A very recent family photo, actually it's from today...
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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
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Firstly, congrats!! Great price and a DB to boot!! Glad to hear you are really enjoying it. They are unique and many are put off by that. Yes, they are deceptively heavy. I use a thick foam strap with mine that just makes it manageable. They were built in layers of material with gel. Weight added up quickly, but as you now know the benefifs to tone are very apparent. I bought my '86 XL2 in 2004 for $900 but it needed a refret, headpiece reset and new pickups (one of the originals died so I replaced both), plus pivot plate with hardware. Back then these still came around on ebay. All told an additional $1k to make it factory fresh. It was a NAMM bass when it was made. One of the best grabs I've made and I couldn't be happier. There is nothing like them.
I also finally completed my Steinberger fix in 2011 and got this XM2. With the maple body it's similar but different. Still a tone machine though! The original owner added the EMG boost module which I didn't need. I used the extra hole to add an EMG BQC pre with sweepable mid. Love it.
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AUUUUUGH YOU GUYS ARE MAKIN ME MISS MY XP2 SO BAD NOW!!!
Not the best pics as usual, but here's where I'm at currently;
In deed, they're so stiff and dense, so there's almost no resonance on body & neck w.s. there's a maximum energy from the strings onto the pups and once tuned, it stays in for years, except one change the strings monthly ... and yes, the XL5W is/was in perfect manner (for she's gone), the L2-5 has plenty a scars except on the neck, this one is flawless as well. Btw, this is my third one ...
New (to me) one as of today.
Early to mid-90s Carvin LB76F, in black. Errythin black, apart from the back of the neck. It’s in damn good shape, just a few wear marks on the fingerboard from rounds, and a very small bit of barely visible marks on the back. Sounds really nice, just have a scratchy bass pot.
It feels a little crazy to me, to realize that this makes four six-strings now (Carvin XB76WP, ESP LTD B-206, Dingwall NG3, and now this one).
Early to mid-90s Carvin LB76F, in black. Errythin black, apart from the back of the neck. It’s in damn good shape, just a few wear marks on the fingerboard from rounds, and a very small bit of barely visible marks on the back. Sounds really nice, just have a scratchy bass pot.
It feels a little crazy to me, to realize that this makes four six-strings now (Carvin XB76WP, ESP LTD B-206, Dingwall NG3, and now this one).
Just picked up my refinished Kubicki Factor-Ex in Pearlescent Flake Cream from Pat Wilkins' shop in the Valley. Now he's transforming my third one (the beater) using that amazing blue burst on the main Kubicki page. Mwah!
"It's so...black!" said Zaphod, reaching out out to touch it. His hand stopped, tried again. "It's completely frictionless!" Ford was amazed. "Light...just seems to seems to fall into it!" he said reverently.
Got all the immediate family in one room for a photo. A few distant relatives aren’t really a part of this group. You could say They don’t part as hard!
I've never owned a Warwick personally, but I have often wondered what that block above the pickup & below the neck is for, on your fretless for example? I see it from time to time on other brands as well.
It is a "ramp". Gary Willis' idea (?). He uses and promotes it. I'm a fan of it, especially on a fretless.
Here's a YT:
Here's a YT:
All this talk of Steinbergers had me pining for the one that got away...
Now I'm double-whammied b/c I think I pawned out of necessity back in the early 90's for ~$300
These prices for a wood-bodied, bolt on Steinberger are stoopid:
Now I'm double-whammied b/c I think I pawned out of necessity back in the early 90's for ~$300
These prices for a wood-bodied, bolt on Steinberger are stoopid:
just let it go , shoot for a Vigier or Status or modi instead 
No offence to 'berger guys 
No offence to 'berger guys
just let it go , shoot for a Vigier or Status or modi instead
I am actually trying to build my own maple-bodied, Status Streamliner-inspired (kinda), headless 27" scale bass...
Had a Lucite Berger many years ago... I bought it used for about a few hundred, probably got about the same for it when I sold it. As I recall, they weren't considered so much as treasures back then as unusual oddities. Folks liked the Berger's different headless styling and it's tones well enough I think, but they were also considered awkward handlers and much too heavy. Treasures now? -I guess... TEHO, but I wouldn't want one again.All this talk of Steinbergers had me pining for the one that got away...
Now I'm double-whammied b/c I think I pawned out of necessity back in the early 90's for ~$300
These prices for a wood-bodied, bolt on Steinberger are stoopid:
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Neither can I! I'm super slow and in need of additional tools because shaping roasted maple is a tricky process...
I'm thinking getting an oscillating spindle sander... but I dunno if I can justify the expense for something I may use only a handful of times...
