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Stienberger Ripoff Yay/Nay

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Iris_Bassist13

Nov 24, 2008
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If you must have a Steinberger clone, I'd STRONGLY urge you to check out the Hohner copies- they're licensed by Steinberger(pretty close design-wise) & pretty common(come up cheap used). I bought a MIK 4-string many years ago & hacked it(defret, ripped out the nick PU, etc)- it sounds and plays very nicely.
The ebay deal you linked is a gamble, IMO.
 
#5
I will highly recommend the Hohner Steinberger licenced models - I have a B2 that is one of the most solid basses I own. Beautiful, light, neck through and has everything you'd want from a Steinberger except the carbon fiber and the price.

Mine has since been converted into a fretless and gets regular use and has held up for almost 20 years now...
 
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hentor said:
I will highly recommend the Hohner Steinberger licenced models - I have a B2 that is one of the most solid basses I own. Beautiful, light, neck through and has everything you'd want from a Steinberger except the carbon fiber and the price.

Mine has since been converted into a fretless and gets regular use and has held up for almost 20 years now...
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Yea see I don't have the monetary funds to turn a fretted to fretless and I can't seem to find any Hohner Fretless-es online :hmm:
 
#7
"Yea see I don't have the monetary funds to turn a fretted to fretless and I can't seem to find any Hohner Fretless-es online"

Do some research into doing the de-fret on your own... and determine if you have the will/skill to pull it off properly. tAKE YOUR TIME and you could do it own your own.
 
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bassy7 said:
Do some research into doing the de-fret on your own... and determine if you have the will/skill to pull it off properly. tAKE YOUR TIME and you could do it own your own.
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Yea I mean I suppose I could purchase the cheap eBay copy, re-wire the pickups, and slap some EMG's in there (or any other that may fit the bill) and then just see what happens :hmm:
 
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Iris_Bassist13 said:
Well my good man, I do not have the necessary funds or resources to do so....therefore I must stick with alternatives :smug:
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Well carry on then.... :)

I had to, for I'm a left as well, also i did not mean for it to be in a "teasing" fashion :)
(although I could see how.)
 
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I'd say just go for it. I mean, if you don't like it, return it back (might not get all your money including shipping, but it's better then nothing), and if you like it, awesome! You found yourself a deal!
 
#19
I just bought that bass. It's not bad, I had to modify it a bit to string it BEAD with rotosound nylon tape wounds. The round wounds on it will immediately chew up the board. I soaked the board with with really thin super glue then I put the tape wounds on. I think if you harden the board with super glue then you can use the round wounds.

With the tape wounds this is a nice sounding bass.

You can use regular, single ball strings with this base. It has a different geared tuner system, similar to a conventional machine head rotated 90degrees and modified to fit end to end. It takes some experimenting with cutting the strings to get a single rap around the drum. I cut mine right at the end of the tuner peg. Those tuner pegs pull out so you can grab a hold of them better.
 
#20
Stock the bass sounds and plays fine, the electronics give a strong signal with low noise. The rosewood board is the same board most manufacturers use on every other cheap frettless. And it's the same wood that you would get if you defretted most basses. They all need the frett board hardened to use round wounds. With the black strings this thing looks kinda cool.

I don't plan on changing the pickups. I have decided after years of hot rodding basses it really isn't that helpful. I just modify them enough to put really thick strings on.

The cheap stock pickups on most of my other basses sounded fine they just had a lower out put than the seymour duncans i always buy. In the end I am always overdriving every preamp and effect. If you are running a passive bass into a passive DI, then yes the hot pickup helps, but other wise they are more trouble than they are worth.
 

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