SX Ursa 6-string Jazz bass

[BananaKing]

If I got this, I would be very, very tempted to string and tune it to EADGBE. It would have the range of a "Normal bass" (and then some) as well as the ability to play guitar on it with an amazingly useful range.

Interesting.....

 

[lowfreq33]

If you like active 6'er preamps, the Douglas WOB 826 is active and it's hard to beat it at the price Rondo asks for it.

Just emailed Kurt with a couple of questions about the bass. I'll let you guys know what his reply is. For now, I'm holding off on it until I hear from him.

Already have a Douglas 6 string fretless.

 

[wave rider]

Great... my wallet is out of my back pocket again... don't remember taking it out either.

Kudos on some signature worthy prose; you capture the GAS afflicted perspective perfectly!

And I find myself in agreement with most, the Ursa headstock visually works nicely that way.

=wr=

 

[BassMystic]

I read on here that passive six strings are rare.
Can some one tell me why is that..
I have one

It an early 2000 Alvarez AEB6 in purple burst
and two humbuckers and the string spacing is 15.25 but im getting use to it..

 

[WaskoDS]

Maybe if they put one out with an ash body, black (or tort) pickguard, and bound and blocked neck...

 

[SMG]

Who is going to order one so we know the true spacing on this beauty?

 

[Spaldo]

wow

i'm in the market for a 6 (again), might have to check one of these out!

anyone got sound samples?

 

[Marton]

With a 1/2" spacing at the bridge, that would make the bridge about 2 1/2" width. The bass is listed with 2 15/16" at the 12th fret, which would make no sense if the spacing was really 12.5 mm.

 

[bassbenj]

With a 1/2" spacing at the bridge, that would make the bridge about 2 1/2" width. The bass is listed with 2 15/16" at the 12th fret, which would make no sense if the spacing was really 12.5 mm.

OK. Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's what I did: I put the photo of the bass on the screen. I measured the maximum width of the bass and the width of the strings at the bridge. Since the bass is supposed to be 14" wide at the widest part, I took a ratio and came out with string width of 3.21 inches at the bridge. Dividing by 5, I got a string separation of .64 inches, which is a tad over 16 mm. So apparently it's wider than 12 but less than 18mm.

And then figuring it a different way. I took neck width at nut of 2.125 and a neck width at 12th fret of 2.9375 and calculated what that width would be at the bridge and came out with about 3.75 inches. Now that would be the width of the WHOLE bridge not the strings width. So 3 3/4 is not unreasonable if string width is 3.2 inches. This does not seem to have 1/2" spacing at the bridge no matter how you figure it.

Of course I could be wrong... Those answers come back from Kurt yet?

 

[JZQuantum]

Ok, I see from Rondo that 2 of us have bought this bass...fess up. Please let us know what you think about it.

 

[CThompson]

Actually, I'm looking at this wondering whether the headstock is big enough to be plugged and redrilled so the whole thing could be converted to a 12 string.

The Hamer 12 has a nut width of 1.910, this one is 2.125, so it's about .215" wider, which might be a good thing. At 149 you've got a near disposable toy to get evil with.

 

[MooseLumps]

There will need to be an alternative to the two string trees implemented.That's just ugly.

 

[blendermassacre]

There will need to be an alternative to the two string trees implemented.That's just ugly.

The bar right past the nut like Lakland does would suffice.

 

[bassvi]

I really like the maple neck. It's beautiful, I just don't know if it's a piece of crap or not. I like the looks of it a lot. Fender should take note.

 

[bassbenj]

Ok, I see from Rondo that 2 of us have bought this bass...fess up. Please let us know what you think about it.

Ya got me! Yeah, I'm one of the buyers. I noticed someone else ordered one ahead of me. I was waiting to see what the "questions" for Kurt were, but GAS got the best of me! I have just spent too much time here at TB looking at the Low End 6 string Fender Ad to the left of this text! I have nothing even moderately "Fender-like" in a 6 string. I have no 6 string "bar basses". And the price was so low I HAD to give in. (Got the tweed case too! I always get the case as they ship better and basses are better protected going to the gig than in gig bags)

But give me some credit! I really wanted to order TWO of them! The plan, of course, would be to take the frets out of one and end up with fretted and fretless Fender-like "bar-bass" six strings. But I didn't want to go too wild so I played it conservative and got one to look at first. If I love it (or even if it's moderately Fenderish-OK) I'll then get another and which ever one has the crappiest frets will become the fretless!

Naturally now I'm in "waiting for new bass day" mode.

PS. while searching 6 string basses as a result of Bass GAS I took one more look at the Bongo SH 6 string. Gads! That is one fine "must have" bass! I'm dying to own one! However, given that the price is a mere TEN TIMES that of the SX I think it will have to wait...

Hi everybody, My name is BassBenj and I'm a bassoholic!

 

[bassbenj]

The bar right past the nut like Lakland does would suffice.

Right. My SX 5 string came with no string tree and some strings were buzzing at the nut. So I did the bar just past the nut thing and it worked out VERY well both in looks and effectiveness.

 

[Sterling_Bass]

I've been waiting for Rondo to carry a bass just like this for years. Everything seems just about right on the bass, except for that headstock. It just looks ridiculous. Granted, it looks better on this six string than on the four or five strings.
The price is really tempting..

 

[3506string]

Who wants to start a pool on what the actual string spacing is? I'm guessing around 16.3mm

 

[Will Kelly]

OKay, nobody has one of these in hand yet?

I think its narrower than 16.3!

 

[DoubleL]

Has anyone had any experience getting stuff from Rondo shipped to the UK? I'd love one (or two) of these to play with.