Great photo! The pick guard over the semi matching rug is awesome.
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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
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Great photo! The pick guard over the semi matching rug is awesome.
My #1: All Warmoth, built 6/2005
Carved top mahogany Dinky P, Macassar Ebony neck/fb, SD Custom Shop MM, Lindy Fralin P, OBP-3@18v, Schaller hardware.
Carved top mahogany Dinky P, Macassar Ebony neck/fb, SD Custom Shop MM, Lindy Fralin P, OBP-3@18v, Schaller hardware.
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Thank you! Back then the cap was offered as one piece and I got a good one. Now it's a custom order and they give you a split bookmatched.Love that carved top Dinky P!
Hello! Recently back to talkbass with a new account (could not remember my password to my old account and the email attached to it is long gone)
Here’s my current setup:
Heavily Modified Fender Jaguar bass
Squier VM Precision TB
Peavey MKIII
Peavey 215D BW
Here’s my current setup:
Heavily Modified Fender Jaguar bass
Squier VM Precision TB
Peavey MKIII
Peavey 215D BW
Schecter Custom Shop Model T
Semi-hollow mahogany body with an ebony fingerboard.
Schecter Monster Tone Michael Anthony pickups
Semi-hollow mahogany body with an ebony fingerboard.
Schecter Monster Tone Michael Anthony pickups
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I don't have a family photo, but this is my current stable: Sire M7-6, Fender Jazz Deluxe, Fender Pawn Shop Mustang, heavily modded Squier Bronco and a Kala Rumbler U-Bass.
Love all of them, each one has a unique sound and fits a specific need.
Love all of them, each one has a unique sound and fits a specific need.
Love the Marcus Miller Sire M7; didn't know Sire made a 6-string.
That Mustang is a rumbler machine, it's strung with Chromes and they pair really good with the humbucker.
That is one of my favorites, just got Hipshot tuners and bridge and a new pickguard. Plays like a dream!
It's a great instrument, and a tone machine. It has so many options to play with. I play it on passive mode 90% of the time, because I have a Tone Hammer on my PB, but the EQ is amazing.
Red is not my favorite bass colors but the way you've modded this one out is a real beauty! I suspect you had to use the 1+38" Hipshot tuners instead of the 1+1/2", am I correct? Also was the Hipshot bridge a drop-in and easy to install?
Have wanted a real vintage Steinberger for more years than I should really count, as I was a teenager in the 80s when they first came out. Prices over the last few years are so crazy I thought I'd never actually get to own one, but got insanely lucky with this XL2A (a DB even! ) paying a hair over 3K. But the most surprising thing upon finally holding it in my hands was...how heavy it is! I don't know why, but I always thought the composite/graphite materials meant it would be lighter than a similar sized traditional bass. Nope, heavier even.
The sustain and tone though, are religious. And it came with a hard case.
Coming hard on the heels of my ultimate Kubicki acquisition, I clearly have a headless fixation.
UPDATE: Holy hell but the Steinberger is a slap-n-pop BEAST! I never thought I'd find something better for that than my Kubickis, but damn if the SB doesn't take the crown. Makes total sense in retrospect, the incredible strength and rigidity plus the HAZ electronics could do no less. Just wasn't expecting it to excel in that specific area, but I'm pleased as punch because I LOVE the funk.
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Those one-piece Steinbergers are solid-literally. I don't think there is much air/deadspace in the material so it's very dense.
Both basses look to be in excellent shape, congrats!
