a "new" Spector tee. Did you make that or are there new threads available @ the Spector Online store yet??

 

[JPSBassist]

I saw JPS has a "new" Spector tee. Did you make that or are there new threads available @ the Spector Online store yet??

I had that made for the NAMM Show. When things settle down PJ and I are supposed to talk about the new T-Shirt designs.

I've also developed an Alex Webster Spector T-Shirt with the blood graphic I designed for Alex's Signature Bass. Alex has said he'd be interested in letting us put his signature on the sleeve.

I did a series of "Demo" shirts for the NAMM Show. PJ Rubal and I each had one.

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I want to make these red inlays larger. The shirt printer for the show made them too small.

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AND NO... This shirt will never be available. Chuck would want some cash for using his name like that.
But anyone who wants to print one for themselves... I'll be glad to give you the design for free.
The Red Alex Webster Spector Logo with blood drip is on the center of the back, large like on the front of the Alex T-Shirt above.

 

[5string_phunk]

Yes! This was a stock NS-2A from around 1988. The gloss black paint was in really good shape, some pretty bad swirls on the back, but the front was good.

I upgraded it to active EMGs and the TonePump (new trimpot version) and I put a set of Schaller Straplocks on it.

The frets were trashed on it. Worn down really bad. So I decided to have it professionally defretted (sorry Sam LOL!) and the luthier that did it for me inserted fine pieces of maple where the frets had once been.

He moved the side neck markers to the position of the frets, so I have correct reference points and he used ultra-bright, extra large dots.

He removed the pearl dot markers in the neck and filled the holes in (masterfully matching the wood grain).

And yes, seven hand-applied layers of boat epoxy were applied to the neck.

Add the Dogal Carbon Steel ultra-smooth flat wounds and this is an amazing playing/sounding bass.

I'm so upside down in it that it's not funny. Which is why I'd never sell it. I mean, I have twice what this guitar is worth in the repairs/defretting.

So it's a keeper.

And good luck finding a USA Spector fretless from the Kramer Era. Only a very small handful were made. As a matter of fact the only one I know for sure was made during the Kramer Era is a gloss black NS-2 that belongs to Garry Tallent (Bruce Springsteen).

AWESOME!! Thanks for the info! To me, that is an incredible process. I have seen the roughest/beat-up fret boards look brand new and sound amazing after an epoxy job!

I have always wanted to convert/epoxy a fretted bass! I believe that I will be looking for a 5 string Spector to mod in the near future!