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#3,681
Solarmist, here is some more data as requested...

The white 4 stringer is an SR300M. I bought it Friday a week ago for $250, HSC included. It is a 2010 made in the Cort factory in Indonesia.

The silver 5 stringer is an SR305. I bought it this past Friday for $175. It is also from the Indonesian Cort factory and is a 2003 model.

When I bought the SR305 on Friday the plan was to have a bass shootout and let the loser go. The loser is going to the 5 stringer as it just doesn't play as well as the 4.

I am already thinking about selling off my guitar rig, PRS S2 Cu24 and a Peavey Classic 50, and flipping that cash and some extra in to a top end bass. I have chronic body pain with some severe flashes of it, and just want to enjoy playing bass while I still can.
 
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Technotitclan said:
Congrats veryone on the new basses.

Pachap, You did a great job of cleaning up that board :thumbsup:
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Thanks man. As long as I have been playing guitar I've never had to do it. Any gear I have purchased has always been new or close to it. Man the stuff that the steel wool was scraping off that board was disgusting. Also ended up with a nice polish on the frets. I am going to sell it, and shouldn't have too much of a problem moving it as nice as it is now.
 
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Pachap said:
Thanks man. As long as I have been playing guitar I've never had to do it. Any gear I have purchased has always been new or close to it. Man the stuff that the steel wool was scraping off that board was disgusting. Also ended up with a nice polish on the frets. I am going to sell it, and shouldn't have too much of a problem moving it as nice as it is now.
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How did you use the steel wool? I'd have thought it would tear into the wood! Thankfully, I've never had to do that as I take care of my fretboards and haven't bought a used one that was nasty.
 
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I've used steel wool to do the same here. You have to use 0000 steel wool. It does remove a very thin layer off the top but not enough to notice. When I did it I tested it first around the lat two frets and compared it to the rest. Only difference was it looked clean, rather than gross. the was a small amount of fine sawdust that come off from the wood but it was a negligible amount.
 
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Technotitclan said:
I've used steel wool to do the same here. You have to use 0000 steel wool. It does remove a very thin layer off the top but not enough to notice. When I did it I tested it first around the lat two frets and compared it to the rest. Only difference was it looked clean, rather than gross. the was a small amount of fine sawdust that come off from the wood but it was a negligible amount.
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I used 000 steel wool. I didn't apply much pressure when polishing the fretboard. If you try this the most important thing is to go with the direction of the grain. When I finished I used some kind of fretboard conditioner that I picked up at my local shop. I just wiped it on, and wiped off the excess with a dry rag. It all worked out good.
 
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Precisely :-).

Anyway, if one day, really, you can't stand it anymore, Ibanez sells (at a rather high price tag) parts, so it's still possible to fit mono bridges and gotoh tuners in black/cosmo black, or even ultralite black. I thought first to do so, then very quickly, it didn't matter, and the gold was going so well with the woods that I forgot about it.

I would recommend you to see and play it first, so you avoid my bad experience (see last pages here).

Congrats on your two SRs and the cleaning job.
 
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Pachap said:
I am already thinking about selling off my guitar rig, PRS S2 Cu24 and a Peavey Classic 50, and flipping that cash and some extra in to a top end bass. I have chronic body pain with some severe flashes of it, and just want to enjoy playing bass while I still can.
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I'm not sure what electronics are in the 03' SR305, but it will give you an idea how an Ibby SR5 feel with regards to the fantastic neck profile; they're all the same.

I'm also in the same boat with you having chronic pain in my neck, and down my left arm - I've had 3 discs in my neck replaced, but it didn't work completely.


Pachap said:
I am really digging an SR600 or SR700. Might be next on the list.
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Like this one, and it is fairly light.

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