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Thunderbird Club
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When Scott and Veronica recently posted it up. Was like a lightning bolt hit me.
I posted earlier about my recent project, which is almost exactly what "your friend" is thinking about. To the best of my knowledge, Fender has done some sparkle finish P basses but most were all in the upper end of their offerings. Prior to his recent purple P (what I like to call his "Prince bass"), Fender did a gold flake custom shop Clayton P that sold for $11k.
When I was putting together my build, I too considered a Jazz neck, as they have the cool pearloid neck candy (as does the Clayton). But I opted for the plain P neck to help cut expense, given cost of custom paint job. I just bought a Fender MIM body and MIM neck and sent to Marty Bell. They are made from same woods (e.g., alder) as most MIA basses. Many of Fender's other signature bass models are MIM (Flea Jazz, Mike Dirnt P, etc.). I too wanted over the top outrageous and went with orange flake/sparkle.
I would say your friend is best off to start saving their pesetas to buy parts and to have someone paint what they want done. They could also lurk on TB or Reverb to see if someone puts one up for sale, as I found a few older postings here. They could also look for G&L basses, which look a lot like a P. G&L does killer metal flake. So, there are a lot more of those paint jobs out there and subequently better odds of happening upon a used one of those as opposed to a tricked out Fender P.
I will post pics of my "unknown mediocre bass player signature P," when I get neck back from Mr. Bell and have things assembled.
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Just picked up a mint condition GK MB 500 for $395 shipped. Pretty happy. Now I've gotta figure out what cab to match with it. 
YES! That's what I have. LOVE it.Just picked up a mint condition GK MB 500 for $395 shipped. Pretty happy. Now I've gotta figure out what cab to match with it.
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Just picked up a mint condition GK MB 500 for $395 shipped. Pretty happy. Now I've gotta figure out what cab to match with it.
Congrats!
@MommyPlaysBass A lot of the GK people seem to love the Eden cabs paired with the GK heads. The EX110 or EX112 seems very popular. I have no personal experience.
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I thought some of you (or your “friends”) might be interested in seeing some of the cool stuff that comes out of the G&L U.S. factory. There are photos, on the site at the link below, of both their guitars and basses. I stumbled upon this site a few months ago and seeing their various finishes helped to inform my choice for paint job on P bass project. As I mentioned earlier, I think that their flake (and their metallic) finishes are very cool. Their LB-100 is pretty much a P bass with a different shaped headstock (and arguably better bridge).
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I’ve run GK and Eden. Not a huge fan, but if you do like that flavor, I’d look into the newer DNA stuff. The creator of Eden, doing new and I think improved designs
Just picked up a mint condition GK MB 500 for $395 shipped. Pretty happy. Now I've gotta figure out what cab to match with it.
Something you can lift, although you can always use a handcart, or 'skate' to help you. My absolute dream cab is a 412 but that might be a bit large and they are not particularly common. 210s, 212s or 115s should all be reasonably sized.
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I use 2 SBX 4x10s with my 700RBII for a lot of our shows, for here in the house I picked a used GK Goldline 4x10 for $200 to (supposedly) keep in my upstairs practice room, honestly it sounds pretty nice and I've taken it to quite a few shows and it does great.
You can get a used 810 for $300, or do I've heard. That should help keep the neighbours awake.
I miss the older cabs with the full-width GK logo.
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As much as you seem to like your current cab, I’d get the same exact thing to stack on top. More than twice as good
Really. Interesting. You and I have a lot of similar taste in music, so that says a lot. What didn’t you like about the Eden?
Quick n dirty redo with the IKEA tape measure:
285mm Goth & 275mm Gibson
I hear people say this position means ‘this’ or ‘that’ for tone or character. Is the difference between these enough to give a different character? If so what should I expect, or look for ?
