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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!

#19,061
Rod Barchetta said:
So I have fallen back in love with my Squier Fretless Vintage Modified Jazz Bass. I bought it used for $189 off of Reverb about six years ago. The Duncan Designed pickups sound freaking awesome. The Ernie Ball Cobalt Flats crisply sing with the tone off and have the velvet glove sound with the tone on full. The neck is super fast and thin and has some nice flaming on the back. It plays like a dream. View attachment 4934465 View attachment 4934466 View attachment 4934467 View attachment 4934468 View attachment 4934469 View attachment 4934470 It just does everything a fretless jazz bass should do and does it incredibly well.

I googled the CE sticker and found out:
It's officially called the "CE marking," and it means that the product complies with the international technical and safety standards issued by the European Union, previously known as the European Community (hence CE).

But the question is what does the sticker on the back of the neck plate mean?
You can't just throw it in a standard trash can?
I don't get it. Can someone with the answer chime in to satisfy my curiosity?
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That's cool. Is it an ebonol (sp?) board? I like that.
And no, you should never throw a bass in the garbage.
 
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#19,062
God's Favorite Bass said:
That's cool. Is it an ebonol (sp?) board? I like that.
And no, you should never throw a bass in the garbage.
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The neck is actually Indian Laurel. I should have oiled it up before the picture. I didn't realize I was laying into so much.
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#19,063
God's Favorite Bass said:
And no, you should never throw a bass in the garbage.
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This is true, but the sticker means you can't dispose of whatever item that bears it in the standard garbage. It usually means there's some kind of heavy metal or other toxic material that's not suitable for a regular landfill. Usually this means old computers and TVs and batteries and such.

Incidentally, since the dump is only like a 20 minute drive from my house, I usually take such items there myself. On my first trip there, I saw a complete vintage stereo - Kenwood receiver and turntable, JVC cassette deck. They let me have all 3! The receiver needed work, and I traded the turntable (which I didn't want) to a local store in exchange for the repair. So I got a fully functional stereo for nothing! Not too shabby...
 
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definenredefine said:
This is true, but the sticker means you can't dispose of whatever item that bears it in the standard garbage. It usually means there's some kind of heavy metal or other toxic material that's not suitable for a regular landfill. Usually this means old computers and TVs and batteries and such.

Incidentally, since the dump is only like a 20 minute drive from my house, I usually take such items there myself. On my first trip there, I saw a complete vintage stereo - Kenwood receiver and turntable, JVC cassette deck. They let me have all 3! The receiver needed work, and I traded the turntable (which I didn't want) to a local store in exchange for the repair. So I got a fully functional stereo for nothing! Not too shabby...
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Cool find! Yeah, I always figured it was solder and magnets that were the environmental bugaboo requiring the sticker.
 
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#19,065
NBD X 3.

Dimavery 6 Jazzer string. Beautiful black marble look
I bought this off REVERB from a seller from Poland. He didn't know that much about it except he thought it was made in Germany. Plays really nice.
Looks great :drool:


An Ibanez gsr5 string beautiful Mahogany. I bought this off of Reverb for my granddaughter :). She wanted to go up to A 5 string :bassist: :hyper: This is a stock pic.




SPECTOR 6 string. REVERB. Sweet!! Beautiful red and black marble look. Also plays great. :hyper::bassist:


I Also got another Carvin R1000 Bass head go with the R600 and other R1000
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#19,066
Still waiting on a black pickguard, but I swapped the knobs and put in a GFS Lil Killer 10k middle position pickup.

The original pickup honestly isn't terrible, but the single coil hum had to go. The new one sounds really nice and easy to install with their solderless setup. I'm very very suprised at how much this sounds like a P Bass.

I did have to tilt the pickup higher on the bass side a lot more than the treble side. For whatever reason this bass doesn't ring very loud on the E, but I'm super happy with it. Ever since I got this it's been my main bass I go to. The scale makes it so fun to play.

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smallerthings said:
Still waiting on a black pickguard, but I swapped the knobs and put in a GFS Lil Killer 10k middle position pickup.

The original pickup honestly isn't terrible, but the single coil hum had to go. The new one sounds really nice and easy to install with their solderless setup. I'm very very suprised at how much this sounds like a P Bass.

I did have to tilt the pickup higher on the bass side a lot more than the treble side. For whatever reason this bass doesn't ring very loud on the E, but I'm super happy with it. Ever since I got this it's been my main bass I go to. The scale makes it so fun to play.

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Maybe try different strings -
 
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#19,072
Rod Barchetta said:
So I have fallen back in love with my Squier Fretless Vintage Modified Jazz Bass. I bought it used for $189 off of Reverb about six years ago. The Duncan Designed pickups sound freaking awesome. The Ernie Ball Cobalt Flats crisply sing with the tone off and have the velvet glove sound with the tone on full. The neck is super fast and thin and has some nice flaming on the back. It plays like a dream. View attachment 4934465 View attachment 4934466 View attachment 4934467 View attachment 4934468 View attachment 4934469 View attachment 4934470 It just does everything a fretless jazz bass should do and does it incredibly well.

I googled the CE sticker and found out:
It's officially called the "CE marking," and it means that the product complies with the international technical and safety standards issued by the European Union, previously known as the European Community (hence CE).

But the question is what does the sticker on the back of the neck plate mean?
You can't just throw it in a standard trash can?
I don't get it. Can someone with the answer chime in to satisfy my curiosity?
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One of these was my gateway fretless. But also could have been perfectly happy stopping there. Great basses.
 
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