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SPECTOR® Club - Part 36

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#181
Happy birthday Stuart Spector, the maker of the world's coolest underrated basses! BTW, I raised my action and had to intonate my G and B strings, and it was not nearly as hard as I thought it might be. Heck, it was about the same as using a screw on the typical bass bridge.:smug:
 
#186
Dr. Cheese said:
Yep, I have plenty of wrenches! I hate I had to raise the action at all, but needed to do it since I just a but heavy handed.:bassist:
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Gradually raise each string just a bit. Sometimes just a slight adjustment will be all you need.
And everything will feel better even though the action is a bit higher.
You can always bring it back down if needed. I change mine a lot till I find that sweet spot.
 
#188
LimaGuy said:
Gradually raise each string just a bit. Sometimes just a slight adjustment will be all you need.
And everything will feel better even though the action is a bit higher.
You can always bring it back down if needed. I change mine a lot till I find that sweet spot.
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I think I have hit the comfort zone, I can dig in now with the buzz or killing a slapped note. My Cirrus has become my number bass for worship service. The more I play this bass, I really wonder my more folks who like the Cirrus/Ken Smith thing aren't into Spectors more. They really work well in an Urban Gospel/R&B situation.
 
#189
Thought I'd share a couple pics of my NS-4FL with my fellow Spector fans. This bass was one of only several fretless basses built in 1996 at the Stuart Spector Designs, LTD company in Woodstock, NY. There were a total of 330 "NS-4" basses manufactured in the USA from 1992 to 1998 (most of them with frets). Out of the 330 total "NS-4" basses produced, only several fretless (NS-4FL) models were built during each of those 7 years, so they are very hard to find and desirable. :bassist:
 

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#190
LimaGuy said:
Sounds a bit fishy. :eyebrow:
Post a photo of the bridge of the Legend 6 and Legend 5 and the nut of both of them also.

If you look at the height on how the strings come off the nut.

Do they come off the nut about the same on both basses or is one much higher then the other?
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I'll get those up ASAP
ubnomnar said:
Not to be blasphemous, but is it unheard of to use a simple shim on a bolt-on neck Spector?

Assuming the neck relief is properly set, the nut slots are the proper depth, and the saddles are truly bottomed... you could also just file the bottom of the offending saddles to lower just those strings.

EBMM sells many $2000 basses that come with a factory installed neck shim. Ask me how I know:hmm:
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I'll mention all these to my local tech. I really trust them, and they do good work, so he may have considered these already, but I'll bring it up just in case he didn't. He's going on vacation for 2 weeks, so I'll be sure to mention it when I bring it in next.
 
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jeffdbass said:
Thought I'd share a couple pics of my NS-4FL with my fellow Spector fans. This bass was one of only several fretless basses built in 1996 at the Stuart Spector Designs, LTD company in Woodstock, NY. There were a total of 330 "NS-4" basses manufactured in the USA from 1992 to 1998 (most of them with frets). Out of the 330 total "NS-4" basses produced, only several fretless (NS-4FL) models were built during each of those 7 years, so they are very hard to find and desirable. :bassist:
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Very nice, and with the piezo bridge to boot... :bassist:
 
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jeffdbass said:
Thought I'd share a couple pics of my NS-4FL with my fellow Spector fans. This bass was one of only several fretless basses built in 1996 at the Stuart Spector Designs, LTD company in Woodstock, NY. There were a total of 330 "NS-4" basses manufactured in the USA from 1992 to 1998 (most of them with frets). Out of the 330 total "NS-4" basses produced, only several fretless (NS-4FL) models were built during each of those 7 years, so they are very hard to find and desirable. :bassist:
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Wow, I love that color!
 
#195
alright, so here are the nut shots (teehee). bass and treble side of each bass, and pics of the bridges. it looks like the saddles may be able to go lower on the 6, but I'm no expert when it comes to these things. it also looks like the nut on the 6 may be higher. outside expertise greatly appreciated.
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jeffdbass said:
Thought I'd share a couple pics of my NS-4FL with my fellow Spector fans. This bass was one of only several fretless basses built in 1996 at the Stuart Spector Designs, LTD company in Woodstock, NY. There were a total of 330 "NS-4" basses manufactured in the USA from 1992 to 1998 (most of them with frets). Out of the 330 total "NS-4" basses produced, only several fretless (NS-4FL) models were built during each of those 7 years, so they are very hard to find and desirable. :bassist:
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Beautiful. And even more rare now.

The Piezo bridges made for Spector by Fishman are now gone. There's no more left. So now that they are gone, there are going to be no more NS-4-P, NS-5XL-P and/or NS-6XL-P models made.

So you've got a rare bass. I'm actually very disappointed because I had thought I'd have Stuart build me an NS-4 like yours (I would do an unlined fretless) and I would have wanted the Piezo.

I was disappointed a few weeks ago to learn that these bridges and circuits were all gone and Stuart didn't have any plans to order more.
 
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cjmodulus said:
alright, so here are the nut shots (teehee). bass and treble side of each bass, and pics of the bridges. it looks like the saddles may be able to go lower on the 6, but I'm no expert when it comes to these things. it also looks like the nut on the 6 may be higher. outside expertise greatly appreciated.
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The action over the 1st fret on the 6 string does look very high.

Here are a few things to consider.

The Legend 6 has 2 trussrods, I don't know how they would miss that but I'm thinking they didn't properly adjust them and your neck has too much relief.
Combine that with the strings coming high off the nut and that ='s the saddles being bottomed out.

If you just need to go down a slight bit on the action, Consider tapered strings before doing anything strange to the bridge.

I will PM you so we don't eat up the thread with this. But I think you need to get a second opinion for sure.
 
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