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The Reverend Club (part 3)

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#161
To my standard
"When can I get a Club King Hollowbody with P-90-esque pickups,"
Joe replied:

"Maybe next year."


heck, that's only 3 or 4 months in new car model months...and they are in Detroits....so....


hmmmmmmm
 
#163
Folmeister said:
The lava swirl fiver is mine. I'll hopefully be picking it up tomorrow.
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NICE. :cool:

watspan, I'm not sure a new run would depress prices much, as the "USA" models could well acquire legendary status, and more people would be introduced to them, if Reverends became available for people to see in stores. I'm assuming they would be made overseas and would probably not be terribly expensive.

Personally, I've never seen a used 'fish for sale in a store. Mine were all gotten from TB or elsewhere on the net. That's got to say something -- many people just haven't had the pleasure. I could actually see used USA 'fish prices rising as a result of mystique building. They are unique.

Club King.
Club King.
Club King.
 
#169
Yeah, and my inside source has said there aren't any bass plans around. Lefty guitars are up next.

Seems like he said there were most of the parts around for the American style basses, but no necks. After all the pups they sold I would guess those aren't around either. I doubt we'll see a bass line anytime soon, though we can hope.
 
#174
"Keep your thumb on the B string, and ignore it."

Eventually, you'll play some notes on it; maybe like it.
The 5L neck is a very nice 5 neck; not too wide or deep.

I personally use the 5'ers two ways:
position shift to play same forms on bigger strings for beefier tone
to *occasionally* throw in a pdeal tone as an ending point or starting point for a run.

Nothing irritates me more than over-used pedal tones, just 'cause you can.

I'm prolly a freak that way tho.
 
#177
Folmeister said:
Well, the swirl is in the house! Turns out that it was offered by our own bassguppy! Thanks, Darren! Initial inspections are positive and there is a new set of strings in its future. Now, if I can learn to handle a five-string. . . .
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Nice. My 5L is one of the few basses I've had that sounded great with both flats and rounds (most basses to me do better with one or the other). I've been told by a lifelong four-stringer (4mal) that it has the nicest five-string neck he's ever played, and despite the 35" scale, it is a really easy neck to play.

I don't use the B string all that much; I guess I'm like Chef that way. At first, it was just a thumbrest, and I occasionally threw in a low D here and there. Later I began to see the possibilities of the B string at the fifth position and up (a larger "box" if you will -- an alternative to an open E string), which is another useful role it can play. FWIW, the most even five-string tone I've ever gotten comes from my 5L, strung with flats. B strings often have a very unusual tone coloration, which is minimized with flats, IMO, making for a more even string-to-string tone.
 
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